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Location

Within the Bear Creek Redwoods Open Space Preserve, at the far right edge of the graticule.

Participants

sporeball

Plans

The hashpoint was just off of Bear Creek Road within the Bear Creek Redwoods Open Space Preserve near Los Gatos, and so close to the border between the San Francisco and San Jose graticules that my mother agreed to drive me there. After getting lunch at our local Olive Garden, we set off.

Expedition

The drive was fairly straightforward — a bit windy towards the end, perhaps, but otherwise fine. We parked in the Bear Creek Redwoods parking lot at around 1:30 PM; my original thought was to diverge from the nearby Alma Trail, but after my mother convinced me that that was not what I wanted to do, we drove along Bear Creek Road until I faced the hashpoint, instead. At 1:43 PM, I hopped out and began trekking through the brush to the side.

After ten minutes, I was surrounded by plant life on all sides, but had reached a point which minimized Google Maps' margin of error — and with only minimal scrapes to boot! Having not been warned off by any posted signs, I counted this as my first successful geohash, and took a picture of my stupid grin (well, smile).