Difference between revisions of "2014-01-13 44 -123"

Latest revision as of 05:13, 14 August 2019

Location

Someone's tree in a suburban area north of Corvallis, Oregon.

Participants

Plans

I might attempt this if I feel up to it after class. It should be a relatively quick bike ride. Frogman (talk)

Expedition

I felt up to it! After my statistics class I dropped my school supplies off at home and headed out. The day was very nice and not too cold, and I listened to NPR podcasts as I made my way over to the hashpoint. I decided to take a longer route, detouring up Highland road past Crescent Valley High School, because I didn't feel like making a left turn off of State Highway 99W.

The hills were steeper than I expected, and I ended up at the house where the hashpoint was at around 5pm. I marveled at the fact that it was still light out, snapped a few pictures of the tree and the sky, and left. Before I left I quickly rode onto the house's driveway because I would have felt bad being that close and not coming within the 5 meter GPS margin-of-error I usually hold myself to, but I didn't want to stick around for long because it would have been marginally awkward trying to explain myself to the owners of the house or suspicious neighbors.

The ride back was quicker than the ride there because I took 99W into town. I saw ducks in a field near the hospital!

Tracklog

Photos

The hashpoint! Near this tree.
The sky was pretty.

Achievements

Frogman earned the Bicycle geohash achievement

by cycling 14.0 mi to the (44, -123) geohash on 2014-01-13.

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 I felt up to it! After my statistics class I dropped my school supplies off at home and headed out. The day was very nice and not too cold, and I listened to NPR podcasts as I made my way over to the hashpoint. I decided to take a longer route, detouring up Highland road past Crescent Valley High School, because I didn't feel like making a left turn off of State Highway 99W.
-The hills were steeper than I expected, and I ended up at the house where the hashpoint was at around 5pm. I marveled at the fact that it was still light out, snapped a few pictures of the tree and the sky, and left. Before I left I quickly road onto the house's driveway because I would have felt bad being that close and not coming within the 5 meter GPS margin-of-error I usually hold myself to, but I didn't want to stick around for long because it would have been marginally awkward trying to explain myself to the owners of the house or suspicious neighbors.
+The hills were steeper than I expected, and I ended up at the house where the hashpoint was at around 5pm. I marveled at the fact that it was still light out, snapped a few pictures of the tree and the sky, and left. Before I left I quickly rode onto the house's driveway because I would have felt bad being that close and not coming within the 5 meter GPS margin-of-error I usually hold myself to, but I didn't want to stick around for long because it would have been marginally awkward trying to explain myself to the owners of the house or suspicious neighbors.
 The ride back was quicker than the ride there because I took 99W into town. I saw ducks in a field near the hospital!
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+Image:2014-01-13 44 -123 hashpoint.jpg | The hashpoint! Near this tree.
+Image:2014-01-13 44 -123 sky.jpg | The sky was pretty.
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Mon 13 Jan 2014 in 44,-123: 44.6423473, -123.2395202 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox