Portland, Oregon

Astoria	Mt. St. Helens, Washington	Mt. Rainier, Washington
McMinnville	Portland	The Dalles
Eugene	Springfield	Bend
Today's location: not yet announced

The Portland metro area graticule is at 45 N, 122 W. It completely encloses the city of Portland and some surrounding areas. The graticule is almost entirely land, much of it open and undeveloped, making this one of the best areas for geohashing.

For other places called Portland, go here.

Cities in this Graticule

• Portland, OR
• Vancouver, WA

Planning and Coordination

• See the discussion page for plans

Many of the folks in the Portland, Oregon graticule hop over to the McMinnville, Oregon graticule for hashpoints there. The planning was happening here on the Portland page, but now with the User:AperfectBot picking up Category:Expedition planning pages, it makes sense to move the planning to the expedition page itself.

Recent Expedition

07/10/2009 - Wed - Graticule Hopping

South of Hillsboro, Near McCormick Road. Expedition Thwarted.

07/08/2009 - Wed - Graticule Hopping

North of Hillsboro, Near Pumpkin Ridge in North Plains. Expedition Thwarted.

07/05/2009 - Sunday - Graticule Hopping

North of Hillsboro, Near Pumpkin Ridge in North Plains. Expedition success.

06/21/2009 - Sunday - Graticule Hopping

South of Hillsboro, in the back of a nursery. Expedition success.

06/10/2009 - Wednesday - Local

Near the intersection of Shute Road and Evergreen. Expedition success. 3riador's first successful hash.

06/08/2009 - Monday - Graticule Hopping

South of Hillsboro, near Bald Peak Road. Expedition thwarted.

06/07/2009 - Sunday - Local

Between Burkhalter Road and Farmington Road, south of Hillsboro. Disorganized expedition thwarted.

06/05/2009 - Friday - Graticule Hopping

Just off of US-101 between Seaside and Cannon Beach. Expedition successful.

06/04/2009 - Thursday - Local

Down a logging road near St. Helens (town). Expedition thwarted.

05/28/2009 - Thursday - Graticule Hopping

Oat field west of North Plains, Oregon - Expedition thwarted.

05/23/2009 - Saturday - Graticule Hopping

Mouseover Day! Planning completed and retro-mission to the west executed!

05/19/2009 - Tuesday

North of 26, near 185th - Expedition thwarted.

05/16/2009 - Saturday

In Tualatin, in the parking lot of a business complex: Expedition and Meetup successful.

03/04/2009 - Wednesday

In Beaverton, on a side street - Expedition successful.

01/19/2009 - Monday

Rural Washington County. No GPS, and darkness. Jim drives there with his Google Maps printout and finds the house, but gives up on finding the hashpoint. A fowl outcome.

Recent Plans without reports

Where'd the rest of the dates go? See the Archives section at the bottom of this page.

04/04/2009 - Saturday

Back of some guy's field near Newberg. Guess I'll see how in-shape I am for biking. fkoran 05:34, 4 April 2009 (UTC)

01/17/2009 - Saturday

A forest out by Sandy. I'm going with a friend and will report back. 3riador 16:51, 17 January 2009 (UTC)

Mailing List

There is now a mailing list for Portland Geohashing.

Participants

• Forrest lives in Salem, and plans to bike out to whichever graticule is best located this Saturday.
• Alexp If anyone from Salem ever needs a lift to any of the Saturday Meet-ups let me know, I'll see what I can do.

• Drache and NoTerminal will be hosting the first Saturday GeoHashing meetup for the Portland Graticule this week. Wherever it is, we'll be there with a chess board (or maybe two) and an arsenal of tech. If it's somewhere unreachable, we'll be as close as we can get. Look for a very dirty black VW Jetta or a silver Subaru Imprezza hatch-back with an over sized roof rack. There will be XKCD signs in the windows and our actual GPS coordinates on the dash if we're not at the specified ones. We'll also be on CB channel 36, family radio channel 13 with no codepage or codepage 0, and HAM radio frequency 146.52mhz, Callsign KC7KWX. Our CBs are car mounted so switch to ham or family when you're close to the location.

