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'''Today's Location:'''
 
'''Today's Location:'''
[[http://carabiner.peeron.com/xkcd/map/map.html?date={{LOCALYEAR}}-{{LOCALMONTH}}-{{LOCALDAY2}}&lat=43&long=-116&zoom=9&abs=-1 Boise, ID]]
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[{{Today's location|lat=43|lon=-116|text=Boise, ID}}]
  
 
The Boise, Idaho [[graticule]] is at latitude 43, longitude -116. It covers the whole [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treasure_Valley Treasure Valley].
 
The Boise, Idaho [[graticule]] is at latitude 43, longitude -116. It covers the whole [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treasure_Valley Treasure Valley].
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   Total Area:        3469 sq miles (8985.4 sq km)
 
   Total Area:        3469 sq miles (8985.4 sq km)
 
   City/Town area:    6.8% - 235 sq miles (608.3 sq km)  
 
   City/Town area:    6.8% - 235 sq miles (608.3 sq km)  
   Area on/near roads: 4.7% - 162 sq miles (419.6 sq km) (includes minor roads, and does not exclude area assigned to other categories)
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   Area on/near roads: 4.7% - 162 sq miles (419.6 sq km) (includes minor and primative roads, and does not exclude area assigned to other categories)
 
   Farm/rural area:    ~19% - ~660 sq miles (~1700 sq km)
 
   Farm/rural area:    ~19% - ~660 sq miles (~1700 sq km)
 
   Wilderness area:    ~74% - ~2570 sq miles (~6650 sq km)
 
   Wilderness area:    ~74% - ~2570 sq miles (~6650 sq km)
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== Local Geohashers ==
 
== Local Geohashers ==
 
* [[User:Eldin|Eric (Eldin)]] I'll be hitting hashes as I'm able in this and surrounding graticules. Hope to meet other geohashers sometime.
 
* [[User:Eldin|Eric (Eldin)]] I'll be hitting hashes as I'm able in this and surrounding graticules. Hope to meet other geohashers sometime.
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* [[User:Ojones|Ojones]]
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* [[User:Penguins|Penguins]]
  
 
== Inactive Local Geohashers==
 
== Inactive Local Geohashers==
''Local geohashers with no wiki activity for a year will be moved to this section.''
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''Local geohashers with no known geohashing-related activity for at least a year will be moved to this section. Examples of geohashing related activity include (but are not limited to) editing the wiki, being spotted in the IRC channel, and of course, actually going out and geohashing''
  
 
* [[User:Nahun|Nathan]] Not sure anyone else will do this in the Boise area, but I'll try
 
* [[User:Nahun|Nathan]] Not sure anyone else will do this in the Boise area, but I'll try
* [[User:BrianHartvigsen|Brian]] Can do weekends if not to far, in Boise.
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* [[User:BrianHartvigsen|Brian]] Can do weekends if not too far, in Boise.
 
* [[User:jrmhkts|Jeremiah]] Would be willing to do weekends or weekdays near the East Boise/Meridian area
 
* [[User:jrmhkts|Jeremiah]] Would be willing to do weekends or weekdays near the East Boise/Meridian area
 
* [[User:charlessw|Charles]] Also willing to do weekends- <5pm sat or >6pm Sundays.
 
* [[User:charlessw|Charles]] Also willing to do weekends- <5pm sat or >6pm Sundays.
  
 
== Expedition planning ==
 
== Expedition planning ==
* [[2013-08-02 43 -116]] -- [[User:Eldin|Eldin]] will try to drive through around noon, then stop to place a marker nearby and take pictures.
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''Discussions of upcoming planned expeditions or links to their pages should go here''
  
  
 
== Expeditions ==
 
== Expeditions ==
* [[2013-08-02 43 -116]] -- [[User:Ojones|Ojones]] attempting todays. [[User:Eldin|Eldin]] drove past, but didn't see a way to access it without trespassing.
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* [[2020-02-25 43 -116]] -- [[User:Penguins|Penguins]] reached a hash in Meridian.
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* [[2015-08-30 43 -116]] -- [[User:Eldin|Eldin]] & Borneo reached a Geohash at the Nampa Civic Center.
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* [[2015-07-21 43 -116]] -- [[User:Eldin|Eldin]] visited a hashpoint in a Nampa subdivision with his dad.
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* [[2015-07-07 43 -116]] -- [[User:Eldin|Eldin]] reached a hashpoint on a residential street in garden city.
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* [[2015-07-01 43 -116]] -- [[User:Eldin|Eldin]] and Pojana got a speed racer hash on the highway near Murphy.
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* [[2015-06-23 43 -116]] -- [[User:Eldin|Eldin]] and Borneo reached a hashpoint south of Fruitland.
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* [[2015-06-16 43 -116]] -- [[User:Eldin|Eldin]] stopped at a hashpoint in a parking lot.
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* [[2015-06-12 43 -116]] -- [[User:Eldin|Eldin]] and Borneo visited a hashpoint at Wendy's in Meridian.
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* [[2015-02-04 43 -116]] -- [[User:Eldin|Eldin]] reached an easy hash by the railroad tracks.
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* [[2014-09-06 43 -116]] -- [[User:Eldin|Eldin]] and Borneo went to the field where the has was located, but opted not to trample the crop which was present.
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* [[2014-09-05 43 -116]] -- [[User:Ojones|Ojones]] nearly reaches a hash in the St. Alphonsus Medical Center hospital in Nampa.
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* [[2014-05-28 43 -116]] -- [[User:Eldin|Eldin]] reaches a hash in the boise foothills.
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* [[2014-05-20 43 -116]] -- [[User:Eldin|Eldin]] and Borneo have car trouble at the hashpoint.
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* [[2014-02-23 43 -116]] -- [[User:Eldin|Eldin]] gets a 'No Trespassing' hash for his birthday.
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* [[2014-02-22 43 -116]] -- [[User:Eldin|Eldin]] & his dad reach a hashpoint in a field south of Lake Lowell.
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* [[2014-01-28 43 -116]] -- [[User:Eldin|Eldin]] and Borneo went to a field on Chicken Dinner Rd, for a successful geohash.
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* [[2014-01-25 43 -116]] -- [[User:Eldin|Eldin]], and seperately [[User:Ojones|Ojones]] reached a hash at the Eagle Sports Complex
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* [[2014-01-23 43 -116]] -- [[User:Ojones|Ojones]], and seperately [[User:Eldin|Eldin]] reached a hash in downtown Boise
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* [[2014-01-22 43 -116]] -- [[User:Eldin|Eldin]], and seperately [[User:Ojones|Ojones]] reached a hash in Kuna, just off Black Cat Rd.
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* [[2014-01-08 43 -116]] -- [[User:Eldin|Eldin]] & Borneo reached a hash south of Marsing.
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* [[2014-01-05 43 -116]] -- [[User:Eldin|Eldin]] succeeds at the graticule's first attempted 2014 hash.
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* [[2013-12-19 43 -116]] -- [[User:Eldin|Eldin]] visited a hash near the Raptor Research Center (Yes, we have one of those here).
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* [[2013-12-11 43 -116]] -- [[User:Eldin|Eldin]] visited a snowy hash north of Middleton.
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* [[2013-12-06 43 -116]] -- [[User:Eldin|Eldin]] fought with tumbleweeds to reach a cold, windy hashpoint.
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* [[2013-12-05 43 -116]] -- [[User:Eldin|Eldin]] got a frozen hash on vacant land in the midst of an upscale neighborhood.
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* [[2013-11-26 43 -116]] -- [[User:Eldin|Eldin]] visits a hashpoint in Elmore county, north of the Grandview Highway.
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* [[2013-11-16 43 -116]] -- [[User:Eldin|Eldin]] reaches a snowy hash in the Boise foothills.
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* [[2013-11-15 43 -116]] -- [[User:Eldin|Eldin]] and Borneo head out US-95 for a hash near the Oregon border.
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* [[2013-11-03 43 -116]] -- [[User:Eldin|Eldin]] got to a hash in someone's driveway.
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* [[2013-11-02 43 -116]] -- [[User:Eldin|Eldin]] and Borneo successfully got to a hash in a field.
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* [[2013-10-29 43 -116]] -- [[User:Eldin|Eldin]] visited a hash on the canyon rim above the Boise River.
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* [[2013-10-29 43 -116]] -- [[User:Eldin|Eldin]] reached a hash in the desert just off I-84.
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* [[2013-10-22 43 -116]] -- [[User:Eldin|Eldin]] reached a hash just outside a chip fab.
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* [[2013-10-16 43 -116]] -- [[User:Eldin|Eldin]] attempted a hash on an island, but the only bridge was marked private.
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* [[2013-09-26 43 -116]] -- [[User:Eldin|Eldin]] tried to reach a hash, but found a no trespassing sign instead.
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* [[2013-09-17 43 -116]] -- [[User:Eldin|Eldin]] reached coordinates near Indian Creek Reservoir for a successful multihash.
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* [[2013-09-17 43 -116]] -- [[User:Eldin|Eldin]] made it to coordinates SE of Boise.
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* [[2013-09-15 43 -116]] -- [[User:Ojones|Ojones]] visited a hash on a trail just off of Bogus Basin road.
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* [[2013-09-14 43 -116]] -- [[User:Ojones|Ojones]] visited a hash along the way to Silver City.
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* [[2013-09-08 43 -116]] -- [[User:Eldin|Eldin]] visited a hash in the mountains.
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* [[2013-09-07 43 -116]] -- [[User:Eldin|Eldin]] walked along a road which had flooded the previous day to reach the hash.
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* [[2013-08-23 43 -116]] -- [[User:Eldin|Eldin]] reached a hash in a muddy field. [[User:Ojones|Ojones]] attempted.
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* [[2013-08-12 43 -116]] -- [[User:Eldin|Eldin]] visited a hash in the desert SE of Boise.
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* [[2013-08-11 43 -116]] -- [[User:Ojones|Ojones]] attempted, but in back yard of someone on Cherry Lane Near 11th Ave. Nampa.
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* [[2013-08-04 43 -116]] -- [[User:Eldin|Eldin]] went. Then [[User:Michael5000|Michael5000]] went. Then [[User:Eldin|Eldin]] went again. But they failed to meet.
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* [[2013-08-03 43 -116]] -- [[User:Eldin|Eldin]], as well as [[User:Ojones|Ojones]] and family, make the graticule's first Saturday meetup which actually involved meeting anyone.  [[User:Michael5000|Michael5000]] returns to Idaho, reaching the hashpoint nine hours later.
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* [[2013-08-02 43 -116]] -- [[User:Ojones|Ojones]], [[User:Eldin|Eldin]] drove past, but didn't see a way to access it without trespassing.
 
