2015-06-28 42 -88

Location

Near a pond in the Crabtree Nature Preserve.

Participants

Plans

I was planning to walk to the hashpoint from the Crabtree Nature Center about 1.5 kilometers north of the target.

Expedition

After being in the US for about 8 months I finally had the time and opportunity to attempt to reach a hashpoint far away from home. I however had no mobile internet access and only a rough idea of how the area might look like, as I've never been here before. But I just had to try on this special tau day.

The general area looked very nice, but the rain of the last few days had left it's mark and most of the really tall grass was still very wet, and I was wondering if the ponds might have grown to encompass the target location. However, there was a much bigger problem at hand, which I discovered at a distance of about 200 m: A no trespassing sign for nature preservation. I had a quick look around if there was any possibility to get around to the hash from another direction without disturbing the wildlife but had no luck. I managed to get within about 180 m while staying on the allowed path though.

I then resorted to hiking back to the nature center to have a look at the nice landscape and maybe some animals, but I didn't even need to travel that far as I was "greeted" by a fawn running away from a distance of only a few feet, numerous butterflies and a Great Egret on my way back there. There were also a bazillion of blood-sucking small flies which kept buzzing around my head and biting me almost everywhere.

Back at the Naturecenter I had some really nice opportunities for pictures and just as I was about to leave, a huge bird just walked right in front of me on the parking lot. In general I'm really happy with the expedition and not really bothered to not reach the point as It would have been really wet and messy anyhow, but I could live without all those mosquito bites...