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12/13/2006 by cache_in_pocket
With nothing better to do in my lunch hour break from Jury Duty, I call up some friends who haven't done this cache yet and we're off. Found parking as suggested and set off on foot. One foot in front of the other and one hand feeding my face. Scarfed down my lunch on the hike up. Views are pretty good...where's a hang glider when you need one! Thanks.

12/13/2006 by Pacholik
Out for a little lunch time caching with JJG and CIP. Great view and easy walk to the cache even though we did hike a little. Thanks

12/13/2006 by JJG10101
Walked a bit, hiked a bit. Hiked a bit more, then a little walking. Err.. wait a sec. What's the difference? I guess there isn't one. Reached the peak and found the cache after a short search. I heard a few "Hey, I can see another cache from here"-type exclamations. Nifty spot, with good trails and simple bushwhackin'. TFTC!

10/22/2006 by rc goat
Finely found one today after 3 dnf's. Nice little walk with a great view. Logged vist. TFTC!

10/19/2006 by Team Geo-Rangers
Tough to approach directly from the west - best to take the round-about trail that bisects the hills and then tracks the ridgeline. Spotted another person near the top this morning, but they were nowhere to be found when the Geo-Ranger approached GZ and found this little cache tucked in shelter. Signed log second at 7AM and was rewarded by the airlift show at John Wayne where all the planes line up and take off starting at that time. FTF appears to have been last night. Forgot the camera in the SUV so was unable to document some awesome views. Watch out for the cactus too.

Pressed the easy button and took the bunny trail down to the parking lot!

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10/18/2006 by Jeffster83
I thought I would be clever and park in one of the corporate parking lots just 0.3 miles away from the cache, but the construction workers anticipated me and put up fences. Then I tried to find the recommended parking spot. Just as I was about to turn in to the complex, a fire engine went in ahead of me, sirens wailing, and it went all the way to the top of the hill, the same direction I wanted to go. Fortunately, the paramedics went on around the bend and were not interested in anything at the trail head. I didn't want to seem like the kind of person who follows a fire truck.

The entrance to the complex wherein the trailhead lies has a big sign warning that parking is for residents only. However, the particular street indicatd on the parking coordinates does not have any such signs. I left my car there for almost an hour, and did not get a parking ticket. I hope other cachers have the same luck.

A nice little hike, and great views of the highway, the Mormon church, and the corporate campuses. No one else was around. While I was searching, a runner came to the view point near the cache site, then turned around and went back.

I can never seem to remember one particular guideline for beginning cachers, the one that says: "the hider of the cache probably did not go into the thicket, so the seeker need not go there either." I found lots of sage and cactus, lots of beer bottles from back East amid the cactus, and lots of trampled dead grass. What I couldn't find amid all these things was the cache.

I finally stood still at the very first place I started, a safe place away from cliffs and cactus, and thought "What am I not seeing?" Then I saw it. Dang! It would have been so easy if I had been smart at the beginning. I really wanted to crack open a beer, but all the bottles nearby had already been opened and emptied.

It took a little doing to put the cache back and camouflage it again. First to find at 09:46. Thanks for the fun and the beautiful vistas!

10/18/2006 by Marko Ramius
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#1 Most of the year, there's nothing green in the area except some moss.
#2 If I had to bet, I'd bet you that Rolling Rock caps are GREEN, the ones seen up here are NOT. Weird...