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| Tue 12 Nov 2024 in St. Paul SE: 44.9823735, -92.7296226 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox |
Location
On a path through exurban woods in Hudson, WI.
Participants
Plans
Kyrkazakh (talk) already visited by the time she wrote this.
Expedition
Relatively straightforward and pleasant, just the way I wanted it. This part of Wisconsin is at the very edge of the Twin Cities metro area, right over the Mississippi River. A few years back they built a new bridge for MN-36 which massively cut down travel time for a lot of folks to get to Minneapolis and St. Paul, plus the I-94 bridge has been renovated; the upshot is that the population of this area has exploded as of late. Hudson in particular felt very clean and new as I got off I-94. I doubt much of the area I drove through was even paved two decades ago.
I knew this hash was adjacent to a paved trail that cut through a bit of exurban (very likely not old-growth) forest, so I parked my car next to a house at one end of the trail and walked over to the start. What greeted me were the signs shown at the top of this webpage. What a strange and specific warning. How far off the trail is trespassing? If I set foot on the grass am I committing an illegal activity? Surely not, as there's a fair bit of mowed grass on either side. Weird. Regardless I grabbed my lunchbox, walked the very short distance to the hash site, and sat down for a brief picnic. It was windy and cold (not quite freezing but not far either) but I enjoyed eating outside in a somewhat-natural setting. A handful of joggers and walkers passed by, and I said hi, but we didn't exchange anything more than pleasantries so I'm not counting an achievement for that. Twice a neighbor popped out of her house to let her dog use the restroom, and they both definitely seemed confused as to why a stranger was sitting on a random spot next to the trail and eating lunch. But they also didn't call the cops on me or anything so, that's a win in my book. Overall a nicer experience than my time up in Anoka County last Friday.
On the way out I stopped by the local YMCA to grab a retro hash, see here for more on that. Then I returned to my workplace, simple as that. Pleasant lunch out in Wisconsin. Except I didn't realize the picnic achievement required specific accoutrements. Egads! Another day perhaps...
Photos
Old Man River...
Curiously specific wording that I will interpret very specifically.
View of this cute little paved path through the woods, looking east from hash site.
Made it! Wasn't hard, basically immediately on the path.
Surrounding neighborhood. Someone and their dog came outside from the house on the right and were definitely perplexed to see me.
Settling in for lunch.
Despite the wintry wind, hash lunch is best lunch.
Achievements
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Kyrkazakh achieved level 3 of the Minesweeper Geohash achievement
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Kyrkazakh achieved level 3 of the Minesweeper Geohash achievement
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Kyrkazakh achieved level 2 of the Minesweeper Geohash achievement
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Kyrkazakh earned the 2-in-a-row achievement
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Kyrkazakh earned the 3-in-a-row achievement
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Kyrkazakh issued a challenge for the Tale of Two Hashes achievement
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