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| + | My family was visiting a friend in Portland on Saturday, and I got a few hours to sneak off and explore. Oh, hey, there's a geohash not too far from here! Let's go up. | ||
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| + | Bus, MAX, bus, get the photo, walk over to the Yellow line (through a lovely street party at Fremont & Mississippi) for the MAX back into downtown. Easy. First successful geohash! Didn't have any evidence-leaving supplies with me, so no evidence left. | ||
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| + | Several hours later, on the way back up north, take another look at the map. Wait, why are there two pins? Oh right, it's the weekend. Oh my god, I went to Sunday's point. Oh well, I guess this counts as a retro? | ||
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| + | === Michael5000 and JimL === | ||
I don't usually forget that I'm geohashing when I'm geohashing, but as I peddled past the Lloyd district and up towards Mississippi-Albina I found myself thinking "well, this is a pleasant bike ride, but now where am I going, again?" Well, today's hashpoint was only a few hundred meters from where I was born, so perhaps I was bicycling back towards my birthplace purely on instinct, like a salmon navigating by smell back to the pool where he was hatched. But, well -- probably not. | I don't usually forget that I'm geohashing when I'm geohashing, but as I peddled past the Lloyd district and up towards Mississippi-Albina I found myself thinking "well, this is a pleasant bike ride, but now where am I going, again?" Well, today's hashpoint was only a few hundred meters from where I was born, so perhaps I was bicycling back towards my birthplace purely on instinct, like a salmon navigating by smell back to the pool where he was hatched. But, well -- probably not. | ||
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File:2023-07-16 45 -122 d.jpg|Evidence | File:2023-07-16 45 -122 d.jpg|Evidence | ||
File:2023-07-16 45 -122 c.jpg|View north up the Willamette River, from later in the ride | File:2023-07-16 45 -122 c.jpg|View north up the Willamette River, from later in the ride | ||
| + | File:2023-07-16 45 -122 Gaelan b.jpg|Gaelan's Grin(TM), unfortunately a day early | ||
| + | File:2023-07-16 45 -122 Gaelan a.jpg|Gaelan's evidence | ||
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Location
On North Kerby Avenue, near Fremont.
Participants
JimL as well
Gaelan, a day early
Plans
Expedition
Gaelan
My family was visiting a friend in Portland on Saturday, and I got a few hours to sneak off and explore. Oh, hey, there's a geohash not too far from here! Let's go up.
Bus, MAX, bus, get the photo, walk over to the Yellow line (through a lovely street party at Fremont & Mississippi) for the MAX back into downtown. Easy. First successful geohash! Didn't have any evidence-leaving supplies with me, so no evidence left.
Several hours later, on the way back up north, take another look at the map. Wait, why are there two pins? Oh right, it's the weekend. Oh my god, I went to Sunday's point. Oh well, I guess this counts as a retro?
Michael5000 and JimL
I don't usually forget that I'm geohashing when I'm geohashing, but as I peddled past the Lloyd district and up towards Mississippi-Albina I found myself thinking "well, this is a pleasant bike ride, but now where am I going, again?" Well, today's hashpoint was only a few hundred meters from where I was born, so perhaps I was bicycling back towards my birthplace purely on instinct, like a salmon navigating by smell back to the pool where he was hatched. But, well -- probably not.
The hashpoint is on an ordinary residential street. I didn't see any evidence of geohashers before me, and I chided myself for neglecting to bring chalk in case someone came after me.
I continued the bicycle ride to pick up a book at Powell's, and then came home. Total round trip: 11 miles.
Jim came from the blood bank! And passed StP riders!
Tracklog
Photos
View from the hashpoint
Me, looking dumb at the hashpoint
Evidence
View north up the Willamette River, from later in the ride
Gaelan's Grin(TM), unfortunately a day early
Gaelan's evidence
