Difference between revisions of "2023-05-06 46 -122"

Latest revision as of 14:32, 8 May 2023

Location

By the rail grade behind a dairy in Chehalis.

Participants

Plans

Expedition

Thomcat Wasn't even considering this until the folks on Discord pointed out it would be easy - so this became the first of three expeditions on Saturday.

Left Seattle about 7:30 am, though I originally planned to leave earlier. Not quite XKCD-100, this one was 96 miles from my driveway. Saw two Chehalis signs on the way in, apparently shot the darker one :) The time was 9:22 am.

Parked north of the point, by the "The Farm Store" - goods for the farm and from the farm, but not actually farms for sale.

Railroad tracks are usually "not public" but saw no restricting signs. Walked down the tracks past the building south of said store. Some sort of liquid processing plant, with tanks and sluices. The three parked rail cars were labeled "corn oil".

South of that was a large electric box, and next to that someone spelled out "DJ Salty Nuts" in rusty rail spikes. Sometimes the expedition theme just finds itself... just south of that were some more rusty spikes, so I grabbed four for an "X".

Further south was the correct latitude, and according to my phone, the proper point was just west of the tracks. I went slightly down slope and left an "X" to mark my location, then leaned into the brush to get within 2 meters. It was at that point that I glanced up and saw a sign saying "no trespassing" on the tracks. Ha!

It was also at that point that a large freight barreled down those same tracks, causing a fair amount of wind. From down the slope I watched it roll by, hoping there would be no derailments today. There weren't, I survived, and walked north up those same tracks to return to the car. Expedition success!

Next stop, North Bonneville and 2023-05-06 45 -121

Michael5000

It didn't occur to me that anyone else might be visiting Chehalis railroad tracks on a rainy Saturday. I drove up from Portland, went for a run on the nearby Willapa Hills Trail, and made a rather cursory trek across the dairy's parking lot to the hashpoint. I completely failed to see any evidence of other geohashers, either because I got there the firstest or because I got there the mostest oblivious.

Then I drove home!

Tracklog

Photos

Michael5000 Gallery

Looking South.
Looking North.
Voila.

Achievements

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+By the rail grade behind a dairy in Chehalis.
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+'''Thomcat'''
+Wasn't even considering this until the folks on Discord pointed out it would be easy - so this became the first of three expeditions on Saturday.
+Left Seattle about 7:30 am, though I originally planned to leave earlier. Not quite XKCD-100, this one was 96 miles from my driveway. Saw two Chehalis signs on the way in, apparently shot the darker one :)  The time was 9:22 am.
+Parked north of the point, by the "The Farm Store" - goods for the farm and from the farm, but not actually farms for sale.
+Railroad tracks are usually "not public" but saw no restricting signs. Walked down the tracks past the building south of said store. Some sort of liquid processing plant, with tanks and sluices. The three parked rail cars were labeled "corn oil".
+South of that was a large electric box, and next to that someone spelled out "DJ Salty Nuts" in rusty rail spikes. Sometimes the expedition theme just finds itself... just south of that were some more rusty spikes, so I grabbed four for an "X".
+Further south was the correct latitude, and according to my phone, the proper point was just west of the tracks. I went slightly down slope and left an "X" to mark my location, then leaned into the brush to get within 2 meters. It was at that point that I glanced up and saw a sign saying "no trespassing" on the tracks. Ha!
+It was also at that point that a large freight barreled down those same tracks, causing a fair amount of wind. From down the slope I watched it roll by, hoping there would be no derailments today. There weren't, I survived, and walked north up those same tracks to return to the car. Expedition success!
+Next stop, North Bonneville and [[2023-05-06 45 -121]]
+'''Michael5000'''
+It didn't occur to me that anyone else might be visiting Chehalis railroad tracks on a rainy Saturday.  I drove up from Portland, went for a run on the nearby Willapa Hills Trail, and made a rather cursory trek across the dairy's parking lot to the hashpoint.  I completely failed to see any evidence of other geohashers, either because I got there the firstest or because I got there the mostest oblivious.
+Then I drove home!
 == Tracklog ==
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+Image:2023-05-06_46_-122_thomcat_1683390896248.jpg|Plant [https://openstreetmap.org/?mlat=46.65886500&mlon=-122.97124410&zoom=16 @46.6589,-122.9712]
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+</gallery>
+'''Michael5000 Gallery'''
+<gallery perrow="5">
+File:2023-05-06 46 -122 1.jpg|Looking South.
+File:2023-05-06 46 -122 2.jpg|Looking North.
+File:2023-05-06 46 -122 3.jpg|Voila.
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