2012-02-26 global

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Globalhash on Sun 26 Feb 2012: -89.991612,-5.861268  google osm crox

Location

933 m North (hehe) of the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station

Participants

• Katie Hess - USA
• Dale Mole - USA 

• Joselyn Fenstermacher - USA
• Robert Schwarz - Germany
• Sven Lidström - Sweden

Plans

Carl-Johan has called the OPP and emailed Scott Borg at the NSF. Hopefully he will forward it to someone adventurous at the Station.

Expedition

Because of spotty links to the Pole Carl-Johan will give translated bits from emails with the 5 honorary penguins.

Sven Lidström: "I got your request forwarded to me, probably because they saw it came from Sweden.

Anyway, today at UTC 02:30" Editorial note: we had assumed that they used UTC as a TZ and that is consistent with the longitude of -5 "we where out at S 89°59.496 W 5°51.677
 alt -89.991607, -5.861282


We were in total 5 people:

• Katie Hess -USA
• Dale Mole - USA 

• Joselyn Fenstermacher - USA
• Robert Schwarz - Germany
• Sven Lidström - Sweden

Attached you have proof, (I'm the one without skiing goggles in a blue and yellow toque).

For your information, the GPS acts a bit strange down here just because we are so close to the pole, it has a hard time to keep up with the longitude changes. But we walked all over the place to make sure we were at the right spot. Besides that, the cold messes a bit with the electronics as well.

Looking forward to the Champagne" Yes, I did promise some Champagne and it will be honored!

Jocelyn Fenstermacher: "And I just thought we were going for a fine walk out the front yard.... :)"

Photos

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Achievements

• Land Geohash
• Couch potato honorable mention
• Cubicle geohash honorable mention

This user earned the Largest geohash achievement by congregating at the (, global) geohash on 2012-02-26 with a participation of 5 geohashers.

(Largest globalhash meetup, that is.)

This user earned the Cold geohash achievement by reaching the (, global) geohash on 2012-02-26 while the temperature was -45.3°C.

This user earned the Frozen Geohash Achievement by reaching the (, global) geohash on 2012-02-26 while the temperature was -45.3°C.

This user earned the Walk geohash Achievement by reaching the (, global) geohash on 2012-02-26 on foot.

This user earned the South geohash achievement by reaching the (, global) geohash on 2012-02-26.

This user earned the Globalhash achievement by reaching the globalhash for 2012-02-26.

Carl-Johan earned the Puppet Master Geohash achievement by manipulating five honorary penguins to reach the (, global) geohash on 2012-02-26.