2022-07-06 46 -119

Wed 6 Jul 2022 in 46,-119: 46.2593220, -119.1964760 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox

Location

On the playing fields of Chiawana High School, in Pasco.

Participants

• Michael5000
• Mrs.5000

Expedition

Our lovely drive east from 2022-07-06 47 -122 and 2022-07-06 47 -121 continued down the lee side of the Cascade Mountains, with the thick forests gradually starting to thin out until, shortly before Ellensburg, the trees end with shocking suddenness, replaced by the open scrub and agricultural land that makes up most of central and eastern Washington. We turned south onto Interstate 82 and climbed up over the ranges of hills between Ellensburg and the Yakima Valley, made a quick rest stop outside of Yakima, and then continued up again, east and south and over the hills before descending into the Tri Cities area.

The three cities of the Tri Cities area are Richland, Pasco, and Kennewick. The hashpoint was in Pasco. Chiawana High School was in a modest but tidy neighborhood which, like much in the Tri Cities, has the feel of having been built last week. That's not true, though. It turns out that the school opened all the way back in, um, 2009. Anyway, it was peaceful and healthy-looking on a sunny summer evening, so we sat on the hashpoint -- just outside the third base line on a baseball field -- and enjoyed being in the place. I used my phone to arrange lodging back in Richland, where we also ate dinner. We snubbed Kennewick altogether, but not out of spite.

Photos

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  Mrs.5000 enjoys her third hashpoint of the day

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  Nearby homes bordering the school property

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  The sun goes down on Chiawana High School's extensive grounds

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  Long shadows cast by geohashers

Achievements

Michael5000 and Mrs.5000 earned the Multihash Achievement by reaching 3 hash points on 2022-07-06. It's a Triple Hash.

• This was Mrs.5000's first ever triple hash.
• It was the first expedition to the Tri Cities graticule and to Franklin County, Washington for both of us.

Michael5000 achieved level 6 of the Minesweeper Geohash achievement by visiting coordinates in [[Goldendale, Washington]] and 6 of the surrounding graticules.

Michael5000 achieved level 6 of the Minesweeper Geohash achievement by visiting coordinates in [[Hermiston, Oregon]] and 6 of the surrounding graticules.

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