2010-04-18 45 -123
| Sun 18 Apr 2010 in 45,-123: 45.8919619, -123.4373027 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox |
Location
Near Jewell, Oregon. In a recently logged section of forest.
Participants
Plans
My original plan was to head to the hashpoint, and then head up north, but I didn't get started as early as I needed to do that.
Expedition
It looked like it was a few hundred feet from the road, but I wasn't sure if the road even allowed access.
As it turned out, the roads were all open. On my way in, I encountered someone who had been doing target practice in some rock quarry, but I explained what I was doing and he thought it seemed interesting, but not enough to say "I want to come along!".
I continued in, and the Rhonda's Mom(TM) trick of having the coordinates of each turn really helped. I found my way as close to the hashpoint and then found I had to trek through the forest, and then all the downed slash left behind from the logging.
The slope became quite steep, and I was worried as a stream seemed to be getting closer. However, I knew that Google Maps said the stream was quite far away from the hashpoint, and Google's always right. (TM) I finally got close to the hashpoint, but there seemed be enough overhead trees that the GPS kept swinging around. I got the distance to below 10 meters and declared it a success.
I then had to scrabble back up the slope that I came down, which was a little easier, and then make my way back to the road. I came in via the forested section, so I got to try to follow my track backwards in my GPS. I'd saved a few points as I went in, so that was fairly easy. I must have missed one of them, because the distance kept going up, and I was about to give up and backtrack some when I looked around and saw and opening in the trees, and the "marker" I left there. As I was scouting along the road looking for the best way into the hashpoint, I noticed a pepsi bottle lying on the side of the road, so I figured I would geo-trash and bring it home. I didn't want to carry it to the hashpoint, and it is a good thing I didn't with all the climbing on all fours I had to do at times, so I left it in the pathway that I went in so I'd could pick it up on the way out. And it helped since I knew I had the right opening to the road when I saw it.
Lastly, on the way in, close to the hashpoint, I was having trouble climbing over all of the trees and such, and I finally grabbed a tree branch to use as a walking/climbing stick and it worked great. So, I'm bringing it home and to the next hash. So I guess it might be a hashcot, but since I picked it up and dragged it along, maybe it counts as a Drag-Along. :-)
I got back to the car, and took some more picture and headed homeward with my bottle and "hashcot".
Photos
Will follow when I can upload them.
