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== Location ==
 
== Location ==
Lone Fir Cemetery in Portland
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Near the center of Lone Fir Cemetery, in Southeast Portland.
  
 
== Participants ==
 
== Participants ==
* [[User:Jiml|Jim]]  is strongly thinking about it
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Expedition 5000
 
* [[User:Michael5000|Michael5000]]
 
* [[User:Michael5000|Michael5000]]
 
* [[User:Mrs.5000|Mrs.5000]]
 
* [[User:Mrs.5000|Mrs.5000]]
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Expedition two
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Expedition drei
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* [[User:Elegant Forkbomb|Forkbomb]]
  
 
== Plans ==
 
== Plans ==
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Jim's thinking about it, and trying to figure out how to make it interesting....
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Jim's thought about it, but couldn't think of anything to make it really interesting, so he
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just went.
  
 
APR can't make it.
 
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== Expedition ==
 
== Expedition ==
  
Michael5000 woke up and checked the hashpoint.  "Holy cat!" he exclaimed to Mrs.5000.  "We're going geohashing!"  And they walked down the street to the hashpoint in nearby Lone Fir Cemetery.
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===Expedition5000===
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Michael5000 woke up and checked the hashpoint.  "Holy cats!" he exclaimed to Mrs.5000.  "We're going geohashing!"  And they walked down the street to the hashpoint in nearby Lone Fir Cemetery.
  
 
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===Expedition Two===
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Jim finished up the chores he had to do and headed out.  He first went in
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search of blueberries, but took a wrong turn on the back roads he was taking and
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ended up going the long way around.  However, around one turn he ran
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into a graveyard.  Since he was still in Washington County, I guess that means that
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this expedition qualifies for his "Graveyards of Washington County" series.
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He also got to take a picture of Mount Hood since it was being quite visible.
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He got some more blueberries, and then put them way in the back of the car so he
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couldn't snack on them on the way, resulting in a loss of 20-30% of the original
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amount.  He then headed for Portland, but was struck by how heavy the traffic was.
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However, it thinned out, and he eventually made it to SE Portland.  He didn't find
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Stark Street, but finally decided to just follow the GPS direction arrow and see
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what happened.  I eventually found myself at Lone Fir, which seems to be a Pioneer
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Cemetery, whatever that is.  (I noticed an article in the paper a few days later about
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the fact that funds to maintain these cemeteries has become scare.)
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I wandered around for a while looking a grave markers, then let the GPS
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lead me to the hashpoint.  There was a pioneer rose garden at the "zero" distance
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point, so I stuck to the outer edge at 10 feet or so.  There actually were a number
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of graves close in, so a number of folks may have a Coffin Potato.
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I took some pictures, wandered a little more, and headed home.
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===Expedition Drei===
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Forkbomb was poking around on his phone to avoid making eye contact on the train, and discovered that not only was the hashpoint just across the river, it was in a cemetery. Forkbomb likes cemeteries.
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As near as I could tell with all the multipath interference, credit for the coffin potato achievement goes to the the Hill family. They [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/search/Census/household_record.asp?HOUSEHOLD_CODE=1880US_4477716&HOUSEHOLD_SUB=1&frompage=99| look] to have been woodworkers from Illinois, though their web presence is sadly lacking.
  
 
== Photos ==  
 
== Photos ==  
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File:2010-07-25 45 -122 Landscape.JPG|The area around the hashpoint.
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Image:2010-07-25 45 -122 Landscape.JPG|The area around the hashpoint.
File:2010-07-25 45 -122 M5K.JPG|Michael5000
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Image:2010-07-25 45 -122 M5K.JPG|Michael5000
File:2010-07-25 45 -122 Mrs5K.JPG|Mrs.5000, looking ghostly
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Image:2010-07-25 45 -122 Mrs5K.JPG|Mrs.5000, looking ghostly
File:2010-07-25 45 -122 Bear5K.JPG|A hashcot, oblivious of cemetery etiquette.  He meant no disrespect.
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Image:2010-07-25 45 -122 Bear5K.JPG|A hashcot, oblivious of cemetery etiquette.  He meant no disrespect.
File:2010-07-25 45 -122 Nearest.JPG|The nearest posthumous geohasher.
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Image:2010-07-25 45 -122 Nearest.JPG|The nearest posthumous geohasher.
 
