2014-08-13 51 9

Wed 13 Aug 2014 in 51,9: 51.6228678, 9.8277944 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox

Location

The hash lay in the forest 3 km south of Hardegsen.

Participants

GeorgDerReisende

Plans

Hitchhiking and walking.

Expedition

		I left home at 10:30 and started to hitchhike at 11:00. After 30 minutes a car stopped and with this car I got a lift direct to Hardegsen, where I arrived at 12:00. And I started for the mountain. After 30 minutes of walk I found a shelter, from where I had a very good view to the city of Hardegsen.
		And after another 30 minutes I arrived at the crossway at the southwest edge of my way to the hash. Where I thought to find an old way to the hash. But between the forest and the field there was no way. So I left the ways and stepped into the forest. For the first meters I found several times something like a way. I followed it where I could.
		Then I crossed a forest way and only because I wanted to see where it goes, I found a forest way parallel to the field, but in the forest. This way was an old and very muddy way, but it had ditch and a dyke besides it. And on the dyke it was easy to follow the way.
		I followed this way for 20 minutes. Then the way disappeared under a great number of young trees. And while I thought about the more way, I found three different ways in the forest, all looking more like a valley than a forest way. And my GPS told me, that the hash was more to the right. So I left the way and started to walk through the pathless forest. Maybe 200 meters later I was stopped by a deep valley, where I walked to the right again uphill. There I found some small forest paths, a tractor path, a path to a hunting seat, another path to an unknown destination and suddenly I was on a normal forest way, near to the hash.
		From there the GPS told me to take another path to another hunting seat and from there I found another forest track looking way, leading me to the hash. After a short dance I found it.
		A tree stood on the hash. I wrote the mark on it.
		The north and the east.
		The south and the west.
		The geohasher and his dance.
		The village Gladebeck from far and from near.

For my way home I started to hitchhike at 15:15 and with a car, a walk and another car I arrived at Kassel at 17:15.

Achievements

GeorgDerReisende earned the Thumbs Up Geohash Achievement by hitchhiking to the (51, 9) geohash on 2014-08-13, and withstanding the Vogon poetry of the driver.

GeorgDerReisende earned the Last man standing achievement by being the the only hasher world-wide to go on a geohashing expedition on 2014-08-13.