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Revision as of 04:25, 18 July 2023

Location

On North Kerby Avenue, near Fremont.

Participants

Gaelan, a day early
Michael5000
Jiml (talk)

Plans

Jim's plan was, when he noticed where the hashpoint was on Friday, was to go by after he went to the American Red Cross blood bank to donate!

Expedition

Gaelan - Expedition 1

My family was visiting a friend in Portland on Saturday, and I got a few hours to sneak off and explore. Oh, hey, there's a geohash not too far from here! Let's go up.

Bus, MAX, bus, get the photo, walk over to the Yellow line (through a lovely street party at Fremont & Mississippi) for the MAX back into downtown. Easy. First successful geohash! Didn't have any evidence-leaving supplies with me, so no evidence left.

Several hours later, on the way back up north, take another look at the map. Wait, why are there two pins? Oh right, it's the weekend. Oh my god, I went to Sunday's point. Oh well, I guess this counts as a retro?

(Note by Jim: Yes - any expedition not on the day of the hashpoint counts as a retro!)

Michael5000 - Expedition 5000

I don't usually forget that I'm geohashing when I'm geohashing, but as I peddled past the Lloyd district and up towards Mississippi-Albina I found myself thinking "well, this is a pleasant bike ride, but now where am I going, again?" Well, today's hashpoint was only a few hundred meters from where I was born, so perhaps I was bicycling back towards my birthplace purely on instinct, like a salmon navigating by smell back to the pool where he was hatched. But, well -- probably not.

The hashpoint is on an ordinary residential street. I didn't see any evidence of geohashers before me, and I chided myself for neglecting to bring chalk in case someone came after me.

I continued the bicycle ride to pick up a book at Powell's, and then came home. Total round trip: 11 miles.

Expedition 3

Jim left the bloodbank after he was done (and they were done with him), and was first stopped for a while waiting for a line Seattle-to-Portland bicycle riders to pass) He went a few blocks and found the hashpoint, and took a few pictures which he might upload someday.

Photos

View from the hashpoint
Me, looking dumb at the hashpoint
Evidence
View north up the Willamette River, from later in the ride
Gaelan's Grin(TM), unfortunately a day early
Gaelan's evidence

Achievements

Land Geohash
Bike Geohash

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 My family was visiting a friend in Portland on Saturday, and I got a few hours to sneak off and explore. Oh, hey, there's a geohash not too far from here! Let's go up.
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 Several hours later, on the way back up north, take another look at the map. Wait, why are there two pins? Oh right, it's the weekend. Oh my god, I went to Sunday's point. Oh well, I guess this counts as a retro?
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+(Note by Jim:   Yes - any expedition not on the day of the hashpoint counts as a retro!)
+=== Michael5000 - Expedition 5000 ===
 I don't usually forget that I'm geohashing when I'm geohashing, but as I peddled past the Lloyd district and up towards Mississippi-Albina I found myself thinking "well, this is a pleasant bike ride, but now where am I going, again?"  Well, today's hashpoint was only a few hundred meters from where I was born, so perhaps I was bicycling back towards my birthplace purely on instinct, like a salmon navigating by smell back to the pool where he was hatched.  But, well -- probably not.
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 I continued the bicycle ride to pick up a book at Powell's, and then came home.  Total round trip: 11 miles.
-Jim came from the blood bank!
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+Jim left the bloodbank after he was done (and they were done with him), and was first stopped for a while waiting for a line
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