User:OtherJack

Relatively new to the Puget Sound area... happened upon this geohashing thing while bored on the Internet and figure it would be a great way to become acquainted with my new surroundings and people who live here. I love discovering unexpected places. Hope to bike and/or take transit to most, but will have to drive sometimes inevitably. I live up past Green Lake in Seattle.

I should add that I was born and raised in 42,-87 and have also lived in 40,-88 and 22,114 before finding myself out here...

--Jack (another one)

Seattle graticule geohashes so far

2012-06-09 47 -122 -- Outside a Chevron station in Tacoma. Success

2012-05-28 47 -122 -- Up an unexpected overgrown cliff from the back of a Viet Wah in the Rainier Valley. Failure

OtherJack earned the Blinded by Science Consolation Prize

by failing to reach the (47, -122) geohash on 2012-05-28 because he made a Chicagoan's mistake with the satellite imagery.

2012-05-20 47 -122 -- In some roadside nettles in west Auburn during a solar eclipse. Success

OtherJack earned the Consecutive geohash achievement

by reaching 2 consecutive hash points starting on 2012-05-19.

OtherJack earned the Eclipse Geohash

by experiencing a (partial) solar eclipse at the (47, -122) geohash on 2012-05-20.

2012-05-19 47 -122 -- In Lake Washington a few dozen feet off the top end of Mercer Island. Success!

OtherJack earned the Water geohash achievement

by reaching the (47, -122) geohash on 2012-05-19 by kayak.

2012-05-04 47 -122 -- Someone's front yard in Madrona. Foiled by the prospect of food, drink and company

2012-04-28 47 -122 -- Parking lot in an office park near Southcenter. Success

2012-04-01 47 -122 -- Out in right field in View Ridge Park. Success

ColinMacLeod and son, Traveller, OtherJack, and Thomcat earned the Meet-up achievement

by meeting each other (well, mostly) at the (47, -122) geohash on 2012-04-01.

ColinMacLeod and OtherJack earned the Walk geohash Achievement

by reaching the (47, -122) geohash on 2012-04-01 on foot.

OtherJack, ColinMacLeod, (and others??) earned the Hashdog Ribbon

by petting Lucy the dog at the (47, -122) geohash on 2012-04-01.

This user earned the Thomcat Number of 1

by following the path OtherJack-Thomcat.

2012-03-24 47 -122 -- Alternate location meetup, Cowen Park

Traveller and OtherJack earned the Meet-up achievement

by meeting in person at an alternate geohash in (47, -122) on 2012-03-24.

2012-03-20 47 -122 -- Boggy overgrown deciduous woods on an empty lot just north of Kenmore... success

2012-03-17 47 -122 -- Aborted construction site in Lake Stevens. Success, finally!

2012-02-25 47 -122 -- Just offshore in the Duwamish River, off West Seattle.

Monovitae and OtherJack earned the Meet-up achievement

by meeting in person at the (47, -122) geohash on 2012-02-25.

2012-02-20 47 -122 -- In a padlocked and posted vehicle storage lot south of Port Orchard -- failure

2012-02-11 47 -122 -- In frigid Green Lake, 2km from my house (failure)

44px	OtherJack earned the "Mother Nature's Bitch" Consolation Prize by trying and spectacularly failing to swim 100m through 5-10C water in a pair of boxers to reach the (47, -122) geohash on 2012-02-11.

2010-08-28 47 -122 -- By the side of a street in Parkland (south Tacoma suburb) -- Success

OtherJack earned the Bicycle geohash achievement

by cycling to the (47, -122) geohash on 2010-08-28.

2010-08-21 47 -122 -- By the side of a street in Lacey (Olympia suburb) -- Success

OtherJack earned the Public transport geohash achievement

by reaching the (47, -122) geohash on 2010-08-21 via King County Metro, Amtrak, Intercity Transit.

2010-06-12 47 -122 -- In some nettle-ridden woods near Maltby in Snohomish County (another failure)

2010-05-29 47 -122 -- A backyard in Puyallup (Failure)

2010-05-22 47 -122 -- Some woods in south Kitsap County.

2010-05-08 47 -122 -- In a field outside of Buckley.

2010-05-01 47 -122 -- On the shore of Wollochet Bay near Gig Harbor.

Other graticules

2012-05-26 47 -121 -- On a huge residential property in the hills south of Monroe. Failure, but...

OtherJack earned the 2012 Mouse Over Day achievement

by cycling into the east in glorious sunshine in the (47, -121) graticule on the Saturday following May 21st 2012.

2012-05-05 47 -121 -- On the property of a private (yet visitor-friendly) nudist club north of Sultan. But epic fail at using the internet made it pointless to mount an expedition.

2012-01-28 47 -121 -- Just off the ridge poking north from West Tiger Mountain #3 (failure)

2010-07-03 46 -121 -- In the Wenatchee National Forest west of Naches, WA (Virginal success!!) Template:Virgin graticule

2010-06-27 46 -121 -- A remote area on the Yakama reservation east of Mt. Adams (Failure)

OtherJack earned the No trespassing consolation prize

by almost reaching the (46, -121) geohash on 2010-06-27.