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|0={{quote|right|As it was my very first expedition, I was very excited about it. I wasn't expecting grand adventure, as the destination was just an hour walk from the city, but I was positively surprised, when I found a medieval tower on my way, that I had no idea was there. | |0={{quote|right|As it was my very first expedition, I was very excited about it. I wasn't expecting grand adventure, as the destination was just an hour walk from the city, but I was positively surprised, when I found a medieval tower on my way, that I had no idea was there. | ||
::::<small>[[Geohashing Quotes|find some more great geohashing quotations here.]]</small>|[[2009-02-23_52_-7|JRK]]}} | ::::<small>[[Geohashing Quotes|find some more great geohashing quotations here.]]</small>|[[2009-02-23_52_-7|JRK]]}} | ||
| − | |1={{quote|right|There's probably only one IRC channel in the world where you can complain about the stupid forest not being [[Cold_Geohash|cold enough]] at -9°C and everyone understands and agrees without raising an eyebrow. | + | |1={{quote|right|There's probably only one IRC channel in the world where you can complain about the stupid forest not being [[Cold_Geohash|cold enough]] at -9°C and everyone understands and agrees without raising an eyebrow. |
| − | |2={{quote|right|Then I realised, despite all my whining, my pain and exhaustion, my total lack of any positive thoughts at all, I was enjoying myself. I was having one of the most exhilarating times of my life. I was exploring a place that no one had ever been, seeing things no one had ever seen, pushing my body to its limit for a ridiculously pointless goal and loving every second of it. | + | ::::<small>[[Geohashing Quotes|find some more great geohashing quotations here.]]</small>|[[2008-12-30 49 12|Dawidi]]}} |
| − | |3={{quote|right|We then attempted to explain the geohashing concept but eventually gave up and, with great authority, said "don't worry, we're from the Internet" which seemed to satisfy her. | + | |2={{quote|right|Then I realised, despite all my whining, my pain and exhaustion, my total lack of any positive thoughts at all, I was enjoying myself. I was having one of the most exhilarating times of my life. I was exploring a place that no one had ever been, seeing things no one had ever seen, pushing my body to its limit for a ridiculously pointless goal and loving every second of it. |
| − | |4={{quote|right|Made it there about lunch time. Mrs. Killingsworth, the nice, older lady that lives there, just could not understand why "the internet" was sending people to her house! | + | ::::<small>[[Geohashing Quotes|find some more great geohashing quotations here.]]</small>|[[2008-10-31_-32_138|UnwiseOwl]]}} |
| − | |5={{quote|right|I didn't bring any skis on this expedition, so when the GPS reported the hash being 59 m from the road, I thought "close enough" and called it a night. No, really, I walked/crawled through the waist-deep snow to reach the hash. I should be declared insane, but I made it. | + | |3={{quote|right|We then attempted to explain the geohashing concept but eventually gave up and, with great authority, said "don't worry, we're from the Internet" which seemed to satisfy her. |
| − | |6=Basically, we take a random point based on the Stock exchange and the current date, and go and have wacky adventures. Think of me as a new kind of adventure capitalist. | + | ::::<small>[[Geohashing Quotes|find some more great geohashing quotations here.]]</small>|[[2008-05-24 53 -113|Mike V, Edmonton]]}} |
| + | |4={{quote|right|Made it there about lunch time. Mrs. Killingsworth, the nice, older lady that lives there, just could not understand why "the internet" was sending people to her house! | ||
| + | ::::<small>[[Geohashing Quotes|find some more great geohashing quotations here.]]</small>|[[2008-07-19 33 -86|N76Lima]]}} | ||
| + | |5={{quote|right|I didn't bring any skis on this expedition, so when the GPS reported the hash being 59 m from the road, I thought "close enough" and called it a night. No, really, I walked/crawled through the waist-deep snow to reach the hash. I should be declared insane, but I made it. | ||
| + | ::::<small>[[Geohashing Quotes|find some more great geohashing quotations here.]]</small>|[[2009-02-11_66_21|the_ru]]}} | ||
| + | |6=Basically, we take a random point based on the Stock exchange and the current date, and go and have wacky adventures. Think of me as a new kind of adventure capitalist. | ||
| + | ::::<small>[[Geohashing Quotes|find some more great geohashing quotations here.]]</small>|[[User:UnwiseOwl|UnwiseOwl]], explaining geohashing to a friend. | ||
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Revision as of 15:46, 26 February 2009
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