Portland, Oregon

Astoria	Mt. St. Helens, Washington	Mt. Rainier, Washington
McMinnville	Portland	The Dalles
Eugene	Springfield	Bend
Today's location: not yet announced

Today's battleship location is:  not yet announced

The Portland metro area graticule is at 45 N, 122 W. It completely encloses the city of Portland and some surrounding areas. The graticule is almost entirely land, much of it open and undeveloped, making this one of the best areas for geohashing.

For other places called Portland, go here.

Cities in this Graticule

• Portland, OR
• Vancouver, WA

Meetup time

It was proposed, and no objections were raised, so the official meetup time for our graticule(s) is now 2PM from Oct 1 to March 15, and 4PM for the rest of the year. I'd say this applies to neighboring graticules as well.

Planning and Coordination

• See the discussion page for plans

Many of the folks in the Portland, Oregon graticule hop over to the McMinnville, Oregon graticule for hashpoints there. The planning was happening here on the Portland page, but now with the User:AperfectBot picking up Category:Expedition planning pages, it makes sense to move the planning to the expedition page itself once someone is committed to going.

View of the west hills of Portland, Oregon

Recent Plans without reports

Where'd the rest of the dates go? See the Archives page.

Mailing List

There is now a mailing list for Portland Geohashing.

Participants

Active participants with documented activity in 2009 are in bold.

• 3riador lives at Reed College, is fairly mobile, and loves playing with GPS.
• Admalledd
• Alexp
• aperfectring has moved here.
• doiuf Located in Vancouver, WA.
• Drache
• Elegant Forkbomb lives in Portland
• Estel lives in NE Portland and is re-learning orienteering.
• grishnav Moved to Seattle.
• Jessica
• Jiml lives south of Hillsboro, and has a GPS unit. He's been on a number of expeditions, some succesful.
• James
• Kpeace Live in Portland. Participated in first geohash on 6/28/08; I don't have a car so I'm at the mercy of my car-owning friends for distant hashes.
• Maggie lives in Portland.
• Maravi lives in Lake Oswego.
• michael5000
• Tim Ferrell I'm based in Salem.
• Mrs.5000
• nesbiteg lives in West Linn and prefers to bicycle geohash.
• NoTerminal
• thefinn93 lives in Portland.
• Timmothy Tee
• Wil
• zem

Recent Expeditions

These lists are maintained automatically by User:AperfectBot, and each will include the last 10 non-retro expeditions.

Manual lists, which were actively maintained by the users before the bot, are available on the archives page.

Full archived lists:

• Portland, Oregon/Expeditions
• McMinnville, Oregon/Expeditions

Portland, Oregon

2013-05-17

Jim — On a sidewalk in front of a Beaverton home close to Hwy 26 — Succeeded

2013-04-27

Jim — In a grove of trees in a public park in Beaverton! — Succeeded

2013-04-23

Jim — Orchard near a school in Scholls — Thwarted — No public access

2013-04-18

Jim — Farmland south of Scotch Church Road — Thwarted — No public access

2013-04-01

Jim — South of Portland - Fairly close to work — Succeeded

2013-03-29

Jim — Private property south of Beaverton — Thwarted — No public access

2013-02-27

Jiml — Farm Land north of Hwy 26 near Hillsboro — Thwarted —

2013-02-19

Jim — On farmland south of Hillsboro — Thwarted — No public access

2013-01-15

Jim — A roadway near Cornelius Pass Road — Succeeded

2013-01-12

Jim — Farmland south of Hillsboro — Thwarted — No public access

McMinnville, Oregon

2013-05-13

Michael5000 — On Zion Church Road northwest of Hillsboro. — Succeeded

2013-04-12

Jim — Farmland south of St Paul, Oregon — Thwarted — No public access

2013-04-07

Jim — A backyard in Forest Grove near Hwy 47 About 100 feet from this very recent hashpoint (Mar 27!)... — Thwarted — No public access

2013-03-30

Jim — Ag Land near Newberg — Thwarted — Technology

2013-03-28

Jiml — Just off Hwy 26 West of North Plains — Thwarted — No public access

2013-03-27

Jiml — In an open field near Banks off Hwy 47 — Succeeded

2013-03-26

Jiml — Ag land south of Hillsboro — Thwarted —

2013-03-22

Jim — Farmland on Hwy 8 between Hillsboro and Cornelius — Thwarted — No public access

2013-01-13

Jim — Farm land south of Hillsboro — Thwarted — No public access

2012-12-29

Jim — In a vineyard south of Hillsboro — Thwarted — No public access

Activity Statistics

	Overall	2008	2009	2010
Expeditions	53 (7th)	10	24 (12th)	30 (2nd)
Coordinates Reached	31 (14th)	6	13	16 (4th)
No Public Access	16	2	10	4+
Mother Nature	4	1	1	2+
Did Not Attempt	1	1	0	0
Technology	1	0	0	1+

Sources:

• Dawidi's list
• Most Active Graticules
• Category:Meetup in 45 -122

Obtained July 15, 2010

Graticule History

2008

This graticule has a long (for geohashing) and storied history. It all began with the world's first ever geohashing expedition in February of 2008 during beta testing. After the algorithm was announced, Portland maintained some modest activity, with plans or expeditions happening once a week or so into August.

2009

Unfortunately, though, this graticule, which is wonderful for geohashing, was then inactive until January of 2009, when activity started trickling back in. The most active geohasher in the area, Jim, started at this time with his first expedition on 2009-01-19. Activity continued to increase over the warm and generally pleasant summer months. APR, one of the area's more active geohashers, was relocated here (from Florida) in September 2009, though he had visited (and geohashed) here earlier in 2009. Activity briefly took a dip in September, but returned to more normal levels in October and November, the same timeframe that Michael 5000, another fairly active geohasher in the area, discovered geohashing. Since then, the community has been fairly active, ranking 4th in November 2009, and tied for 2nd in December 2009 for expeditions.

