Portland, Oregon

Astoria	Mt. St. Helens, Washington	Mt. Rainier, Washington
McMinnville	Portland	The Dalles
Eugene	Springfield	Bend
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Today's battleship location is: A 5

The Portland metro area graticule is at 45 N, 122 W. It completely encloses the city of Portland and some surrounding areas. The graticule is almost entirely land, much of it open and undeveloped, making this one of the best areas for geohashing.

The Portland, Oregon graticule is the 7th most active graticule in the world overall, was 12th in 2009, and is currently 3rd for 2010 according to data accessed May 1, 2010. Unfortunately, though, there is only a 58.5% success rate for geohashing attempts in Portland.

For other places called Portland, go here.

Cities in this Graticule

• Portland, OR
• Vancouver, WA

Meetup time

It was proposed, and no objections were raised, so the official meetup time for our graticule(s) is now 2PM from Oct 1 to March 15, and 4PM for the rest of the year. I'd say this applies to neighboring graticules as well.

Planning and Coordination

View of the west hills of Portland, Oregon

• See the discussion page for plans

Many of the folks in the Portland, Oregon graticule hop over to the McMinnville, Oregon graticule for hashpoints there. The planning was happening here on the Portland page, but now with the User:AperfectBot picking up Category:Expedition planning pages, it makes sense to move the planning to the expedition page itself once someone is committed to going.

Recent Expeditions

4/30/2010 -- Sunday - Graticule Hopping

Jim's final expedition for the month fails for many, many reasons. Expedition Thwarted

4/28/2010 -- Wednesday - Local

Jim and APR are thwarted by private property near the Sunset Transit Center. Expedition Thwarted!

4/25/2010 -- Sunday - Local

Aperfectring goes and drives up a mountain in an effort to obtain his first multihash, but Expedition Thwarted by the yet unmelted snow above 3000ft elevation.

4/25/2010 -- Sunday - Graticule Hopping

Aperfectring makes and early morning trip to a popular cabin+camping park. Expedition Success

4/21/2010 -- Wednesday - Local

Michael5000 fails to reach the edge of a quarry north of Estacada due to technical problems with a new GPS unit. Expedition Thwarted!

4/20/2010 -- Tuesday - Local

Out of towner Starbird is turned back by blackberry brambles, but seasoned bramble scramblers Jim and APR successfully reach a local point on Sauvie Island.

4/18/2010 -- Sunday - Graticule Hopping

Jim reaches a hashpoing amid slopes and logging debris. Success!

4/15/2010 -- Thursday - Graticule Hopping

Jim fails to reach a point in Rural Yamhill County. Expedition Thwarted!

4/13/2010 -- Tuesday - Local

APR joins Jim for his almost honorable mention cubicle geohash at lunchtime in Hillsboro. Expedition Success!

4/11/2010 -- Sunday - Local

The 5000s bring a friend to a little swamp south of Oregon City. Expedition Success!

4/3/2010 -- Saturday - Graticule Hopping

Jim fails to reach a point in Rural Washington County. Expedition Thwarted!

4/1/2010 -- Thursday - Local

Michael5000 scales a volcano to record his first successful expedition in two months. Expedition Success!

3/28/2010 -- Sunday - Graticule Hopping

Jim fails to reach a hashpoint in the middle of a road in Rural Washington County. Expedition Thwarted!

3/19/2010 -- Friday - Graticule Hopping

Jim finds a hashpoint in the middle of a road in Rural Washington County. Expedition Success!

3/14/2010 -- Sunday - Graticule Hopping

Jim encounters a lack of access to a hashpoint in rural Yamhill County. Expedition Thwarted.

3/08/2010 -- Monday - Local

Jim, APR, and visiting geohasher Rhonda make it to picnic tables in a schoolyard in Vancouver (WA). Expedition Success!

3/2/2010 -- Saturday - Local

Mother Nature convinces Jim to not brave a Lake Oswego slope. Expedition Thwarted!

Recent Plans without reports

Where'd the rest of the dates go? See the Archives page.

Mailing List

There is now a mailing list for Portland Geohashing.

Participants

Active participants with documented activity in 2009 are in bold.

• 3riador lives at Reed College, is fairly mobile, and loves playing with GPS.
• Admalledd
• Alexp
• aperfectring has moved here.
• doiuf Located in Vancouver, WA.
• Drache
• Elegant Forkbomb lives in Portland
• grishnav Moved to Seattle.
• Jessica
• Jiml lives south of Hillsboro, and has a GPS unit. He's been on a number of expeditions, some succesful.
• James
• Kpeace Live in Portland. Participated in first geohash on 6/28/08; I don't have a car so I'm at the mercy of my car-owning friends for distant hashes.
• Maggie lives in Portland.
• Maravi lives in Lake Oswego.
• michael5000
• Tim Ferrell I'm based in Salem.
• Mrs.5000
• NoTerminal
• thefinn93 lives in Portland.
• Timmothy Tee
• Wil
• zem

Activity Statistics

	Overall	2008	2009	2010
Expeditions	53 (7th)	10	24 (12th)	19 (3rd)
Coordinates Reached	31 (14th)	6	13	12 (5th)
No Public Access	16	2	10	4
Mother Nature	4	1	1	2
Did Not Attempt	1	1	0	0
Technology	1	0	0	1

Sources:

• Dawidi's list
• Most Active Graticules
• Category:Meetup in 45 -122

Obtained May 1, 2010

Archives

Detailed archives are now located here!

2010 Jan February March April May June July August September October November December 01-02 01-09 01-11 01-30* 01-31 02-04 02-06 02-11* 02-13* 02-15* 02-27 03-02 03-08 03-14* 03-19* 03-28* 04-01 04-03* 04-11 04-13 04-15* 04-18* 04-20 04-21 04-25* 04-25 04-28 04-30* 2009 Jan February March April May June July August September October November December 01-17 01-19 03-04 04-04 05-16 05-19 05-23* 05-28* 06-04 06-05* 06-07 06-08* 06-10 06-21* 07-05* 07-08* 07-10* 07-11* 07-13 07-19* 07-29* 08-09* 08-10* 08-24 08-28 08-29 08-31 09-29* 10-09 10-10* 10-18 11-01* 11-07* 11-08 11-11* 11-13 11-28 11-29 12-03 12-04 12-06 12-10* 12-21 12-23 2008 January February March April May June July August September October November December 02-17 02-19 05-24 05-26 05-31 06-02 06-07 06-21 06-28 07-05 07-12 07-19 07-26 08-02 08-16

• = Graticule Hopping (usually to McMinnville, Oregon Graticule)