CONFLUENCE - Rincom Creek & Guadalupe Creek - Santa Clara County, CA
Posted by: 
DougK
N 37° 10.935 W 121° 52.398
10S E 600011 N 4115684
Two streams come together before flowing into the Guadalupe Reservoir.
Waymark Code: WM6G66
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 05/29/2009
Views: 3
One day I spent some time geocaching along Guadalupe Creek in the Sierra Azul Open Space Preserve. As I walked back to my car from the trailhead, I crossed over a bridge that was going over a different creek than the one I had just been following. I looked over the edge of the
bridge and realized that I was looking at a stream confluence.
I climbed down to stream level to enjoy the cool shade where these two streams converge. The coordinates are taken at the Y where they meet. After examining maps when I got home, I determined that the second creek was called Rincom Creek. About one quarter mile downstream from this confluence, the result flows into the Guadalupe Reservoir, formed by the Guadalupe Dam.
The bridge and nearby pull-off parking are about five miles up Hicks Road from Camden Avenue in San Jose, CA. One hundred yards further up the road is SA02, a gate into Sierra Azul OSP and nearby geocache GCP8Q2, SA02 (Nazgul Secret Trailhead #3).
| View from bridge
Rincom Creek is at the bottom flowing under the bridge to Guadalupe Creek coming from the right.
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Close-up View from bridge
Rincom Creek is at the bottom flowing under the bridge to Guadalupe Creek coming from the right.
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Rincom Creek flowing under bridge
This view is from the confluence looking up Rincom Creek flowing under the bridge.
Graffitti can be seen on both of the bridge walls beside the creek.
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| Looking up Guadalupe Creek
Here Rincom Creek flows in from the right. Coordinates were taken on the rocks at the confluence.
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Looking down Guadalupe Creek
This view shows Rincom Creek flowing in from the left.
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| View upstream to confluence
Here we are looking upstream with Guadalupe Creek on the top left and Rincom Creek on the top right, emerging from under the bridge.
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View downstream from the confluence
Here we see the merged creeks heading for the Guadalupe Reservoir about one quarter mile away.
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