2016-03-28 49 8

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Mon 28 Mar 2016 in 49,8:
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Location

A field near Stockstadt am Rhein.

Participants

Plans

DODO: Take the train to Worms and walk to the hash. It's almost 28 KM to the hash and I can start in Worms around 10:30, so I think, I'll arrive some minutes after hash o'clock.

Q-Owla and Q-Owl did not have a look at this page (sorry!) and planned to drive to Stockstadt after lunch.

Expedition

Q-Owla and Q-Owl: We drove near Stockstadt and reached the hp at 14:00 h. Cold and very windy here! It was not in the fenced sheep-run, but south of it. :-)
Later we found about 10 geocaches in and around Stockstadt and Erfelden. And we found a wood full of abloom Scilla near Erfelden. :-))

DODO:

Number one of this years hash tour. It is continued here.

2016-03-28 49 8-2.jpg 2016-03-28 49 8-3.jpg 2016-03-28 49 8-4.jpg
2016-03-28 49 8-5.jpg 2016-03-28 49 8-6.jpg I had certain difficulties with the trains. First I had to take a bus in Speyer instead of a train due to construction works on the rails. I had to change to the train in Schifferstadt. Then I left the train at Ludwigshafen main station, but the train I wanted to catch only stopped at Ludwigshafen city center. I hurried to get the next train to Mannheim main station to get an earlier train, but just got the one, that also stopped in Ludwigshafen main station. But finally I reached Worms at 10:37, just 15 minutes later than expected.
I left the station at the "backdoor" (as you can see on the picture) and walked out of the town. Soon I reached some rails and followed them for a while but sometimes the way runs through some kind of forest and I found my first violets for this year 2016-03-28 49 8-8.jpg 2016-03-28 49 8-7.jpg
2016-03-28 49 8-9.jpg After an hour I reached the rhine river and followed it for a while (well almost three hours). The paths lead me through typical alluvial forests. 2016-03-28 49 8-13.jpg
2016-03-28 49 8-10.jpg 2016-03-28 49 8-15.jpg I made my first break at this sign to read about the old ferry that was at this place since the 12. century. Later I saw the former nuclear power plant of Biblis on the other side of the river.
2016-03-28 49 8-12.jpg 2016-03-28 49 8-11.jpg Rheindürkheim was the only village I saw on my way on the left side of the river. And it was very windy.
2016-03-28 49 8-14.jpg If the hash would have been here, Andres Gorz would have gained a coffin achievement (although I don't think he's really buried here, thats not legal in germany, and anyway not wise, to burry someone so close to a river. He might come back to soon). It was almost 2 pm when I reached the ferry to Gernsheim. Mind the industrial area on the other side. I'll have to cross it soon. 2016-03-28 49 8-16.jpg
Sometimes the way feels like in prison, but when I came near the hash, the landscape was rural again, and close to the hash was this former mill. 2016-03-28 49 8-17.jpg 2016-03-28 49 8-18.jpg
2016-03-28 49 8-1.png 2016-03-28 49 8-19.jpg 2016-03-28 49 8-20.jpg
2016-03-28 49 8-21.jpg 2016-03-28 49 8-22.jpg proof and view to the four directions: the sheep, the town, the mill and the Odenwald
2016-03-28 49 8-23.jpg Oh, and to the hasher of course. After half an hour break and another hour of walking backwards, I was very happy to reach the Hotel in Biebesheim. Here I found that the Q-Owls had been at the hash just before me. Darn, we missed once again. 2016-03-28 49 8-24.jpg

Tracklog

Photos

Q-Owla and Q-Owl

Achievements

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DODO, Q-Owla, Q-Owl earned the Land geohash achievement
by reaching the (49, 8) geohash on 2016-03-28.
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DODO, Q-Owla, Q-Owl earned the Avoid Each Other Achievement
by launching two independent expeditions without meeting up at the (49, 8) geohash on 2016-03-28.


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DODO earned the Consecutive geohash achievement
by reaching 2 consecutive hash points starting on 2016-03-28.
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DODO earned the OpenStreetMap achievement
by contributing to OpenStreetMap based on their expedition to the (49, 8) geohash on 2016-03-28.


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Expeditions and Plans

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