Difference between revisions of "2011-10-28 42 -88"

Latest revision as of 01:21, 13 August 2019

Location

Just feet off a road near our main grocery store.

Participants

RocketMac

Plans

I have spent this week working Chicago: leaving the house at 5:30am, getting on a train, spending a full day in the loop, and getting home after 7pm. Two of those days had reachable hashpoints, but required a little driving. When I saw that today's was not far from my house, I had to go.

Expedition

Today was exam day, so training was short. I had selected the early session which let me out a little after noon. That was perfect to be able to attend a geocaching event and then find a couple other caches before catching an early train.

Once I was back in town and in my car, I made off to the hashpoint and took GPS captures and a couple of photos. Still hoping to make a Pub Geohash some day, not only was there not a pub in sight, but Yelp! couldn't even find one within a mile. I checked for hash collisions as well and once again it was not to be.

Photos

Me at the site
GPS Reading
Distance
No geocaches...
...and no pub either

Achievements

RocketMac earned the Land geohash achievement

by reaching the (42, -88) geohash on 2011-10-28.

RocketMac has visited an Easy Geohash

by reaching the (42, -88) geohash on 2011-10-28 without really trying.

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+I have spent this week working Chicago: leaving the house at 5:30am, getting on a train, spending a full day in the loop, and getting home after 7pm. Two of those days had reachable hashpoints, but required a little driving. When I saw that today's was not far from my house, I '''had''' to go.
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+Today was exam day, so training was short. I had selected the early session which let me out a little after noon. That was perfect to be able to attend a [http://coord.info/GC35YC2 geocaching event] and then find a couple other caches before catching an early train.
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+Once I was back in town and in my car, I made off to the hashpoint and took GPS captures and a couple of photos. Still hoping to make a [[Pub Geohash]] some day, not only was there not a pub in sight, but Yelp! couldn't even find one within a mile. I checked for [[Hash collision achievement|hash collisions]] as well and once again it was not to be.
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+Image:2011-10-28_42_-88_05.jpg|Me at the site
+Image:2011-10-28_42_-88_01.jpg|GPS Reading
+Image:2011-10-28_42_-88_02.jpg|Distance
+Image:2011-10-28_42_-88_03.jpg|No geocaches...
+Image:2011-10-28_42_-88_04.jpg|...and no pub either
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+| date = 2011-10-28
+| name = RocketMac
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Fri 28 Oct 2011 in 42,-88: 42.9241187, -88.0558213 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox