User:Rhonda

Hi. My name is Rhonda, and I like adventure. Robyn thinks I am at least as insane as she is, possibly due to my first ever geohash being a (planned) 4 hour kayak expedition.

Geohashes attempted (29/39)

• #29: 2010-03-08 45 -122 (Vancouver, WA): under some trees on the edge of a school field with aperfectring and Jiml.
• #28: 2009-11-16 44 -92 (Kenyon, MN): in the middle of a country highway with Trane.
• #27: 2009-11-14 44 -92 (Rochester, MN): golfing (badly) my way to a point on the 13th hole with Trane.
• 2009-11-08 44 -92 (St. Paul SE, MN): in a park that wasn't a park near the Mississippi River, thwarted by fences and a hunting club.
• #26: 2009-09-29 50 -119 (Armstrong, BC): on the shoulder of a country road near Armstrong.
• #25: 2009-09-27 50 -120 (Kamloops, BC): a short hike after a long drive through a maze of logging roads with Mom.
• 2009-09-12 49 -122 (Golden Ears Park, BC): a swim hash thwarted by crazy seadoos with Xore.
• #24: 2009-09-07 49 -123 (Vancouver, BC): kayaking 4km into the Georgia Strait with Xore.
• #23: 2009-09-01 49 -123 (Paradise River, BC): bushwhacking in the dark in an indian reserve with Xore.

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• @ 2009-08-30 49 -123 (Vancouver, BC): playing tag with Xore and Wade and the Tag! You're it! crew.
• #22: 2009-07-31 49 -123 (Burnaby, BC): empty lot transit hash with Xore and plypkie
• #21: 2009-07-28 49 -122 (Annacis Island, BC): parking lot transit hash with Xore and PhilB
• 2009-07-14 49 -122 (Buntzen Lake, BC): ran out of time on the way to the top of a mountain, with Robyn and Xore.
• 2009-07-12 49 -122 (Langley, BC): 4 metres on the other side of a tall fence, with Xore
• #20: 2009-07-11 49 -123 (West Vancouver, BC): kayak hash into the shipping lanes off Ambleside Park with Xore, Robyn and Wade, and plypkie, yangman, and Elbie.
• #19: 2009-07-10 49 -123 (North Vancouver, BC): down a cliff with Robyn after meeting Flag guy coming back from his expedition.
• #18: 2009-07-05 49 -125 (Courtenay, BC): virgin graticule with Elbie, Xore, and Xore's sister and brother-in-law.
• #17: 2009-06-19 50 -121 (Cache Creek, BC): my first solo geohash.
• #16: 2009-06-14 49 -122 (Surrey, BC): ambassador geohash in a Surrey backyard with Xore, Elbie, SueB, yangman, and plypkie.

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• @ 2009-06-12 49 -123 (Vancouver, BC): Watched Elbie give a talk about geohashing to some UBC Computer Science grad students with Xore and yangman.
• #15: 2009-06-06 51 -121 (100 Mile House, BC): short easy hike with Mom.
• #14: 2009-06-03 49 -123 (Vancouver, BC): transit tree twister hash with Elbie, Ray, Stathi, and Xore.
• @ 2009-05-23 49 -123 (Vancouver, BC): Mouse Over Day celebration on the cruise ship dock at Canada Place, with Robyn, Wade, Xore, SueB, Elbie, Simon, and of course my mom.
• #13: 2009-05-21 48 -123 (Saltspring Island, BC): Geohashing Day celebration with Xore, Elbie, Robyn, and Wade, with cake and twister.
• #12: 2009-05-18 50 -120 (Kamloops, BC): sewage plant hash with Mom.
• #11: 2009-05-12 49 -123 (Vancouver, BC): transit kayak hash with Robyn.
• #10: 2009-05-10 50 -120 (Kamloops, BC): logging road consecutive geohash with my parents and Robyn.
• #9: 2009-05-09 50 -119 (Vernon, BC): missing the perfect road and hiking for a consecutive geohash with Robyn and Juventas.
• 2009-05-08 49 -119 (Kelowna, BC): aborted due to darkness and potholes at the highway turnoff.

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• #8: 2009-05-08 49 -120 (Princeton, BC): hiking up from a provincial campsite with Robyn and Juventas.
• #7: 2009-05-03 48 -122 (Laurel, WA): bicycle border transit consecutive geohash with Robyn.
• #6: 2009-05-02 48 -122 (Silver Lake Park, WA): transit bicycle border camping geohash with Robyn.
• 2009-04-28 49 -122 (Coquitlam, BC): Bicycle no trespassing geohash with Robyn, SueB, and yangman.
• #5: 2009-04-25 49 -123 (Gambier Island, BC): clifftop picnic hash in the sun with Robyn and Wade.
• 2009-04-23 48 -122 (Orcas Island, WA): Border, ferry, bicycle, camping... no trespassing geohash with Robyn.
• #4: 2009-04-22 49 -122 (Langley, BC): via public transit. Met Robyn and played hopscotch.
• #3: 2009-04-16 48 -122 (Semiahmoo Bay, WA): via transit and bike. Met Robyn on the bus and thepiguy at the Peace Arch at 1PM, and rode there together.
• #2: 2009-04-13 49 -122 (Langley, BC): via public transit. Met Robyn at the hashpoint about 4pm.
• #1: 2009-04-08 49 -123 (Vancouver, BC): - 5 1/2 hours in an inflatable kayak I bought that morning. Success with Robyn!

Upcoming

• Going to be in Portland, OR for the next couple of days.
• Scout the bridge access bike route from both sides and for all arrival and departure directions for the Iron Workers Memorial Bridge - will need to know this if I want to do a pure bicycle geohash that isn't best accessed via downtown or on the north shore.

