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Location

Along side a walking/biking path on Sauvie Island.

Participants

Plans

Gather together GPS units, cameras, peoples, vehicles, boots, drive to the parking lot, and (hopefully) reach the hashpoint.

Starbird: leave us a marker if you end up going! I can't get out of work until after 5PM. --aperfectring 21:11, 20 April 2010 (UTC)

Jim didn't bring boots or the camera to work, so did need to swing by home. The GPS is here, but no spare batteries. His brain decided that "the hashpoint is way too far north for me to go to" when packing this morning. Jiml 21:42, 20 April 2010 (UTC)

Expedition

Starbird

It appears that Starbird came by, and left a note for Jim and APR. In the note, he indicated that he'd been repelled by the blackberries, and was

Jim and Aperfectring

Jim started the expedition by picking up Aperfectring, and then proceeding home to pick up a camera and boots.

Picking up supplies from the fort on our way to the Columbia River! -- aperfectring @45.3941,-122.8600 01:02, 21 April 2010 (UTC)

We then proceeded to drive up to Sauvie island, and hiked along the path to the hashpoint. At the hashpoint, we discovered a marker left by Starbird, and copious amounts of blackberry brambles. We decided that we could at least make part of the way in, if not all the way. Jim bravely led the way, obtaining a grievous injury in the process. At about 30ft from the hashpoint, on the edge of the uncertainty circle, and when they were confronted with ~6ft (2m) brambles for the remaining distance, they decided to call it good enough, turn tail, and run.

Picking up supplies from the fort on our way to the Columbia River! -- aperfectring @45.3941,-122.8600 01:02, 21 April 2010 (UTC)

After a tenuously reached hashpoint, our intrepid geohashers head for tasty foods. -- aperfectring @45.6461,-122.8416 02:35, 21 April 2010 (UTC)

Photos

Ouchy thorns which gave jim a raptor attack. @45.6617,-122.8436
The Willamette River, from Sauvie Island.
APR with Starbird's marker
Jim near Starbird's marker.
Starbird's note
Looking in towards the hashpoint, its behind the brambles.
Jim's raptor attack.
The brambles in the way. This photo was not taken downward.
Proofs.
The pond near the hashpoint
The lake on Sauvie Island, which is at the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia Rivers
The way to the hashpoint from the parking lot.