DougK = (36845) or N 37 24.5 - Monta Loma Park, Mountain View, CA
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DougK
N 37° 24.500 W 122° 05.900
10S E 579796 N 4140553
Several 'Where's In my Name' spots can be found in Monta Loma Park in Mountain View, California. I was able to walk along the latitude line on a meadow in the park.
Waymark Code: WMDWP2
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 03/03/2012
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Amazingly and most fortunately, my Groundspeak id converts to value which is a latitude within a few miles of where I goecache and waymark all the time.
So I built a spreadsheet with some longitude values in my area for the given latitude and dropped them into BatchGeo to get a plot of the latitude line in my area. I looked for nice parks where this latitude crosses. One such park I noticed was Monta Loma Park in Mountain View, California.
Since my name "number" ends with two wildcard digits, I challenged myself to pinpoint the spot where the latitude was N 37 24.500 and the longitude also ended with '00'
I went to the park and walked down the path leading into the park. I was able to find the first crossing of the path and '37 24.5' at longitude W '122 05.964'. This spot was right next to the children's playground.
Well, this would actually suffice for the category requirements, but I want to get the two trailing zeros on the longitude. Since I was near one side of the park, the only feasible way to use the park space was to walk east along the latitude line '37 24.5'. I got a bearing on due east, made a sighting of an object across the park and started walking in that direction. All the while, I'm trying to stay on the latitude line and watching my longitude decrease '122 05.960', '122 05.950', '122 05.940', ... '122 05.900'. There it is! I took a screen shot, looked down and the display said 'N 37 24.500 W 122 05.899'. Oh, darn, missed it. Readjust, get ready again, take a screen shot. This time it says 'N 37 24.501 W 122 05.900'. What? Oh well, there you have it fluctuating GPSr readings. There were some power lines nearby. I'd spent enough time on this already, so I settled for a .001 of a minute off.
The spot is around the edge of the curb, near an arch over a walkway. Interesting (to me) was the view in Google Street View, which looks right down the '37 24.500' latitude to the previously mentioned children's playground across at the other side of the park.
Click this link to see some of the other 'Where's in a Name?' scenic locations that I've found along this latitude.