User:Tilley

Introduction

Tilley
33 / m / 62,27
Likes to get there by bike.

Tilley

My name is Matti and I'm from Kuopio, Finland. I'm 32 years old and I love outdooring in its various forms.

I'm a fan of xkcd, and read the famous(?) geohashing comic a few years ago, but then forgot about the whole thing. Recently I stumbled on geohashing again on xkcd blag, and were quite surprised how active community there is around geohashing even today. As I own a GPS device, I thought that maybe I could start geohashing too, it sounded like fun. My excitement was heightened when I noticed that no one had ever visited a geohash in my graticule, so there was even a Virgin Graticule award to be taken right away.

My hobbies include mountain biking and paddling, and I own a kayak, so reaching also the water hashes won't be a problem. Those will probably be quite common, as we have hundreds of thousands of lakes in Finland.

In this area, temperatures in mid-winter lie below -20°C for a month or two, the coldest days being -35°C. Thus the lakes develop a thick ice every winter, so Frozen and Walking on Water achievements will be very easy, but I have to remember to take off my cross-country skis as I reach the hash point!

Graticules

I have connections to graticules that include Helsinki, Keuruu and Valtimo, so on vacations and such I could try to reach hashpoints in those graticules, too.

Plans

I will most likely be trying to reach hashes that are within biking/skiing/paddling distance, because although I own a car, I usually don't drive it too much and try to use my bike(s) to do my daily traveling.

Expeditions

• 21. 2013-06-25 62 25 Birthday geohash! Successfully reached in Kangashäkki, Uurainen.
• 20. 2013-06-20 62 25 Reached successfully this biking/walking geohash in Petäjävesi.
• 19. 2013-06-20 62 26 Reached successfully this geohash in Pönttövuori, Jyväskylä.
• 18. 2013-06-10 62 27 Reached successfully this biking geohash in Puutosmäki, Kuopio.
• 17. 2013-06-09 62 27 Reached successfully this biking geohash in Männistö, Kuopio, starting a two-day trip.
• 16. 2013-06-02 63 28 Reached successfully this geohash in Tornio, Valtimo, along with Pastori et co.
• 15. 2013-05-10 62 27 Reached successfully this biking geohash in Puroniitty, Haminalahti, Kuopio, with a party of five, among others Pastori.
• 14. 2013-04-29 62 27 First failure! No trespassing.
• 13. 2013-04-11 62 27 Reached successfully this biking geohash in Kuhastenniemi, Kuopio.
• 12. 2013-03-24 62 27 Reached successfully this biking geohash in Poukama, Kuopio.
• 11. 2013-03-05 62 27 Reached successfully this skiing geohash in Laivonsaari, Kuopio!
• 10. 2013-03-01 62 26 Reached successfully this hashpoint in Konnevesi.
• 9. 2012-12-28 62 27 Reached successfully this hashpoint in Kuopio with a group of 5, including Tilley's baby daughter scoring her first hashpoint, frozen of course.
• 8. 2012-12-20 62 26 Reached successfully this double frozen virgin geohash in Rautalampi.
• 7. 2012-12-20 62 25 Reached successfully this colder-than-freezer geohash (-19°C) near Saarijärvi, in Jyväskylä graticule.
• 6. 2012-12-17 60 24 Agitated my brother to reach this geohash in Espoo while I was being the Puppet Master
• 5. 2012-11-07 61 26 Reached successfully this geohash in snow-covered forest in Pertunmaa, achieving Virgin Graticule for Heinola, Finland.
• 4. 2012-10-28 62 27 Reached successfully by bike and with Mrs. Tilley this Frozen geohash south of Kuopio, in a forest.
• 3. 2012-10-11 60 24 Agitated my brother to reach this geohash in Espoo while I was being the Puppet Master.
• 2. 2012-10-07 62 27 Reached my second geohash, this time dragging Mrs. Tilley along. Kuopio, Finland.
• 1. 2012-10-04 62 27 Reached my first geohash by bike in the woods near the house Airaksela, also achieving Virgin Graticule in Kuopio, Finland.

Achievements (In some categories best or first only)

Tilley earned the Bicycle geohash achievement by cycling 60 km to and from the (62, 27) geohash on 2013-06-10.

Tilley earned the Consecutive geohash achievement by reaching 2 consecutive hash points starting on 2013-06-09.

Tilley earned the Multihash Achievement by reaching the 2013-06-20 62 26 and 2013-06-20 62 25 geohashes on 2013-06-20.

Tilley earned the Multihash Achievement by reaching the 2012-12-20 62 25 and 2012-12-20 62 26 geohashes on 2012-12-20.

Tilley achieved level 3 of the Minesweeper Geohash achievement by visiting coordinates in Kuopio, Finland and 3 of the surrounding graticules.

Tilley earned the Frozen Geohash Achievement

by reaching the (62, 25) geohash on 2012-12-20 while the temperature was -19°C.

Tilley earned the cross-country skiing achievement by skiing 20 km to and from (62, 27) geohash on 2013-03-05.

Tilley earned the Drag-along achievement by dragging Mrs. T to the (62, 27) geohash on 2012-10-07.

Tilley earned the Democracy Geohash Achievement by going voting on the way back from the (62, 27) geohash on 2012-10-28.

Tilley earned the Land geohash achievement by reaching the (62, 27) geohash on 2012-10-04.

• Puppet master Geohashes

Tilley earned the Puppet Master Geohash achievement by manipulating his brother to reach the (60, 24) geohash on 2012-10-11.

Tilley earned the Puppet Master Geohash achievement by manipulating his brother to reach the (60, 24) geohash on 2012-12-17.

• Virgin graticules