Difference between revisions of "2023-12-27 39 -109"

Latest revision as of 04:37, 20 March 2024

Location

A short climb off a BLM road, south of the I-70 Sulphur exit.

Participants

Expedition

A half hour west of Grand Junction, Colorado, we took the Sulphur exit and immediately passed a mysterious natural-resources depot of some sort with a lot of recent construction. From there, we continued 3 or 4 miles down a BLM road that paralleled the freeway for a while before wandering north into the desert.

From our parking spot to the hashpoint was about 600 meters of continuous upward climb through scrubby forest, some of it along what was probably a motorbike or mountain biking path. It was a lovely morning walk on a bright, cold December day, and the views back to the north were pretty spectacular.

After walking back out, we got back on the freeway and headed west towards 2023-12-27 39 -111.

Photos

Leaving the freeway
Mrs.5000 ready for the hike
View north from the hashpoint
The juniper tree that lives by the hashpoint
Not the best photograph of the 5000s
But the hashcot always looks dapper
The industrial depot, off in the distance

Achievements

We didn't realize this until later, but this was a new graticule for us, and apparently for everybody!

Michael5000 and Mrs.5000 earned the Graticule Unlocked Achievement

by being the first to reach any hashpoint in the (39, -109) graticule, here, on 2023-12-27.

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 == Location ==
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+A short climb off a BLM road, south of the I-70 Sulphur exit.
 == Participants ==
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+*[[user:Mrs.5000|Mrs.5000]]
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+A half hour west of Grand Junction, Colorado, we took the Sulphur exit and immediately passed a mysterious natural-resources depot of some sort with a lot of recent construction.  From there, we continued 3 or 4 miles down a BLM road that paralleled the freeway for a while before wandering north into the desert.
-== Expedition ==
+From our parking spot to the hashpoint was about 600 meters of continuous upward climb through scrubby forest, some of it along what was probably a motorbike or mountain biking path.  It was a lovely morning walk on a bright, cold December day, and the views back to the north were pretty spectacular.
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+After walking back out, we got back on the freeway and headed west towards [[2023-12-27 39 -111]].
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+File:2023-12-27 39 -109 h.jpg|Leaving the freeway
+File:2023-12-27 39 -109 a.jpg|Mrs.5000 ready for the hike
+File:2023-12-27 39 -109 b.jpg|View north from the hashpoint
+File:2023-12-27 39 -109 c.jpg|The juniper tree that lives by the hashpoint
+File:2023-12-27 39 -109 d.jpg|Not the best photograph of the 5000s
+File:2023-12-27 39 -109 e.jpg|But the hashcot always looks dapper
+File:2023-12-27 39 -109 f.jpg|The industrial depot, off in the distance
+File:2023-12-27 39 -109 i.jpg
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+We didn't realize this until later, but this was a new graticule for us, and apparently for everybody!
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+{{Graticule unlocked
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