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Perhaps a bit geohash-starved in this rather difficult graticule, I was pleasantly surprised to find a hashpoint not in the middle of a field, but instead rather close to the edge of a field! I asked my friends to drive me, but they thought it would be pretty silly to drive over half an hour to take a picture of a field and turn around again.
  
 
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I can geohash if I want to; I can leave my friends behind. I decided to take my bike! It was only a 44-mile round-trip from Corvallis.
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The Willamette Valley in early fall is absolutely gorgeous. I headed down US Numbered Highway 99W and was greeted with a pretty strong headwind, which made the southbound journey difficult and my return journey a ''breeze''. The sun was still high in the sky and the farmland was framed by mountains was very picturesque. I took a picture!
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After 11 miles on 99W I turned onto Old River Road. There weren't many cars around, which was amazing. I saw pumpkins!
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The hashpoint itself was just off of a road on the alluvial Ingram Island in a corn field. As luck would have it, right as I arrived a man was just beginning to harvest the field. He probably has a pretty weird story to tell his coworkers: "I saw this kid ride up on a bike, take a picture of me, and leave." I watched the corn fly through the air and into his trailer for a few minutes and rode home.
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At home Alison was waiting for me with a chai latte! It was decaf, because it was around 7 at night when I got back, sore and feeling accomplished at visiting yet another arbitrary location.
  
 
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Image:2013-10-06 44 -123 nice view.jpg | It was a very nice day out.
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Image:2013-10-06 44 -123 nice view2.jpg | Very very nice.
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Image:2013-10-06 44 -123 sign.jpg | The road to turn off of from 99W!
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Image:2013-10-06 44 -123 sign post.jpg | The sign posts out here have lots of signs on them. This is actually one of the less-populated ones.
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Image:2013-10-06_44_-123_pumpkins.jpg | Look! Pumpkin is sleeping.
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Image:2013-10-06 44 -123 y.jpg | What I was thinking about then. Biking is tiring.
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Image:2013-10-06 44 -123 llama.jpg | My new best friend. It is either a llama or an alpaca; I am not very well-versed in these things.
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Image:2013-10-06 44 -123 combine.jpg | What people do at hashpoints: harvest corn.
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Image:2013-10-06_44_-123_ingram_slough.jpg | The Ingram Slough! This is what makes Ingram Island an island.
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Image:2013-10-06_44_-123_sunset.jpg | The sun was setting as I rode back on 99W.
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Image:2013-10-06 44 -123 bike mirror.jpg | My goofy non-grin, through a bike mirror.
 
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Latest revision as of 04:14, 14 August 2019

Sun 6 Oct 2013 in 44,-123:
44.3090708, -123.2243903
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Location

A corn farm in rural Benton County, Oregon.

Participants

Frogman (talk)

Plans

Perhaps a bit geohash-starved in this rather difficult graticule, I was pleasantly surprised to find a hashpoint not in the middle of a field, but instead rather close to the edge of a field! I asked my friends to drive me, but they thought it would be pretty silly to drive over half an hour to take a picture of a field and turn around again.

Expedition

I can geohash if I want to; I can leave my friends behind. I decided to take my bike! It was only a 44-mile round-trip from Corvallis.

The Willamette Valley in early fall is absolutely gorgeous. I headed down US Numbered Highway 99W and was greeted with a pretty strong headwind, which made the southbound journey difficult and my return journey a breeze. The sun was still high in the sky and the farmland was framed by mountains was very picturesque. I took a picture!

After 11 miles on 99W I turned onto Old River Road. There weren't many cars around, which was amazing. I saw pumpkins!

The hashpoint itself was just off of a road on the alluvial Ingram Island in a corn field. As luck would have it, right as I arrived a man was just beginning to harvest the field. He probably has a pretty weird story to tell his coworkers: "I saw this kid ride up on a bike, take a picture of me, and leave." I watched the corn fly through the air and into his trailer for a few minutes and rode home.

At home Alison was waiting for me with a chai latte! It was decaf, because it was around 7 at night when I got back, sore and feeling accomplished at visiting yet another arbitrary location.

Tracklog

Photos

  • It was a very nice day out.

  • Very very nice.

  • The road to turn off of from 99W!

  • This is the road.

  • The sign posts out here have lots of signs on them. This is actually one of the less-populated ones.

  • Look! Pumpkin is sleeping.

  • What I was thinking about then. Biking is tiring.

  • My new best friend. It is either a llama or an alpaca; I am not very well-versed in these things.

  • What people do at hashpoints: harvest corn.

  • The Ingram Slough! This is what makes Ingram Island an island.

  • The sun was setting as I rode back on 99W.

  • My goofy non-grin, through a bike mirror.

Achievements

Bikegeohash.png
 Frogman (talk) earned the Bicycle geohash achievement
by cycling 44.0 miles to and from the (44, -123) geohash on 2013-10-06.
2013-10-06 44 -123 bike mirror.jpg
Regionalhashingsimple.png
 Frogman (talk) earned the Regional geohashing achievement
by reaching a hash point in all 1 graticules belonging to Benton County, Oregon.
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