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== Location == | == Location == | ||
− | + | South of Banks, Oregon, on the edge of a newly harvested grain field. | |
− | South of Banks, Oregon. | ||
== Participants == | == Participants == | ||
− | *Jim | + | *[[User:Jiml|Jim]] |
== Plans == | == Plans == | ||
− | Plans?? Hah! It's 103 degrees out and I have errands to do. I | + | Plans?? Hah! It's 103 degrees out and I have errands to do. I went by on my way home. I programmed the GPS with the coordinates, and took a GoogleMaps printout, not that I |
− | + | actually followed it correctly initially. | |
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== Expedition == | == Expedition == | ||
+ | After completing my errands preparing for our trip East, I drove out to Banks to try to find the | ||
+ | hashpoint. | ||
+ | In the process of getting to the point, I went around a triangle in the road, with a | ||
+ | lot of brush in the middle of it. As I went behind it, the GPS pointed into the middle of | ||
+ | it. Clearly I had crossed the stupidity distance, as I was strongly tempted to get out of | ||
+ | the car and plunge directly into the middle of it. | ||
− | + | However, sanity prevailed and I relized that the hashpoint was actually on the other side of the road, | |
+ | just as I suspected from GoogleMaps. So, I walked around the triangle and crossed the road. | ||
+ | I found myself confronting a hedge, probably full of raptors. However, the stupidty distance | ||
+ | had been crossed, so I plunged in (slowly) and managed to evade any bites as I made it to the other | ||
+ | side of the brush. There I found the hashpoint on the edge of the field. | ||
+ | I took a picture and headed home. | ||
== Photos == | == Photos == | ||
<gallery perrow="3"> | <gallery perrow="3"> | ||
− | Image:2009- | + | Image:2009-07-29_45_-123-NearbyField.jpg | Nearby field showing the area |
− | Image:2009- | + | Image:2009-07-29_45_-123-StupidityTriangle.jpg | The triangle that I was nearly stupid in |
+ | Image:2009-07-29_45_-123-hedge.jpg | Picture of the raptor-laden hedge | ||
+ | Image:2009-07-29_45_-123-GPS.jpg | GPS makes it to the hashpoint | ||
+ | Image:2009-07-29_45_-123-TowardsHashpoint.jpg | Picture back towards the hashpoint | ||
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</gallery> | </gallery> | ||
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Revision as of 07:27, 30 July 2009
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Contents
Location
South of Banks, Oregon, on the edge of a newly harvested grain field.
Participants
Plans
Plans?? Hah! It's 103 degrees out and I have errands to do. I went by on my way home. I programmed the GPS with the coordinates, and took a GoogleMaps printout, not that I actually followed it correctly initially.
Expedition
After completing my errands preparing for our trip East, I drove out to Banks to try to find the hashpoint.
In the process of getting to the point, I went around a triangle in the road, with a lot of brush in the middle of it. As I went behind it, the GPS pointed into the middle of it. Clearly I had crossed the stupidity distance, as I was strongly tempted to get out of the car and plunge directly into the middle of it.
However, sanity prevailed and I relized that the hashpoint was actually on the other side of the road, just as I suspected from GoogleMaps. So, I walked around the triangle and crossed the road.
I found myself confronting a hedge, probably full of raptors. However, the stupidty distance had been crossed, so I plunged in (slowly) and managed to evade any bites as I made it to the other side of the brush. There I found the hashpoint on the edge of the field. I took a picture and headed home.