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Location

Beaverton, Oregon right next to a street near Garden Home ( Hwy 217 and Hall Blvd)

Various Bots say it is at: 8532 SW Garden Ln, 97223 Garden Home-Whitford, Washington, Oregon, US

Participants

Plans

Jim/APR's Plans

Jim would like to meet early for Mouse-Over day if no one objects. He'll be in the area for the Farmer's Market.

APR thinks that 2PM sounds reasonable, so we'll aim for that.

Estel's Plans

From the Graticule planning page:

Estel: A friend and I are planning to do both 5/21's and 5/22's hashes tomorrow (mouseover day) for our very first expedition! Unfortunately both of us had to work today and I have to work at 3PM tomorrow so we'll be heading out a bit early... between around 10AM - 2PM. It would be great to see some of you!

Expedition

Michael5000's Expedition

Waking up a bachelor, with Mrs.5000 in an airplane over Nebraska, I looked at the hashpoints and found a slam dunk! I programmed the GPS gadget and was out the door in ten minutes.

Once again, using the gadget alone -- although fun -- made finding the hashpoint considerably more cumbersome than relying on maps alone. I think this will always be true, except when the point is under a forest canopy. But after only a few dead ends, it was pretty easy to get the truck on top of the hashpoint. It being a nice suburban street, I decided not to leave a flag to annoy the natives. I set the GPS gadget for home, and followed a somewhat goofy more-or-less-as-the-crow-flies route back to home base. By the time I got back, Mrs.5000 was over Tennessee.

(Jim's note: This must have been before around 10AM)

Jim's Expedition

Jim was going to meet APR at the Farmer's market, but APR wasn't feeling well, so he wasn't able to make it. However, Jim had decided that since APR had this really nifty car-navi-gps that had maps and such, he would depend on that rather than paper maps to get us to the hashpoint. But, Jim didn't realize that the presence of the navi-GPS had fallen victim to illness until after he had headed out, so it was interesting to get to the hashpoint. He knew he could just head down Hall Blvd and over Hwy 217, but that was it.

He headed down Hall and didn't notice himself crossing 217, but eventually got close enough that he felt he needed to follow the GPS direction arrow. He got to the hashpoint a few minutes after two, and parked a little beyond it, the hashpoint being 4 feet from a No Parking sign. He got out and went to walk towards the point. As he got closer, he notice there was no chalk in the road, so he figured no one had been here. But when he got really close, he found a couple of little items embedded in the ground. I don't think it was Michal5000's handiwork, so I think it was Estel and her friend who came by between Michael and Jim.

I sat and waited for a half hour or so, enjoying the sunlight and warmish afternoon after the cold and rain squalls we've been having today. I got to explain to one of the neighbors why I was there, and finally decided I should go. I was going to eat some pie at the hashpoint, but I figured I'd wait and eat my piece at home with dinner. (I did offer some to the neighbor, but they weren't interested, so this year's Mouseover expedition wasn't as successful at feeding the neighbors as last year's.)