2010-01-09 45 -122

Location

In a street between a small farm and the perimeter of the Coffee Creek Correctional Facility, near Tualatin, Oregon.

Participants

Plans

for Jim

I sent out a message to the local geohashers mailing list, but no one else was able to join me

I printed out a map from Google Maps, and wrote down some directions just in case. Oh yes, and I programmed the GPS. I also grabbed info about several nearby Geocaches, figuring the hashpoint looked too easy to get to and I might as well add some frustration to the afternoon.

for Michael5000

I was aware that there was an accessible hashpoint in the Southwest today, so after working on a house project until the early evening I decided to combine a night Expedition with a visit to my parents. Over dinner, it occurred to me that it might be fun to try for the "Tron" Achievement, in which you can't cross your own path. My first general route would have involved driving on the the wrong side of the street at the actual hashpoint. After a while, though, I thought of an even better plan with less likelihood of getting me killed.

Expedition

Jim

This area was actually a little bit familiar to me, as one of my local groups does training at a nearby facility. So, I pretty much drove there and then kept on driving. I turned onto the road and drove slowly, watching the GPS count down. And then it started to count up. I pulled over and finally found a place to park and walked back. I found the hashpoint right at the end of the driveway of a nearby house. Someone there was rinsing out some sort of large plastic containers, which I think were for grapes, actually.

I took some pictures and waited around to see if anyone else showed up, and then started to program in the geocaching points I had found. After that, and listening to the end of the podcast I had, I went off to work on errands. On my way out, it suddenly dawned on me that the hashpoint was in the street and I had driven through it. That means I can drive through it at a good clip. Speed Racer!

So, I went back to drive though the hashpoint. However, I couldn't drive and photgraph at the same time, so I'll have to use my tracklog as proof, since my GPS does record speed.

More info to follow. I'll save this and hope to avoid an edit conflict with Michael5000

Tracklog

I'll need to upload part of it as proof of my Speed Racer.

Photos

I'll load them up later.


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