With Anne out of town, I decided to get some Geocaching done. From Friday night to Sunday afternoon I did 50. I really need to get a life.

I went down to clean out South San Jose on Sunday, an area that Anne has no interest in. She likes places with water and there’s no water down there, just mostly grassy, barren hills.

I did a few easy ones and then I ended up in Santa Teresa County Park, which I had never been to before. I wasn’t sure how many I would do there, but I ended up finding eight – actually all of them in that park.

Here’s a map of my 8-mile trek through the park in a clockwise direction.

You can see the caches as well as the stupid decisions I made. I found myself nearly passing out in the 80 degree heat, scrambling up cliffs, fighting ticks, poison oak and the sun. This was probably not the best idea to do all by myself in a mostly deserted park, but I came back in one piece. Hopefully the technu worked and I won’t start to break out in poison oak. We’ll see. The views were rewarding though.

Here are the more interesting cache logs:

Predator Lives
Bay Area Multiple Hills – 3
Geocache
Adelante Escondite

Just as I reached the parking lot, the batteries in my GPSr died. Somehow that summarized about how I was feeling at that point too.

Update: no poison oak so far! Amazing.