User:Werther

30 / m / 46,11

I am a 18 years old guy living in the small city of Trento, northern Italy. I pride myself in being the most active Italian geohasher, but that's not a great accomplishment- I don't have any regular competition.

I got to know geohashing on the 12th of August, 2012, and it was instant love. Trentino is not the easiest place to get around- it's all mountains around here, and some places can be quite hard to reach. On the other hand, though, Trento is on the bottom left corner of a graticule- this means I have three other graticules nearby should the location in mine be unreachable. I mostly hash via public transport, as I don't have a driver's license yet.

At the end of 2012 I released a report on all the expeditions I did during the year, which you can read here. Thanks for visiting my userpage, and feel free to leave a message for anything- even if you just want to chat.

My expeditions

No.	Date/link	Graticule	Municipality	Actual location	Outcome	Means of transportation	Notes !
01	2012-08-13	Trento	Trento	A swampy meadow in Viote, Mt.Bondone	Reached	Intercity bus (202)	First geohash!
02	2012-08-24			Outside a house in the Laste neighborhood	Reached	None (walked)
03	2012-08-26			In a porphiry quarry near Gazzadina	Reached	City bus (3)	First expedition with GPS. One of my favorites
04	2012-08-27		Egna (BZ)	In a parking lot in Egna	Failed	Intercity bus (104)	Forgot to save the coordinates on the GPS, asked my sister to text them to me, she mispelled them.
05	2012-09-02	Verona	Dro	On the side of a country road north of Dro	Reached	Intercity bus (204)
06	2012-09-20	Padova	Vallarsa	In the small village of Albaredo	Reached	Intercity bus (301 and 310)	Deflowered Padova graticule
07	2012-12-29	Trento	Sanzeno	In an apple field north of Banco	Reached	Train (FTM) and intercity bus (627)	Personal favourite
08	2013-01-02		Cinte Tesino	Inside a house in Cinte Tesino	Failed	Intercity bus (401 and 405)	No trespassing geohash. Also first expedition in a snowstorm
09	2013-02-17	Padova	Isera	Outside a group of houses in Cornalé	Reached	Train (FS) and Rovereto city bus (2)
10	2013-03-30	Trento	Taio	In an apple field west of Segno	Reached	Train (FTM)	Drowning rat geohash
11	2013-04-01		Trento	In the woods between Sopramonte and Baselga, on the foothills of Mt.Bondone	Reached	City bus (6)
12	2013-04-05		Civezzano	On the northbound lane of SP71, just east of Civezzano	Reached	Intercity bus (103)
13	2013-05-05		Pergine Valsugana	In a meadow of unknown purposes, next to a major highway in Pergine	Reached	Intercity bus (401 and 403)
14	2013-05-13	Padova	Pomarolo	A field in the Servis plateau, east of Sevignano	Failed	Intercity bus (301 and 302), Rovereto city bus (1, 3, 5 and 6)	GPS not working properly
15	2013-07-19	Trento	Terlago	A field west of Monte Terlago	Reached	Intercity bus (206 and 236) and Trento city bus (6)	Reached without GPS

Planned but not attempted expeditions (hopefully future retros)

2012-12-14: Snowstorm struck in the morning causing transport delays, my timetable wouldn't allow me to go on an adventure.

2012-01-21: Bad weather, had a cold, and it was too difficult (also implied lots of time)

Achievements

Werther earned the Land geohash achievement by reaching the (46, 11) geohash on 2012-08-26.

Werther earned the Public transport geohash achievement by reaching the (46, 11) geohash on 2012-08-26 via Trentino Trasporti network.

Werther achieved level 2 of the Minesweeper Geohash achievement by visiting coordinates in Trento, Italy and 2 of the surrounding graticules.

Werther earned the Drowned Rat Geohash Achievement by reaching the (46, 11) geohash on 2013-04-08 despite being thoroughly wet from heavy rain an umbrella could only partially cover.

Werther earned the Blinded by Science Consolation Prize by failing to reach the (45, 11) geohash on 2013-05-13 GPS not working properly.

• Side note/shameless bragging: I could have claimed both land geohash and Public Transport geohash on my first expedition, but I lacked proof for those two.

Hidden goals

These are my ultimate achievements- they will take something like five years to accomplish but well, I like challenges. No.2 and 3 are pretty out of date.

1) Successfully hashing once in every of the 217 Trentino municipalities (so far: 9)

2) Using at least once every Trentino city/intercity bus line, which are quite a lot (I don't know the exact number!) (so far: 3x Trento city network, 7x intercity network, FTM railway included)

3) Using at least once every Trentino Trasporti bus (according to their website, there are 714 of them, just sayin': 16 so far, train included)