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Image:2010-07-25_45_-122-trip-start.jpg | A Wheaty start
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Image:2010-07-25_45_-122-blooming-gate.jpg | A Graveyard of Washington County
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Image:2010-07-25_45_-122-blooming-view.jpg | View of the much of it
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Image:2010-07-25_45_-122-hood.jpg | Mount Hood peeking over the horizon
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Image:2010-07-25_45_-122-sign.jpg | Pioneer Graveyards of Multnomah County
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Image:2010-07-25_45_-122-roses1.jpg | The hashpoint is among the pioneer roses
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Image:2010-07-25_45_-122-roses2.jpg | The roses themselves
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Image:2010-07-25_45_-122-fir-decoration.jpg | Some graves have little decorations
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Image:2010-07-25_45_-122-fir-maus.jpg | Some are more stately
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Image:2010-07-25_45_-122-gps.jpg | The GPS got close
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Image:2010-07-25_45_-122-marker3.jpg | Another nearby coffin potato?
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Image:2010-07-25_45_-122-squirrel.jpg | One of our other geohashers would approve of this greeter
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Image:2010-07-25 13.22.59 Portland Oregon US.jpg |
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Latest revision as of 02:58, 9 August 2019

The area around the hashpoint.
Sun 25 Jul 2010 in 45,-122:
45.5182129, -122.6414956
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Location

Near the center of Lone Fir Cemetery, in Southeast Portland.

Participants

Expedition 5000
Expedition two
Expedition drei

Plans

Jim's thought about it, but couldn't think of anything to make it really interesting, so he just went.

APR can't make it.


Expedition

Expedition5000

Michael5000 woke up and checked the hashpoint. "Holy cats!" he exclaimed to Mrs.5000. "We're going geohashing!" And they walked down the street to the hashpoint in nearby Lone Fir Cemetery.

Walk.PNG
Michael5000 and Mrs.5000 earned the Walk geohash Achievement
by reaching the (45, -122) geohash on 2010-07-25 on foot, travelling a distance of a mile and a half, round trip..

Expedition Two

Jim finished up the chores he had to do and headed out. He first went in search of blueberries, but took a wrong turn on the back roads he was taking and ended up going the long way around. However, around one turn he ran into a graveyard. Since he was still in Washington County, I guess that means that this expedition qualifies for his "Graveyards of Washington County" series. He also got to take a picture of Mount Hood since it was being quite visible.

He got some more blueberries, and then put them way in the back of the car so he couldn't snack on them on the way, resulting in a loss of 20-30% of the original amount. He then headed for Portland, but was struck by how heavy the traffic was.

However, it thinned out, and he eventually made it to SE Portland. He didn't find Stark Street, but finally decided to just follow the GPS direction arrow and see what happened. I eventually found myself at Lone Fir, which seems to be a Pioneer Cemetery, whatever that is. (I noticed an article in the paper a few days later about the fact that funds to maintain these cemeteries has become scare.)

I wandered around for a while looking a grave markers, then let the GPS lead me to the hashpoint. There was a pioneer rose garden at the "zero" distance point, so I stuck to the outer edge at 10 feet or so. There actually were a number of graves close in, so a number of folks may have a Coffin Potato.

I took some pictures, wandered a little more, and headed home.

Expedition Drei

Forkbomb was poking around on his phone to avoid making eye contact on the train, and discovered that not only was the hashpoint just across the river, it was in a cemetery. Forkbomb likes cemeteries.

As near as I could tell with all the multipath interference, credit for the coffin potato achievement goes to the the Hill family. They look to have been woodworkers from Illinois, though their web presence is sadly lacking.

Photos


Achievements

  • Land Geohash
  • Coffin Potato