Difference between revisions of "2012-01-09 -36 174"

Latest revision as of 02:00, 13 August 2019

Location

In the shrubbery of a driveway, Northcote, Auckland, New Zealand

Participants

Greenslime

Plans

Drive there on way to elsewhere and try and be stealthy while meandering down someone's driveway.

I have sussed a cache only 50 m away in a neighbouring park. I doubt I will be able to see either from each other, but I'll have a look.

Expedition

Very simple. I found the cache first behind some flax bushes at the entrance of a small strip of bush. The strip of bush was actually disguising a computer peripheral burial ground amongst waste of other types. Not clean.

I then wandered down some randoms driveway, straight to the location identified in the satellite imagery, and nonchalantly stood and took photos of hash location, GPS and cache location. While the cache was only 50 m away - 2 fences, a backyard, and some large shrubs stood between the two locations. Good enough for an honourable mention.

A link to cache information can be found here

Photos

Hash in blue, cache in green - only 50 m apart!
The location of the Hash Point.
Garmin.
The cache.
Cache location from the hash.

Achievements

Land Geohash

Greenslime earned the Hash collision honorable mention

by discovering the geocache GC2GVQG 0.05 km from the (-36, 174) geohash on 2012-01-09.

Greenslime earned the Last chick standing achievement

by being the the only hasher world-wide to go on a geohashing expedition on 2012-01-09.

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 == Location ==
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+In the shrubbery of a driveway, Northcote, Auckland, New Zealand
 == Participants ==
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+* [[User:Greenslime|Greenslime]]
 == Plans ==
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+Drive there on way to elsewhere and try and be stealthy while meandering down someone's driveway.
+I have sussed a cache only 50 m away in a neighbouring park. I doubt I will be able to see either from each other, but I'll have a look.
 == Expedition ==
-<!-- how it all turned out. your narrative goes here. -->
+Very simple. I found the cache first behind some flax bushes at the entrance of a small strip of bush. The strip of bush was actually disguising a computer peripheral burial ground amongst waste of other types. Not clean.
-== Tracklog ==
+I then wandered down some randoms driveway, straight to the location identified in the satellite imagery, and nonchalantly stood and took photos of hash location, GPS and cache location. While the cache was only 50 m away - 2 fences, a backyard, and some large shrubs stood between the two locations. Good enough for an honourable mention.
-<!-- if your GPS device keeps a log, you may post a link here -->
+A link to cache information can be found [http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?wp=GC2GVQG here]
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+File:2012-01-09 -36 174 Hash Cache Location.JPG|Hash in blue, cache in green - only 50 m apart!
+File:2012-01-09 -36 174 Hash Location.jpg|The location of the Hash Point.
+File:2012-01-09 -36 174 GPS.jpg|Garmin.
+File:2012-01-09 -36 174 Cache.JPG|The cache.
+File:2012-01-09 -36 174 Cache from Hash.jpg|Cache location from the hash.
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+{{Hash collision
+| latitude = -36
+| longitude = 174
+| date = 2012-01-09
+| name = [[User:Greenslime|Greenslime]]
+| link = http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?wp=GC2GVQG
+| id = GC2GVQG
+| distance = 0.05 km
+| honor = jolly good!
+| image = 2012-01-09 -36 174 Cache.JPG
+}}
+{{Last man standing
+| latitude = -36
+| longitude = 174
+| date = 2012-01-09
+| gender = chick
+| name = [[User:Greenslime|Greenslime]]
+| image = 2012-01-09 -36 174 Cache.JPG
+}}
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