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== Location ==
 
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== Expedition ==
 
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From [[2023-04-29 42 -118]], I continued on Oregon 78 to Burns Junction, which consists mostly of an abandoned gas station, then northwest through mighty Rome (a village of perhaps a dozen people), and eventually to the most urban and cosmopolitan place I'd seen in in 135 miles: Jordan Valley, Oregon, population 180.
  
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The hashpoint was south of town; Dinwitty Lane crossed some fields and then ran right through a ranching operation and over a little bridge; then, unsigned Sheep Spring Road split off and ran between fields and sagebrush for a while.  When the road surface started to get a little iffy, I turned the truck around and pulled out the bicycle.
  
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The bicycle took me another 1.1 miles.  By then, I was only a quarter mile out, so it was a shorter walk across sagebrush than either of the last two expeditions.
  
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After the expedition, I stopped in Jordan Valley to have lunch and coffee at the Rockhouse Cafe, which is the traditional post-geohashing celebration for this area established by Eldin and Pojana after [[2013-03-03 43 -117]].  "Sugar, Sugar" (The Archies, 1969) was playing cheerfully on their stereo when I came in, which helped me avoid any unnecessary philosophical musings about the vastness of the Western landscape or the human experience of space.  Good coffee, too.
  
 
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File:2023-04-29 42 -117 1.jpg|Parking the truck and launching the bike.
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File:2023-04-29 42 -117 2.jpg|Sheep Spring Road.
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File:2023-04-29 42 -117 3.jpg|The sun-bleached bones of less fortunate geohashers?
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File:2023-04-29 42 -117 4.jpg|Boom.
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File:2023-04-29 42 -117 5.jpg|Me, at the hashpoint.
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File:2023-04-29 42 -117 6.jpg|Another view from a sagebrush hashpoint.
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File:2023-04-29 42 -117 7.jpg|Some snowcapped mountains off in the distance.
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File:2023-04-29 42 -117 8.jpg|Cows that I startled out of the road on the return ride.
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File:2023-04-29 42 -117 9.jpg|The Rockhouse Cafe.
 
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Latest revision as of 20:58, 24 May 2024

Sat 29 Apr 2023 in 42,-117:
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Location

A few miles south of the village of Jordan Valley.

Participants

Expedition

From 2023-04-29 42 -118, I continued on Oregon 78 to Burns Junction, which consists mostly of an abandoned gas station, then northwest through mighty Rome (a village of perhaps a dozen people), and eventually to the most urban and cosmopolitan place I'd seen in in 135 miles: Jordan Valley, Oregon, population 180.

The hashpoint was south of town; Dinwitty Lane crossed some fields and then ran right through a ranching operation and over a little bridge; then, unsigned Sheep Spring Road split off and ran between fields and sagebrush for a while. When the road surface started to get a little iffy, I turned the truck around and pulled out the bicycle.

The bicycle took me another 1.1 miles. By then, I was only a quarter mile out, so it was a shorter walk across sagebrush than either of the last two expeditions.

After the expedition, I stopped in Jordan Valley to have lunch and coffee at the Rockhouse Cafe, which is the traditional post-geohashing celebration for this area established by Eldin and Pojana after 2013-03-03 43 -117. "Sugar, Sugar" (The Archies, 1969) was playing cheerfully on their stereo when I came in, which helped me avoid any unnecessary philosophical musings about the vastness of the Western landscape or the human experience of space. Good coffee, too.

Photos

Achievements

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Michael5000 earned the Graticule Unlocked Achievement
by being the first to reach any hashpoint in the (42, -117) graticule, here, on 2023-04-29.
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Michael5000 earned the Multihash Achievement
by reaching 2 hash points on 2023-04-29. It's a Double Hash.
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Michael5000 earned the Consecutive geohash achievement
by reaching 5 hash points on 2 consecutive days starting on 2023-04-28.


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Michael5000 achieved level 5 of the Minesweeper Geohash achievement
by visiting coordinates in [[Buchanan, Oregon]] and 5 of the surrounding graticules.
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Michael5000 achieved level 5 of the Minesweeper Geohash achievement
by visiting coordinates in [[Vale, Oregon]] and 5 of the surrounding graticules.