2013-10-20 44 -123
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Location
Off of the John H. Beuter Road in Peavy Arboretum.
Participants
Plans
I saw that this hash was pretty close to Corvallis, so I planned on doing it!
Expedition
I was surprised at the relatively easy ride up 99W, despite a couple of hills. Peavy Arboretum is an OSU-run demonstration forest on a hill surrounded by farms and streets that are named after being able to see Mt. Hood. It's a nice place! It was pretty busy, so I felt weird about tromping through the forest in an attempt to reach the hashpoint. I felt even more weird about the fact that the hashpoint was right off of a path, and my wanderings through thickets and heavy vegetation were unnecessary.
Higgs' Sad Story of Failure
So Frogman had introduced me to geohashing just days before and I thought it sounded really cool. So when he asked if I wanted to hit a bike hash on Sunday I was all for it. After stopping for a break about 2 miles in I realized I was way out of shape and I didn't know how far we were going. After Frogman mentioned how far away it was I realized I wasn't in the condition to keep up with him for 13+ more miles. And so goes the story of how I failed my first geohash.
Tracklog
Photos
On the way!
A tractor.
I'm at the arboretum!
The arboretum in in McDonald forest.
There's a lot of stuff here.
It was a super nice day!
A sign for a redwood.
A redwood for a sign.
Information! I should have looked at the trail map before starting.
The trees are pretty here!
The road that would have taken me to the hashpoint if I had kept going.
Here it is again, after I had trekked through a lot of blackberry bushes.
This is the place!
From the hashpoint you could see a lot of thicket.
Grin of the goofy variety.
Achievements
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Frogman (talk) earned the Bicycle geohash achievement
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