Portland, Oregon

Astoria	Mt. St. Helens, Washington	Mt. Rainier, Washington
McMinnville	Portland	The Dalles
Eugene	Springfield	Bend
Today's location: not yet announced

Today's battleship location is:  not yet announced

The Portland metro area graticule is at 45 N, 122 W. It completely encloses the city of Portland and some surrounding areas. The graticule is almost entirely land, much of it open and undeveloped, making this one of the best areas for geohashing.

For other places called Portland, go here.

Cities in this Graticule

• Portland, OR
• Vancouver, WA

Meetup time

It was proposed, and no objections were raised, so the official meetup time for our graticule(s) is now 2PM from Oct 1 to March 15, and 4PM for the rest of the year. I'd say this applies to neighboring graticules as well.

Planning and Coordination

View of the west hills of Portland, Oregon

• See the discussion page for plans

Many of the folks in the Portland, Oregon graticule hop over to the McMinnville, Oregon graticule for hashpoints there. The planning was happening here on the Portland page, but now with the User:AperfectBot picking up Category:Expedition planning pages, it makes sense to move the planning to the expedition page itself once someone is committed to going.

Recent Expeditions

7/10/2010 -- Sunday - Local

Jim heads to visit a hashpoint in the Columbia - No Access and Mother Nature say expedition Thwarted.

7/9/2010 -- Sunday - Graticule Hopping

Jim and APR visit the parking lot of a farm near Hillsboro. Expedition Success.

7/5/2010 -- Sunday - Local

Jim visits the driveway of a home near Garden Home. Expedition Success..

7/5/2010 -- Sunday - Graticule Hopping

Jim has no access to a hashpoint in a pond near Carlton, Oregon. Expedition Thwarted.

6/27/2010 -- Sunday - Local

Time constraints prevent Jim from getting close to reaching a hashpoint in the Mt. Hood National Forest. Expedition Thwarted.

6/23/2010 -- Sunday - Graticule Hopping

Jim does a Multi-Hash by speeding through a hashpoint on Hwy 6! Expedition Success.

6/23/2010 -- Sunday - Local

Jim starts a Multihash by visiting a point in the backyard of a home in Garden Home. Expedition Success.

6/18/2010 -- Sunday - Graticule Hopping

Jim has no access to a hashpoint near Hwy 26. Expedition Thwarted.

6/16/2010 -- Sunday - Local

Jim has no access to a hashpoint near Sherwood, Oregon. Expedition Thwarted.

6/15/2010 -- Sunday - Graticule Hopping

Jim doesn't find access to a hashpoint near the back edge of a property near Gaston, Oregon Expedition Thwarted.

6/13/2010 -- Sunday - Graticule Hopping

Jim doesn't have access to an apparent logging road near Manning, Oregon.

6/11/2010 -- Sunday - Local

Time constraints prevent Jim from getting close to a hashpoint near Sherwood, Oregon. Expedition Thwarted.

6/5/2010 -- Sunday - Graticule Hopping

Jim doesn't have access to farmland near Gaston, Oregon. Expedition Thwarted.

5/30/2010 -- Sunday - Local

Michael5000 uses truck, bike, and boots to locate a forest hash northeast of Vancouver. Expedition Success.

5/23/2010 -- Sunday - Local

Michael5000 stumbles around for a while by the Clackamas River. Expedition Thwarted.

5/22/2010 -- Saturday - Mouseover Day - Local

Michael5000 fails to check the plans, but manages to find the hashpoint. Jim's plans go akilter, but he finds the hashpoint. Estel found the hashpoint and left a marker.

5/11/2010 -- Tuesday - Graticule Hopping

Jim finds a hashpoint next to a logging road near Hwy 26. Expedition Success.

5/6/2010 -- Thursday - Graticule Hopping

Jim finds a field near Hwy 26. Expedition Thwarted.

5/5/2010 -- Wednesday - Local

Michael5000 gets thwarted by overprotective citizen. Expedition Thwarted.

5/2/2010 -- Monday - Graticule Hopping

Jim finds a Vineyard south near Bald Peak. Expedition Thwarted.

5/5/2010 -- Wednesday - Local

Michael5000 and Sarah encounter a ghost street and hostile natives in search of the elusive Kingsley D. Bundy City Park. Expedition Thwarted.

Recent Plans without reports

Where'd the rest of the dates go? See the Archives page.

