2023-01-02 53 10
| Mon 2 Jan 2023 in 53,10: 53.8337010, 10.0719239 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox |
Location
on a meadow in Hüttblek, Schleswig-Holstein
Participants
Expedition
After cycling to 2023-01-03 53 10, thinking I'd reached the 2 January hashpoint and subsequently realising my blunder, I decided to cycle to the actual coordinates anyway. From Tangstedt, it was 17 km through Tangstedt, Wilstedt, Wakendorf II, the Endern forest and Kisdorferwohld to the tiny village of Hüttblek. As I entered the town from the east, I noticed a shabby and dilapidate-looking house a small distance from the street. Being a lover of exploring and of Lost Places, I went to take a look (there was no real path to the house, I had seek my own).
In front of the house there were some derelict tractors and trailers, which looked like they hadn't been moved in decades. I peeked through the broken window and saw a big room full of old tools, scrap, and every type of junk in my phone's light (it was already too dark to see without). I walked around the house and found more rotten trailers, tyres, and a garage. On the back side, a big crack went through the wall, and a ground window was missing. Of course, I entered the building and found myself in an abandoned farmhouse. The ground floor consisted only of two big rooms, the one I had seen through the window and a big one which contained an ancient truck, lots of wood and bricks, and some old farm machinery. I very carefully climbed onto a ladder which went to the first floor, but didn't find much there. I explored the crammed other room and found a staircase, which thankfully did not break under my weight as I climbed to a different part of the first floor. There, I basically found more of the same: Raw materials, deteriorated items lying everywhere, and a few graffiti. The third room held a stack of newspapers and magazines, which all dated to 1991 – that's when I assume the farm was abandoned. I went through another door onto a wide area below the roof that opened to the big room below, of course without any kind of barrier. Here, I discovered yet more junk all over the place and a rack full of metal parts. Another ladder went onto another floor and I had a look, but didn't trust the floor enough to step on it. A few loose wooden boards connected the wide area to the upper floor I saw on the first ladder, but I definitely didn't dare to walk across, which could've resulted in me falling to the ground floor and a huge trunk crashing on top of me. I went back outside and found something resembling an oven, then went back to my bike after investigating the tractors again. Despite only spending 30 minutes there, I took 45 photos.
By now it was fully dark. I cycled the last 900 m to the hash, which lay on a big meadow separated from the street by a creek and a small forest. I was glad to find there was no fence, hopped the brook and reached the coordinates on the wet grass (it had drizzled several times on the way here). On the way back to my bike, I found a small bridge over the stream, which unwittingly took me into someone's garden, but I could exit to the street across a fence. I still had to cycle the 9.6 km home, arriving more than 1.5 later than planned and having cycled 40 instead of 25 km.
Photos
will follow shortly (6 + up to 45 pictures)
Achievements
Land geohash, Bicycle geohash
