The Snake Trail leaves from the eastern (Dead Sea) side at the Masada Museum and gains around 300 m (980 ft) in elevation. A dawn hike up the Snake Path on the eastern side of the mountain (access via the Dead Sea Highway) is considered part of the "Masada experience".
Clibing up to Masada can be fun on a nice day. Alternatively, for a higher fee, visitors can take a cable car (the Masada cableway, opens at 8 am) to the top, and walk down the Snake Trail.
In any case, you will want to rest at some point in the middle - the place where the cache here would be a good spot.
(Info above from Wikipedia)
No need to pay to climb up the Snake trail. Only when you enter at the top, there is an office. (And many do it before sunrise, when there is no one at the office).
[ Please DNF if you don’t find.
If you do find – it would be nice if you could attach a picture of yourself or any nice picture of the surrounding. ]