2012-01-29 60 16

Sun 29 Jan 2012 in 60,16: 60.0125897, 16.4476091 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox

Location

Between a private road and the lake Storljusen near Sala. Just 20 meters into the woods.

Participants

• Carl-Johan

Plans

Since todays latitude was really low, that meant that Sandviken, Sweden and Falun, Sweden was reachable to fill up my minesweeper achievement. So the plan was to drive like this.

• 2012-01-29 60 16
• 2012-01-29 60 15

Video

A short video of me having fun on the frozen lake just north of the hash: youtube

Expedition

Got up early since I knew I could do this multihash today. Jumped in the car and drove onto the E18 and then the 70 towards Sala. It was a beautiful day with a totally clear sky. Got close to Sala and took the right road. Crossed the rails and headed onto a snowy tiny road. Saw a sign that they were hunting moose today so they might be scared and run out into the road. Got closer and closer to the lake Storljusen and passed a tiny bed and breakfast. Got right to the lake and there was a suprising amount of people and cars there. I headed into the more private road and parked the car 180 m or so from the hash point since there was a nice place to park there.

I headed in the hash's direction, and walked on the road that follow the train tracks. Took a right into the woods on a path and found where I had to go through the trees. Found the hash and took some pictures and marked the spot with my day-glow paint in the snow.

From the hash I could hear cars racing and snow scooters racing as well. Was it coming from the lake? I got back to the car and drove to the lake again and yes, people were driving on it! Fun! I decided to give it a go. I met a car on the ice and I slowed down and out came a man looking at me so I drove closer and rolled down the window. It was the local beaver conservationist! He told me that there was a beaver lodge near the first island, and that was the most popular island to race around, but it scared the beavers, and you might run over them. So he said to drive on the main part of the lake instead. I said, fine with me and took a nice tour of the lake.

Lots of opposite lock when you get the tail out. Lots of fun! View the video above.

Then onto 2012-01-29 60 15.

• -3C, sun, powdered snow -- Carl-Johan @60.0125,16.4476 06:31, 29 January 2012 (EST)

Photos

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  Moose hunt in progress

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  Good place to park

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  In there somewhere

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  DFA1979 @60.0126,16.4476

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  Nice day for a hash @60.0126,16.4476

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  Panorama 1 @60.0126,16.4477

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  Panorama 2 @60.0126,16.4477

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  Marked @59.9995,16.4243

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  The spot

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  Back at the car

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  Can you drive out on the lake?

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  Storljusen boat society, it really is a lake.

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  Seems like you can drive on it.

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  People coming from the ice

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  It is holding

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  Local beaver protector

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  Local snow scooter guys

Achievements

Carl-Johan earned the Land geohash achievement by reaching the (60, 16) geohash on 2012-01-29.

Carl-Johan earned the Frozen Geohash Achievement

by reaching the (60, 16) geohash on 2012-01-29 while the temperature was -3°C.

Carl-Johan earned the Multihash Achievement by reaching 2 hash points on 2012-01-29. It's a Double Hash.

Carl-Johan earned the Police Geohash Achievement by being told by beaver conservationist not to drive near the beavers lodge on the frozen lake while attempting the (60, 16) geohash on 2012-01-29.

Carl-Johan completed the Minesweeper Geohash achievement by visiting coordinates in Västerås, Sweden and all of the surrounding graticules.

Carl-Johan achieved level 7 of the Minesweeper Geohash achievement by visiting coordinates in Uppsala, Sweden and 7 of the surrounding graticules.