Difference between revisions of "Salinas, California"

Latest revision as of 19:27, 20 March 2024

Today's Location: [Salinas, CA]

The Salinas, California graticule is at latitude 36, longitude -121. It includes the cities of Salinas, Monterey, Carmel, Watsonville and Hollister. It also encompasses the Big Sur region along Highway 1, and most of Los Padres National Forest.

At the risk of oversimplifying things, most of the landscape in this graticule is farmland: large commercial farms. US Highway 101 (which is mostly faithful to the El Camino Real) runs through the graticule, while California Highway 1 follows the coast.

Expeditions

2023-01-13: Michael5000 & Mrs.5000 "play Pebble Beach," as it were.
2011-10-02: Anniepoo fails to reach the coordinates due to an exploding tire.
2010-10-09: David&Co. may or may not have gone on an expedition.
2010-07-17: Quertior successfully reached a hashpoint in a farm near Chualar, earning (he thinks) the Graticule Unlocked achievement.

Quertior earned the Graticule Unlocked Achievement

by being the first to reach any hashpoint in the (36, -121) graticule, here, on 2010-07-17.

People

adambb - Located in Santa Clara, usually only make it as far south as Monterey
Quertior - I actually live in Santa Cruz, but my house is just outside of the Santa Cruz graticule. So here I am. This graticule has more land anyway.
Montoki - Located in Monterey, up for meetups.
Spaceboy - Located in Aptos

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 '''Today's Location:'''
-[[http://irc.peeron.com/xkcd/map/map.html?date={{LOCALYEAR}}-{{LOCALMONTH}}-{{LOCALDAY2}}&lat=36&long=-121&zoom=9&abs=-1 Salinas, CA]]
+[{{Today's location|lat=36|lon=-121|text=Salinas, CA}}]
 The Salinas, California [[graticule]] is at latitude 36, longitude -121.  It includes the cities of Salinas, Monterey, Carmel, Watsonville and Hollister. It also encompasses the Big Sur region along Highway 1, and most of Los Padres National Forest.
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 At the risk of oversimplifying things, most of the landscape in this graticule is farmland: large commercial farms. US Highway 101 (which is mostly faithful to the El Camino Real) runs through the graticule, while California Highway 1 follows the coast.
-== Notable Dates ==
+== Expeditions ==
-[http://www.manyfriends.com/xkcd/index.html?lat=36&long=-121 Historic map] of geohash sites for 36,-121 (Salinas.)
+*[[2023-01-13 36 -121|2023-01-13]]: [[User:Michael5000|Michael5000]] & [[User:Mrs.5000|Mrs.5000]] "play Pebble Beach," as it were.
+*[[2011-10-02 36 -121|2011-10-02]]: [[User:Anniepoo|Anniepoo]] fails to reach the coordinates due to an exploding tire.
-[[2008-05-26]] - in the city of Salinas, corner of Fern and Alisal (just north of the airport and golf course)
+*[[2010-10-09 36 -121|2010-10-09]]: David&Co. may or may not have gone on an expedition.
+*[[2010-07-17 36 -121|2010-07-17]]: [[User:Quertior|Quertior]] successfully reached a hashpoint in a farm near Chualar, earning (he thinks) the [[Graticule Unlocked]] achievement.
+{{Graticule unlocked|date=2010-07-17|latitude=36|longitude=-121|name=[[User:Quertior|Quertior]]}}
 == People ==
 *[[User:adambb|adambb]] - Located in Santa Clara, usually only make it as far south as Monterey
 *[[User:Quertior|Quertior]] - I actually live in Santa Cruz, but my house is just outside of the Santa Cruz graticule. So here I am. This graticule has more land anyway.
+*[[User:Montoki|Montoki]] - Located in Monterey, up for meetups.
+*[[User:Spaceboy|Spaceboy]] - Located in Aptos
 [[Category:California]]
 [[Category:Inactive graticules]]

San Francisco	San Jose	Merced
Santa Cruz	Salinas	Madera
35,-122	Cambria	San Luis Obispo
Today's location: not yet announced