Difference between revisions of "2012-06-22 41 -89"

Latest revision as of 04:57, 6 August 2019

Location

A cornfield in Toluca, Illinois.

Participants

RocketMac - On his way home from St. Louis, MO.

Plans

Every time I drive somewhere for work, I check the route for possible hashes along the way. Depending on timing, I could actually mark off the last two graticules for my Minesweeper award!

It'd been a long week of work and I wasn't getting on the road until after 5pm, so it was going to be pushing it.

Expedition

I left St. Louis in the late afternoon and started homeward. My first stop was another crack at a Geocache called Night Signals. I ~~wasted~~ spent some time on that and then started my GPS tracklog heading for the hashpoint.

Other than being a bit out of my way, I made it with no problem and took some pictures. Added one more stop for my Minesweeper award and was on my way.

Tracklog

You can follow my tracklog in GPX and KMZ formats.

Photos

Stupid Grin
The geomobile
GPS Reading

Achievements

RocketMac earned the Land geohash achievement

by reaching the (41, -89) geohash on 2012-06-22.

RocketMac achieved level 7 of the Minesweeper Geohash achievement

by visiting coordinates in Schaumburg, Illinois and 7 of the surrounding graticules.

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 == Location ==
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+A cornfield in Toluca, Illinois.
 == Participants ==
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+* [[User:RocketMac|RocketMac]] - On his way home from St. Louis, MO.
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 == Plans ==
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+Every time I drive somewhere for work, I check the route for possible hashes along the way. Depending on timing, I could actually mark off the last two graticules for my [[Minesweeper_Geohash|Minesweeper]] award!
+It'd been a long week of work and I wasn't getting on the road until after 5pm, so it was going to be pushing it.
 == Expedition ==
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+I left St. Louis in the late afternoon and started homeward. My first stop was another crack at a Geocache called Night Signals. I <strike>wasted</strike> spent some time on that and then started my GPS tracklog heading for the hashpoint.
+Other than being a bit out of my way, I made it with no problem and took some pictures. Added one more stop for my Minesweeper award and was on my way.
 == Tracklog ==
 <!-- if your GPS device keeps a log, you may post a link here -->
+You can follow my tracklog in [http://coldshadow.com/geohashing/2012-06-22.gpx GPX] and [http://coldshadow.com/geohashing/2012-06-22.kmz KMZ] formats.
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+Image:RocketMac 2012-06-22 41 -89 01.jpg | Stupid Grin
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+Image:RocketMac 2012-06-22 41 -89 03.jpg |
+Image:RocketMac 2012-06-22 41 -89 04.jpg | The geomobile
+Image:RocketMac 2012-06-22 41 -89 05.jpg |
+Image:RocketMac 2012-06-22 41 -89 06.jpg | GPS Reading
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+| latitude = 41
+| longitude = -89
+| date = 2012-06-22
+| name = RocketMac
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+{{Minesweeper geohash
+| graticule = Schaumburg, Illinois
+| ranknumber = 7
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+| name = RocketMac
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