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space:nearby:highpoints [2026/01/01 19:25] – ↷ Page moved from space:highpoints to space:nearby:highpoints sirocylspace:nearby:highpoints [2026/01/12 03:01] (current) – sirocyl
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-# Highpoints in the area+# Highpoints in the Area
  
 List here some places with stellar views. List here some places with stellar views.
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 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. 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|building's roof]] is disqualified, as we presently have no access to, and no permission to access, the roof of our building. (Bummer.)+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.) 
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 +## 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) 
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 +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.