Difference between revisions of "2022-07-08 45 -120"

Latest revision as of 21:22, 24 May 2024

Location

Off of Cedar Springs Lane, five or six miles south of the Columbia and just south of the big waste facility in Gilliam County.

Participants

Expedition

You probably remember that on June 5, 2019, the hashpoints were at .6097674 and .2047254, and today they were at .6115230 and .2101686. At the middle latitudes that's an offset of about, what... 1500 feet? about half a kilometer? So, as we drove up to this hashpoint, I was able to point the location of 2019-06-05 45 -120 out to Mrs.5000. "I think it was over by that shed," I said, correctly as it turns out.

So, on Wednesday we got three hashpoints ending in the Tri Cities with 2022-07-06 46 -119, and then on Thursday we went to Pendleton and did some things that didn't involve hashpoints. Today was Friday, and there were several tempting geohash opportunities in the region. We decided to skip the more distant ones at Seattle (but Thomcat got that one) and Boise (which may have gone unclaimed), and look into two or three that were closer to hand and more or less on the way home to Portland.

From Pendleton, getting to this one was just a matter of getting on to I-84 and driving west for an hour, taking the Arlington exit onto Oregon 19, and then turning right onto Cedar Springs Lane. We pulled off the side of the road, scrambled down a little embankment, climbed over some railroad tracks, and there we were.

For a massive industrial waste disposal site, the facility here is nothing if not discreet, and is actually somewhat pretty. Trains and trucks of trash occasionally pull in, and big forklifts take the containers of waste, and... something happens. You don't actually see much trash, and there's no smell, so there's just a mild buzz of activity that, although it's on a pretty big scale, still gets dwarfed by the open landscape.

Our plan up to this point had been to continue one graticule west on I-84, continuing in the direction of home, to another accessible-looking hashpoint in The Dalles. But when we got back to Highway 19, I found myself saying "Let's try the one south of here" and Mrs.5000 found herself saying "OK, sure!" That's how we ended up at 2022-07-08 44 -120

Photos

We are standing on a hashpoint!
Trainloads of garbage.
A truck heads out to collect more garbage.
Windmills on the eastern horizon.

Achievements

Mrs.5000's first successful expedition to the Goldendale graticule and to Gilliam County.

Mrs.5000 achieved level 4 of the Minesweeper Geohash achievement

by visiting coordinates in [[Goldendale, Washington]] and 4 of the surrounding graticules.

...but a successful adventure a few hours later would bump that up to Level 5!

Also:

Mrs.5000 achieved level 5 of the Minesweeper Geohash achievement

by visiting coordinates in [[Mt. Rainier, Washington]] and 5 of the surrounding graticules.

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 And DON'T FORGET to add your expedition and the best photo you took to the gallery on the Main Page! We'd love to read your report, but that means we first have to discover it! :)
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 == Expedition ==
-You probably remember that on June 5, 2019, the hashpoints were at .6097674 and .2047254, and today they were at .6115230 and .2101686, and at the middle latitudes that's about, what...  1500 feet of offset?  about half a kilometer?  So, as we drove up to this hashpoint, I was able to point the location of [[2019-06-05 45 -120]] out to Mrs.5000.  "I think it was over by that shed," I said, correctly as it turns out.
+You probably remember that on June 5, 2019, the hashpoints were at .6097674 and .2047254, and today they were at .6115230 and .2101686.  At the middle latitudes that's an offset of about, what...  1500 feet?  about half a kilometer?  So, as we drove up to this hashpoint, I was able to point the location of [[2019-06-05 45 -120]] out to Mrs.5000.  "I think it was over by that shed," I said, correctly as it turns out.
 So, on Wednesday we got three hashpoints ending in the Tri Cities with [[2022-07-06 46 -119]], and then on Thursday we went to Pendleton and did some things that didn't involve hashpoints.  Today was Friday, and there were several tempting geohash opportunities in the region.   We decided to skip the more distant ones at Seattle ([[2022-07-08 47 -122|but Thomcat got that one]]) and Boise (which may have gone unclaimed), and look into two or three that were closer to hand and more or less on the way home to Portland.
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