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| Sun 16 Dec 2018 in 54,13: 54.0869795, 13.3637391 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox |
Location
Bettina-von-Arnim Straße 15, Greifswald.
Participants
Plans
To go there in the afternoon by bike. I will be finding a few caches (trying it, at least), and see if there are possibilities in going close to today's hash.
Chronicle of a Death-Expedition Foretold
This expedition did not start well and it was of foreshadowing what the rest of the expedition would be. I did not even take my GPS with me so there is no tracklog today.
It all started when the coordinates came out. At first glance, hey, that could be an easy hash, it is close from home. But when I took a closer look on google maps, it looked like it had fallen in the garden of a private house. That is not very encouraging. What made me try it anyway is that this area is still on construction. New houses are being built, which can not be seen on google maps yet, and some of them are still empty. Keep in mind that my intention was never to enter some private property (they way I was writing it made me feel that someone could think that.) I only wanted to check if there was still some unbuilt ground nearby and see if I could go close to the hash. Everything made me feel this would not be the case.
However, since I wanted to go for a few caches in the nearby area anyway, I gave it a try. This afternoon, at 16:00 already pitch dark and slightly under 0ºC (-1 or -2 I would say), I went there before my futsal game. As a kind of warming up with the bike. After the first geocache I approached the area. There were some empty slots south from the geohash. The garden where the hash fell had no neighbours. But it was still far. 80 meters. I could have tried it, but I would not have reach it. Also it would have made me feel like a burglar, walking behind the gardens of other houses. So I made another approach from east, but there I had also no luck. The closest I got was 43 meters in front of a beautifully Christmas-decorated house. At least I gave it a try.
On my way back I found the second geocache and went back home. I had a match to play. I must say that today's geocaches were clever hides.
Well, that is the chronicle of my first unsuccessful hash. It was bound to happen someday. I still have the journey, in that I did succeed.
Photos
House where the hash fell today. Winterbuche came with me.
That is the closest I got to the hash.
Achievements
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SastRe.O earned the No trespassing consolation prize
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Other Geohashing Expeditions and Plans on This Day
Expeditions and Plans
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| Rhinelander, Wisconsin | WausauBill | A very nice farmfield on Highway G, Marathon County, WI |
| Stralsund, Germany | SastRe.O | Bettina-von-Arnim Straße 15, Greifswald. |
