Difference between revisions of "2009-07-29 45 -123"

Revision as of 08:36, 30 July 2009

Location

South of Banks, Oregon, on the edge of a newly harvested grain field.

Participants

Jim

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.

Achievements

Jim earned the Land geohash achievement

by reaching the (45, -123) geohash on 2009-07-29.

Photos

Nearby field showing the area
The triangle that I was nearly stupid in
Picture of the raptor-laden hedge
GPS makes it to the hashpoint
Picture back towards the hashpoint

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 side of the brush.  There I found the hashpoint on the edge of the field.
 I took a picture and headed home.
+== Achievements ==
+{{land geohash | latitude = 45 | longitude = -123 | date = 2009-07-29 | name = [[User:Jiml|Jim]]  }}
 == Photos ==


Wed 29 Jul 2009 in 45,-123: 45.5804344, -123.1123241 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox