Difference between revisions of "2011-07-19 59 18"

Revision as of 10:52, 20 July 2011

Location

In the middle of a field outside of Alunda, Sweden.

Participants

Plans

To drive as close as possible using my phone's GPS navigation and then walk the final stretch guided by Google Maps. Hopefully I get an adventure on the way.

Expedition

The drive was about 45 miles and nothing much happened on the way. I listened to the radio and followed the navigation instructions. I parked the car and stepped out into the field and was immediately attacked by a swarm of flies. They followed me loyally in the heat the whole way to the hashpoint and back. Fortunately, the field was recently harvested, which made walking easy.

The hashpoint was in a thicket of brambles and nettles just outside of the harvested area.

On the way back I decided to save my phones battery and follow the road signs instead. This lead me onto a different road, which runs east of Arlanda airport. Suddenly i passed a lake surrounded by some kind of towers and I remembered that they recently opened a wakeboard cable park in that area. I turned back i the next roundabout and stopped at the cable park. There I met a couple of people i know from before and they talked me into a session. I hadn't brought any swimming shorts, so to everyone's amusement i rode in my boxers.

So I also got my adventure!

Photos

The transportation
The transportation
The hashpoint
The geohasher at the hashpoint
The adventure

Achievements

Per Scheffer earned the Land geohash achievement

by reaching the (59, 18) geohash on 2011-07-19.

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 == Achievements ==
 {{#vardefine:ribbonwidth|800px}}
-<!-- Add any achievement ribbons you earned below, or remove this section -->
+{{land geohash
+| latitude = 59
+| longitude = 18
+| date = 2011-07-19
+| name = Per Scheffer
+| image = 2011-07-19 59 18 The Geohasher.jpg
+}}
-<!-- =============== USEFUL CATEGORIES FOLLOW ================
-Delete the next line ONLY if you have chosen the appropriate categories below. If you are unsure, don't worry. People will read your report and help you with the classification. -->
-[[Category:New report]]
-<!-- Potential categories. Please include all the ones appropriate to your expedition -->
-<!-- If this is a planning page:
-[[Category:Expedition planning]]
--->
-<!-- An actual expedition:
 [[Category:Expeditions]]
--- and one or more of --
 [[Category:Expeditions with photos]]
-[[Category:Expeditions with videos]]
-[[Category:Expedition without GPS]]
--->
-<!-- if you reached your coords:
 [[Category:Coordinates reached]]
--->
+[[Category:Land_geohash_achievement]]
-<!-- or if you failed :(
-[[Category:Coordinates not reached]]
--- and a reason --
-[[Category:Not reached - Mother Nature]]     when there is a natural obstacle between you and the target
-[[Category:Not reached - No public access]]  when there is a man-made obstacle between you and the target
-[[Category:Not reached - Technology]]        when you failed get your GPS, car, bike or such to work
-[[Category:Not reached - Did not attempt]]   when you went to an alternate location, or decided early on to abort the expedition.
--->


Tue 19 Jul 2011 in Stockholm: 59.9844916, 18.0788194 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox