2010-09-24 51 1
| Fri 24 Sep 2010 in Canterbury, UK: 51.9829422, 1.0410459 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox |
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Location
1) About a mile east of the village of East Bergholt and just south of the A12. It was in a sheep field.
Participants
Sourcerer - Arrived at about 18:56
MagicIan - Arrived around 21:20 and did not meet Sourcerer.
Expedition
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Sourcerer (Neil) made a 300 mile journey and took in five hashpoints. This was the first. It was a straightforward circular country walk past fields, across a stream and through a wood.
MagicIan drove 46 miles and parked on Cutler's Lane before walking the last half a mile to reach the hashpoint. When he did this he was quite excited as he mistakenly thought he would be reaching a virgin graticule. The walk itself was fairly uneventful. Even though it was pretty dark the moon provided some assistance and he could also use the pylons nearby to aid his navigation once he was off the footpath and onto the field.
Tracklog
Sourcerer's track is logged here at Wikiloc.
MagicIan didn't have a GPS device at the time and instead took photos of the 'view' from the hashpoint - mostly fuzzy outlines of trees in darkness!
Achievements
Neil believes this is the first documented expedition in the Canterbury graticule. It seems odd to claim this by visiting a point in Suffolk.
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Sourcerer earned the Graticule Unlocked Achievement
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Congratulations from MagicIan to Sourcerer on his achievements, even if he was a little bitter about it at the time :-)
Photo Gallery
Sheep Field at Dusk
Sheep Field at Dusk
Google Earth Image
Google Earth Walk Track
Driving down Cutler's Lane
Where MagicIan left his car
The moon was quite bright
Part of the footpath
Sign indicating where to go
A barn in the field on the way there
Looking across the field
One of the pylons used for navigation
Looking SSE from the hashpoint
Looking west from the hashpoint
MagicIan at the hashpoint
Marker left on the fencepost at the edge of the field nearest the hashpoint
Expeditions and Plans
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| Allentown, Pennsylvania | Candida Nashe | Southeast of Kutztown, Pennsylvania |
| Cleveland, Ohio | jSchleappi, Teh Lauren | East Cleveland |
| Portland, Oregon | Michael5000, Jim | Somebody's driveway, in Sellwood. |
| Montréal, Québec | Alana, Danielle, Wesley, David | located next to a building on Avenue Fielding in Montréal. |
| Landshut, Germany | dawidi | In the Danube river south of Sinzing, a few kilometers upstream from Regens... |
| Vancouver, British Columbia | user:thepiguy | In the forest north of Roberts Creek. |
| Nowy Sącz, Poland | Felinator | In small forest in Wieliczka. |
| Erfurt, Germany | Mampfred, Rincewind | Right in the middle of Erfurt next to the University of Applied Science. Pe... |
| London West, United Kingdom | Sourcerer | 3) A few hundred metres west of the village of Buckland. |
| London East, United Kingdom | Sourcerer | 2) A few hundred metres north of the village of Anstey. |
| Canterbury, United Kingdom | Sourcerer, MagicIan | 1) About a mile east of the village of East Bergholt and just south of the ... |
| Northampton, United Kingdom | Sourcerer | 4) Between the goal posts on a mini soccer field in a children's play area.... |
| Cambridge, United Kingdom | Sourcerer | 5) 90 seconds before midnight - a grassy area between two houses east of Bo... |
| Edmonton, Alberta | Phi-loci-raptor, b cereus | Just back from work up north, fighting nightshift-lag, hangovers and racing... |
Sourcerer's Expedition Links
2010-09-20_52_1 - 2010-09-24_51_1 - 2010-09-24_51_0 - KML file download of Sourcerer's expeditions for use with Google Earth.
