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== Plans ==
 
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Head over to Mary's Peak, hike a bit, geocache a bit, geohash a bit.
  
 
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Image:2014-02-23_44_-123_pointing.jpg | Look at this snowy peak!
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Image:2014-02-23_44_-123_map.jpg | Thanks to Friends of Albany for this informative map.
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Image:2014-02-23_44_-123_real_map.jpg | A trail map!
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Image:2014-02-23_44_-123_trail.jpg | After deciphering the trail map we found a trail.
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Image:2014-02-23_44_-123_trees.jpg | There wasn't any snow after a while.
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Image:2014-02-23 44 -123 geocaching.jpg | Geocaching sidequest!
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Image:2014-02-23 44 -123 found it.jpg | Alison found the cache under rotting wood.
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Image:2014-02-23 44 -123 box.jpg | It was an ammo box!
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Image:2014-02-23 44 -123 giraffe.jpg | In it was a giraffe.
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Image:2014-02-23 44 -123 signing in.jpg | We signed in on the geocaching log.
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Image:2014-02-23 44 -123 marie.jpg | Marie, delighted to find the geocache.
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Image:2014-02-23 44 -123 signing in 2.jpg | Greg signing in.
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Image:2014-02-23 44 -123 rotting wood.jpg | A neat tree near the hashpoint.
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Image:2014-02-23 44 -123 hashpoint.jpg | Here we are, at the hashpoint!
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Image:2014-02-23 44 -123 view.jpg | The view from the hashpoint.
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Image:2014-02-23 44 -123 pole.jpg | This pole marks about exactly where the hashpoint was, from our reckoning.
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Image:2014-02-23 44 -123 proof.jpg | Proof!
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Image:2014-02-23 44 -123 grins.jpg | Grins!
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Image:2014-02-23 44 -123 at the point 1.jpg | Celebratory posing.
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Image:2014-02-23 44 -123 at the point 2.jpg | Greg is happy
 
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Pictures in the morning.
  
 
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Latest revision as of 05:37, 14 August 2019

Sun 23 Feb 2014 in 44,-123:
44.5180912, -123.5579196
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Location

Near a hiking trail on Mary's Peak.

Participants

Plans

Head over to Mary's Peak, hike a bit, geocache a bit, geohash a bit.

Expedition

The earliest that we were able to leave was 3:30, so we hoped that enough light was left to get some hiking in as well as the geohashing. AlecS downloaded a couple of geocaches onto his GPS so that we had some alternate destinations at hand.

The road to Mary's Peak was full of twists and turns. We were surprised to see a good layer of snow on the ground once we got close to the summit! We stopped in a parking lot and shivered as we tried to decipher a surprisingly unhelpful trail map. Finally, we got ourselves oriented and headed down a trail away from the peak.

Once we entered the trees the wind chill dropped and we were more comfortable. The trail descended past the point at which snow remained. Before we left the trail to blaze a new one to the hashpoint, we found the Lucky 13 hashpoint. I donated a punch-card for a gelato place in Troutdale, Oregon with a single punch on it.

Leaving the trail to head towards the hashpoint, we were soon met with a rather steep downhill. It did not take us long to reach the hashpoint. Overall it was fairly unremarkable, but hey, it's the journey that counts, right?

Tracklog

Photos

Pictures in the morning.

Achievements

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Frogman, AlecS, Greg, and Alison earned the Drag-along achievement
by dragging Marie to the (44, -123) geohash on 2014-02-23.