* [[2013-07-27 43 -116]] -- [[User:Eldin|Eldin]] reached a hash in the hills NE of Emmet.
 
* [[2013-07-27 43 -116]] -- [[User:Eldin|Eldin]] reached a hash in the hills NE of Emmet.
 
* [[2013-07-26 43 -116]] -- [[User:Eldin|Eldin]] found a hash point in a corn field.
 
* [[2013-07-26 43 -116]] -- [[User:Eldin|Eldin]] found a hash point in a corn field.
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* [[2013-06-06 43 -116]] -- [[User:Eldin|Eldin]] walked up into the hills.
 
* [[2013-06-06 43 -116]] -- [[User:Eldin|Eldin]] walked up into the hills.
 
* [[2013-05-25 43 -116]] -- [[User:Eldin|Eldin]] went geohashing on Mouseover Day.
 
* [[2013-05-25 43 -116]] -- [[User:Eldin|Eldin]] went geohashing on Mouseover Day.
* [[2013-05-15 43 -116]] -- [[User:Eldin|Eldin]] reached a rare (for this graticule) non-rural hash.
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* [[2013-05-15 43 -116]] -- [[User:Eldin|Eldin]] reached a hash by a clinic behind Walgreens.
 
* [[2013-05-13 43 -116]] -- [[User:Eldin|Eldin]] went hiking in the hills.
 
* [[2013-05-13 43 -116]] -- [[User:Eldin|Eldin]] went hiking in the hills.
 
* [[2013-04-21 43 -116]] -- [[User:Eldin|Eldin]] bicycled to a hash near a church.
 
* [[2013-04-21 43 -116]] -- [[User:Eldin|Eldin]] bicycled to a hash near a church.
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''note for [[Most Active Graticules]] achievement: The achievement has differing degrees. (monthly, yearly, and all-time, each with separate ribbons for most successful expeditions and most total expeditions) For each degree of achievement, at most two ribbons will be shown here. Once for the first time a specific degree was achieved, and once for the highest expedition count with which a specific degree was achieved.''
 
''note for [[Most Active Graticules]] achievement: The achievement has differing degrees. (monthly, yearly, and all-time, each with separate ribbons for most successful expeditions and most total expeditions) For each degree of achievement, at most two ribbons will be shown here. Once for the first time a specific degree was achieved, and once for the highest expedition count with which a specific degree was achieved.''
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| latitude = 43  
 
| latitude = 43  
 
| longitude = -116  
 
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{{most active graticule
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| graticule = Boise, Idaho
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| coordinates = 43, -116
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| year = 2013
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| count = 52
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[[Category:Idaho]]
 
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[[Category:Oregon]]
 
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Today's Location: [Boise, ID]

The Boise, Idaho graticule is at latitude 43, longitude -116. It covers the whole Treasure Valley.

Some statistics about this graticule:

  Population:         ~600,000
  Highest Point:      8051 ft (2453 m) @ War Eagle Mountain
  Lowest Point:       2145 ft (654 m) @ Snake River where it crosses 44° North
  Total Area:         3469 sq miles (8985.4 sq km)
  City/Town area:     6.8% - 235 sq miles (608.3 sq km) 
  Area on/near roads: 4.7% - 162 sq miles (419.6 sq km) (includes minor and primative roads, and does not exclude area assigned to other categories)
  Farm/rural area:    ~19% - ~660 sq miles (~1700 sq km)
  Wilderness area:    ~74% - ~2570 sq miles (~6650 sq km)

Local Geohashers

  • Eric (Eldin) I'll be hitting hashes as I'm able in this and surrounding graticules. Hope to meet other geohashers sometime.
  • Ojones
  • Penguins

Inactive Local Geohashers

Local geohashers with no known geohashing-related activity for at least a year will be moved to this section. Examples of geohashing related activity include (but are not limited to) editing the wiki, being spotted in the IRC channel, and of course, actually going out and geohashing

  • Nathan Not sure anyone else will do this in the Boise area, but I'll try
  • Brian Can do weekends if not too far, in Boise.
  • Jeremiah Would be willing to do weekends or weekdays near the East Boise/Meridian area
  • Charles Also willing to do weekends- <5pm sat or >6pm Sundays.

Expedition planning

Discussions of upcoming planned expeditions or links to their pages should go here


Expeditions

Achievements

Achievements related to the graticule itself.

note for Most Active Graticules achievement: The achievement has differing degrees. (monthly, yearly, and all-time, each with separate ribbons for most successful expeditions and most total expeditions) For each degree of achievement, at most two ribbons will be shown here. Once for the first time a specific degree was achieved, and once for the highest expedition count with which a specific degree was achieved.

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Jrmhkts & Laura earned the Graticule Unlocked Achievement
by being the first to reach any hashpoint in the (43, -116) graticule, here, on 2010-11-11.
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The Boise, Idaho graticule (43, -116) earned the Mostly Active Graticule achievement
for the month of March 2013 in the category total expeditions by being the location of 8 expeditions.
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The Boise, Idaho graticule (43, -116) earned the Mostly Active Graticule achievement
for the month of April 2013 in the category coordinates reached by being the location of 5 successful expeditions.
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The Boise, Idaho graticule (43, -116) earned the Most Active Graticule achievement
for the year 2013 in the category total expeditions by being the location of 52 expeditions.