2022-07-06 47 -121

Location

Off I-90 near the Kachess Dam.

Participants

Expedition

From 2022-07-06 47 -122, we hopped back on Highway 18, got snarled in traffic on a "quick stop" for gasoline and coffee, and then got rolling again and eastbound on I-90.

There isn't much lowland between Seattle and the Cascade Mountains, so we started uphill into the forest pretty immediately. It's a beautiful road, really, and I haven't often had reason to drive it, so it definitely constituted a nice drive in the country. To get to the hashpoint we had to overshoot a little, then backtrack a mile or so from the nearest exit, and then drive a short stretch down the Kachess Dam Road. Things looked a little grim for a moment, as we could see from the car that there was a steep plunge from the road into a pond, but happily the hashpoint wasn't down there. We were able to walk a few minutes through the damp forest to a little hill that our three GPS units eventually agreed was the place to be. It was a lovely forest environment, strangely noisy from freight traffic on the nearby interstate.

We continued on towards 2022-07-06 46 -119.

Photos

View from the hashpoint, showing the sunken pond
The 5000s atop the hashpoint
Looking up from the hashpoint
Mrs.5000 returns to the vehicle

Achievements

First Expedition to the Snoqualmie graticule for Mrs.5000.
First Expedition to Kittatas County for both of us.


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