2014-01-21 42 -85

Tue 21 Jan 2014 in 42,-85: 42.9931618, -85.7141845 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox

Location

North (westbound) side of Richmond St. by Holy Cross Cemetery, Grand Rapids, MI, USA

Participants

• Mcbaneg (talk) (George)

Expedition

Like 2014-01-02 42 -85, too easy not to go for: actually on a road, close to where the bus drops me during my commute home. This is just a little west of our first Michigan hash at 2013-08-17 42 -85.

Since it was actually on the road, and dark, and cold, I thought it best to go for (frozen) Speed Racer. Unfortunately my cell phone and I were not up to the photography task, so I have no usable pics to show. I drove westbound along Richmond St about 6 pm, and tried to shoot pictures of two 30-mph speed limit signs as I went along (white blurry rectangle), one shot of the graveyard (black), one of the speedometer showing 31 mph as I went by (unintelligible sea-anemone impression from lit dial and car vibration), and one shot of the street sign at the nearby intersection with Walker Ave (vague green blurry rectangle). So it's a total loss in the expedition-photos department.

Photos

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  Speed limit sign, clearly reading 30 mph.

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  Shot of speedometer going past hashpoint, clinching Speed Racer. [If you squint you can sort of see a fuzzy diagonal line going roughly from the center of the dial to where 30 mph should be.]

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  Street sign at the corner of Richmond St. and Walker Ave, just west of hashpoint. Incontrovertible evidence that I got to the right place.

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  Temperature record from nearby station KMIGRAND34, showing -11 °C at 6 pm. Yes, it's sad that the best pic I have was cropped from a Weather Underground screenshot.

Achievements

George earned the Land geohash achievement by reaching the (42, -85) geohash on 2014-01-21.

George earned the No Batteries Geohash Achievement by reaching the (42, -85) geohash on 2014-01-21.

George earned the Frozen Geohash Achievement by reaching the (42, -85) geohash on 2014-01-21 while the temperature was -11 °C.

George earned the Speed racer achievement by passing through the (42, -85) geohash on 2014-01-21 at 31 mph.