Boise, Idaho

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Today's Location: [Boise, ID]

The Boise, Idaho graticule is at latitude 43, longitude -116. It covers the whole Treasure Valley.

Some statistics about this graticule:

  Population:         ~600,000
  Highest Point:      8051 ft (2453 m) @ War Eagle Mountain
  Lowest Point:       2145 ft (654 m) @ Snake River where it crosses 44° North
  Total Area:         3469 sq miles (8985.4 sq km)
  City/Town area:     6.8% - 235 sq miles (608.3 sq km) 
  Area on/near roads: 4.7% - 162 sq miles (419.6 sq km) (includes minor roads, and does not exclude area assigned to other categories)
  Farm/rural area:    ~19% - ~660 sq miles (~1700 sq km)
  Wilderness area:    ~74% - ~2570 sq miles (~6650 sq km)

Local Geohashers

• Eric (Eldin) I'll be hitting hashes as I'm able in this and surrounding graticules. Hope to meet other geohashers sometime.
• Ojones

Inactive Local Geohashers

Local geohashers with no wiki activity for a year will be moved to this section.

• Nathan Not sure anyone else will do this in the Boise area, but I'll try
• Brian Can do weekends if not too far, in Boise.
• Jeremiah Would be willing to do weekends or weekdays near the East Boise/Meridian area
• Charles Also willing to do weekends- <5pm sat or >6pm Sundays.

Expedition planning

Discussions of upcoming planned expeditions or links to their pages should go here

