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== Location ==
 
== Location ==
Near Sherwood Oregon.  In a field, naturally.
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On the edge of a vinyard near Sherwood, Oregon.
  
 
== Participants ==
 
== Participants ==
* Jim
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* APR?
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* Michael5000?
 
  
 
== Plans ==
 
== Plans ==
I've printed out a Google map, and programmed the GPS.
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I printed out a Google map, and programmed the GPS.
  
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== Expedition ==
  
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I set out to go by the hashpoint and then go run some errands.  Google seemed to think I should go over
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the mountain, but I didn't think that was the best way.  ("Yes, the speed limit is 55 mph, but I don't think we'll be doing that around all the hairpin turns...")  I attempted to go the other way around to
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get there, but found that I never saw the cross street as I arrived in downtown Sherwood.
  
== Expedition ==
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So, I backtracked and followed Google's directions and found myself at the little deadend private road
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that leads to the hashpoint.  Either my GPS unit is getting unhappy or the overcast clouds were
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interfering with the GPS signal, because my readings were all over the map.  I finally got to
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about 7 feet from the hashpoint and decided I had made it.  I was just on the side of the road, so
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I didn't need to go get permission to climb over the wire fencing and go into the (slumbering) vinyard.
  
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I waited around for anyone else to show up, but since the other two Portland goehashers I had talked
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to had demurred, I figured I'd be alone.  I headed back to home but stopped to look at another
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rural Oregon graveyard.  Maybe that should be a calendar theme?  ("Graveyards of Washington County"?)
  
== Tracklog ==
 
  
  
 
== Photos ==  
 
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Will follow later
  
 
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Location

On the edge of a vinyard near Sherwood, Oregon.

Participants


Plans

I printed out a Google map, and programmed the GPS.

Expedition

I set out to go by the hashpoint and then go run some errands. Google seemed to think I should go over the mountain, but I didn't think that was the best way. ("Yes, the speed limit is 55 mph, but I don't think we'll be doing that around all the hairpin turns...") I attempted to go the other way around to get there, but found that I never saw the cross street as I arrived in downtown Sherwood.

So, I backtracked and followed Google's directions and found myself at the little deadend private road that leads to the hashpoint. Either my GPS unit is getting unhappy or the overcast clouds were interfering with the GPS signal, because my readings were all over the map. I finally got to about 7 feet from the hashpoint and decided I had made it. I was just on the side of the road, so I didn't need to go get permission to climb over the wire fencing and go into the (slumbering) vinyard.

I waited around for anyone else to show up, but since the other two Portland goehashers I had talked to had demurred, I figured I'd be alone. I headed back to home but stopped to look at another rural Oregon graveyard. Maybe that should be a calendar theme? ("Graveyards of Washington County"?)


Photos

Will follow later