2015-09-04 39 -75

Fri 4 Sep 2015 in 39,-75: 39.7590338, -75.1563877 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox

Location

A very littered patch of woods next to the local fence contractor in Sewell, New Jersey.

Participants

• Subotai45
• My friend without an account.

Plans

None. There were about five minutes between the time I told my friend that I was on the geohashing wiki and that it was in Sewell and the time I was in the car on the way there.

Expedition

On September 4th, 2015, a friend and I (Subotai45) visited the hash for the southern Philadelphia gracticule. It was our first time geohashing (and predictably, my first time writing one of these, so forgive me for all the errors), but a perfect set of events lined up - we had summer work we really didn't want to do and the point was maybe four minutes from my house, six from his.

I told him about geohashing, and that the point was in my town! He immediately suggested we go, so I drove over, picked him up, and parked in the nearby fence contracting place. I told him that if anyone were to ask, we were "geocaching" - because people generally understand that version, and it's close enough for our purposes. Luckily, the lady had a son who geocached and generally got it - although she probably was concerned when a couple of guys started walking down the road, then disappeared down a very, very steep hill into an extremely littered patch of forest.

But we found a golf ball alongside the dozens of glass bottles, so it was all worth it. But I learned that I should bring a trash bag next time.