2019-03-16 45 -122

Sat 16 Mar 2019 in 45,-122: 45.3138814, -122.8637556 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox

Location

In a woods in the hills between Newberg and Wilsonville, just barely in Clackamas County although you wouldn't expect it to be.

Participants

Michael5000

Plans

When I looked at the hashpoints on Friday, I thought (as one often does) "what a bunch of junk." Then, I drove down to Corvallis for an event on Saturday. When I started back, I looked at this hashpoint a little more carefully and thought, hmm, maybe it could be done...

Expedition

I got pretty close to the site via some narrow little country roads, and found a shoulder wide enough to pull off on. Then, it was all suspiciously easy: there was a trail up the hill, to an old long-abandoned road that got me closer to the hashpoint, then a little deer trail that brought me right to it. It was, you know, a spot in the woods. I took pictures, went back down to the car, and drove home.

Photos

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  The car did most of the work, of course.

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  But this was a rather steep trail.

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  Here's the abandoned road.

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  There's something mildly unsettling about finding a random shovel in the woods. Also, hard to photograph.

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  Here's what the hashpoint looked like.

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  Here's what I looked like.

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  Here's a thing I noticed strapped to the tree. I don't know what it is. But perhaps as I photographed it, it also was photographing me?