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== Location ==
 
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On the street in front of Dutton High School.
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In Dutton, Montana.
  
 
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Mrs.5000 noted the low-hanging hashpoint in Dutton while waiting in Great Falls to meet up with her parents en route to Glacier National Park.  Claiming the hashpoint would be somewhat off the planned route, but in a flurry of texts back to home base, it was agreed upon that any expenditure of political capital necessary would be justified in claiming only the third Montana graticule ever geohashed.
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My family had planned a get-together in Glacier National Park, so I flew in from Portland to Great Falls. I spent Saturday afternoon exploring Great Falls on foot. My parents and older brother would pick me up around noon the next day, on their drive up from Colorado.
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To my surprise, when I checked the Sunday hashpoint for the Great Falls graticule, there was a super easy one just off I-15, right on the way to Glacier. My parents and brother had planned to take 89 instead of 15, but I was able to convince them to humor me by changing their route. I wasn't able to get anyone excited about virgin graticules, but they were perfectly fine with going a little out of their way, especially since it was my birthday the following day.
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At 12:51 p.m. PST, a text message was received from the Expedition team: "Hashpoint got, yay."
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The hashpoint was in the town of Dutton, at the edge of a street in front of the high school. We missed a turn at first, which gave me an excuse to take some photos of the town grain elevators. On the way in, we noticed a retired fighter plane on display in front of the local Eagles building. We stopped by to look at it more closely as we left town. Since my brother knows about these things, I can tell you it was an F-104D Starfighter, used by the USAF between 1958 and 1969, which had unusual small, trapezoidal wings, and was known as "the Widowmaker" because of its high accident rate.
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Latest revision as of 05:36, 20 March 2024

Sun 1 Jul 2012 in 47,-111:
47.8506096, -111.7131653
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Location

In Dutton, Montana.

Participants

Plans

My family had planned a get-together in Glacier National Park, so I flew in from Portland to Great Falls. I spent Saturday afternoon exploring Great Falls on foot. My parents and older brother would pick me up around noon the next day, on their drive up from Colorado.

To my surprise, when I checked the Sunday hashpoint for the Great Falls graticule, there was a super easy one just off I-15, right on the way to Glacier. My parents and brother had planned to take 89 instead of 15, but I was able to convince them to humor me by changing their route. I wasn't able to get anyone excited about virgin graticules, but they were perfectly fine with going a little out of their way, especially since it was my birthday the following day.


Expedition

The hashpoint was in the town of Dutton, at the edge of a street in front of the high school. We missed a turn at first, which gave me an excuse to take some photos of the town grain elevators. On the way in, we noticed a retired fighter plane on display in front of the local Eagles building. We stopped by to look at it more closely as we left town. Since my brother knows about these things, I can tell you it was an F-104D Starfighter, used by the USAF between 1958 and 1969, which had unusual small, trapezoidal wings, and was known as "the Widowmaker" because of its high accident rate.

Achievements

Graticule unlocked.png
 Mrs.5000 earned the Graticule Unlocked Achievement
by being the first to reach any hashpoint in the (47, -111) graticule, here, on 2012-07-01.
Drag-along.png
 Mrs.5000 earned the Drag-along achievement
by dragging Mrs.5000's Mom and Dad and Brother to the (47, -111) geohash on 2012-07-01.
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