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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

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.