2011-01-27 49 8

Location

On the hills overlooking smalltown Hemsbach in the Odenwald area. Right in the woods, and as I just realized, not in southern Hassia anymore, but Baden-Wuerttemberg.

Participants

Rincewind

Plans

"Initialize" my own native graticule, finally. Preferably by daylight... Due to my job and winter daylight times, that doesn't work out too often, but I have the day off.

Document the expedition within less than six months to astonish Mampfred. That worked out, too, it seems. Well, the documenting part, at least.

Expedition

I went on the autobahn just to realize I actually should have fueled up the car. Since I just knew it was a rather small town, I wasn't too sure about them having a petrol station... Not a problem, though. I went up to the forested hill until the road ended and switched to walking and gravel paths. Since taking a longer way seemed to be less walking through the forest itself, I just enjoyed the nice weather. Somewhere along the way, I unexpectedly found a vineyard just 10m off the "road" and just next to the forest.

I was a bit confused when the next crossroads had four paths opposed to two on the map, yet one was a fresh forest aisle for pulling out tree trunks and happened to be almost exactly the direction of the hash point. So I gratefully followed it until about 100m to the hash point, and stumbled thriugh the forest from then on. Funny enough, when I came over the hill 15m from the hashpoint, there was a forest road just below the hash...

At 5m to the hash point things got a bit annoying, again. The trees seemed to confuse the nav system a bit, 8m accuracy, then 5... it pointed me to this or that direction, 2m to go... without switching after two, three, four meters... At some point, I had 0m, but faster than I could press the screenshot button, it was 1m... Then it directed me down the steep hill 8m, exactly onto the road. Okay... when I had four meters to go, I tried to have a finger on the button and tried not falling, while pressing screenshot at the right moment- didn't quite succeed.

In not falling, I did, but I had to really run down fast, because it was steep and "0m" just popped up very shortly, only to show 4m UP the hill again, when I was standing safely on gravel... I'd say, I was definitely there or close enough to being there to call this a successful hash. :)

Took that road back to aforementioned crossroads and back to the car without further delay. By the way, the temperature was showing above 0°C all the time, yet the leafs and grass in the wood where still solidly crunching all the time I was stepping on them- at least quite close to a frozen hash, too. ;)

Photos

The accuracy isn't that bad- what's the matter?
Close enough, I'd say.
The scenery enroute
An unexpected branch of economy. Shot with wrong camera program. :(
An expected branch of economy.
Crossroads of confusion. The forest aisle taken is between the two barriers, straight ahead.
Cliffs of despair. The camera is crap, but as you can see, I'm looking almost vertically onto that road...
Stupid grin. I excel at "stupid", again.