2013-04-21 47 -117

From Geohashing
Sun 21 Apr 2013 in Spokane:
47.6455865, -117.3601992
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Location

On the grounds of the Bethel Church of the Nazarene, East Spokane

Participants

Plans

Leaving town in the morning - might shoot for a Sunday after-midnight visit.

Expedition

Coordinates revealed on Friday, and I had a trip past this spot on a way to a buddies to play board games. I snapped a few photos, allowing geohashdroid to do the work. For this whole trip, the only internet I've had is through an old smart phone - hardly a good tool for editing a wiki.

Jiml helpfully decided this was a retro-hash. Pre-retro? I'm sure it doesn't qualify for Deja-vu, what with knowing the coordinates and everything. Anyhow, I tried to edit those tags out remotely, probably to little avail. I only hoped I could talk someone into showing up.

Late Saturday I tucked everyone into bed and took the dog out for a walk. At this point, it was 11 pm, so I decided a midnight visit would be more amenable to getting out of town and back to a Seattle geohash than a morning visit. I returned to the spot and nabbed a bit of sidewalk chalk and reached the coordinates easily.

I chalked a few spots (sidewalk, window sill, and the wall column closest to the coordinates). The late night geohashdroid chosen location was quite a few feet from the original and didn't match the satellite image either, so I visited both and uploaded a message from one and a picture from the other. My old and getting older smartphone has no flash, but I believe you can make out the chalking if you expand the image.

Success achieved, I returned to the motel for shuteye and and sleep, in preparation for my second hash attempt of the day.

Photos

Achievements

Holyhash.png
Thomcat earned the Holy hash achievement
by reaching the sacred (47, -117) location on 2013-04-21.
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Thomcat earned the Midnight Geohash achievement
by reaching the (47, -117) geohash on 2013-04-21 in the middle of the night.
2013-04-21 47 -117 Geohasher.jpg
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Thomcat earned the Multihash Achievement
by reaching the 2013-04-21 47 -117 and 2013-04-21 47 -122 geohashes on 2013-04-21.
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