Expeditions

• 2014-05-28 43 -116 -- Eldin reaches a hash in the boise foothills.
• 2014-05-20 43 -116 -- Eldin and Borneo have car trouble at the hashpoint.
• 2014-02-23 43 -116 -- Eldin gets a 'No Trespassing' hash for his birthday.
• 2014-02-22 43 -116 -- Eldin & his dad reach a hashpoint in a field south of Lake Lowell.
• 2014-01-28 43 -116 -- Eldin and Borneo went to a field on Chicken Dinner Rd, for a successful geohash.
• 2014-01-25 43 -116 -- Eldin, and seperately Ojones reached a hash at the Eagle Sports Complex
• 2014-01-23 43 -116 -- Ojones, and seperately Eldin reached a hash in downtown Boise
• 2014-01-22 43 -116 -- Eldin, and seperately Ojones reached a hash in Kuna, just off Black Cat Rd.
• 2014-01-08 43 -116 -- Eldin & Borneo reached a hash south of Marsing.
• 2014-01-05 43 -116 -- Eldin succeeds at the graticule's first attempted 2014 hash.
• 2013-12-19 43 -116 -- Eldin visited a hash near the Raptor Research Center (Yes, we have one of those here).
• 2013-12-11 43 -116 -- Eldin visited a snowy hash north of Middleton.
• 2013-12-06 43 -116 -- Eldin fought with tumbleweeds to reach a cold, windy hashpoint.
• 2013-12-05 43 -116 -- Eldin got a frozen hash on vacant land in the midst of an upscale neighborhood.
• 2013-11-26 43 -116 -- Eldin visits a hashpoint in Elmore county, north of the Grandview Highway.
• 2013-11-16 43 -116 -- Eldin reaches a snowy hash in the Boise foothills.
• 2013-11-15 43 -116 -- Eldin and Borneo head out US-95 for a hash near the Oregon border.
• 2013-11-03 43 -116 -- Eldin got to a hash in someone's driveway.
• 2013-11-02 43 -116 -- Eldin and Borneo successfully got to a hash in a field.
• 2013-10-29 43 -116 -- Eldin visited a hash on the canyon rim above the Boise River.
• 2013-10-29 43 -116 -- Eldin reached a hash in the desert just off I-84.
• 2013-10-22 43 -116 -- Eldin reached a hash just outside a chip fab.
• 2013-10-16 43 -116 -- Eldin attempted a hash on an island, but the only bridge was marked private.
• 2013-09-26 43 -116 -- Eldin tried to reach a hash, but found a no trespassing sign instead.
• 2013-09-17 43 -116 -- Eldin reached coordinates near Indian Creek Reservoir for a successful multihash.
• 2013-09-17 43 -116 -- Eldin made it to coordinates SE of Boise.
• 2013-09-15 43 -116 -- Ojones visited a hash on a trail just off of Bogus Basin road.
• 2013-09-14 43 -116 -- Ojones visited a hash along the way to Silver City.
• 2013-09-08 43 -116 -- Eldin visited a hash in the mountains.
• 2013-09-07 43 -116 -- Eldin walked along a road which had flooded the previous day to reach the hash.
• 2013-08-23 43 -116 -- Eldin reached a hash in a muddy field. Ojones attempted.
• 2013-08-12 43 -116 -- Eldin visited a hash in the desert SE of Boise.
• 2013-08-11 43 -116 -- Ojones attempted, but in back yard of someone on Cherry Lane Near 11th Ave. Nampa.
• 2013-08-04 43 -116 -- Eldin went. Then Michael5000 went. Then Eldin went again. But they failed to meet.
• 2013-08-03 43 -116 -- Eldin, as well as Ojones and family, make the graticule's first Saturday meetup which actually involved meeting anyone. Michael5000 returns to Idaho, reaching the hashpoint nine hours later.
• 2013-08-02 43 -116 -- Ojones, Eldin drove past, but didn't see a way to access it without trespassing.
• 2013-07-27 43 -116 -- Eldin reached a hash in the hills NE of Emmet.
• 2013-07-26 43 -116 -- Eldin found a hash point in a corn field.
• 2013-07-13 43 -116 -- Eldin reached a hash along a ditch beside 2 schools.
• 2013-07-12 43 -116 -- Eldin gets another no trespassing hash.
• 2013-07-03 43 -116 -- Eldin couldn't find public access to a hash that looked easy before he went.
• 2013-06-06 43 -116 -- Eldin walked up into the hills.
• 2013-05-25 43 -116 -- Eldin went geohashing on Mouseover Day.
• 2013-05-15 43 -116 -- Eldin reached a hash by a clinic behind Walgreens.
• 2013-05-13 43 -116 -- Eldin went hiking in the hills.
• 2013-04-21 43 -116 -- Eldin bicycled to a hash near a church.
• 2013-04-20 43 -116 -- Eldin bicycled to a hash at a construction site.
• 2013-04-19 43 -116 -- Eldin was thwarted by the national guard.
• 2013-04-17 43 -116 -- Eldin was turned away by fences and signs, within sight of the goal.
• 2013-04-15 43 -116 -- Eldin sped through a hash for the Speed Racer achievement.
• 2013-04-05 43 -116 -- Eldin visited a farm in the middle of the night.
• 2013-04-03 43 -116 -- Eldin visited a a hash in a field full of alfalfa.
• 2013-03-28 43 -116 -- Eldin took a nice walk in the foothills, but signs forbade going off trail.
• 2013-03-27 43 -116 -- Eldin went hiking on the Oregon Trail, but was thwarted by a fence.
• 2013-03-26 43 -116 -- Eldin failed to find any public access to the hash.
• 2013-03-22 43 -116 -- Eldin was turned back by hills steeper than expected.
• 2013-03-17 43 -116 -- Eldin got a hash that was barely out of his way.
• 2013-03-09 43 -116 -- Eldin reached a point amidst off-road vehicle trails.
• 2013-03-08 43 -116 -- Eldin tried for a multihash, but coordinates were on private property. Again.
• 2013-03-06 43 -116 -- Eldin was thwarted by a lack of access.
• 2013-01-16 43 -116 -- Eldin went to a spot south of Parma, on Wamstad Rd.
• 2013-01-05 43 -116 -- Eldin went to a spot northwest of Caldwell, near Sand Hollow interchange off I-84.
• 2012-04-20 43 -116 -- Point is south of the Boise airport, just off the west side of Pleasant Valley road
• 2011-09-18 43 -116 -- Michael5000 takes a short walk off of the Silver City Road.
• 2010-11-11 43 -116 -- Located on a cul-de-sac in Meridian near W. Pine Ave. between Ten Mile and Linder

Achievements

Achievements related to the graticule itself.

note for Most Active Graticules achievement: The achievement has differing degrees. (monthly, yearly, and all-time, each with separate ribbons for most successful expeditions and most total expeditions) For each degree of achievement, at most two ribbons will be shown here. Once for the first time a specific degree was achieved, and once for the highest expedition count with which a specific degree was achieved. Template:Virgin graticule

The Boise, Idaho graticule (43, -116) earned the Mostly Active Graticule achievement for the month of March 2013 in the category total expeditions by being the location of 8 expeditions.

The Boise, Idaho graticule (43, -116) earned the Mostly Active Graticule achievement for the month of April 2013 in the category coordinates reached by being the location of 5 successful expeditions.

The Boise, Idaho graticule (43, -116) earned the Most Active Graticule achievement for the year 2013 in the category total expeditions by being the location of 52 expeditions.