Portland, Oregon

Astoria	Mt. St. Helens, Washington	Mt. Rainier, Washington
McMinnville	Portland	The Dalles
Eugene	Springfield	Bend
Today's location: not yet announced

The Portland metro area graticule is at 45 N, 122 W. It completely encloses the city of Portland and some surrounding areas. The graticule is almost entirely land, much of it open and undeveloped, making this one of the best areas for geohashing.

Portland, Oregon was the 12th most active graticule in the world in 2009, according to data accessed Dec 31, 2009. It was the 4th most active graticule in the world for November 2009, and tied for 2nd most active graticule in the world for December 2009.

For other places called Portland, go here.

Cities in this Graticule

• Portland, OR
• Vancouver, WA

Meetup time

It was proposed, and no objections were raised, so the official meetup time for our graticule(s) is now 2PM from Oct 1 to March 15, and 4PM for the rest of the year. I'd say this applies to neighboring graticules as well.

Planning and Coordination

View of the west hills of Portland, Oregon

• See the discussion page for plans

Many of the folks in the Portland, Oregon graticule hop over to the McMinnville, Oregon graticule for hashpoints there. The planning was happening here on the Portland page, but now with the User:AperfectBot picking up Category:Expedition planning pages, it makes sense to move the planning to the expedition page itself once someone is committed to going.

Recent Expeditions

2/15/2010 -- Monday - Graticule Hopping

Jim and APR cross the Columbia to a hashpoint in a virgin graticule. Expedition Success!

2/13/2010 -- Saturday! - Graticule Hopping

Jim gets permssion to tromp in a forest in Corvallis. Expedition Success.

2/11/2010 -- Thursday - Graticule Hopping

Jim and APR can't find anyone to give them permssion to tromp in a forest in Banks. Expedition Thwarted.

2/6/2010 -- Saturday - Local

Jim can't find anyone to give him permssion to tromp over a field in North Plains. Expedition Thwarted.

2/4/2010 -- Thursday - Local

The 5000s and Jim discover the back side of a Safeway in Milwaukie. Expedition Success.

1/31/2010 -- Sunday - Local

Jim visits a hashpoint next to a church (and graveyard). Expedition Success.

1/30/2010 -- Saturday! - Graticule Hopping

Jim and Aperfectring hop to the St. Helens Graticule. Expedition Success.

1/11/2010 -- Monday - Local

Mrs. and Michael 5000 (and Jim too!) conquer a sidewalk strip in Northeast Portland. Expedition Success.

1/9/2010 -- Saturday! - Local

Jim and Michael5000 race separate expeditions to a dead-end road near Tualatin. Expedition Success.

1/2/2010 -- Saturday! - Local

Side of a vinyard in Sherwood, Oregon. Expedition Success.

12/23/2009 -- Wednesday - Local

No-Access residential area southeast of Vancouver Lake. Expedition Thwarted.

12/21/2009 -- Monday - Local

Gillihan Road, Sauvie Island (Speed racing!). Expedition Success.

12/10/2009 -- Thursday - Graticule Hopping

Dixon Mill Road, Gaston, Oregon. Expedition Thwarted.

12/06/2009 -- Sunday - Local

Sunset High School baseball diamond; Beaverton, Oregon. Expedition Success.

12/04/2009 - Friday - Local

Hwy 219 south of Hillsboro, Oregon. Expedition Success.

12/03/2009 - Thursday - Local

Near Sherwood, Oregon. Expedition Thwarted.

11/29/2009 - Sunday - Local

North of Hwy 26 near North Plains, Oregon. Expedition Thwarted.

11/28/2009 - Thanksgiving Saturday - Local

On Logging Roads north of the East Fork Lewis River in Southwest Washington. Expedition Success.

11/13/2009 - Friday - Local

Eastern Vancouver. Expedition Success.

11/11/2009 - Wednesday - Graticule Hopping

Forest Grove. Expedition Thwarted.

11/08/2009 - Sunday - Local

Near Vancouver Lake. Expedition Success.

11/07/2009 - Saturday - Graticule Hopping

Astoria! Expedition Success.

11/01/2009 - Sunday - Graticule Hopping

Scaponia Recreation Area, near Scapoose, Oregon. Expedition Success.

Recent Plans without reports

Where'd the rest of the dates go? See the Archives page.

Mailing List

There is now a mailing list for Portland Geohashing.

Participants

Active participants with documented activity in 2009 are in bold.

• 3riador lives at Reed College, is fairly mobile, and loves playing with GPS.
• Admalledd
• Alexp
• aperfectring has moved here.
• doiuf Located in Vancouver, WA.
• Drache
• Elegant Forkbomb lives in Portland
• grishnav Moved to Seattle.
• Jessica
• Jiml lives south of Hillsboro, and has a GPS unit. He's been on a number of expeditions, some succesful.
• James
• Kpeace Live in Portland. Participated in first geohash on 6/28/08; I don't have a car so I'm at the mercy of my car-owning friends for distant hashes.
• Maggie lives in Portland.
• Maravi lives in Lake Oswego.
• michael5000
• Tim Ferrell I'm based in Salem.
• Mrs.5000
• NoTerminal
• thefinn93 lives in Portland.
• Timmothy Tee
• Wil
• zem

Archives

Detailed archives are now located here!

2010 Jan February March April May June July August September October November December 01-02 01-09 01-11 01-30* 01-31 02-04 02-06 02-11* 02-13* 02-15* 2009 Jan February March April May June July August September October November December 01-17 01-19 03-04 04-04 05-16 05-19 05-23* 05-28* 06-04 06-05* 06-07 06-08* 06-10 06-21* 07-05* 07-08* 07-10* 07-11* 07-13 07-19* 07-29* 08-09* 08-10* 08-24 08-28 08-29 08-31 09-29* 10-09 10-10* 10-18 11-01* 11-07* 11-08 11-11* 11-13 11-28 11-29 12-03 12-04 12-06 12-10* 12-21 12-23 2008 January February March April May June July August September October November December 02-17 02-19 05-24 05-26 05-31 06-02 06-07 06-21 06-28 07-05 07-12 07-19 07-26 08-02 08-16

• = Graticule Hopping (usually to McMinnville, Oregon Graticule)