2023-04-28 44 -122
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In the woods near Sweet Home, Oregon.
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Expedition
It seemed like spring would never arrive, so I took some time off work. On Thursday, I looked at the hashpoints and they weren't interesting, so I stayed home and worked in the garden and did laundry. On Friday, I looked at the hashpoints and they were very interesting.
I drove down I-5 as far as Albany, then passed through Lebanon and Sweet Home and turned south of the highway into the the woods. The road got within a quarter mile of the hashpoint, but things were quite a bit steeper than I had expected and it was a bit of a cliff at the road's edge at that point. There was a level opening into the forest a short way up the road, but that way was quickly blocked off by brambles. Hmph.
I drove a little further down the road and found an old gate, which seemed like it might have potential. It had been some time since the road it led to had actually been used as a road, but it did offer a relatively easy path through the forest. It was very steep path, to be sure, and one that got progressively narrower and narrower, but it kept curving nicely towards the hashpoint until about 400 feet out, where it abruptly ended in an another impassable bramble patch.
Fortunately, I had had the foresight to wear my designated forest geohashing trousers (as purchased during Expedition 221) and so was able to crash through the underbrush in a big loop around the briars, scramble over a few downed logs, and then fight my way to the hashpoint, a little winded but basically intact. I lingered for a while to catch my breath.
It was much easier going back down. I got to the truck and, after pulling off the road for a while to let an enormous crane pass on the way uphill, got out to the highway and continued one graticule east to 2023-04-28 44 -121.
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