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== Expedition ==
 
== Expedition ==
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I just got back home (17:44) from an interesting hash trip. I will write it up later.
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OK, It's later.  I have finished coding the pics, but have yet to upload them. I will need a ruling
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to say if I made it.  I started with terrible satellite geometry. One satellite was real high, but the others were all lower than 30 degrees.
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My guess from Google maps was that the hash was closer to the river, below the RR tracks, and as it turned out below the cliff (which didn't show up on Google or USGS topos, but that is no surprise). When I finally found a way down there, the GPS claimed that I was midway in the Columbia River. I walked back east as the GPS resolution improved, or so it said, until I was south of the hash, as entered as a waypoint before I started out.
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I walked north until I was at the base of the cliff, but the hash was still further north.  At this time I worked back around to the tracks, and then to the top of the cliff, and now the GPS said that I needed to be back in the field below. WTF?
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As it says when you boot these things, don't bet your life on this locational information. But it was a good wander around, and it made up for all the geohashes that I just drove up to.
  
 
== Photos ==  
 
== Photos ==  
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Image:2012-01-10-45 -122 01 mid river.jpg|I had terrible satellite geometry. I was definitely still on the road, but the GPS said that I was in the river.
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Image:2012-01-10-45 -122 12 track all over.JPG|As this track capture shows. For a long time it wouldn't even acquire. Only 1 sat was more than 30 degrees above the horizon.
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Image:2012-01-10-45 -122 02 below cliffs.jpg|So first I went to the field below the cliffs.  I thought the hash would be down here.
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Image:2012-01-10-45 -122 03 but way up the hill.jpg|But when I was below the tracks & below the cliff, the GPS was showing me up the hill, above the road.
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Image:2012-01-10-45 -122 04 the cliff.jpg|I got to the base of the cliff, the GPS was showing the hash more north, above the cliff.
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Image:2012-01-10-45 -122 05 better numbers.jpg|The numbers were better, the GPS was claiming better accuracy, but.....
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Image:2012-01-10-45 -122 06 Multnomah Falls across the river.jpg|Oh well. I had this view. I believe that to be Multnomah Falls, but I can't see the footpath bridge.
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Image:2012-01-10-45 -122 08 Back up to RR tracks.jpg|So I climbed back up to the RR tracks.
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Image:2012-01-10-45 -122 09 but still below road.jpg|But still below the road.
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Image:2012-01-10-45 -122 10 then up this hill.jpg|And went up here to arrive to the top of the cliff.
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Image:2012-01-10-45 -122 11 looking down from top.jpg|Now that I was here, the GPS said that I should be back down below.
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Image:2012-01-10-45 -122 13 but still not right.JPG|So here is a close up of my track, laid over a USGS topo, using DeLorme Topo USA. The hash was, best that I could tell, on the cliff. But the cliff is between the tracks and the river.
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== Achievements ==
 
== Achievements ==
  
[[Category:New report]]
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* Land Geohash?
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[[Category:Expeditions]]
 
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[[Category:Expeditions with photos]]
 
[[Category:Expeditions with photos]]
 
 
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Latest revision as of 02:01, 13 August 2019

Tue 10 Jan 2012 in 45,-122:
45.5915681, -122.1394323
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Location

By the river.

Participants

Plans

kydlt

I might have to go to this one. I'm heading to Portland anyway.

Expedition

I just got back home (17:44) from an interesting hash trip. I will write it up later.

OK, It's later. I have finished coding the pics, but have yet to upload them. I will need a ruling to say if I made it. I started with terrible satellite geometry. One satellite was real high, but the others were all lower than 30 degrees.

My guess from Google maps was that the hash was closer to the river, below the RR tracks, and as it turned out below the cliff (which didn't show up on Google or USGS topos, but that is no surprise). When I finally found a way down there, the GPS claimed that I was midway in the Columbia River. I walked back east as the GPS resolution improved, or so it said, until I was south of the hash, as entered as a waypoint before I started out.

I walked north until I was at the base of the cliff, but the hash was still further north. At this time I worked back around to the tracks, and then to the top of the cliff, and now the GPS said that I needed to be back in the field below. WTF?

As it says when you boot these things, don't bet your life on this locational information. But it was a good wander around, and it made up for all the geohashes that I just drove up to.

Photos

Achievements

  • Land Geohash?