Difference between revisions of "2023-04-28 43 -119"

Latest revision as of 04:42, 20 March 2024

Location

In the sagebrush plains east of US 395.

Participants

Michael5000

Expedition

After 2023-04-28 44 -121 and stops in Sister and Bend, I headed out into the sparsely inhabited southeast quarter of Oregon on US Highway 20. After 120 miles or so, there's the junction with US 395, and I turned south there and drove down to the same turnoff I used for Expedition 207 -- not at the hashpoint itself, but the place I stopped before the hashpoint to go running. That time, I ran west up Squaw Butte Road, a well maintained gravel lane. This time, I got out the bicycle and headed east up Big Stick Road, a pair of ruts that clearly hadn't had any human traffic since at least the last time it rained.

Two and a half miles on the bicycle got me within 1.13 miles of the hashpoint, which was somewhere out there on a plain of sagebrush. Checking the time until sundown and the batteries on my equipment, I headed out. Walking across a sagebrush plain isn't really much harder than walking down a sidewalk, so aside from the curious feeling of vulnerability a city person feels when they can see for a few miles in all directions and yet they are the only person present, it was really little more than a pleasant stroll. Naturally getting to the third hashpoint in one day felt pretty good.

Back on my bicycle, I came up from the downwind side and startled an antelope grazing by the road. I mean, I was fairly startled too, but the antelope seemed to be well and truly freaked out as it disappeared towards the horizon. Admittedly, antelopes probably didn't have a lot of bicycles in their evolutionary environment.

After backtracking to US 20, I continued east to the remote town of Burns, arriving just as dusk fell. After two hashpoints in the forest and one in the desert, I was as filthy as a child after a long summer day of playing outdoors. And perhaps as happy.

Photos

The starting point on US 395.
Through the gate...
...and into the desert.
Leaving the bicycle for the last stretch.
There!
Triple-hash satisfaction.
Southwest from the hashpoint.
Northwest...
Northeast, back towards the bike...
Southeast.
A pretty little flower that lives at the hashpoint.
Casting a long shadow.

Achievements

Michael5000 earned the Graticule Unlocked Achievement

by being the first to reach any hashpoint in the (43, -119) graticule, here, on 2023-04-28.

Michael5000 earned the Multihash Achievement

by reaching 3 hash points on 2023-04-28. It's a Triple Hash.

Michael5000 achieved level 7 of the Minesweeper Geohash achievement

by visiting coordinates in [[Prineville, Oregon]] and 7 of the surrounding graticules.

Michael5000 achieved level 6 of the Minesweeper Geohash achievement

by visiting coordinates in [[Hampton, Oregon]] and 6 of the surrounding graticules.

Michael5000 achieved level 6 of the Minesweeper Geohash achievement

by visiting coordinates in [[Prairie City, Oregon]] and 6 of the surrounding graticules.

Michael5000 achieved level 5 of the Minesweeper Geohash achievement

by visiting coordinates in [[Hines, Oregon]] and 5 of the surrounding graticules.

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 == Expedition ==
-After [[2023-04-28 44 -121]] and stops in Sister and Bend, I headed out into the sparsely inhabited southeast quarter of Oregon on US Highway 20.  After 120 miles or so, there's the junction with US 395, and I turned south there and drove down to the same turnoff I used for [[2019-03-23 43 -120|Expedition 207]] -- not at the hashpoint itself, but where I stopped before the hashpoint to go running.  That time, I ran west up Squaw Butte Road, a well maintained gravel lane.  This time, I got out the bicycle and headed east up Big Stick Road, a pair of ruts that clearly hadn't had any traffic since at least the last time it rained.
+After [[2023-04-28 44 -121]] and stops in Sister and Bend, I headed out into the sparsely inhabited southeast quarter of Oregon on US Highway 20.  After 120 miles or so, there's the junction with US 395, and I turned south there and drove down to the same turnoff I used for [[2019-03-23 43 -120|Expedition 207]] -- not at the hashpoint itself, but the place I stopped before the hashpoint to go running.  That time, I ran west up Squaw Butte Road, a well maintained gravel lane.  This time, I got out the bicycle and headed east up Big Stick Road, a pair of ruts that clearly hadn't had any human traffic since at least the last time it rained.
-Two and a half miles on the bicycle got me to 1.13 miles from the hashpoint, which was somewhere out there on a plain of sagebrush.  Checking the time until sundown and the batteries on my equipment, I headed out.  Walking across a sagebrush plain isn't really much harder than walking down a sidewalk, so aside from the curious feeling of vulnerability a city person feels when they can see for a few miles in all directions and they are the only person present, it was little more than a pleasant stroll.  Naturally getting to the third hashpoint in one day felt pretty good.
+Two and a half miles on the bicycle got me within 1.13 miles of the hashpoint, which was somewhere out there on a plain of sagebrush.  Checking the time until sundown and the batteries on my equipment, I headed out.  Walking across a sagebrush plain isn't really much harder than walking down a sidewalk, so aside from the curious feeling of vulnerability a city person feels when they can see for a few miles in all directions and yet they are the only person present, it was really little more than a pleasant stroll.  Naturally getting to the third hashpoint in one day felt pretty good.
 Back on my bicycle, I came up from the downwind side and startled an antelope grazing by the road.  I mean, I was fairly startled too, but the antelope seemed to be well and truly freaked out as it disappeared towards the horizon.  Admittedly, antelopes probably didn't have a lot of bicycles in their evolutionary environment.
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 <gallery perrow="5">
+File:2023-04-28 43 -119 a.jpg|The starting point on US 395.
+File:2023-04-28 43 -119 b.jpg|Through the gate...
+File:2023-04-28 43 -119 c.jpg|...and into the desert.
+File:2023-04-28 43 -119 d.jpg|Leaving the bicycle for the last stretch.
+File:2023-04-28 43 -119 e.jpg|There!
+File:2023-04-28 43 -119 f.jpg|Triple-hash satisfaction.
+File:2023-04-28 43 -119 g.jpg|Southwest from the hashpoint.
+File:2023-04-28 43 -119 h.jpg|Northwest...
+File:2023-04-28 43 -119 i.jpg|Northeast, back towards the bike...
+File:2023-04-28 43 -119 j.jpg|Southeast.
+File:2023-04-28 43 -119 k.jpg|A pretty little flower that lives at the hashpoint.
+File:2023-04-28 43 -119 l.jpg|Casting a long shadow.
 </gallery>
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