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== Location ==
 
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Deep in the Ochoco National Forest.
  
  
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== Expedition ==
 
== Expedition ==
  
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'''Driving In'''
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In a U.S. National Forest, you never really know how difficult a hashpoint is going to be.  Maps and even aerial images don't really give you much of a feel for how good a road is, and even if you know the general system of numbering there's still a lot of guesswork involved.
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In this case, a good two-lane gravel road brought me to about five miles from the hashpoint, and a clearly marked and signposted link road led from there to near the place I intended to park.  This second road was very driveable until suddenly it wasn't, and I found myself crawling across stonefields, deep ruts, and holes of a kind that would give most people with 4-wheel drive (which my truck does not have) serious pause.  It had snuck up on me so abruptly that I was in the thick of it, with no way of turning around, before I knew what had happened, and so extreme that I wondered if I had wandered onto a dead-end spur.  I began to sweat profusely from worry, wondering how much time, money, and humiliation it would take to have a stranded vehicle retrieved from this deep in the forest.
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As I considered stopping in order to hike both forwards and backwards to see which direction would be more likely to be survivable for the truck, I rounded a corner to see... a woman walking two dogs.  I stopped and looked again.  She was still there.  She told me that the road I was on really did get to a properly surfaced road a little further down.  So, enjoying my visit to the land of the surreal, I drove through the rockfields and ruts with more confidence.  It's a Toyota, after all.
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'''Hiking In'''
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I could have actually driven to as close as half a mile from the hashpoint, but it was on a marginal road and I was still scarred by my experience of a few minutes before.  So, I began a hike in from 1 1/4 miles.  After a stiff climb of 1/2 mile, the road reached a T intersection about 3/4 of a mile from the hashpoint, each of the branches of the T heading off laterally from the direction I was heading in.  Sighing, I began hiking in cross-country.  It was tough going, with steep uphills and downhills through woods and meadows.  Three times I crossed roads heading perfectly perpendicular to the direction I was heading, and at one point I had to duck through a barbed-wire stock fence.  I was occasionally rewarded, though, by glimpses of (what must be, according to the map) Big Summit Prairie off in the distance, through the trees.
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Reaching a hashpoint usually happens without much accompanying drama, but in this case when I arrived on the scene a deer bounded off into the deeper woods and an owl swept grandly down from some high perch and away into the forest.  It was quite something.  And then I did the usual photograph-and-retreat.
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On my way out, I confirmed a suspicion that had been nagging at me: those perpendicular roads I had kept crossing were in fact the original road I had started up, winding back and forth across my direct-line path like some great dollar sign.  I followed it back down to the truck and had a much easier time of it.
  
 
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File:2011-09-19 44 -120 1.JPG|I walked up this road, which is MUCH MUCH better than the road I had just driven.
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File:2011-09-19 44 -120 2.JPG|Occasional interesting views through the trees.
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File:2011-09-19 44 -120 3.JPG|Traditional GPS shot.
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File:2011-09-19 44 -120 4.JPG|The forests are filled with dangers.
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* Six attempts and four successes in one long day.
  
  
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Latest revision as of 00:55, 13 August 2019

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I photograph me, at the hashpoint.


Location

Deep in the Ochoco National Forest.


Participants


Expedition

Driving In

In a U.S. National Forest, you never really know how difficult a hashpoint is going to be. Maps and even aerial images don't really give you much of a feel for how good a road is, and even if you know the general system of numbering there's still a lot of guesswork involved.

In this case, a good two-lane gravel road brought me to about five miles from the hashpoint, and a clearly marked and signposted link road led from there to near the place I intended to park. This second road was very driveable until suddenly it wasn't, and I found myself crawling across stonefields, deep ruts, and holes of a kind that would give most people with 4-wheel drive (which my truck does not have) serious pause. It had snuck up on me so abruptly that I was in the thick of it, with no way of turning around, before I knew what had happened, and so extreme that I wondered if I had wandered onto a dead-end spur. I began to sweat profusely from worry, wondering how much time, money, and humiliation it would take to have a stranded vehicle retrieved from this deep in the forest.

As I considered stopping in order to hike both forwards and backwards to see which direction would be more likely to be survivable for the truck, I rounded a corner to see... a woman walking two dogs. I stopped and looked again. She was still there. She told me that the road I was on really did get to a properly surfaced road a little further down. So, enjoying my visit to the land of the surreal, I drove through the rockfields and ruts with more confidence. It's a Toyota, after all.

Hiking In

I could have actually driven to as close as half a mile from the hashpoint, but it was on a marginal road and I was still scarred by my experience of a few minutes before. So, I began a hike in from 1 1/4 miles. After a stiff climb of 1/2 mile, the road reached a T intersection about 3/4 of a mile from the hashpoint, each of the branches of the T heading off laterally from the direction I was heading in. Sighing, I began hiking in cross-country. It was tough going, with steep uphills and downhills through woods and meadows. Three times I crossed roads heading perfectly perpendicular to the direction I was heading, and at one point I had to duck through a barbed-wire stock fence. I was occasionally rewarded, though, by glimpses of (what must be, according to the map) Big Summit Prairie off in the distance, through the trees.

Reaching a hashpoint usually happens without much accompanying drama, but in this case when I arrived on the scene a deer bounded off into the deeper woods and an owl swept grandly down from some high perch and away into the forest. It was quite something. And then I did the usual photograph-and-retreat.

On my way out, I confirmed a suspicion that had been nagging at me: those perpendicular roads I had kept crossing were in fact the original road I had started up, winding back and forth across my direct-line path like some great dollar sign. I followed it back down to the truck and had a much easier time of it.

Photos

Achievements

Multihash.png
Michael5000 earned the Multihash Achievement
by reaching 4 hash points on 2011-09-19. It's an Ultra Hash.
  • Six attempts and four successes in one long day.