Difference between revisions of "2010-03-22 43 -89"

Latest revision as of 01:17, 9 August 2019

Location

Near Devil's Lake State Park

Participants

Elbie and her ride, some lovely people from the internet.

Expedition

I was getting a ride to Milwaukee with some lovely ladies from TarValon.net's 9th Anniversary Event (in Wisconsin Dells) and couldn't help but notice this was only a detour away from our route! After an hour or so of watching the sparse landscape, I discovered the unfortunate: my GPS batteries had died.

We had come about 15 km to the hashpoint, but without any maps printed off and no familiarity with the maze of highways that is Wisconsin, we wound up having to call it a day.

Elbie earned the Blinded by Science Consolation Prize

by failing to reach the (43, -89) geohash on 2010-03-22 due to dead batteries and poor planning.

Photos

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+I was getting a ride to Milwaukee with some lovely ladies from TarValon.net's 9th Anniversary Event (in Wisconsin Dells) and couldn't help but notice this was only a detour away from our route! After an hour or so of watching the sparse landscape, I discovered the unfortunate: my GPS batteries had died.
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+We had come about 15 km to the hashpoint, but without any maps printed off and no familiarity with the maze of highways that is Wisconsin, we wound up having to call it a day.
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+{{Blinded by Science
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+    | date = 2010-03-22
+    | reason = due to dead batteries and poor planning
+    | name = Elbie
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+* [http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2531/4463366256_ab7c17986a.jpg Sighing about the GPS Fail]
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+* [http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2707/4462591477_c84783ee8e.jpg My ride]
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Mon 22 Mar 2010 in 43,-89: 43.3742047, -89.6636237 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox