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Location
The geohash is in a forest near Markt Rettenbach, somewhere near Memmingen.
Who Went
TheOneRing - by car.
The Expedition
FOUR. IN. A. ROW.
Like the previous years, I wanted to celebrate my birthday in a quite specific way: to go geohashing. But first there were choices to make: the geohash in which graticule looks most promising and how to get there. Last years, the decisions were quite similar (graticules 46,9, 51,12, and 47,8). Consequently, I visited four different graticules on four different birthdays.
I decided in favour of Kempten-graticule, because the geohash looked good and I haven't been geohashing there yet.
I took a day off to be more independent and not to rely on finishing work extra early. I started quarter past nine and went by car to Markt Rettenbach. The term "Markt" represents a market town in Bavaria, Austria, and South Tyrol, and simply says that this town had municipal character, but did not have the size of a city nor a city wall. It is a step between a village and a city.
I arrived around quarter to eleven and parked at a cemetary. I didn't know the town and possible parking lots so this was safest way to park. From the car it was about 2.1km as the bird flies and I started to walk.
It must be uncommon nowadays to see someone walking because after a while a car stopped beside me and the driver asked me, if he should bring me somewhere. I was puzzled and said "No, but thank you" and went on.
With 700m to go, I could see part of the forest where the geohash was, and here the fun part started: in contradiction to last time I was clever and brought some plastic bags to cover my shoes. From the map I selected a forest road which I spotted quickly. After a while the forest track led to a meadow and I decided to cover my shoes. I crossed the meadow but had to stop abruptly when I came to a rivulet. Unfortunately, it was too broad to jump over and I was too sissy to go through. So, I looked for a narrower part and walked alongside, still in direction of the geohash.
With only 130m to the geohash I was getting more and more desperate because I didn't want to have a failure - not today -, when I saw a small footbridge. I guess children are playing in the forest and either they or their parents build it. Of course I took the opportunity, crossed the rivulet and continued my way through another part of the forest.
Without further challenges I reached the geohash and took the usual photographs. The place was not very special, trees all around. Through my way back through Markt Rettenbach, I was looking for a restaurant to have lunch, but I wasn't very taken with the menu of the only one I found.
Consequently, I went back to my car and there I had a small picnic with a boiled egg. Later that day back at home, there was also some cake as it should be and even later there was mulled wine on a Christmas market in Munich.
Just three words: Fantastic. Absolut fantastic.
Photos
The hasher
Standing on the geohash with shoe protection on
Coordinates reached
Some more information
The footbridge
Me on the footbridge over the rivulet
Panoramic view over the geohash
Achievements
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TheOneRing earned the Land geohash achievement
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TheOneRing earned the Birthday Geohash Achievement
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TheOneRing achieved level 4 of the Minesweeper Geohash achievement
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TheOneRing achieved level 5 of the Minesweeper Geohash achievement
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TheOneRing achieved level 4 of the Minesweeper Geohash achievement
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TheOneRing achieved level 4 of the Minesweeper Geohash achievement
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TheOneRing achieved level 4 of the Minesweeper Geohash achievement
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