2010

The beginning of the year continued pretty much like the end of the previous one, with Portland being 4th for expeditions in January. February and March maintained the activity for the area, but there was more graticule hopping, causing Portland to drop for number of expeditions. However, in April, activity exploded in the area. Portland had 9 expeditions, the most in its history in a single month, and McMinnville tied its previous record of 4 expeditions.

Archives

Detailed archives are now located here!

2012
Jan	February	March	April	May	June	July	August	September	October	November	December
01-2 01-7 01-15* 01-19 01-21 01-28 01-31*	02-5 02-6 02-18 02-20 02-23 02-28	03-3 03-5 03-11 03-12 03-22 03-25 03-31	04-02 4-4 4-6	May		Jul		Sep		Nov	Dec

2011
Jan	February	March	April	May	June	July	August	September	October	November	December
01-2* 01-8* 01-9 01-10	02-4 02-26	03-2* 03-9 03-12 03-18 03-23 03-24* 03-31	04-1 04-21	05-3 05-7 05-21 05-22 05-23 05-29	06-17 06-18 06-20* 06-26	07-4 07-8 07-23 07-24* 07-27	08-3 08-4 08-14 08-18 08-20 08-25 08-26	09-10 09-11 09-14 09-25 09-26	10-01 10-09 10-15* 10-16	11-4	12-7

2010 Jan February March April May June July August September October November December 01-02 01-09 01-11 01-30* 01-31 02-04 02-06 02-11* 02-13* 02-15* 02-27 03-02 03-08 03-14* 03-19* 03-28* 04-01 04-03* 04-04 04-11 04-13 04-15* 04-18* 04-20 04-21 04-24 04-25* 04-25 04-28 04-30* 05-05 05-06* 05-11* 05-22 05-23 05-30 06-05* 06-05 06-05* 06-15* 06-16 06-18* 06-23 06-23* 06-27 07-04* 07-05 07-09* 07-10 07-17 07-18 07-25 07-27 07-30 07-31* 08-05 08-17 08-28* 09-04* 09-14 09-19 09-24 10-09 10-10 10-11* 10-15 10-16 10-16* 10-17 10-20 10-31 11-03* 11-06* 11-11 11-20 11-25* 11-26* 11-29 12-01 12-05 12-06 12-07 12-08 12-12 12-13* 12-18 12-13* 12-20* 12-29 12-30* 12-30 12-31 2009 Jan February March April May June July August September October November December 01-17 01-19 03-04 04-04 05-16 05-19 05-23* 05-28* 06-04 06-05* 06-07 06-08* 06-10 06-21* 07-05* 07-08* 07-10* 07-11* 07-13 07-19* 07-29* 08-09* 08-10* 08-24 08-28 08-29 08-31 09-29* 10-09 10-10* 10-18 11-01* 11-07* 11-08 11-11* 11-13 11-28 11-29 12-03 12-04 12-06 12-10* 12-21 12-23 2008 January February March April May June July August September October November December 02-17 02-19 05-24 05-26 05-31 06-02 06-07 06-21 06-28 07-05 07-12 07-19 07-26 08-02 08-16

* = Graticule Hopping (usually to McMinnville, Oregon Graticule)

Awards

Activity

Monthly

This graticule (45 -122) earned the Mostly Active Graticule achievement for the month of 2010-04 in the category total expeditions by being the location of 9 expeditions.

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.

This graticule (45 -122) earned the Mostly Active Graticule achievement for the month of 2010-07 in the category total expeditions by being the location of 8 expeditions.

This graticule (45 -122) earned the Most Active Graticule achievement for the month of 2010-10 in the category total expeditions by being the location of 10 expeditions.

This graticule (45 -122) earned the Most Active Graticule achievement for the month of 2010-12 in the category total expeditions by being the location of 10 expeditions.

This graticule (45 -122) earned the Mostly Active Graticule achievement for the month of 2011-02 in the category total expeditions by being the location of 6 expeditions.

This graticule (45 -122) earned the Mostly Active Graticule achievement for the month of 2011-05 in the category total expeditions by being the location of 8 expeditions.

This graticule (45 -122) earned the Mostly Active Graticule achievement for the month of 2011-06 in the category total expeditions by being the location of 3 expeditions.

This graticule (45 -122) earned the Mostly Active Graticule achievement for the month of 2011-09 in the category total expeditions by being the location of 8 expeditions.

This graticule (45 -122) earned the Mostly Active Graticule achievement for the month of 2012-01 in the category total expeditions by being the location of 6 expeditions.

This graticule (45 -122) earned the Mostly Active Graticule achievement for the month of 2012-04 in the category total expeditions by being the location of 8 expeditions.

This graticule (45 -122) earned the Mostly Active Graticule achievement for the month of 2012-07 in the category total expeditions by being the location of 8 expeditions.

Yearly

This graticule (45 -122) earned the Most Active Graticule achievement for the year 2010 in the category total expeditions by being the location of 64 expeditions.

This graticule (45 -122) earned the Most Active Graticule achievement for the year 2012 in the category total expeditions by being the location of 60 expeditions.

Coordinates Reached

Monthly

This graticule (45 -122) earned the Mostly Active Graticule achievement for the month of 2010-12 in the category coordinates reached by being the location of 8 successful expeditions.

This graticule (45 -122) earned the Mostly Active Graticule achievement for the month of 2012-01 in the category coordinates reached by being the location of 6 successful expeditions.