• Wil See my user page or specific dates above for more information. Also on my user page is information about my Geohashing gallery.
• thefinn93 lives in Portland, has no car (too young) but knows how to use public transit well. I should start coming to these.
• Timmothy Tee I plan on going monday, with three other hashers. One of the "Geo-Cyclists"
• Admalledd live in Vancouver Washington, Another of the "Geo-Cyclists"
• doiuf Located in Vancouver, WA. Have yet to make a meet-up.
• Jessica may become an active member today, June 7, 2008.
• James Just stumbled onto geohashing and can't wait for next saturday
• Tim Ferrell I'm based in Salem and thinking about trying this out on 6/21. What all should I bring for a meetup? I answered my own question and added a link.
• grishnav Moved to Seattle, so he's only going to get down here to hang out with you guys from time to time...
• Kpeace Live in Portland. Participated in first geohash on 6/28; I don't have a car so I'm at the mercy of my car-owning friends for distant hashes, but I am an avid bikerider so anything within navigable city limits or in the vicinity of the Springwater Corridor trail I may visit unilaterally.
• zem has a busy schedule and can't travel far without a car but will try whenever possible and/or feasible.
• Maggie lives in Portland, has a car, and enjoys geohashing very much.
• Maravi lives in Lake Oswego, Oregon and started GHing on 2 August 2008. Woo!
• 3riador lives at Reed College, is fairly mobile, and loves playing with GPS.
• Jiml lives south of Hillsboro, and has a GPS unit. He's been on a number of expeditions, only a few currently documented.
• aperfectring will be relocating to the area in the upcoming months. He may be out there on trips periodically in the meantime.

Happy hunting!

Archives

2009 Jan March May June July August September October November December! 01-19 03-04 05-16 05-19 05-23* 05-28* 06-04 06-05* 06-07 06-08* 06-10 06-21* 07-05* 07-08* 07-10*

• = Graticule Hopping (to McMinnville, Oregon Graticule)

2008 February May June July August September October November December 02-17 05-24 05-26 05-31 06-02 06-07 06-21 06-28 07-05 07-12 07-19 07-26 08-02 08-16

Geohashing Historical Society Note: 2/17/2008 - Sunday

It was from the Olden Times, back before the xkcd geohash wiki had gone live... but the February 17 meeting in the graticule should probably be celebrated all the same.  :)

2008 expeditions with report

8/16/2008 - Saturday

The location looks like it's in the alley between two houses out in Oregon City.

8/2/2008 - Saturday

((Local information taken from the e-mail list, so credit goes to Wil for this.))

The location is Here for those that want to Google Map it. As stated by Wil, it actually has a street view. Odd. Looks to be a field right off of I-5.

Locally, it is a mile away from Champoeg State Park and the nearest town is Woodburn.

Maravi will be there, and this will be his virgin Geohash. Yay!

Tim Ferrell is gonna make it. 1st timer.

Maggie: I will probably be there with a friend. It sort of depends on what ends up happening for the rest of the day.

7/26/2008 - Saturday

The point is out near Sandy. It's relatively near Eagle Fern Park; we may be able to park there and walk to the actual point, if anyone's up for a 3-4 mile hike.

In Sandy, there's a burger place called Calamity Janes that seems to have decent reviews. How about we find the point at 4pm and all go out for burgers afterwards?

Maggie will be there this week, and is up for a hike and burgers. Yes indeed.

Wil: Heh. I wrote the two paragraphs above, but forgot to mention that I will be there.

7/19/2008 - Saturday

Looks like another field in Woodburn! Woo!

Jhon will be thar!

Probably Wil, too.

2008 Planned expeditions with no report

10/25/2008 - Saturday

well, here comes another geohash, I'll try to be more proactive like Wil, this Saturday is a robotics competition at OMSIand was wondering if anyone on/in the Internets wishes to come? time is from 10:00am to 4:00pm. for more information please post here and I'll add more then. (and wil, I'm NOT biking this time, got a robot to carry.) admalledd 4:31, 23 2008 (UTC)

9/13/2008 - Saturday

Field trip! This week's point is in the NW corner of the graticule. This means that if we jump one graticule south, we'd be in the outskirts of Salem. I've never been to Salem, but I've met some geohashers from there and it would be cool to see them again. If I can find anyone to ride with me or anyone to meet me in Salem (or both,) I'll be at the 44,-122 graticule's meetup point tomorrow. Wil 18:39, 12 September 2008 (UTC) UPDATE: The meetup is in two hours. Only one other person said they'd be making it and they emailed a few minutes ago to cancel. Looks like I won't be headed down to Salem today. Wil 21:03, 13 September 2008 (UTC)

8/23/2008 - Saturday

Wil: The actual location is just north of Silverton. I've suggested an alternate location: OMSI in Portland. See you there? UPDATE: Some friends and I are probably going to head over early, around noon. One person I spoke to expressed some disbelief (and a slight hint of derision) that I was going to OMSI, saying that it was "for kids". Therefore, I figured a few extra hours at OMSI would be time well spent... Anyway, I'll be hanging around the entrance of the museum at the official meetup time (16:00,) but I may be inside as early as noon.

admalledd: I'll be coming to OMSI (was planing to go Monday but this works too.) definitely one more person (driver) possible some friends! I wonder how the ball machine is doing?

Maggie: I will be there! It's been a while.

admalledd:sorry I couldn't make it. last minute plans I did not know of.