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Revision as of 22:54, 16 September 2008
58 / m / 47,-122Thom is an umpire and a programmer, devoted husband and father of two, bicycling Seattle resident and beer drinker. He plays war games and role playing games, both face to face and through email. If he's not doing any of those things on a given weekend, you might find him travelling the North American continent or reading a book.
My GPS is the trusty Garmin iQue 3600 (with Palm OS 5.2.1!) and yes, that's a little hula Lilo on the dashboard of my 2001 Focus Wagon. My plan is to try to visit hashes between 3 and 5, and I nearly always have a game or two with me. If I can only get close, I use Chris Michels page to tell me just how close.
Contents
Known Geohashers
Geohashers I've met face to face. If I've got you wrong, please correct!
Marcy, SparroHawc, Nukewaste, Jack, Sparkamusprime, SalusaSecondus, Leoger, AaronStJ, Girlstyle, Christian, Mike, Andrew, HarlequinsDad, Harlequin, and Wnvoss.
Geohashers whose meeting with me contained a mis-matched time coordinate
Denouement, Stalefries, Robyn, Wade and Litho.
Geohashes
overall stats: 28 attempted, 20 successful, 6 graticules visited, 4 Saturday 4:00 meetups, 3 Thursday alternate meetups.
2008-09-04 47 -122 Thick forested property near Lord Hill.
2008-09-01 47 -122 A neighborhood park in near Sahallee.
2008-08-30 47 -122 Alternate: PAX expo meetup.- 2008-08-29 47 -122 A not-quite-vertical drop from the North Meadow.
- 2008-08-28 47 -122 Alternate: Hot Fuzz on the Pedestal.
- 2008-08-27 48 -122 Smith Island in Steamboat Slough near Everett.
- 2008-08-20 47 -122 East of Everett, Near the NE corner of my graticule.
- 2008-08-13 47 -122 South of Tacoma in a greenspace.
- 2008-08-09 47 -119 Just off I-90 near Moses Lake.
- 2008-08-09 46 -119 Near hills named The Butte and Jump Off Joe.
- 2008-08-08 47 -121 Farmer's field near Carnation.
- 2008-08-07 47 -122 Alternate: First Thursday in August meetup.
- 2008-07-30 47 -122 Late night speed racer achievement.
- 2008-07-26 47 -122 Saturday meetup in the park, hashpoint nearby up a hill.
- 2008-07-25 47 -122 Nobody home; geohash in the backyard.
- 2008-07-24 47 -122 Failed to cross a river or slough to this isolated point.
- 2008-07-19 48 -121 No Trespassing in North Cascades.
- 2008-07-17 47 -122 Easiest geohash thus far, right on the path of a public greenspace in Silver Lake.
- 2008-07-09 47 -122 A pleasant greenspace near Pine Lake.
- 2008-07-03 47 -122 Alternate: First Thursday in July meetup.
- 2008-06-30 47 -122 Private property, near a pool, in the Brier neighborhood of North Seattle.
- 2008-06-28 47 -122 Between Ballard and Fremont, a block south of the visible Hales Pub.
- 2008-06-27 47 -122 Medina South Park (no, I didn't see Cartman).
- 2008-06-24 47 -121 Up a 'no-vehicle' horse trail and within some brambles.
- 2008-06-20 47 -122 Mill Creek residential neighborhood, and a sunny day (somewhat unusual for Seattle).
- 2008-06-19 47 -121 Second Snoqualmie attempt in a week, this one is just off Highway 2 near Gold Bar.
- 2008-06-15 47 -121 Just off I-90 at 436th street; was unfortunately on private (and inaccessible) property.
- 2008-06-13 47 -122 A driveway in south Bellevue (or Factoria), just off I-90.
- 2008-06-12 47 -122 Just blocks from Cosmo's Deli, where the kids and I had lunch. Got as close as I could without a machete!
- 2008-06-07 47 -122 Located in the back yard of a private property, but the accommodating owner agreed to allow a picnic.
- 2008-05-29 47 -122 A rural road near Cedar Mountain; a gravel truck was just dumping a new road surface while I was there.
- 2008-05-23 47 -117 A farmer's field near Tyler in the Spokane graticule
Achievements
Here's my achievements; or perhaps you'd like to see the ribbons?
- Land Geohash pretty much by default.
- First Geohasher seems to have gained a definition of "first to arrive", which I did for my first Saturday meetup.
- I've brought my kids or friends to multiple hashes now, which qualifies me for Drag-along.
- Mother Nature stopped me with brambles on 2008-06-12 47 -122.
- Mother Nature couldn't beat me on 2008-06-24 47 -121 though - take that!
- My tux still fits, although the coat is a little tight.
- Bicycle Geohash, Pub Geohash and Phonebooth Stuffing Geohash were all gained on 2008-06-28 47 -122
- I didn't play Twister on 2008-06-07 47 -122, although I did take photos - publishing same to the achievement page.
- Ambassador on that same occasion - we asked for and obtained permission to reach the geohash in the back yard.
- Thanks to Tjtrumpet2323, I feel old as well.
- Daniel and I cleaned up the trash on 2008-07-26 47 -122.
- Solo Speed Racer on 2008-07-30 47 -122.
- 200 and then 286 miles for a pair of Saturday meetups qualifies me for XKCD-100 and Multihash. I also traveled 300 miles for my very first geohash.
- I claim Virgin Graticule for the first expedition in the Spokane, Snoqualmie, Moses Lake, and Tri Cities graticules.
I was the first to publish photos in five graticules - Spokane, Seattle, Snoqualmie, Moses Lake, and Tri Cities. Just need a catchy name. Photo-Virgin? Virgin with a Canon? Hmmm...
There isn't yet a multi-graticule award, although I am lagging behind Robyn in a serious way.
Getting multiple hashes in a row in this graticule is difficult - lots of water and islands.
Wiki
Planned changes in italics
- merged the Active and Inactive graticules to become the page All Graticules
- set Active or Inactive on all graticules linked from that page.
- removed state and province abbreviations on North American graticules.
- helped set up and edit the United States category (and others) for North America
- cleaned up double redirects; pruned several unused redirects; general cleanup
- added to templates and ribbons
- search for expedition pages lacking Category:Expeditions and add same, or Category:Expedition Planning for expeditions not attempted.
- If you actually attempted an expedition, please log your story and change the category!
- read every expedition page(!) and add a category for success or failure, along with failure type.
- If I get this wrong on your expedition page, please change it!
- dig through user pages to find expeditions and create pages for them.
- through inspection of Category:Expeditions, determine first geohash in each graticule.
- using Category:Expeditions data, automatically track expeditions, graticules with the most expeditions, etc.
Washington
A map of all Washington Graticules and First geohashers. Actual graticule is linked behind the Washington place name if different.
Another map, currently in testing. Mouse over link to show location.
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Desired Locations
Origin
- 47.319607°, -116.700839° in the Coeur d'Alene, Idaho graticule.
Scotland
- 55.45807°, -2.682467° in the Northumberland, United Kingdom graticule.
