2014-04-20 50 11

Location

On a meadow near Heilingen.

Participants

Juja

Expedition

Today was Easter Sunday and the weather was fine, so we mounted our bikes after breakfast and went to visit the Ninja's family. After we had lunch, a little nap in the sun and some cake we were eager to cycle some more - and at least I was eager to visit today's Geohash, because although it was not so far from my home I have never been in that valley and always wanted to explore those hills.

So I went alone and directly over every hill that could be found - not the shortest possible route, but quite possibly the most beautiful. The only drawback was the weather, because when we started in the morning everything looked so fine that I took no rainclothes with me, but while I was cycling to the Geohash I noticed lots of menacing clouds around me, and I was just lucky that the huge grey ones were never directly above my head until I reached the point.

But the last bit of way to the point (coming from Dienstädt) was not so easy to find, I gave Garmin routing on OSM another chance but it soon drove me nuts. After I had reached the top of the last hill I just ignored the routing and went on on whatever was faintly reminiscent of a path - the worst path was the one leading to the point which was a dotted line on my GPS but really nonexistent in reality. But the clouds got darker, so I didn't care, cycled over the meadow, hurriedly took a proof photo (didn't have the nerve for 0m-dances) and rushed on down the valley, away from the rain that just started.

I was almost successful and managed to stay dry for a bit longer, but at Jägersdorf the rain finally started and though I hurried all the way back home to Jena I was a complete drowned rat when I arrived there.