User:Juventas

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I geohash mostly in the Vernon and Mabel Lake, British Columbia graticules. It's a great place to be if you like to get to the middle of nowhere. Unfortunately it also means there's no other geohashers around.

Getting There

I drive a Subaru Legacy, which is a great car for all the unpaved roads here. It doesn't always cut it on the logging roads and four-wheeler trails, which are required for most hash points. Nevertheless, I think I surprise some of the pickups passing by, and sometimes myself.

I enjoy hiking, and soon invested in some real boots and a backpack from the Mountain Equipment Co-op. The stuff is worth every penny. I still can't get everywhere I want, and find myself looking at dual-sport motorcycles, river kayaks, and snowshoes.

Photography

I enjoy photography, and geohashing gave me the last incentive I needed to purchase a digital SLR. My early photos are with a point & shoot, and I'm still learning with the SLR. I've since purchased a good tripod, a shutter release, a hot shoe level, and a polarizing filter. I hope as I continue, I'll be able to look at my photos and see a progression of improvement.

You can check out my favourites of others, and eventually some of my own.

Botany

Started Category:Flora, plan to add one per expedition.

Expeditions

Please Note: While I shamefully leave expedition pages incomplete, all photographs have detailed comments underneath upon clicking.

2009-06-06 Vancouver - 1.63km
2009-05-30 Grand Forks - reached
2009-05-09 Vernon - reached
2009-05-08 Kelowna - not
2009-05-08 Princeton - reached
2009-05-02 Vernon - reached
2009-04-25 Mabel Lake - 6.61km
2009-04-11 Vernon - 2.67km
2009-04-10 Grand Forks - not
2009-04-04 Mabel Lake - not
2009-04-03 Kelowna - reached
2009-02-16 Nakusp DigitalAngel 108m
2009-01-25 Vernon DigitalAngel reached
2009-01-18 Mabel Lake DigitalAngel ~5km
2008-10-11 Vernon family reached
2008-09-14 Surrey DigitalAngel reached
2008-08-31 Mabel Lake - reached
2008-08-30 Vernon Jing reached sorta
2008-08-23 Vernon - reached Near Tadpole Lake, in a logging clearing.
2008-08-16 Vernon - ~600m Far north of Bouleau Lake, in a dense forest.
2008-08-09 Vernon - ~200m Near one of the Specs Lakes, on the swampy shoreline.
2008-07-26 Vernon - ~150m Near the northern tip of Okanagan Lake, in a reed bed.

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has some content but needs completion
was mostly written by others