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== Expedition == | == Expedition == | ||
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| + | === Prologue === | ||
| + | Friday evening - as usual, I look up the coordinates. Chatting with Manu goes something like this: | ||
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| + | Manu: "Those nasty little coordinates. Right next to Jena when I'm not here." | ||
| + | Me: "Oh right, now that's a nice place! Should make for a good Saturday trip..." | ||
| + | Manu: "Okay, at least you are going." | ||
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| + | So we agreed that the point was near Jena and that was it. Obviously Manu used another lookup tool than I did and maybe I took drugs or worked too much or something, anyway I obviously hallucinated a wrong set of coordinates on anthill/OSM: the true coordinates were near Graitschen, the ones I happily added to my Saturday biking route were near Luftschiff (50.90388/11.66733 - obviously not just an invented alternative location - why else would it have been so hard to get there? And can anybody tell me where these come from?). | ||
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| + | === The long story short === | ||
| + | Because it would have been far too easy to cycle not even 10 kms to the hash point on a free day with lovely weather, I started the tour visiting [[2012-01-22_50_11|three]] [[2012-01-13_50_11|retro]] [[2011-09-02_50_11|hashes]] I had missed that seemed to be interesting and, in fact, too good to miss as well. (Retro hashing criteria by Juja: interesting spots with exciting and unknown areas around that obviously didn't qualify for afterwork hashes at the time - in fact, I probably wouldn't have reached any of them if I had tried it in darkness.) | ||
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| + | After reaching the last of those points near Thalbürgel I cycled home on known roads to Schöngleina, where I stood near the airport for a while, had "lunch" (cereal bar and sugared water) and watched some paragliders preparing, starting and also landing soon after that (were they just practising or did they really have bad flying conditions?). From there on I followed my route to the imaginary hashpoint which - of course - lay on top of a hill and in the middle of more or less thicket (nearly 300m from the nearest way OSM knew). While I stumbled through the woods (biking shoes are not quite perfect for climbing hills) I found a whole lot of unmapped ways - someone should get busy up there, and I'm a little bit afraid it might be me after all. After a while I had found the exact spot, took some photos and tried to use the new-found ways back to my bike which spared me at least some of the trouble. When I cycled back home I also found the really easy way to the point, so next time I'll know. | ||
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| + | To enjoy the nice weather a little longer I even took another quick detour via Fürstenbrunnen (dozens of people were standing around there; it's the no. 1 place for weekend walks obviously) and Steinkreuz and finally cycled back home. At the end of the day my odometer showed 75 kms, so I was really happy and satisfied - imagine my frustration when Reinhard first commented that I had seen the wrong point for today and, even more, that I had passed the actual point by maybe 3 kms on my tour! | ||
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| + | === Epilogue === | ||
| + | What do I learn from today's expedition? | ||
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| + | * The tour was nice, so maybe I should stop being so upset about following the wrong numbers. | ||
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| + | * The points are all random and inaccessible, so does it really matter which random inaccessible point I pick? I don't meet other hashers anyway. | ||
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| + | * When I want to do a less senseless expedition, the right approach would not necessarily be to enter the right coordinates, but to track all those forestways around Luftschiff for OSM, because this uncharted area is practically full of "Here be dragons". | ||
== Photos == | == Photos == | ||
Revision as of 07:22, 26 March 2012
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Location
In the middle of the forest on Nonnenberg, near Luftschiff (a.k.a. Burgrabis, don't ask me where those names come from).
At the edge of a field near Graitschen bei Bürgel.
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Juja earned the Blinded by Science Consolation Prize
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Participants
- Juja, Benjy and Frankie Mouse
Expedition
Prologue
Friday evening - as usual, I look up the coordinates. Chatting with Manu goes something like this:
Manu: "Those nasty little coordinates. Right next to Jena when I'm not here." Me: "Oh right, now that's a nice place! Should make for a good Saturday trip..." Manu: "Okay, at least you are going."
So we agreed that the point was near Jena and that was it. Obviously Manu used another lookup tool than I did and maybe I took drugs or worked too much or something, anyway I obviously hallucinated a wrong set of coordinates on anthill/OSM: the true coordinates were near Graitschen, the ones I happily added to my Saturday biking route were near Luftschiff (50.90388/11.66733 - obviously not just an invented alternative location - why else would it have been so hard to get there? And can anybody tell me where these come from?).
The long story short
Because it would have been far too easy to cycle not even 10 kms to the hash point on a free day with lovely weather, I started the tour visiting three retro hashes I had missed that seemed to be interesting and, in fact, too good to miss as well. (Retro hashing criteria by Juja: interesting spots with exciting and unknown areas around that obviously didn't qualify for afterwork hashes at the time - in fact, I probably wouldn't have reached any of them if I had tried it in darkness.)
After reaching the last of those points near Thalbürgel I cycled home on known roads to Schöngleina, where I stood near the airport for a while, had "lunch" (cereal bar and sugared water) and watched some paragliders preparing, starting and also landing soon after that (were they just practising or did they really have bad flying conditions?). From there on I followed my route to the imaginary hashpoint which - of course - lay on top of a hill and in the middle of more or less thicket (nearly 300m from the nearest way OSM knew). While I stumbled through the woods (biking shoes are not quite perfect for climbing hills) I found a whole lot of unmapped ways - someone should get busy up there, and I'm a little bit afraid it might be me after all. After a while I had found the exact spot, took some photos and tried to use the new-found ways back to my bike which spared me at least some of the trouble. When I cycled back home I also found the really easy way to the point, so next time I'll know.
To enjoy the nice weather a little longer I even took another quick detour via Fürstenbrunnen (dozens of people were standing around there; it's the no. 1 place for weekend walks obviously) and Steinkreuz and finally cycled back home. At the end of the day my odometer showed 75 kms, so I was really happy and satisfied - imagine my frustration when Reinhard first commented that I had seen the wrong point for today and, even more, that I had passed the actual point by maybe 3 kms on my tour!
Epilogue
What do I learn from today's expedition?
- The tour was nice, so maybe I should stop being so upset about following the wrong numbers.
- The points are all random and inaccessible, so does it really matter which random inaccessible point I pick? I don't meet other hashers anyway.
- When I want to do a less senseless expedition, the right approach would not necessarily be to enter the right coordinates, but to track all those forestways around Luftschiff for OSM, because this uncharted area is practically full of "Here be dragons".
Photos
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