2021-05-08 41 -71

Location

In a field of fallen trees off a dirt road in Coventry, Rhode Island.

Participants

Expedition

After not making any geohash attempts in April, I figured the best way to get back on the scene was with a bang. On a drive from the suburbs of Boston back home to New York, I would make my first attempts outside of my home graticule of 41 -73, and beyond that, I would go for a multihash. When scouting out the locations beforehand, I figured that this one should be doable as long as there weren't any unavoidable markers of private property.

My drive from Mansfield, MA took me through a part of Rhode Island I would have absolutely no reason to visit again, but that's not to say it wasn't nice. I got especially excited when my route took me onto a dirt road, a sure sign that you're getting into something good. After a couple miles, I pulled off the side of this path through the woods and made my way into a field completely filled with fallen trees. There were plenty of stumps that showed they had been cut, but why leave so many trees where they were? I guess that lumber just wasn't big enough for their purposes? I could have asked the owner of the property, whose house was just down the road, but it was probably best to just slip in and out undetected. Exactly the way I normally do ;) (with consent, of course, you get what I'm saying).

It was such a peaceful area, there was no noise from any nearby roads and the sporadic chirping of birds didn't offset how nicely quiet it all was. It took a little bit on wandering up and over the countless fallen trees to get to what my phone told me was the spot, but eventually I felt reasonably confident that I had found it. Of course, it was just another pile of branches, nothing special to mark it. Just like that, my very first out-of-state geohash was complete, and I wasn't even close to finished for the day. Check out the other two attempts I made that day here and here.