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I found Bay Area Bike Tag #416 at Almaden Vineyards Community Center in South San Jose. I took a photo of my bike there and rode to a new location for a photo to post of the next tag for others to guess. https://www.reddit.com/r/BAbike/comments/zlgv1p/bike_tag_417_analog_digital/
To play you have to guess the location from the photo. Since you've seen my route, you're disqualified from playing this round. (The point of the game is to guess from the photo and get there and to your new tag first.) But there will be more rounds from other players. [edit: after the tag was found, I made the ride public.]
I waited over a week and no one else took this tag. So I pounced. I had an idea where I wanted to move it to. But with daylight running out, I was also looking at some "Plan B" scenarios, one of which I ended up using when the photo turned out really well at sunset.
I was thinking of going where Coyote Creek floods over a ford-crossing of the Coyote Creek Trail, and call it "You Shall Not Pass!" I got there. But it didn't turn out as well as the photo I took moments earlier at another spot. So I decided to go with that for the mystery location.
The title "Analog & Digital" is because the stone plaque in the photo is engraved with 1's & 0's. Power lines (including a power tower in the upper left corner) in the area are analog. Where I took the picture, the PG&E Coyote substation was behind me and the Coyote Valley power plant was to my left.
The plaque marks the geographic center of Silicon Valley/Santa Clara County. https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/center-of-santa-clara-valley
To get to the bike tag ride, I took the VTA Blue Line trolley from Karina to Ohlone-Chynoweth. After the tag, I got on a northbound Blue Line from the terminus at Santa Teresa station, and then got off in downtown SJ to ride home.
| By: | KO6YQ |
| Started in: | San José, CA, US |
| Distance: | 19.9 mi |
| Selected: | 19.9 mi |
| Elevation: | + 362 / - 353 ft |
| Moving Time: | 01:38:20 |
| Page Views: | 12 |
| Departed: | Dec 13, 2022, 3:34 pm |
| Starts in: | San José, CA, US |
| Distance: | 19.9 mi |
| Selected distance: | 19.9 mi |
| Elevation: | + 362 / - 353 ft |
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| Total Duration: | 02:07:33 |
| Selection Duration: | 7653 |
| Moving Time: | 01:38:20 |
| Selection Moving Time: | 01:38:20 |
| Stopped Time: | 00:29:13 |
| Max Speed: | 20.4 mph |
| Avg Speed: | 12.1 mph |
| Pace: | 00:06:24 |
| Moving Pace: | 00:04:56 |
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