2023-04-29 42 -117

Sat 29 Apr 2023 in 42,-117: 42.9242121, -117.0481861 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox

Location

A few miles south of the village of Jordan Valley.

Participants

• Michael5000

Expedition

From 2023-04-29 42 -118, I continued on Oregon 78 to Burns Junction, which consists mostly of an abandoned gas station, then northwest through mighty Rome (a village of perhaps a dozen people), and eventually to the most urban and cosmopolitan place I'd seen in in 135 miles: Jordan Valley, Oregon, population 180.

The hashpoint was south of town; Dinwitty Lane crossed some fields and then ran right through a ranching operation and over a little bridge; then, unsigned Sheep Spring Road split off and ran between fields and sagebrush for a while. When the road surface started to get a little iffy, I turned the truck around and pulled out the bicycle.

The bicycle took me another 1.1 miles. By then, I was only a quarter mile out, so it was a shorter walk across sagebrush than either of the last two expeditions.

After the expedition, I stopped in Jordan Valley to have lunch and coffee at the Rockhouse Cafe, which is the traditional post-geohashing celebration for this area established by Eldin and Pojana after 2013-03-03 43 -117. "Sugar, Sugar" (The Archies, 1969) was playing cheerfully on their stereo when I came in, which helped me avoid any unnecessary philosophical musings about the vastness of the Western landscape or the human experience of space. Good coffee, too.

Photos

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  Parking the truck and launching the bike.

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  Sheep Spring Road.

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  The sun-bleached bones of less fortunate geohashers?

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  Boom.

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  Me, at the hashpoint.

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  Another view from a sagebrush hashpoint.

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  Some snowcapped mountains off in the distance.

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  Cows that I startled out of the road on the return ride.

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  The Rockhouse Cafe.

Achievements

Michael5000 earned the Graticule Unlocked Achievement by being the first to reach any hashpoint in the (42, -117) graticule, here, on 2023-04-29.

Michael5000 earned the Multihash Achievement by reaching 2 hash points on 2023-04-29. It's a Double Hash.

Michael5000 earned the Consecutive geohash achievement by reaching 5 hash points on 2 consecutive days starting on 2023-04-28.

Michael5000 achieved level 5 of the Minesweeper Geohash achievement by visiting coordinates in [[Buchanan, Oregon]] and 5 of the surrounding graticules.

Michael5000 achieved level 5 of the Minesweeper Geohash achievement by visiting coordinates in [[Vale, Oregon]] and 5 of the surrounding graticules.