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== Location ==
 
== Location ==
 
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South of Banks, Oregon, on the edge of a newly harvested grain field.
South of Banks, Oregon.
 
  
 
== Participants ==
 
== Participants ==
*Jim
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*[[User:Jiml|Jim]]
  
  
 
== Plans ==
 
== Plans ==
  
Plans??  Hah!  It's 103 degrees out and I have errands to do.  I'll try to swing by on my way back
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Plans??  Hah!  It's 103 degrees out and I have errands to do.  I went by on my way home.  I programmed the GPS with the coordinates, and took a GoogleMaps printout, not that I initially followed it.
home.
 
  
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== Expedition ==
 
== Expedition ==
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After completing my errands preparing for our trip East, I drove out to Banks to try to find the
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hashpoint.
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In the process of getting to the point, I went around a triangle intersection in the road, with a
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lot of brush in the middle of the triangle.  As I went around it, the GPS pointed into the middle of
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it.  Clearly I had crossed the stupidity distance, as I was strongly tempted to get out of
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the car and plunge directly into the middle of it.
  
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However, sanity prevailed and I realized that the hashpoint was actually on the other side of the road,
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just as I suspected from Google Maps.  So, I walked around the triangle and crossed the road.
  
== Tracklog ==
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I found myself confronting a hedge, probably full of raptors.  However, the stupidity distance
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had been crossed, so I plunged in (slowly) and managed to evade any bites as I made it to the other
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side of the brush.  There I found the hashpoint on the edge of the field.
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I took a picture and headed home.
  
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== Achievements ==
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{{land geohash | latitude = 45 | longitude = -123 | date = 2009-07-29 | name = [[User:Jiml|Jim]]  }}
  
 
== Photos ==  
 
== Photos ==  
  
 
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Image:2009-##-## ## ## Alpha.jpg | Witty Comment
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Image:2009-07-29 45 -123-NearbyField.jpg|Nearby field showing the area
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Image:2009-07-29 45 -123-StupidityTriangle.jpg|The triangle that I was nearly stupid in
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Image:2009-07-29_45_-123-hedge.jpg|Picture of the raptor-laden hedge
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Image:2009-07-29_45_-123-GPS.jpg|GPS makes it to the hashpoint
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Image:2009-07-29_45_-123-TowardsHashpoint.jpg|Picture back towards the hashpoint
 
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Location

South of Banks, Oregon, on the edge of a newly harvested grain field.

Participants


Plans

Plans?? Hah! It's 103 degrees out and I have errands to do. I went by on my way home. I programmed the GPS with the coordinates, and took a GoogleMaps printout, not that I initially followed it.


Expedition

After completing my errands preparing for our trip East, I drove out to Banks to try to find the hashpoint.

In the process of getting to the point, I went around a triangle intersection in the road, with a lot of brush in the middle of the triangle. As I went around it, the GPS pointed into the middle of it. Clearly I had crossed the stupidity distance, as I was strongly tempted to get out of the car and plunge directly into the middle of it.

However, sanity prevailed and I realized that the hashpoint was actually on the other side of the road, just as I suspected from Google Maps. So, I walked around the triangle and crossed the road.

I found myself confronting a hedge, probably full of raptors. However, the stupidity distance had been crossed, so I plunged in (slowly) and managed to evade any bites as I made it to the other side of the brush. There I found the hashpoint on the edge of the field. I took a picture and headed home.

Achievements

Landgeohash.png
Jim earned the Land geohash achievement
by reaching the (45, -123) geohash on 2009-07-29.

Photos