5/1/08 -- Box appears to have been muggled... Box is unavailable until further notice.
Going along HWY 101, through Corte Madera, Ca.
Take the Paradise Drive exit (if you're coming down from Sonoma County, you'll need to cross over the overpass; if you're coming up from San Francisco, just hang a right at the exit), and take the first right onto Paradise Drive. Follow this road until Taylor. Go up Taylor until the end, where there is a peacock-blue colored gate. Park, and then walk up the paved road to the right of the one with the blue gate.
You will come up to an iron gate, with the paved road continuing on up the hill. Keep following it up until almost at the crest. There will be a wide dirt road on your right. Follow that for just a bit. You will come upon Turtle Rock looming down below in a field to your left -- a great place for practicing your rockclimbing skills. As you approach it by the road, you'll see up ahead a smaller footpath intersecting the dirt road.
At this intersection is a green sign for the "loop trail," with the path leading up a small hill. Walk up this path, but don't blink. Just a few feet up the path is a small wooden trail marker on the right, marked "11." On the other side of the trail is a bay tree, and just beyond that are three or four rock-groupings in the grass. Triangulate to find the box. When you can take a bearing of 87 degrees back towards the "11" trail post and a 160 degree bearing towards the green trail-head post -- then X marks the spot.
For more info on this great area, check out: http://www.marin.cc.ca.us/~jim/ring/
2 comments:
We searched and searched around the rocks and trees on the other side of the trail from wooden marker 11 and found nothing. Then, a kind ranger showed us a turtle stamp he found in a container on another hill way across the way. Did you hide two stamps in this area?
Good post.
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