2011-07-31 45 -121

Sun 31 Jul 2011 in 45,-121: 45.0563467, -121.5150552 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox

Location

Just off of Highway 26, twenty-five miles north of Warm Springs.

Participants

• Michael5000

Expedition

The Expedition started with an airport dropoff at the unholy hour of 5 a.m., the reasoning being that if I had to be up at that time anyway I might as well take advantage of the empty roads and continue another scenic sixty miles in the same direction to pick up an accessible hashpoint in a new graticule. So that's what I did.

The hashpoint is a short ways up an embankment from a minor dirt road, perhaps 150 meters off the highway. The forest air smelled great in the cool of the morning.

Photos

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  The old road leading up to the hashpoint.

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  At the hashpoint, looking down at the road.

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  Me, savoring the joy of geohashing.

Achievements

• New Graticule! First attempt and success in The Dalles, Oregon graticule.
• Second ever successful expedition to The Dalles, Oregon graticule (by anyone).
• New County! First attempt and success in Wasco County.
• Personal record: Earliest Geohash -- I reached the hashpoint at 6:50 a.m.
• Personal record: With 15 expeditions, July 2011 is my most active geohashing month. Eight successful expeditions makes it the second-best month ever in that category.

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