Astoria	Mt. St. Helens, Washington	Mt. Rainier, Washington
McMinnville	Portland	The Dalles
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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.

For other places called Portland, go here.

1 Cities in this Graticule
2 Meetup time
3 Planning and Coordination
4 Recent Expeditions
5 Recent Plans without reports
6 Mailing List
7 Participants
8 Activity Statistics
9 Graticule History
10 Archives
11 Awards

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

5/6/2010 -- Thursday - Graticule Hopping

Jim finds a field near Hwy 26. Expedition Thwarted.

5/2/2010 -- Monday - Graticule Hopping

Jim finds a Vineyard south near Bald Peak. Expedition Thwarted.

5/5/2010 -- Wednesday - Local

Michael5000 and Sarah encounter a ghost street and hostile natives in search of the elusive Kingsley D. Bundy City Park. Expedition Thwarted.

4/30/2010 -- Friday - Graticule Hopping

Jim's final expedition for the month fails for so many reasons. Expedition Thwarted.

4/28/2010 -- Wednesday - Local

Jim and APR are thwarted by private property near the Sunset Transit Center. Expedition Thwarted.

4/25/2010 -- Sunday - Local

Aperfectring goes and drives up a mountain in an effort to obtain his first multihash, but Expedition Thwarted by the yet unmelted snow above 3000ft elevation.

4/25/2010 -- Sunday - Graticule Hopping

Aperfectring makes and early morning trip to a popular cabin+camping park. Expedition Success.

4/24/2010 -- Saturday - Local

Jim fails to gain access to the backyard of a house in Sandy. Expedition Thwarted!

4/21/2010 -- Wednesday - Local

Michael5000 fails to reach the edge of a quarry north of Estacada due to technical problems with a new GPS unit. Expedition Thwarted!

4/20/2010 -- Tuesday - Local

Out of towner Starbird is turned back by blackberry brambles, but seasoned bramble scramblers Jim and APR successfully reach a local point on Sauvie Island.

4/18/2010 -- Sunday - Graticule Hopping

Jim reaches a hashpoing amid slopes and logging debris. Success!

4/15/2010 -- Thursday - Graticule Hopping

Jim fails to reach a point in Rural Yamhill County. Expedition Thwarted!

4/13/2010 -- Tuesday - Local

APR joins Jim for his almost honorable mention cubicle geohash at lunchtime in Hillsboro. Expedition Success!

4/11/2010 -- Sunday - Local

The 5000s bring a friend to a little swamp south of Oregon City. Expedition Success!

4/4/2010 -- Sunday - Local

Jim stands in the flower bed outside of a Hillsboro business park building. Expedition Success!

4/3/2010 -- Saturday - Graticule Hopping

Jim fails to reach a point in Rural Washington County. Expedition Thwarted!

4/1/2010 -- Thursday - Local

Michael5000 scales a volcano to record his first successful expedition in two months. Expedition Success!

3/28/2010 -- Sunday - Graticule Hopping

Jim fails to reach a hashpoint in the middle of a road in Rural Washington County. Expedition Thwarted!

3/19/2010 -- Friday - Graticule Hopping

Jim finds a hashpoint in the middle of a road in Rural Washington County. Expedition Success!

3/14/2010 -- Sunday - Graticule Hopping

Jim encounters a lack of access to a hashpoint in rural Yamhill County. Expedition Thwarted.

3/08/2010 -- Monday - Local

Jim, APR, and visiting geohasher Rhonda make it to picnic tables in a schoolyard in Vancouver (WA). Expedition Success!

3/2/2010 -- Saturday - Local

Mother Nature convinces Jim to not brave a Lake Oswego slope. Expedition Thwarted!

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

Activity Statistics

	Overall	2008	2009	2010
Expeditions	53 (7th)	10	24 (12th)	19 (3rd)
Coordinates Reached	31 (14th)	6	13	12 (5th)
No Public Access	16	2	10	4
Mother Nature	4	1	1	2
Did Not Attempt	1	1	0	0
Technology	1	0	0	1

Sources:

Obtained May 1, 2010

Graticule History

2008

This graticule has a long (for geohashing) and storied history. It all began with the world's first ever geohashing expedition in February of 2008 during beta testing. After the algorithm was announced, Portland maintained some modest activity, with plans or expeditions happening once a week or so into August.

2009

Unfortunately, though, this graticule, which is wonderful for geohashing, was then inactive until January of 2009, when activity started trickling back in. The most active geohasher in the area, Jim, started at this time with his first expedition on 2009-01-19. Activity continued to increase over the warm and generally pleasant summer months. APR, one of the area's more active geohashers, was relocated here (from Florida) in September 2009, though he had visited (and geohashed) here earlier in 2009. Activity briefly took a dip in September, but returned to more normal levels in October and November, the same timeframe that Michael 5000, another fairly active geohasher in the area, discovered geohashing. Since then, the community has been fairly active, ranking 4th in November 2009, and tied for 2nd in December 2009 for expeditions.

2010

The beginning of the year continued pretty much like the end of the previous one, with Portland being 4th for expeditions in January. February and March maintained the activity for the area, but there was more graticule hopping, causing Portland to drop for number of expeditions. However, in April, activity exploded in the area. Portland had 9 expeditions, the most in its history in a single month, and McMinnville tied its previous record of 4 expeditions.

Awards

This graticule (45 -122) earned the Mostly Active Graticule achievement

for the month of 2010-04 in the category total expeditions by being the location of 9 expeditions.

Portland, Oregon

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