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 (29/40)

2010-04-15 49 -123 (North Vancouver, BC): That's not a lake, that's our drinking water! Poor research with Xore and Wade
#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.

@ 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.

@ 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.

#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

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.
New hashmobile and lengthening days hopefully mean more geohashing! No more midweek all-day expeditions for me though. Darn job.

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

aperfectring on 2010-03-08 when he picked me up in his car.
Elbie on 2009-05-21 picked up on a street corner.
Flag guy on 2009-07-10 300m from the hash point.
Jiml on 2010-03-08 when he walked into my hotel following his GPS.
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.