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+# Highpoints in the Area
+List here some places with stellar views.
+We're investigating locations where we can mount radio, wireless, free-space optical and other network equipment at a high-point - a rooftop, hilltop, treetops or other structures with legal and negotiable access.
+Our [[:space:building#roof_area|building's roof]] is disqualified, as we presently have no access to, and no permission to access, the roof of our building. (Bummer.)
+## SODO
+### Beacon Hill Bluffs
+**Corner of Beacon Av S & 11th Ave S**
+![View of SODO from the bluff](/:space:nearby:sodo-beacon-11th-view.jpg)
+![View of Seattle's skyline from the street](/:space:nearby:sodo-beacon-11th-av-skyline.jpg)
+There is a trailhead entrance that goes in two directions down this bluff, one gently alongside it, and one more steeply down it.
+#### Potential benefits
+- Excellent view of the SODO area, I-90, I-5 going south out of Seattle.
+- Good view of downtown Seattle high-rises, in the event a repeater is reachable.
+- Very close to Re-PC, which often has folks with mesh radio hardware in their cars visiting.
+- Looks like it's not on private property.
+- Thick evergreen vegetation makes it easier to hide a small device and solar power harvesting nearby, especially if disguised.
+- Nearby encampment downhill of it likely has an interest in cheap radio.
+#### Potential risks
+- Landslide
+  - It's upon a bluffside that looks like it may have encountered slides in the past (which may have taken out 11th Avenue, hence the barricades).
+- Weather
+  - Being on a bluffside, high wind and steep geography could bring down the tree or tower we mount such hardware onto.