McMinnville, Oregon

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The McMinnville, Tillamook, and Forest Grove area graticule is at 45 N, 123 W. This area contains farmland and a portion of the Coast Range, Tillamook Forest, and descends into the Willamette Valley. Easy access to much of the Tillamook Forest as well as coastal areas to the west and foothills and flatter areas to the east provides opportunity for hiking to geohashing locations when local and/or logging roads do not.

Cities in this Graticule

  • Banks, OR
  • Forest Grove, OR
  • McMinnville, OR
  • Seaside, OR
  • Tillamook, OR
  • Rockaway Beach, OR

Planning and Coordination

2011 Expeditions

2011-10-15 45 -123

Michael5000... visits Vernonia. Expedition Success.

2011-07-24 45 -123

Michael5000, Mrs.5000, and Candida Nashe drive a long way to not visit a stone quarry. Expedition Thwarted!

1/8/2011 Saturday

APR goes hiking in the coast range. Expedition Thwarted!

1/2/2011 Sunday

Jim finds a hashpoint in an orchard. Expedition Success!

2010 Expeditions

12/30/2010 Friday

Jim finds a hashpoint in a pond. Expedition Thwarted!


11/25/2010 - Thursday -

Jim finds a hashpoint on a farm driveway. Expedition Success!

11/14/2010 - Sunday

Jim finds a gate closed leading to the hashpoint. Expedition Thwarted!

11/6/2010 - Saturday

Jim gives up on a hashpoint in a field. Expedition Thwarted!

11/3/2010 - Wednesday

Jim finds another inaccessible hashpoint. Expedition Thwarted!


10/16/2010 -- Saturday

redaragorn finds his way to the McMinnville hash out near the coast town of Nehalem.

10/11/2010 -- Monday

redaragorn attempts to add another graticule. And almost makes it.

8/28/2010 -- Sunday

Michael5000 makes his first visit to the McMinnville graticule, cycling into the woods northwest of Vernonia. Expedition Success.

7/9/2010 -- Friday

Jim and APR visit the parking lot of a farm near Hillsboro. Expedition Success.

7/5/2010 -- Sunday

Jim has no access to a hashpoint in a pond near Carlton, Oregon. Expedition Thwarted.

6/23/2010 -- Wednesday

Jim does a Multi-Hash by speeding through a hashpoint on Hwy 6! Expedition Success.

6/18/2010 -- Friday

Jim has no access to a hashpoint near Hwy 26. Expedition Thwarted.

6/15/2010 -- Tuesday

Jim doesn't find access to a hashpoint near the back edge of a property near Gaston, Oregon Expedition Thwarted.

6/13/2010 -- Sunday

Jim doesn't have access to an apparent logging road near Manning, Oregon.

6/5/2010 -- Saturday

Jim doesn't have access to farmland near Gaston, Oregon. Expedition Thwarted.

5/11/2010 -- Tuesday

Jim finds a hashpoint next to a logging road near Hwy 26. Expedition Success.

5/6/2010 -- Thursday

Jim finds a field near Hwy 26. Expedition Thwarted.

5/2/2010 -- Monday

Jim finds a Vineyard south near Bald Peak. Expedition Thwarted.

4/30/2010 -- Friday

Jim's final expedition for the month fails for so many reasons. Expedition Thwarted.

4/25/2010 -- Sunday

Aperfectring makes and early morning trip to a popular cabin+camping park. Expedition Success.

4/18/2010 -- Sunday

Jim a hashpoint amid much logging debris. Expedition Success!

4/15/2010 -- Thursday

Jim fails to reach a point in Rural Yamhill County. Expedition Thwarted!

4/3/2010 -- Saturday

Jim fails to reach a point in Rural Washington County. Expedition Thwarted!


3/28/2010 -- Sunday

Jim fails to reach a hashpoint in the middle of a road in Rural Washington County. Expedition Thwarted!

3/19/2010 -- Friday

Jim finds a hashpoint in the middle of a road in Rural Washington County. Expedition Success!

3/14/2010 -- Sunday

Jim encounters a lack of access to a hashpoint in rural Yamhill County. Expedition Thwarted.

2/11/2010 -- Thursday

Jim and APR can't find anyone to give them permssion to tromp in a forest in Banks. Expedition Thwarted.

2/11/2010 -- Thursday

Jim and APR can't find anyone to give them permssion to tromp over a forest in Banks. Expedition Thwarted.

2009 Expeditions

12/10/2009 - Thursday

Dixon Mill Road, in Gaston, Oregon. Expedition Thwarted.

11/11/2009 - Wednesday

Forest Grove. Expedition Thwarted.

11/01/2009 - Sunday

Scaponia Recreation Area, near Scapoose, Oregon. Expedition Success.


10/10/2009 - Saturday

Hagg Lake. Expedition Thwarted.

09/29/2009 - Tuesday

Hagg Lake. Expedition Thwarted.


08/10/2009 - Monday

North Plains. Expedition Success.

08/09/2009 - Sunday

South of Hillsboro. Expedition Thwarted.


07/29/2009 - Wedensday

South of Banks, Near Hwy 47. Expedition Success.

07/19/2009 - Sunday

South of Gaston, Near Hwy 47. Expedition Thwarted.

07/05/2009 - Sunday

North of Hillsboro, Pumpkin Ridge road in North Plains.


06/21/2009 - Sunday

South of Hillsboro, in the back of a nursery.

06/08/2009 - Monday

Near Bald Peak, south of Hillsboro, Oregon.

06/05/2009 - Friday

Just off of US-101 between Seaside and Cannon Beach.


05/28/2009 - Thursday

Oat field west of North Plains, Oregon - Expedition thwarted.

The Portland Graticule folks took a field trip to visit the 2009 Retrohash, which was just off Highway 26, about an hour west of Portland.



Awards

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This graticule (45 -123) earned the Mostly Active Graticule achievement
for the month of 2010-06 in the category total expeditions by being the location of 5 expeditions.


McMinnville, Oregon

2024-01-07

Arrow4.png Jim — Near a nature park — Thwarted — No public access

2023-08-19

Arrow2.png Michael5000 — In the woods north of Klootchy Creek County Park. — Succeeded

2023-01-28

Arrow4.png Michael5000 — Off of Oregon Highway 233, near Amity — Thwarted — Attended alternate location

2022-10-14

Arrow2.png Hamblingreen, Mi Padre — Just a few feet of the Wilson River Highway in some trees, probably not on ... — Succeeded

2022-06-02

Arrow2.png Jim — In front of a house in Forest Grove — Succeeded

2021-02-23

Arrow2.png Jim — In a residential neighborhood of Forest Grove — Succeeded

2019-05-23

Arrow4.png Jim — Ag land south of Cornelius — Thwarted — No public access

2019-05-17

Arrow4.png Jim — Ag land south of Hillsboro — Thwarted — No public access

2019-05-10

Arrow4.png Jim — Inside the Hillsboro Fernhill water treatment plant — Thwarted — No public access

2019-04-01

Arrow4.png Jim — Ag land north of Hillsboro — Thwarted — No public access