2015-03-05 51 9

Thu 5 Mar 2015 in 51,9: 51.4277491, 9.3520480 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox

Location

lat.427749, lon.352048: The hash lay on the hill Wartberg between Calden and Westeruffeln.

Participants

GeorgDerReisende

Plans

To travel by tram and by bus to Kassel International Airport and walk to the hash.

Expedition

		Again I travelled by bus to the Kassel International Airport and started to walk. While on my last expedition to this region, 2015-02-25 51 9, there was a lot of snow in the woods, today I saw the last snow on the mountains in the background.
		On the map I saw, that there were parts of the old national road and I tried to use these parts to reach the hash. But the road ended in nowhere. And there was only a very muddy edge of a field to continue. In the background on the left side you see the Wartberg.
		But I saw a lot of wind. As long as I walked outside the forest, there was a cold wind blowing. Nearly I got a cold.
		So I returned to the new national road and walked along it. I passed near 2014-04-30 51 9, the shortest distance was 48 meters.
		Again I could walk along the old road. There I passed the entrance to a limestone quarry. This company looked like, that it produces that gravel, which makes the muddy forest ways hard. My way led me to the side of it, so I hadn't a better view.
		Then I entered the forest and there were the usual muddy ways. At first I walked along a way parallel to the national road, but just where the hash should be, there was a muddy forest way uphill. I followed it. At one place I saw this dangerous looking part of trees. And here there were only 35 meters to go, through this 'gate'.
		At this time there I walked more or less zigzag through small trees, always uphill, with some sort of muddy ground. But then I got the two meters mark.
		As I walked along the shown way, I decided, it could be ok to say, I reached the hash and while the gps told me, the hash is two meters away, it was this tree. But then I thought I can do this better and tried to dance around. But that was too dangerous:
		I climbed uphill and found another forest way. From there I took those photos. The proof of my way, at one time I had passed the hash, but I don't know when and where. A view to the hash from above. The geohasher.
		Then the usual lookaround: to the south, to the west,
		to the east and to the north.
		Afterwards I walked along this newly found forest way to Westuffeln. Sometimes it was good to walk, sometimes it was very muddy. You know these ways.
		After a walk throung Westuffeln I travelled home, to Calden by hitchhiking, from there by bus. The photos show the old road, through Westuffeln, the Holländische Straße (road to Holland) and the new road, around Westuffeln.

Coordinate Calculator

Just as I wrote this report I got the message from Eupeodes, that the 'coordinates from March 4 onwards on the wiki are not reliable'. So again I calculated them myself.

Sometimes the peeron map doesn't show a marker. This happened first on 2013-09-24 51 9. So I calculated it by myself. As proof I have calculated the date which is shown at The Algorithm and those of some other dates. I have used http://elmar-eigner.de/md5_maker.html for the calculating of the md5 and http://www.easysurf.cc/cnver17.htm#bf16tobf10 for the calculating of the decimal fractions. The result was:

2005-05-26-10458.68	db9318c2259923d0	8b672cb305440f97	lat.8577132677070023	lon.5445430695592821
2013-09-21-15635.09	5fa26ea94f387b29	b57bdcb21e5af73d	lat.3735722697594798	lon.7089212355480007
2013-09-22-15635.09	ba4d3c191547a4ba	6111e4205c6ecf96	lat.727741008876619	lon.3791792468077191
2013-09-23-15635.09	e5eac75c66f8bbbd	8dda3de131d0ebab	lat.8981136894790066	lon.5541113543311585
2013-09-24-15452.31	be8103da25d3f6ab	2b0da6610d3e909f	lat.7441561133944815	lon.16817703122546335

Given the result to my Garmin led me to the hash. North of Brakel. Hitchhiking as usual.

I hoped I am right. And I was.

Now again:

2015-03-05-18203.37

6d80f692a072145f

5a1fd1a849c2ddb7

lat.42774907188181316

lon.3520480190143291

Right for today.

Achievements

GeorgDerReisende earned the Land geohash achievement by reaching the (51, 9) geohash on 2015-03-05.