2020-10-30 53 7

From Geohashing
Fri 30 Oct 2020 in Emden:
53.6087602, 7.2128648
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Location

This Geohash is located in a ditch next to a forest in Norden-Ekel.

Participants

Expedition

I took the train to Norden and inline-skated the rest of the distance. The borough in which the coordinates are located in is called Ekel. Supposedly the name is related to Eichel (Acorn), but in High German Ekel means disgust. Norden itself of course is a great name for a city as well - it just means north.

I entered a path into a forest where coordinates were located. The path got me close to the coordinates, but not all the way. The actual coordinates were in a wide ditch between the forest and a adjacent field. Going through the field was not an option, I think there were some cows on there.

Going off-path in the forest for roughly 40 meters shouldn't be to hard, and for the most part wasn't, but the final meters were full of thorny bushes. I located the coordinates after descending into the ditch, luckily there was no water inside. After recording proof, I got out of the ditch and got back to the forest path.

Originally I had planned to inline-skate to Norddeich, eat there and take the train back from there, but getting to the coordinates had taken too much time, so I just inline-skated back where I came from. In Norden I ate a fish bun, and afterwards took the train back to Hannover.

Photos

Ribbons

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Fippe earned the Land geohash achievement
by reaching the (53, 7) geohash on 2020-10-30.
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Fippe earned the XKCD-100 Honorable Mention Achievement
by voyaging 222 kilometers to reach the (53, 7) geohash on 2020-10-30. Alas it was not a Saturday.
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Fippe issued a challenge for the Tale of Two Hashes achievement
by geohashing in a place named North (Norden) from the (53, 7) geohash on 2020-10-30.