2016-07-10 45 -122
| Sun 10 Jul 2016 in 45,-122: 45.5020188, -122.6925195 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox |
Location
In Marquam Park, off a trail
Participants
Plans
Go by later on in the day. Of course, later is *now*, since I didn't put this page up earlier.
Expedition
Well, I set off for the hashpoint with hopes that I might be able to crash through a little bit of underbrush and reach the hashpoint.
Google Maps refused to show me any contour lines, which I should have taken as a warning, but I didn't.
I (finally) arrived at the trailhead, and discovered a vertical looking slope for most of the 440 feet to the hashpoint, but I started up the trail to see what would happen. I got to what I thought was the closest point, but it was 250 feet. Then I noticed another trail branching back up ahead, and I suddenly had hope about the secret path that Google Maps didn't know about. Of course, I'd forgotten my printed map in the car, and there was no internet service available.
So I started up the path, thinking back to the last time I was on a steep Portland park trail in the evening after it had rained. At least it wasn't dark unlike the last time when I was a picture postcard for "stupidity distance."
The path looped back and got closer to the hashpoint. By about 30 feet. Great - only 220 feet up the 45 degree slope. I went a little further to see if the path would switch back, but it was clearly going in a different direction.
Mother Nature one. Jim zero.
MNB!
Off to yesterday's hashpoint in the 45,-123 graticle.
