Astoria	Mt. St. Helens, Washington	Mt. Rainier, Washington
McMinnville	Portland	The Dalles
Eugene	Springfield	Bend
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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.

1 Cities in this Graticule
2 Meetup time
3 Planning and Coordination
4 Recent Expeditions
5 Recent Plans without reports
6 Mailing List
7 Participants
8 Activity Statistics
9 Graticule History
10 Archives
11 Awards
12 Automatic Recent Expeditions
- 12.1 Portland, Oregon
- 12.2 McMinnville, Oregon

Cities in this Graticule

Portland, OR
Vancouver, WA

Meetup time

It was proposed, and no objections were raised, so the official meetup time for our graticule(s) is now 2PM from Oct 1 to March 15, and 4PM for the rest of the year. I'd say this applies to neighboring graticules as well.

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 once someone is committed to going.

View of the west hills of Portland, Oregon

Recent Expeditions

2012-03-12 45 -122

Michael5000 is confirmed of his suspicions in SE Portland. Expedition Thwarted.

2012-03-05 -- Monday - Local

Michael5000 doesn't loiter on the parking lot of a major electronics manufacturing firm. Nor does Jim. Expeditions Successes.

2012-03-03 -- Saturday - Local

Jim looks at a hashpoint on farmland. Expedition Thwarted.

2012-02-28 -- Tuesday - Local

Michael5000 and Jim stop by some townhouses. Expeditions Success.

2012-02-23 -- Thursday - Local

Michael5000 stops by Milwaukie on the way to work. Expedition Success.

2012-02-20 -- Monday - Local

The geohashing community visits the Parry Center throughout the day. Expedition Success.

2012-02-18 -- Saturday - Local

nesbiteg cycles all the way to the junction of I-5 and I-205 only to be stopped twice by fencing and signage. Jim has the same results driving. Expedition Thwarted

2012-02-06 -- Monday - Local

nesbiteg attempts to cycle to the hashpoint near Mulino, but is stopped short by barbed wire. Expedition Thwarted.

2012-02-05 -- Sunday - Graticule Hopping

Jim attempts to reach a hashpoint in a field in Clatskanie. Expedition Thwarted.

2012-01-31 -- Tuesday - Graticule Hopping

Jim fails to enter another field in North Plains. Expedition thwarted.

2012-01-28 -- Saturday - Local

Jim stumbles over a hashpoint in a driveway in Hillsboro. Expedition Success.

2012-01-21 -- Saturday - Local

Michael5000 and his entourage leave a flag in Gabriel Park; Jim finds it. Expedition Success.

2012-01-19 -- Thursday - Local

Michael5000 commutes via a cul-de-sac in Happy Valley. Jim wanders by much later on. Expedition Success.

2012-01-15 -- Saturday - Graticule hopping

Michael5000 makes it to the Mt. St. Helens, Washington and completes his Minesweeper. Expedition success.

Michael5000 completed the Minesweeper Geohash achievement

by visiting coordinates in [[Portland, Oregon]] and all of the surrounding graticules.

2012-01-07 -- Saturday - Local

Jim & Kydlt, and later Michael5000 visit Butler Road, south of Gresham. Expedition Success.

2012-01-02 -- Monday - Local

Michael5000 takes a drive down Cornelius Pass Road. Expedition Success.

2011-12-07 -- Wednesday - Local

Michael5000's 100th Expedition takes him to Aloha in the dark. Expedition Success.

2011-11-04 -- Friday - Local

Jim finds a hashpoint hiding behind a muffler shop. Expedition Success.

2011-10-16 -- Sunday - Local

Kyldt visits the riverside in Washougal. Expedition Success.

2011-10-15 -- Saturday - Graticule hopping

Michael5000 and Jim make visits to Vernonia. Expedition Success.

2011-10-09 -- Sunday - Local

The 5000s, and maybe others, visit a sidewalk south of Milwaukie. Expedition success!

2011-10-01 -- Saturday - Local

A field in Vancouver is also an easy flyby, if you happen to be in the neighborhood. Expedition success!

Recent Plans without reports

Where'd the rest of the dates go? See the Archives page.

Mailing List

There is now a mailing list for Portland Geohashing.

Participants

Active participants with documented activity in 2009 are in bold.

3riador lives at Reed College, is fairly mobile, and loves playing with GPS.
Admalledd
Alexp
aperfectring has moved here.
doiuf Located in Vancouver, WA.
Drache
Elegant Forkbomb lives in Portland
Estel lives in NE Portland and is re-learning orienteering.
grishnav Moved to Seattle.
Jessica
Jiml lives south of Hillsboro, and has a GPS unit. He's been on a number of expeditions, some succesful.
James
Kpeace Live in Portland. Participated in first geohash on 6/28/08; I don't have a car so I'm at the mercy of my car-owning friends for distant hashes.
Maggie lives in Portland.
Maravi lives in Lake Oswego.
michael5000
Tim Ferrell I'm based in Salem.
Mrs.5000
nesbiteg lives in West Linn and prefers to bicycle geohash.
NoTerminal
thefinn93 lives in Portland.
Timmothy Tee
Wil
zem

Activity Statistics

	Overall	2008	2009	2010
Expeditions	53 (7th)	10	24 (12th)	30 (2nd)
Coordinates Reached	31 (14th)	6	13	16 (4th)
No Public Access	16	2	10	4+
Mother Nature	4	1	1	2+
Did Not Attempt	1	1	0	0
Technology	1	0	0	1+

Sources:

Obtained July 15, 2010

Graticule History

2008

This graticule has a long (for geohashing) and storied history. It all began with the world's first ever geohashing expedition in February of 2008 during beta testing. After the algorithm was announced, Portland maintained some modest activity, with plans or expeditions happening once a week or so into August.

2009

Unfortunately, though, this graticule, which is wonderful for geohashing, was then inactive until January of 2009, when activity started trickling back in. The most active geohasher in the area, Jim, started at this time with his first expedition on 2009-01-19. Activity continued to increase over the warm and generally pleasant summer months. APR, one of the area's more active geohashers, was relocated here (from Florida) in September 2009, though he had visited (and geohashed) here earlier in 2009. Activity briefly took a dip in September, but returned to more normal levels in October and November, the same timeframe that Michael 5000, another fairly active geohasher in the area, discovered geohashing. Since then, the community has been fairly active, ranking 4th in November 2009, and tied for 2nd in December 2009 for expeditions.

2010

The beginning of the year continued pretty much like the end of the previous one, with Portland being 4th for expeditions in January. February and March maintained the activity for the area, but there was more graticule hopping, causing Portland to drop for number of expeditions. However, in April, activity exploded in the area. Portland had 9 expeditions, the most in its history in a single month, and McMinnville tied its previous record of 4 expeditions.

2012
Jan	February	March	April	May	June	July	August	September	October	November	December
01-2 01-7 01-15* 01-19 01-21 01-28 01-31*	02-05 02-06 02-06 02-20 02-23 02-28	03-03		May		Jul		Sep		Nov	Dec

2011
Jan	February	March	April	May	June	July	August	September	October	November	December
01-2* 01-8* 01-9 01-10	02-4 02-26	03-2* 03-9 03-12 03-18 03-23 03-24* 03-31	04-1 04-21	05-3 05-7 05-21 05-22 05-23 05-29	06-17 06-18 06-20* 06-26	07-4 07-8 07-23 07-24* 07-27	08-3 08-4 08-14 08-18 08-20 08-25 08-26	09-10 09-11 09-14 09-25 09-26	10-01 10-09 10-15* 10-16	11-4	12-7

Awards