Mailing List

There is now a mailing list for Portland Geohashing.

Participants

Active participants with documented activity in 2009 are in bold.

• 3riador lives at Reed College, is fairly mobile, and loves playing with GPS.
• Admalledd
• Alexp
• aperfectring has moved here.
• doiuf Located in Vancouver, WA.
• Drache
• Elegant Forkbomb lives in Portland
• Estel lives in NE Portland and is re-learning orienteering.
• grishnav Moved to Seattle.
• Jessica
• Jiml lives south of Hillsboro, and has a GPS unit. He's been on a number of expeditions, some succesful.
• James
• Kpeace Live in Portland. Participated in first geohash on 6/28/08; I don't have a car so I'm at the mercy of my car-owning friends for distant hashes.
• Maggie lives in Portland.
• Maravi lives in Lake Oswego.
• michael5000
• Tim Ferrell I'm based in Salem.
• Mrs.5000
• NoTerminal
• thefinn93 lives in Portland.
• Timmothy Tee
• Wil
• zem

Activity Statistics

	Overall	2008	2009	2010
Expeditions	53 (7th)	10	24 (12th)	19 (3rd)
Coordinates Reached	31 (14th)	6	13	12 (5th)
No Public Access	16	2	10	4
Mother Nature	4	1	1	2
Did Not Attempt	1	1	0	0
Technology	1	0	0	1

Sources:

• Dawidi's list
• Most Active Graticules
• Category:Meetup in 45 -122

Obtained May 1, 2010

Graticule History

2008

This graticule has a long (for geohashing) and storied history. It all began with the world's first ever geohashing expedition in February of 2008 during beta testing. After the algorithm was announced, Portland maintained some modest activity, with plans or expeditions happening once a week or so into August.

2009

Unfortunately, though, this graticule, which is wonderful for geohashing, was then inactive until January of 2009, when activity started trickling back in. The most active geohasher in the area, Jim, started at this time with his first expedition on 2009-01-19. Activity continued to increase over the warm and generally pleasant summer months. APR, one of the area's more active geohashers, was relocated here (from Florida) in September 2009, though he had visited (and geohashed) here earlier in 2009. Activity briefly took a dip in September, but returned to more normal levels in October and November, the same timeframe that Michael 5000, another fairly active geohasher in the area, discovered geohashing. Since then, the community has been fairly active, ranking 4th in November 2009, and tied for 2nd in December 2009 for expeditions.

2010

The beginning of the year continued pretty much like the end of the previous one, with Portland being 4th for expeditions in January. February and March maintained the activity for the area, but there was more graticule hopping, causing Portland to drop for number of expeditions. However, in April, activity exploded in the area. Portland had 9 expeditions, the most in its history in a single month, and McMinnville tied its previous record of 4 expeditions.

Archives

Detailed archives are now located here!

2010 Jan February March April May June July August September October November December 01-02 01-09 01-11 01-30* 01-31 02-04 02-06 02-11* 02-13* 02-15* 02-27 03-02 03-08 03-14* 03-19* 03-28* 04-01 04-03* 04-04 04-11 04-13 04-15* 04-18* 04-20 04-21 04-24 04-25* 04-25 04-28 04-30* 05-05 05-06* 05-11* 05-22 05-23 05-30 06-05* 06-05 06-05* 06-15* 06-16 06-18* 06-23 06-23* 06-27 07-04* 07-05 07-09* 07-10 2009 Jan February March April May June July August September October November December 01-17 01-19 03-04 04-04 05-16 05-19 05-23* 05-28* 06-04 06-05* 06-07 06-08* 06-10 06-21* 07-05* 07-08* 07-10* 07-11* 07-13 07-19* 07-29* 08-09* 08-10* 08-24 08-28 08-29 08-31 09-29* 10-09 10-10* 10-18 11-01* 11-07* 11-08 11-11* 11-13 11-28 11-29 12-03 12-04 12-06 12-10* 12-21 12-23 2008 January February March April May June July August September October November December 02-17 02-19 05-24 05-26 05-31 06-02 06-07 06-21 06-28 07-05 07-12 07-19 07-26 08-02 08-16

• = Graticule Hopping (usually to McMinnville, Oregon Graticule)

Awards

This graticule (45 -122) earned the Mostly Active Graticule achievement for the month of 2010-04 in the category total expeditions by being the location of 9 expeditions.