Difference between revisions of "2013-07-05 42 -87"

Latest revision as of 03:02, 14 August 2019

Location

North School Park in Arlington Heights, Illinois

Participants

Plans

Heading out from work during my lunch break. We should be there around 12:30. After that we are heading to Smash Burger!

I (Haberdasher) hadn't seen the above plans in time and was uncertain about the practicality of this hashpoint anyway, but has found time for reaching it later in the evening, hoping to arrive around 6:30 PM.

Expedition

We (TJAMM and I) arrived at the park shortly after noon. It was beautiful weather in a cute, little park. A fountain gurgled nearby. People were sitting around reading or eating lunch. We strolled to the geohash location between a shady tree and a park bench. In all a very nice place to visit. I'm glad we went.

I (Haberdasher) ended up getting there around 7:15 due to reasons. It was still light out, and the weather was indeed nice. There was a festival going on, so the park was somewhat busy and finding a parking space was a bit challenging, but the actual hashpoint itself was quite easy to reach. After some GPS-dancing and inspecting passersby on the off-chance that they too were geohashers, I headed out, my first geohash in over a month successfully completed.

Photos

Bench
Fountain
The nearest brick
Partner in... geohash!

Fountain
GPS
Stupid Grin

Achievements

Haberdasher achieved level 2 of the Minesweeper Geohash achievement

by visiting coordinates in Aurora, Illinois and 2 of the surrounding graticules.

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 {{meetup graticule
 | lat=42
-| lon=-88
+| lon=-87
 | date=2013-07-05
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 <!-- who attended: If you link to your wiki user name in this section, your expedition will be picked up by the various statistics generated for geohashing. You may use three tildes ~ as a shortcut to automatically insert the user signature of the account you are editing with.
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+*[[User:Swoop2|Swoop2]]
+*[[User:TJAMM|TJAMM]]
+*[[User:Haberdasher|Haberdasher]]
 == Plans ==
 <!-- what were the original plans -->
+Heading out from work during my lunch break.  We should be there around 12:30.  After that we are heading to Smash Burger!
+I ([[User:Haberdasher|Haberdasher]]) hadn't seen the above plans in time and was uncertain about the practicality of this hashpoint anyway, but has found time for reaching it later in the evening, hoping to arrive around 6:30 PM.
 == Expedition ==
-<!-- how it all turned out. your narrative goes here. -->
+We (TJAMM and I) arrived at the park shortly after noon.  It was beautiful weather in a cute, little park.  A fountain gurgled nearby.  People were sitting around reading or eating lunch.  We strolled to the geohash location between a shady tree and a park bench.  In all a very nice place to visit.  I'm glad we went.
-== Tracklog ==
+I ([[User:Haberdasher|Haberdasher]]) ended up getting there around 7:15 due to reasons. It was still light out, and the weather was indeed nice. There was a festival going on, so the park was somewhat busy and finding a parking space was a bit challenging, but the actual hashpoint itself was quite easy to reach. After some GPS-dancing and inspecting passersby on the off-chance that they too were geohashers, I headed out, my first geohash in over a month successfully completed.
-<!-- if your GPS device keeps a log, you may post a link here -->
 == Photos ==
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 -->
 <gallery perrow="5">
+Image:2013-07-05_42_-88_bench.png | Bench
+Image:2013-07-05_42_-88_fountain.png | Fountain
+Image:2013-07-05_42_-88_marker.png | The nearest brick
+Image:2013-07-05_42_-88_shotgun.png | Partner in... geohash!
+</gallery>
+<gallery perrow="5">
+Image:2013-07-05_42_-87Fountain.JPG | Fountain
+Image:2013-07-05_42_-87GPS.JPG | GPS
+Image:2013-07-05_42_-87StupidGrin.JPG | Stupid Grin
 </gallery>
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 <!-- Add any achievement ribbons you earned below, or remove this section -->
+{{Minesweeper geohash
+| graticule = Aurora, Illinois
+| ranknumber = 2
+| ne = true
+| e = true
+| name = Haberdasher
+}}
-<!-- =============== USEFUL CATEGORIES FOLLOW ================
-Delete the next line ONLY if you have chosen the appropriate categories below. If you are unsure, don't worry. People will read your report and help you with the classification. -->
-[[Category:New report]]
-<!-- Potential categories. Please include all the ones appropriate to your expedition -->
-<!-- If this is a planning page:
-[[Category:Expedition planning]]
--->
-<!-- An actual expedition:
 [[Category:Expeditions]]
--- and one or more of --
 [[Category:Expeditions with photos]]
-[[Category:Expeditions with videos]]
-[[Category:Expedition without GPS]]
--->
-<!-- if you reached your coords:
 [[Category:Coordinates reached]]
+{{location|US|IL|CO}}
---><!-- or if you failed :(
-[[Category:Coordinates not reached]]
--- and a reason --
-When there is a natural obstacle between you and the target:
-[[Category:Not reached - Mother Nature]]
-When there is a man-made obstacle between you and the target:
-[[Category:Not reached - No public access]]
-When you failed get your GPS, car, bike or such to work:
-[[Category:Not reached - Technology]]
-When you went to an alternate location, or decided early on to abort the expedition:
-[[Category:Not reached - Did not attempt]]
-(Don't forget to delete this final close comment marker) -->


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