Boise, Idaho

Today's Location: [Boise, ID]

The Boise, Idaho graticule is at latitude 43, longitude -116. It covers the whole Treasure Valley.

Some statistics about this graticule:

  Population:         ~600,000
  Highest Point:      8051 ft (2453 m) @ War Eagle Mountain
  Lowest Point:       2145 ft (654 m) @ Snake River where it crosses 44° North
  Total Area:         3469 sq miles (8985.4 sq km)
  City/Town area:     6.8% - 235 sq miles (608.3 sq km) 
  Area on/near roads: 4.7% - 162 sq miles (419.6 sq km) (includes minor roads, and does not exclude area assigned to other categories)
  Farm/rural area:    ~19% - ~660 sq miles (~1700 sq km)
  Wilderness area:    ~74% - ~2570 sq miles (~6650 sq km)

Local Geohashers

Eric (Eldin) I'll be hitting hashes as I'm able in this and surrounding graticules. Hope to meet other geohashers sometime.
Ojones

Inactive Local Geohashers

Local geohashers with no wiki activity for a year will be moved to this section.

Nathan Not sure anyone else will do this in the Boise area, but I'll try
Brian Can do weekends if not too far, in Boise.
Jeremiah Would be willing to do weekends or weekdays near the East Boise/Meridian area
Charles Also willing to do weekends- <5pm sat or >6pm Sundays.

Expedition planning

Discussions of upcoming planned expeditions or links to their pages should go here

