2023-11-13 50 16

Location

Participants

Plans

k4be

Planning to cycle to the place, arriving at around 16:15.

Expedition

Piotrekoo

Using a free day at work, I decided to cycle to the geohash. In the morning, I went to a store to pick up some shoe covers because the temperatures were getting lower daily. It was 12.30 pm when I was eventually ready for departure.

I could take a route similar to the one I went to two hashes: 2023-09-08 50 16 and 2023-10-29 50 16. I went via the Tąpadła Pass to avoid repeating it for the third time. I hadn't been there on a bike before. The climb nearly killed me, but I started appreciating it as soon as I descended. I thought I would freeze to death. When I reached Świdnica, I popped into a gas station and bought a hotdog and a coffee. This 15-minute-long stop helped me a lot. From there, it was only 8 kilometres to the geohash.

The coordinates were located on a field. I recorded proof and took some photos, and when I was ready to ride on, I saw another geohasher: k4be. I wanted to visit a viewpoint in Modliszów, but we discussed another route for me as it was getting dark and I was running out of time.

It was supposed to be a quick 13 kilometres. But, most of the time, uphill. Well, it can be described in three words: Sudetic Marginal Fault. It started raining to make it even more unpleasant, so I was twice wet. I hadn't transferred the route to my bike computer, and I took the wrong path. I arrived at Wałbrzych Szczawienko a few minutes late, but my train was still waiting for a semaphore. I was at Wrocław Główny in about an hour and cycled further home.

k4be

It was the quickest hash for me yet, and the first time I've met another hasher too. It took a little over 6 km of cycling (through Bystrzyca Dolna) to reach the place. (My straight line distance was about 4 km but I rather wanted to follow roads.) Reached destination around 16:20. The hash was located on a cultivated field near a local road (which I happen to know well), an extremely convenient location.

After a bit of talking, I found a long stick in nearby bushes and stuck it in the field at hash location to mark it, then took a few blurry photos (it already was pretty dark after all the talking) and left.

Cycled back another route right towards Świdnica (6.5 km).