Goals

My origin hash spot looks so easy to access, I'm going to go for it next time I visit my parents (with time to spare in the trip up or back). It's about 500m (straight line) from highway 5, and google maps shows what appears to be a logging road that passes within 20m or less of the spot.

Personal firsts

Things that I did for the first time in my life while or because of geohashing.

• Kayaked into 17kts wind and whitecaps in open water.
• Rode a bike across an international border.
• Went to the US on a lark. (All other trips were planned in advance.)
• Bicycle camping.
• Carried a kayak on a city bus.
• Bushwhacked my way down a cliff.

Geohashers met

• Elbie on 2009-05-21 picked up on a street corner.
• Flag guy on 2009-07-10 300m from the hash point.
• Juventas on 2009-05-08 at the Stemwinder campsite entrance.
• PhilB on 2009-07-28 chasing my bus on his harley.
• plypkie on 2009-06-14 at the hashpoint driveway.
• Ray on 2009-06-03 in a tree.
• Rhonda's mom when I convinced her to come geohashing on 2009-05-10 - mother's day
• Robyn on 2009-04-08 inflating a kayak at Porteau Cove.
• SueB on 2009-04-28 in an empty driveway (but really I knew her before).
• thepiguy on 2009-04-16 falling off his bike at the Peace Arch.
• Trane on 2009-11-14 in a parking lot on the way to golf.
• Wade on 2009-04-25 at the water taxi dock.
• Xore on 2009-05-21 picked up on a street corner (but really I knew him before).
• yangman on 2009-04-28 in an empty driveway.

Other pages

• POSTED: list of my no trespassing geohashes for the POSTED achievement.
• Cycling: list of my bicycle trip distances.
• xkcd Centurion: list of Saturday meetups attended.
• BC Regional Districts project: Graticule maps of BC's Regional Districts, for a more feasible regional geohash award in BC.

Ribbons earned

I'm only listing the first time I get a given ribbon. Unless I find it amusing to include again.

Achievement ribbons

Rhonda earned the GeoTrash Geohash Achievement by cleaning up the (49, -123) geohash on 2009-07-11.

Rhonda earned the Hobbit Achievement by bearing a ring and baring her feet to and from the (50, -121) geohash on 2009-06-19.

Rhonda earned the Circus Geohash Achievement by juggling at the (49, -123) geohash on 2009-06-03.

Rhonda earned the 2009 Mouse Over Day achievement by organizing an official alternate meetup in the (49, -123) graticule on the Saturday following May 21st 2009.

Rhonda earned the Picnic achievement by eating cake at the (48, -123) geohash on 2009-05-21.

Rhonda, Robyn, Elbie, Xore, and Wade earned the Phonebooth stuffing achievement by helping stuff a phonebooth near the (48, -123) geohash on 2009-05-21.

Rhonda earned the Twister Geohash Achievement by playing Twister at the (48, -123) geohash on 2009-05-21.

Rhonda earned the 2009 Geohashing Day achievement by celebrating in the (48, -123) graticule on May 21st 2009.

Rhonda earned the Drag-along achievement by dragging her dad to the (50, -120) geohash on 2009-05-10.

Rhonda earned the Consecutive geohash achievement by reaching 3 consecutive hash points starting on 2009-05-08.

Rhonda earned the Consecutive geohash achievement by reaching 2 consecutive hash points starting on 2009-05-02.

Rhonda earned the Police Geohash Achievement by being questioned by Homeland Security Border Patrol while attempting the (48, -122) geohash on 2009-05-02.

Rhonda earned the Camping geohash achievement by camping in a tent 937m the (48, -122) geohash on 2009-05-02, from 15:30 to 8:30.

Rhonda earned the Puppet Master Geohash achievement by manipulating someone to reach the (50, -120) geohash on 2009-04-27.

Rhonda earned the Border geohash achievement by crossing the Canada-USA border on 2009-04-16 to reach the (48, -122) geohash.

Rhonda earned the Meet-up achievement by meeting thepiguy at the (48, -122) geohash on 2009-04-16.

Rhonda earned the Public transport geohash achievement by reaching the (49, -122) geohash on 2009-04-13 via translink.

Rhonda earned the Land geohash achievement by reaching the (49, -122) geohash on 2009-04-13.

Rhonda earned the Water geohash achievement by reaching the (49, -123) geohash on 2009-04-08 by inflatable kayak.

Upgradeable ribbons

Rhonda achieved level 3 of the Minesweeper Geohash achievement by visiting coordinates in Vancouver, British Columbia and 3 of the surrounding graticules.

Rhonda achieved level 4 of the Minesweeper Geohash achievement by visiting coordinates in Kamloops, British Columbia and 4 of the surrounding graticules.

Virgin graticules

Gratuitous Ribbons

Robyn & Rhonda earned the Double Mother Geohash Ribbon by visiting both their mothers, in different graticules, on Mothers' Day, before reaching the (50, -120) geohash on 2009-05-10.

Rhonda earned the stinky geohash ribbon by attending a geohash located between the pulp mill, sewage treatment plant, and city dump at the (50, -120) geohash on 2009-05-18.

Rhonda earned the monkey games achievement by climbing a tree directly on the hashpoint then playing games in it (49, -123) geohash on 2009-06-03.

Rhonda and Rhonda's mom earned the maze navigator achievement by successfully navigating a route through a maze of unmarked unpaved roads on the way to the (50, -120) geohash on 2009-09-27.

Consolation Prizes

Rhonda earned the No trespassing consolation prize by almost reaching the (49, -122) geohash on 2009-04-28.

Rhonda earned the Prize poultry Consolation Prize by chickening out on the (49, -122) geohash on 2009-09-12.