Googler Daniel Russell knows how to find the answers to questions you can't get to with a simple Google query. In his weekly Search Research column, Russell issues a search challenge, then follows up later in the week with his solution?using whatever search technology and methodology fits the bill. This week's challenge: Find that trail!
I may as well admit it: I'm a runner, and I love to run on the trails in the Santa Cruz mountains near home. It's one of the great reasons to live near the Googleplex?there are wonderful hills to run not very far away. Above is a trail not so far from home.?
Last week I was running near here on a hilly trail just west of Mountain View in the city of Los Altos Hills. They have a wonderful set of trails that wind all over the place, up hill, down dale, and all over hither and yon. ?
Sometimes I'll go running and just see where I end up. ?It only takes a turn or two before I can find a new trail. ?
That's what I did this past weekend?I started running and made a few random turns, ending up on a trail that I'd never seen before! ?What I *did* find was a sign-post that said "Wallace Stegner." ?Aha! ?I was on a trail named for the great writer of the American West! ?
I turned around, and ran back the way I'd come, and an hour later was back home trying to find the start of that trail on a map. ?
It took me a while, but eventually I was able to find it. ?
Can you find the Wallace Stegner trail starting point? ?(There are apparently two streetside entrances, but I was only able to find one.) ?
The correct answer will be either a street address or a lat/long. ? (Just saying which street it's on isn't enough detail.) ?
When you post your answer in the comments, be sure to say HOW you found it and HOW LONG you took to find it!?
Search on!?
Wednesday Search Challenge (December 14, 2011): Find that trail!! | SearchReSearch
Daniel M. Russell studies the way people search and research?an anthropologist of search, if you will. You can read more from Russell on his SearchReSearch blog, and stay tuned for his weekly challenges (and answers) here on Lifehacker.
Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/lifehacker/full/~3/gvuI-ITx7iQ/challenge-find-that-trail
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