Seattle, Washington

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Today's Location: [Seattle, WA]

The Seattle, WA graticule is at latitude 47, longitude -122. It completely encloses the cities of Seattle, Tacoma, and Olympia, as well as the surrounding large cities. The graticule is mostly land, but also encloses most of the Puget Sound. This graticule essentially encompasses the major hub of western Washington.

Geohashes

2008-05-24 47 -122 -- Tillicum, right off I-5 near McChord AFB. First Saturday meetup.

2008-05-28 47 -122 -- in a one-way street just off Market Street in Kirkland.

2008-05-29 47 -122 -- A rural road near Cedar Mountain.

2008-05-31 47 -122 -- In the woods near Graham

Local Geohashers

Aptenodyte
Bara
Ben lives in Puyallup and the May 31st meet is almost on his doorstep.
Bluesheep would be happy to join in a few saturdays this summer!
bmvaughn lives in Ballard but has only a simple GPS on his blackberry.
Charles
Cahlroisse is most often free Saturdays until around 6 or 6:30. I also know a few other people who read the comic who I'm sure I can rope into coming with me sometimes.
Catherio moves to Boston in August.
User:chronomex will come within reasonable busing range from central Seattle.
Dave.haku
Dave LeCompte Drove past [the May 28th] location. I might make Saturday meetups if they're convenient to 405.
Christian Campbell
Eehk lives right on the border between this and the Snoqualmie graticules.
Emperor is in the South Seattle area
Farlox is in downtown and is willing to head out to any scenic route on a saturday.
geekxx has an airplane which could make for some interesting adventures, and the ability to travel to other graticules.
Greg has a Twister set!
JenBoi
Jim McKeeth is in the Everett area (north).

I'd be up for that (at some unspecified date).

Leoger lives in Cap Hill and is willing to go a reasonable distance and maybe carpool.
Litho lives in Bremerton and works in Seattle.
Marcy lives in Olympia, and often visit Seattle on weekends. She's hoping to find other xkcd people in the southern part of this graticule.
Narfy Lives in Issaquah and may not have a free weekend for awhile.
Nukewaste Lives in Bremerton, and refuses to talk about himself in third person. ...dammit!
Peter thinks this is the most challenging graticules for metropolitan areas.
Thom lives in Ballard and works in Bothell.
Tony
Vinay lives in Renton and should be able to make the meetups if they're close by.
Whiskers lives on Queen Anne and may come if the location can be reached by bus. Also, can bake delicious things.
Widdershins has a reliable GPS. As far as games go, airsoft might be an extremely fun option for many locations.

Notable Dates

Link for this Saturday (31 May 08).

With a lot of luck, we can get a "below sea level" hash this week, thanks to the low Tides June 3-6.

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Olympic National Park	Seattle, Washington	Snoqualmie, WA
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