Difference between revisions of "2014-12-28 49 8"

Latest revision as of 02:16, 15 August 2019

Location

On a field next to Bretten

Participants

Plans

It was snowing all night long and as most of the snow has melted away in Speyer, I was sure, there would still be a lot of it outside the Rhine valley. The hash was much to far away to go there by bike in the cold, and I don't want to drive so far by car only for geohashing. But I love to visit the monastery in Maulbronn especially around christmas, so lets see, what I can do with that: how about driving to Bretten near the hash and walk to Maulbronn. I'm totally fine to drive 60KM to do a 25 KM walk :-)

Expedition

The drive to Bretten was rather uneventful. The thermometer in the car shows -2ºC and so qualifies me for a frozen gh-achievement. I left the car at a local shopping center. As the center was closed on sunday there was plenty of free space. From here it was just a KM to walk to the hash. As I had hoped there was a lot of snow and the landscape was great. As I was on a field I had good gps-reception and so I even reached a 0. Then I tried to build a snowman, what appears to be a hard job, as the snow was very dry, and not adhesive at all. So I couldn't build snowballs that were bigger than I could press together with my hands, what leads to a very small snowman. Anyway, it should suffice as a mark to following hashers.

And then I started to walk through a german winter wonderland. After two and a half hours I reached the UNESCO world heritage site Maulbronn; on my way I followed the so called "Eppinger Linie", a line of defense from the late 17. century, which consists mostly of dense cops. I took some photos, ate some cake I brought with me in a place called paradise and walked back. On my way to Bretten I met some strange kings and found the birth house of Doctor Faustus in Knittlingen. An hour later I reached my car again after 4 1/2 hours and 26 KM of walking, very tired but also very pleased.

Tracklog

26 KM walk (and additional 120 KM by car)

Photos

cold
proof
another proof
my tiny snowman
view from the hash to the north
view from the hash to Bretten
a german...
...winter...
...wonderland (even if the way is very wet)
a creepy detail: the former gibbet place (used until 1822)
thats how the Eppinger Linie might have looked like
after 2h 20m the first view to Maulbronn
inside the monastery
the paradise
three holy kings (and one mother)
Doctor Faustus was born here
the town hall of Knittlingen. Nowadays a Faust-Museum

Achievements

DODO earned the Land geohash achievement

by reaching the (49, 8) geohash on 2014-12-28.

DODO earned the Frozen Geohash Achievement

by reaching the (49, 8) geohash on 2014-12-28 while the temperature was below the freezing point of water.

DODO earned the Snowman Geohash Honourable Mention

by building a snowbaby at the (49, 8) geohash on 2014-12-28.

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