Difference between revisions of "Slave Lake, Alberta"

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Aerial view of the southern portion of the Slave Lake graticule

The Slave Lake, Alberta graticule is at 55, -114. There's Slave Lake, which has a small airport, and a highway. And there's part of Lesser Slave Lake. And mosquitoes. And bears.

Activities

If you are lucky enough to be in this graticule in mid-July, you can attend the Alberta Open Sandsculpture Championships.

Expeditions

2008-08-15 - Unsuccessful expedition by Robyn.
2008-08-16 - Robyn gets to within 0.22 nm of the geohash.
2008-08-21 - Robyn goes all the way.
2008-08-24 - Robyn and ICWB do it again.
2008-08-26 - Robyn makes it a hat trick, without ICWB.
2008-08-29 - Another air hash from Robyn.

Notable Events

2008-08-19 - The hash is right on a road but it's 75 km away.
2008-08-21 - First successful geohash in the graticule.

The Slave Lake graticule (55 -114) earned the Mostly Active Graticule achievement

for the month of August 2008 in the category coordinates reached by being the location of 4 successful expeditions.

Template:Virgin graticule

Local Geohashers

Robyn is here for the month of August 2008. It's going to be a lucky day that I get to a geohash.

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 *2008-08-19 - The hash is '''right on a road''' but it's 75 km away.
 *[[2008-08-21 55 -114|2008-08-21]] - First successful geohash in the graticule.
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+{{most active graticule
+    | graticule = Slave Lake
+    | coordinates = 55 -114
+    | month = August 2008
+    | reached = true
+    | count = 4
+}}{{
+Virgin graticule | latitude = 55 | longitude = -114 | date = 2008-08-21 | name = [[User:Robyn|Robyn]]|image = 2008-08-21.Grin.JPG}}
 == Local Geohashers ==

mosquitoes	bears	mosquitoes
Utikuma Lake	Slave Lake, Alberta	Calling Lake
Whitecourt	Barrhead	Athabaska