Difference between revisions of "2011-09-22 45 -121"

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I'm making these flags from crepe paper. That biodegrades faster than survey flagging.

Location

Just off the railroad on the eastern edge of Cascade Locks.

Participants

Kydlt

Michael5000

Plans

I have a hike planed on the Oregon side today, but the Hash looks to be right in Cascade Locks. I think that I'll go on the way.

Expedition

Kydlt

A quick jump into the bushes by the tracks. It wasn't really the empty looking spot that was on the DOQQ. But it was only 20 ft in. I went at about 10 AM & left the marker, but I left the camera in the car. So I stopped on the way back through after a lovely hike up Eagle Creek to Loowit Falls.

Michael5000

It had been literally dozens of hours since I had gone geohashing, and this hashpoint appealed to me for a couple of reasons. For one thing, I think it's funny that it took me almost two years to get to The Dalles, Oregon, and now to hit it three times in nine days. Also, Mrs.5000 had a class for the evening, so why not take a short drive after work, catch a hashpoint, and take another step towards my barmy goal of exercising in all 36 Oregon counties?

Well. I drove out, parked, walked out the railbed and then into the brush, completely failed to notice Kydlt's markers from eight hours earlier -- in retrospect, I should have thought to look for them -- and then ran to the Bridge of the Gods and back, 5.41 miles if you happened to be curious. Not nearly such a nice hike as my colleague got, but Expedition success!! ...and I have now run in Hood River County.

Tracklog

A shot in the dark at leaving a tracklog, as a csv-txt file.That didn't work. What form should the link here take ?

Photos

I was here.
What a terrible photo. It was glarey & I couldn't see what I was doing.
This is a screen capture of my track displayed on the laptop.
I, too, was here.
Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination

It would be funny if the flags were glaringly obvious in my photo. But they aren't, which makes me feel a little better about not seeing them.

Achievements

For Michael5000

First Expedition to Hood River County.
September 2011 now has my most Expeditions (16) and my most successful Expeditions (12) of any month.

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-[[Image:2011-10-01 45 -121 cell camera.jpg|thumb|left|300 px|Photo of a photo.]]
+[[Image:2011-09-22 45 -121 flag in bushes text.jpg|thumb|left|300 px|I'm making these flags from crepe paper. That biodegrades faster than survey flagging.]]
 __NOTOC__
 == Location ==
-Odell, OR.
+Just off the railroad on the eastern edge of Cascade Locks.
 == Participants ==
 * [[User:Kydlt|Kydlt]]
+* [[User:Michael5000|Michael5000]]
 == Plans ==
-Not much of a plan, I just ended up here.
+I have a hike planed on the Oregon side today, but the Hash looks to be right in Cascade Locks.  I think that I'll go on the way.
 == Expedition ==
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 ===Kydlt===
-I was thinking of going into Vancouver this AM for the 45,-121 hash and maybe a meetup before the grandchildren came out, but life intervened. Freecycle had some RR ties for me in Dee, OR, too good a deal to pass up.  But LO, the The Dalles hash was in Odell and that was on the way. So I loaded the hash into the GPS & took off. No camera today. They were busy in the orchard and didn't want me wandering, so I only got to within about 500 ft.  But I tried.
+A quick jump into the bushes by the tracks. It wasn't really the empty looking spot that was on the DOQQ. But it was only 20 ft in. I went at about 10 AM & left the marker, but I left the camera in the car.  So I stopped on the way back through after a lovely hike up Eagle Creek to Loowit Falls.
+===Michael5000===
+It had been literally dozens of hours since I had gone geohashing, and this hashpoint appealed to me for a couple of reasons.  For one thing, I think it's funny that it took me almost two years to get to [[The Dalles, Oregon]], and now to hit it three times in nine days.  Also, [[User:Mrs.5000|Mrs.5000]] had a class for the evening, so why not take a short drive after work, catch a hashpoint, and take another step towards my barmy goal of exercising in all 36 Oregon counties?
+Well.  I drove out, parked, walked out the railbed and then into the brush, completely failed to notice Kydlt's markers from eight hours earlier -- in retrospect, I should have thought to look for them -- and then ran to the Bridge of the Gods and back, 5.41 miles if you happened to be curious.  Not nearly such a nice hike as my colleague got, but Expedition success!! ...and I have now run in Hood River County.
 == Tracklog ==
+<!-- if your GPS device keeps a log, you may post a link here -->
+[[File:2011-09-22 45-121csv track.txt|A shot in the dark at leaving a tracklog, as a csv-txt file.]]That didn't work.  What form should the link here take ?
-[[Image:2011-10-01 45 -121 screen capture.jpg|thumb|left|300 px|Photo of a LCD.]] When I got home I put the trail on the laptop, and here's a screen capture.
 == Photos ==
 <gallery perrow="5">
-Image:2011-10-01 45 -121 gps.jpg |Kind of a lame effort, but an effort all the same.
+Image:2011-09-22 45 -121 flag.jpg |I was here.
+Image:2011-09-22 45 -121 gps face.jpg |What a terrible photo. It was glarey & I couldn't see what I was doing.
+Image:2011-09-22 24 -121 Capture of track.JPG |This is a screen capture of my track displayed on the laptop.
+File:2011-09-22 45 -121 M5K2.JPG|I, too, was here.
+File:2011-09-22 45 -121 M5K1.JPG|It would be funny if the flags were glaringly obvious in my photo.  But they aren't, which makes me feel a little better about not seeing them.
 </gallery>
 == Achievements ==
+'''For Michael5000'''
+*First Expedition to Hood River County.
+*September 2011 now has my most Expeditions (16) and my most ''successful'' Expeditions (12) of any month.
 [[Category:Expeditions]]
 [[Category:Expeditions with photos]]
 [[Category:Coordinates reached]]


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