2011-02-26 45 -122

Sat 26 Feb 2011 in 45,-122: 45.5847362, -122.5654490 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox

Location

On the Columbia River Bike Path between Marine Drive and the Columbia.

Participants

• Jim

• Michael5000

Plans

Jim has a get-together in Salem, so was going to leave shortly to try to go to the hashpoint before heading South.

Michael5000 planned, as a new year's resolution with UnwiseOwl, to go geohashing on Feb. 26 no matter what. It's just good luck that today's hashpoint turned out to be something of a creampuff.

Expedition

Michael5000 dressed pretty warmly for a sub-freezing bicycle ride, but still lost track of his toes four miles into the nineteen-mile jaunt. Google Maps clearly shows the hashpoint on the trail; by my GPS the point was about a foot and a half north of the trail. I left a message for passers-by, and no doubt somebody at the other end of a CCT camera noticed the dude with a black balaclava making chalk marks and photographing airport operations. Then I rode home.

Photos

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  I don't mind telling you it was a cold day for a bike ride.

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  The Columbia River Bike Trail is quite awesome.

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  The hashpoint is right off the end of the north runway at PDX. I was grazed by Horizon's plane with the livery of my alma mater!

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  We left a message for other cold-weather adventurers.

Achievements

michael5000 earned the Frozen Geohash Achievement

by reaching the (45, -122) geohash on 2011-02-26 while the temperature was 28°F.