User:Mcbaneg
From Geohashing
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62 / m / 42,-85
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In real life: George McBane, dad, professor, sometime bike commuter, hiker, woodworker, enthusiast of cheese and fountain pens. Picked up geohashing while living in England for a year, continued for several years after returning to Michigan, and is now in Scotland.
Geohashing collaborators
- Jessica and Jake
- My own family
Equipment
- Pixel 5a phone
- Formerly Suunto A10 compass (at some point I found it was pointing south and tossed it)
- Geohash Droid (Thanks, User:CaptainSpam, for the updates and troubleshooting!)
- Commonist [[1]], on advice of User:Hermann
Expeditions
As of July 2019 I had reached hashpoints in 17 graticules, and failed to reach in 3 additional ones. Activity ended shortly after that, with 130 reported expeditions.
- Map, courtesy of Nathan Woodruff. You have to zoom out because there are hashes on both sides of the Atlantic. Note that I have not gone geohashing in Portland, Oregon; the marker there is for User:Shmur who met my Tale of Two Hashes challenge there.
- Expedition list generated automatically by AperfectBot.
Achievements
Most of these list the first time each ribbon was claimed. Exceptions are Virgin Graticule, Tale of Two Hashes, and successive Minesweeper, 2N, or Consecutive Geohash levels.
George, Susanne, Katja, and Rebekah earned the Land geohash achievement
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George, Katja, and Rebekah earned the Consecutive geohash achievement
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George, Katja, Rebekah, Jake, and Jessica earned the Midnight Geohash achievement
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Mcbaneg (George) earned the Puppet Master Geohash achievement
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George earned the Speed racer achievement
by passing through the (54, -1) geohash on 2013-07-13 at 20 mph.
George, Katja, Jake, and Jessica earned the Circus Geohash Achievement
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George and Rebekah earned the Tron achievement
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George and Rebekah earned the No Batteries Geohash Achievement
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George and Rebekah earned the Drag-along achievement
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George, Rebekah, Nick, and Sylvia earned the Graticule Unlocked Achievement
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George and Rebekah earned the Ambassador achievement
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George and Rebekah earned the Graticule Unlocked Achievement
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George and Rebekah earned the Graticule Unlocked Achievement
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George and Rebekah achieved level 3 of the Minesweeper Geohash achievement
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George earned the Public transport geohash achievement
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George earned the Frozen Geohash Achievement
by reaching the (42, -85) geohash on 2013-12-14 while the temperature was -4 °C.
George and Rebekah earned the Formal attire achievement
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George, Katja, Rebekah earned the Bicycle geohash achievement
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George, Katja, and Rebekah earned the Graticule Unlocked Achievement
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George, Susanne, Katja, and Rebekah earned the No trespassing consolation prize
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George achieved level 4 of the Minesweeper Geohash achievement
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George earned the Multihash Achievement
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George achieved level 5 of the Minesweeper Geohash achievement
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George certifies that Zachary J. Raczok earned the Coffin Potato Achievement
by occupying a coffin at the (42, -85) geohash from Dec 22, 2007 to 2014-10-14.
by geohashing in a place named Holland from the (42, -86) geohash on 2015-01-31.
Mcbaneg earned the Tale of Two Hashes achievement
by having their challenge met by JwB in Holland on 2015-01-31.
George achieved level 6 of the Minesweeper Geohash achievement
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George issued a challenge for the Tale of Two Hashes achievement
by geohashing in a place named Portland from the (42, -84) geohash on 2015-06-20.
Mcbaneg earned the Tale of Two Hashes achievement
by having their challenge met by Shmur, Jim, and M5K in Portland on 2015-06-21.
George issued a challenge for the Tale of Two Hashes achievement
by geohashing in a place named Alexandria from the (43, -71) geohash on 2015-06-30.
George achieved level 7 of the Minesweeper Geohash achievement
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George, Rebekah, and Susanne earned the Déjà Vu Geohash Achievement
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Mcbaneg earned the Tale of Two Hashes achievement
by meeting the challenge by Pedalpusher to geohash in Wyoming going to the (42, -85) geohash on 2015-09-14.
Mcbaneg earned the Two to the N achievement
by attempting to reach 26 hashpoints on 2015-11-19 42 -85 and is promoted to Level 6 (Expeditions).
Mcbaneg earned the Golf Geohash Achievement
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Mcbaneg, Susanne, and Rebekah earned the Couch Potato Geohash Honorable Mention
by living near the (42, -85) geohash on 2016-02-21.
Mcbaneg, Susanne, and Rebekah earned the Walk geohash Achievement
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Mcbaneg earned the Two to the N achievement
by reaching 26 hashpoints on 2016-02-28 42 -85 and is promoted to Level 6 (Coordinates reached).
George earned the Consecutive geohash achievement
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Mcbaneg, Susanne, Katja, and Rebekah earned the 2016 Mouse Over Day achievement
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George, Katja, Rebekah, and Sylvia earned the It's a kitty consolation prize
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George, Susanne, Thomas, Katja, Rebekah, and Áine earned the Water geohash achievement
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George earned the Tale of Two Hashes achievement
by meeting the challenge by User:Pedalpusher to geohash in Holland going to the (42, -86) geohash on 2016-07-26.
Mcbaneg, Katja, and Rebekah earned the Cliffs of Despair consolation prize
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Mcbaneg (talk) (George) earned the Hashcat achievement
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George earned the Last Man standing achievement
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Mcbaneg (George) and Sylvia earned the Graticule Unlocked Achievement
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Mcbaneg earned the Curse of Unawareness Consolation Prize
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Mcbaneg earned the Two to the N achievement
by attempting to reach 27 hashpoints on 2019-08-03 43 -86 and is promoted to Level 7 (Expeditions).
Categories:
- Geohashers
- Geohashers in their 60s
- Geohashers in 42,-85
- Bicyclist
- User en
- User en-N
- Addicted to geohashing
- Land geohash achievement
- Consecutive geohash achievement
- Midnight geohash achievement
- Puppet master geohash achievement
- Speed racer achievement
- Circus geohash achievement
- Tron achievement
- No batteries geohash achievement
- Drag-along achievement
- Graticule unlocked achievement
- Ambassador achievement
- Minesweeper geohash achievement
- Public transport geohash achievement
- Frozen geohash achievement
- Formal attire achievement
- Bicycle geohash achievement
- No trespassing consolation prize
- Multihash achievement
- Coffin potato achievement
- A Tale of Two Hashes challenge
- A Tale of Two Hashes achievement
- Déjà vu geohash achievement
- Two to the N achievement
- Golf geohash achievement
- Couch potato geohash honorable mention
- Walk geohash achievement
- Geohashing Day achievement
- It's a kitty consolation prize
- Water geohash achievement
- Cliffs of despair consolation prize
- Hashcat achievement
- Last man standing achievement
- Curse of Unawareness consolation prize