Expeditions

2014-02-23 43 -116 -- Eldin gets a 'No Trespassing' hash for his birthday.
2014-02-22 43 -116 -- Eldin & his dad reach a hashpoint in a field south of Lake Lowell.
2014-01-28 43 -116 -- Eldin and Borneo went to a field on Chicken Dinner Rd, for a successful geohash.
2014-01-25 43 -116 -- Eldin, and seperately Ojones reached a hash at the Eagle Sports Complex
2014-01-23 43 -116 -- Ojones, and seperately Eldin reached a hash in downtown Boise
2014-01-22 43 -116 -- Eldin, and seperately Ojones reached a hash in Kuna, just off Black Cat Rd.
2014-01-08 43 -116 -- Eldin & Borneo reached a hash south of Marsing.
2014-01-05 43 -116 -- Eldin succeeds at the graticule's first attempted 2014 hash.
2013-12-19 43 -116 -- Eldin visited a hash near the Raptor Research Center (Yes, we have one of those here).
2013-12-11 43 -116 -- Eldin visited a snowy hash north of Middleton.
2013-12-06 43 -116 -- Eldin fought with tumbleweeds to reach a cold, windy hashpoint.
2013-12-05 43 -116 -- Eldin got a frozen hash on vacant land in the midst of an upscale neighborhood.
2013-11-26 43 -116 -- Eldin visits a hashpoint in Elmore county, north of the Grandview Highway.
2013-11-16 43 -116 -- Eldin reaches a snowy hash in the Boise foothills.
2013-11-15 43 -116 -- Eldin and Borneo head out US-95 for a hash near the Oregon border.
2013-11-03 43 -116 -- Eldin got to a hash in someone's driveway.
2013-11-02 43 -116 -- Eldin and Borneo successfully got to a hash in a field.
2013-10-29 43 -116 -- Eldin visited a hash on the canyon rim above the Boise River.
2013-10-29 43 -116 -- Eldin reached a hash in the desert just off I-84.
2013-10-22 43 -116 -- Eldin reached a hash just outside a chip fab.
2013-10-16 43 -116 -- Eldin attempted a hash on an island, but the only bridge was marked private.
2013-09-26 43 -116 -- Eldin tried to reach a hash, but found a no trespassing sign instead.
2013-09-17 43 -116 -- Eldin reached coordinates near Indian Creek Reservoir for a successful multihash.
2013-09-17 43 -116 -- Eldin made it to coordinates SE of Boise.
2013-09-15 43 -116 -- Ojones visited a hash on a trail just off of Bogus Basin road.
2013-09-14 43 -116 -- Ojones visited a hash along the way to Silver City.
2013-09-08 43 -116 -- Eldin visited a hash in the mountains.
2013-09-07 43 -116 -- Eldin walked along a road which had flooded the previous day to reach the hash.
2013-08-23 43 -116 -- Eldin reached a hash in a muddy field. Ojones attempted.
2013-08-12 43 -116 -- Eldin visited a hash in the desert SE of Boise.
2013-08-11 43 -116 -- Ojones attempted, but in back yard of someone on Cherry Lane Near 11th Ave. Nampa.
2013-08-04 43 -116 -- Eldin went. Then Michael5000 went. Then Eldin went again. But they failed to meet.
2013-08-03 43 -116 -- Eldin, as well as Ojones and family, make the graticule's first Saturday meetup which actually involved meeting anyone. Michael5000 returns to Idaho, reaching the hashpoint nine hours later.
2013-08-02 43 -116 -- Ojones, Eldin drove past, but didn't see a way to access it without trespassing.
2013-07-27 43 -116 -- Eldin reached a hash in the hills NE of Emmet.
2013-07-26 43 -116 -- Eldin found a hash point in a corn field.
2013-07-13 43 -116 -- Eldin reached a hash along a ditch beside 2 schools.
2013-07-12 43 -116 -- Eldin gets another no trespassing hash.
2013-07-03 43 -116 -- Eldin couldn't find public access to a hash that looked easy before he went.
2013-06-06 43 -116 -- Eldin walked up into the hills.
2013-05-25 43 -116 -- Eldin went geohashing on Mouseover Day.
2013-05-15 43 -116 -- Eldin reached a hash by a clinic behind Walgreens.
2013-05-13 43 -116 -- Eldin went hiking in the hills.
2013-04-21 43 -116 -- Eldin bicycled to a hash near a church.
2013-04-20 43 -116 -- Eldin bicycled to a hash at a construction site.
2013-04-19 43 -116 -- Eldin was thwarted by the national guard.
2013-04-17 43 -116 -- Eldin was turned away by fences and signs, within sight of the goal.
2013-04-15 43 -116 -- Eldin sped through a hash for the Speed Racer achievement.
2013-04-05 43 -116 -- Eldin visited a farm in the middle of the night.
2013-04-03 43 -116 -- Eldin visited a a hash in a field full of alfalfa.
2013-03-28 43 -116 -- Eldin took a nice walk in the foothills, but signs forbade going off trail.
2013-03-27 43 -116 -- Eldin went hiking on the Oregon Trail, but was thwarted by a fence.
2013-03-26 43 -116 -- Eldin failed to find any public access to the hash.
2013-03-22 43 -116 -- Eldin was turned back by hills steeper than expected.
2013-03-17 43 -116 -- Eldin got a hash that was barely out of his way.
2013-03-09 43 -116 -- Eldin reached a point amidst off-road vehicle trails.
2013-03-08 43 -116 -- Eldin tried for a multihash, but coordinates were on private property. Again.
2013-03-06 43 -116 -- Eldin was thwarted by a lack of access.
2013-01-16 43 -116 -- Eldin went to a spot south of Parma, on Wamstad Rd.
2013-01-05 43 -116 -- Eldin went to a spot northwest of Caldwell, near Sand Hollow interchange off I-84.
2012-04-20 43 -116 -- Point is south of the Boise airport, just off the west side of Pleasant Valley road
2011-09-18 43 -116 -- Michael5000 takes a short walk off of the Silver City Road.
2010-11-11 43 -116 -- Located on a cul-de-sac in Meridian near W. Pine Ave. between Ten Mile and Linder

Achievements

Achievements related to the graticule itself.

note for Most Active Graticules achievement: The achievement has differing degrees. (monthly, yearly, and all-time, each with separate ribbons for most successful expeditions and most total expeditions) For each degree of achievement, at most two ribbons will be shown here. Once for the first time a specific degree was achieved, and once for the highest expedition count with which a specific degree was achieved. Template:Virgin graticule

The Boise, Idaho graticule (43, -116) earned the Mostly Active Graticule achievement

for the month of March 2013 in the category total expeditions by being the location of 8 expeditions.

The Boise, Idaho graticule (43, -116) earned the Mostly Active Graticule achievement

for the month of April 2013 in the category coordinates reached by being the location of 5 successful expeditions.

The Boise, Idaho graticule (43, -116) earned the Most Active Graticule achievement

for the year 2013 in the category total expeditions by being the location of 52 expeditions.

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