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== Participants == | == Participants == | ||
− | *[[User:Michael5000|Michael5000]] | + | *[[User:Michael5000|Michael5000]] |
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− | + | It was a sunny Autumn day, and why not? I drove down to the Marion County town of Aumsville, then rode my bike west to Turner, south and then east to Stayton, and then a very short hop north to Sublimity, the small town where the hashpoint was. | |
− | + | From looking at online imagery, I knew what I was looking for -- the hashpoint was at or near a little utility enclosure at the corner of a memory care facility. As I rode into the complex, I saw the place I was looking for immediately, rode right up to it, and got out my phone to make sure I was exactly in the right place. But, oddly, I ''wasn't'' in the right place. It showed the hashpoint as being over to the northeast, which was weird because there weren't any buildings to the northeast of the size I was looking for. Confused, I rode around the streets and parking lots for a while, trying to figure out what was up. | |
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+ | What was up was, the buildings shown online have recently been torn down to make way for a smoothly graded construction pad. At the edge of the extensive cleared space, the hashpoint was clearly and cheerfully marked with orange pylons -- but I'm 99.9% sure that this was random construction debris, and not landmarks left by earlier geohashers. | ||
− | + | And then of course I rode the bicycle back to Aumsville, drove the vehicle back to Portland, and here I am taking care of the paperwork! | |
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== Photos == | == Photos == | ||
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<gallery perrow="5"> | <gallery perrow="5"> | ||
+ | File:2023-09-30 44 -122 a.jpg|The expedition plan. | ||
+ | File:2023-09-30 44 -122 b.jpg|Fippe's is not the only bicycle! | ||
+ | File:2023-09-30 44 -122 c.jpg|Entering the hashpoint campus. | ||
+ | File:2023-09-30 44 -122 d.jpg|Fortunately, I ''am'' a doctor. | ||
+ | File:2023-09-30 44 -122 e.jpg|The pylons mark the spot! | ||
+ | File:2023-09-30 44 -122 f.jpg|Yay. | ||
</gallery> | </gallery> | ||
Revision as of 01:44, 1 October 2023
Sat 30 Sep 2023 in 44,-122: 44.8278284, -122.7885487 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox |
Location
In an assisted living development in Sublimity.
Participants
Expedition
It was a sunny Autumn day, and why not? I drove down to the Marion County town of Aumsville, then rode my bike west to Turner, south and then east to Stayton, and then a very short hop north to Sublimity, the small town where the hashpoint was.
From looking at online imagery, I knew what I was looking for -- the hashpoint was at or near a little utility enclosure at the corner of a memory care facility. As I rode into the complex, I saw the place I was looking for immediately, rode right up to it, and got out my phone to make sure I was exactly in the right place. But, oddly, I wasn't in the right place. It showed the hashpoint as being over to the northeast, which was weird because there weren't any buildings to the northeast of the size I was looking for. Confused, I rode around the streets and parking lots for a while, trying to figure out what was up.
What was up was, the buildings shown online have recently been torn down to make way for a smoothly graded construction pad. At the edge of the extensive cleared space, the hashpoint was clearly and cheerfully marked with orange pylons -- but I'm 99.9% sure that this was random construction debris, and not landmarks left by earlier geohashers.
And then of course I rode the bicycle back to Aumsville, drove the vehicle back to Portland, and here I am taking care of the paperwork!
Photos
Achievements