Santa Cruz, California

Farallon Islands	San Francisco	San Jose
36,-123	Santa Cruz	Salinas
35,-123	35,-122	Cambria
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Today's Location: [Santa Cruz, CA]

The Santa Cruz graticule is at latitude 36, longitude -122. It includes most of the city of Santa Cruz, but seems to be about 99% covered by the Pacific Ocean. Chances are pretty slim*, but if we see some coordinates on land, a Saturday meetup might be in order. On days when the spot is off-shore but within 1 mile, Ted suggests that we try to make it, anyway (boats, surfboards, whatever), if it can be done safely. Our backup graticule is the one for San Jose, California, on those (frequent) days when ours is unreachable.

• Odds of a random geohash being on land in this graticule are approximately 1 in 147, which results in an expected value of 2.5 landfalls per year.

Notable Dates

Historic Map of geohash spots for 36, -122 (Santa Cruz)

2008-05-24_36_-122 -- (1st XKCD Meetup) Deep ocean. Tried San Jose, California, but was on private property, behind a keypad-only access gate. (Met some very nice ranchers, though :) (Actually, I later realized that I had attempted the 5/23 location on 5/24. <sigh>)

2008-07-28 -- The hash is on land, for the first time since the Geohash comic. Location is in Wilder Ranch State Park, just west of UCSC.

2008-08-11_36_-122 -- (Monday) Hash is on land: Easy access on hiking trail on Bay at Centennial.

2008-08-20_36_-122 -- (Wednesday) Hash is on land. In some trees (private property?) just a few feet off of Branciforte.

2008-11-01 36 -122 -- Hash was just offshore, about 100m. Satellite view makes it look like it might be rocky, but this would have been the perfect shot at a surf achievement.

People/activities

• Adambb
• Ted will bring Once Upon A Time when he comes.