2012-08-25 46 -123

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Sat 25 Aug 2012 in 46,-123:
46.5604246, -123.3612976
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Location

Just off Route 6, southwest of Centralia, WA.

Participants

Plans

The plan is to drive down to the point from Seattle in the morning, and then make a meetup in Seattle at 4 pm.

Expedition

The drive down to Centralia was uneventful. I turned onto Route 6 and immediately went into a cell service black hole. GPS coverage turned out to be spotty in the hills, as well. Luckily I had remembered the name of the road to turn on, which turned out to be a gravel road about half an hour down Route 6. Once on the gravel, I relied on the distance calculation provided by the Android app. Unfortunately, I was thwarted twice... once by No Trespassing sign, and once by some extremely marshy land when I tried to go around. I was not prepared to ford any rivers, or brave any alligator-filled swamps, so I stopped as close as I could to the point, which was about 600 ft distant. Failure.

Photos

Achievements

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AeroIllini earned the There might be alligators! consolation prize
by being prevented from reaching the (46, -123) geohash on 2012-08-25 by an impassable and unforeseen patch of swampiness (and probably lurking alligators).
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