2014-04-05 51 9

From Geohashing
Sat 5 Apr 2014 in 51,9:
51.2257061, 9.8014290
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Location

on an abandoned railway track near Laudenbach

Participants

GeorgDerReisende

Plans

I will hitchhike to that place to be there at 16:00 for a xkcd-meetup.

Expedition

2014-04-05 51 9 GeorgDerReisende 7807.jpg I started to hitchhike at Kaufungen-Papierfabrik at 12:30. After one minute a car stopped and I got a lift to Großalmerode. As many times I wanted to explain my quest to the driver. But soon as I used the word geohashing, the driver said he know about the game. As always I understood that the driver is thinking about geocashing and I wanted to correct him. But he stayed at his statement, that he knows about geohashing. And he told me, that he has a friend in Hamburg, who does sometimes geohashing. Then he told me, that his sons do geocashing and I understood, that he knew the difference. This driver brought me to Epterode to the former railway station, where I arrived and started to walk at 12:53.
2014-04-05 51 9 GeorgDerReisende 7823.jpg Then I walked through Epterode. The road itself was signed as a county road, but at the end of the village the county road ended too.
2014-04-05 51 9 GeorgDerReisende 7845.jpg 2014-04-05 51 9 GeorgDerReisende 7850.jpg Behind the hill I had a first look to Laudenbach. As I passed Laudenbach I had a first look to the railway (here on the bridge).
2014-04-05 51 9 GeorgDerReisende 7872.jpg Then I walked along the track and at least I was able to reach the hash by five meters.
Look around:
2014-04-05 51 9 GeorgDerReisende 7874.jpg to the north 2014-04-05 51 9 GeorgDerReisende 7873.jpg to the east 2014-04-05 51 9 GeorgDerReisende 7875.jpg to the south
2014-04-05 51 9 GeorgDerReisende 7877.jpg 2014-04-05 51 9 GeorgDerReisende 7880.jpg But then I tried to go nearer to the hash, to go into the cut. And 40 meters away I found a small path crossing the railway track and from there I could walk along the track to the hash.
2014-04-05 51 9 GeorgDerReisende 7883.jpg proof!
2014-04-05 51 9 GeorgDerReisende 7884.jpg 2014-04-05 51 9 GeorgDerReisende 7885.jpg view to the east and to the south along the track
2014-04-05 51 9 GeorgDerReisende 7890.jpg A grinning geohasher. Behind my left shoulder you see the hashmark.
2014-04-05 51 9 GeorgDerReisende 7895.jpg Then I waited until 16:00 for some friends, but nobody arrived. Then I walked a bit around and here is another view of the hash.


Achievements

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GeorgDerReisende earned the xkcd Decurion achievement
by attending 11 Saturday meetups.
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GeorgDerReisende earned the Thumbs Up Geohash Achievement
by hitchhiking to the (51, 9) geohash on 2014-04-05, and withstanding the Vogon poetry of the driver.