2015-08-15 49 8

Sat 15 Aug 2015 in 49,8: 49.4134064, 8.4930074 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox

Location

A forest between Altrip and Waldsee.

Participants

• DODO

Plans

Too close not to go (and the hash hadn't been that close for almost two month). Don't know exactly what time it'll be. Anyone else to come?

Expedition

Little girl became 18 yesterday, and so I had to spend the morning with cleaning up, making breakfast for some bleary-eyed people and doing some household-stuff. So it was almost 3 pm when I could start, what met pretty good with a Saturday meetup.

I know that way pretty good and so half an hour later I found myself on a forest path 70 m from the hash. From here on things got a (very) little bit weird.

GPS reception was not that good and so the direction arrow was jumping from left to right and back while the distance stays nearly constant at 20 m. Then I realized that the device knows where I am (and so the distance is correct), but it can't determine my direction. So I tried to move faster to make the direction more obvious, and some seconds later I was within the circle of uncertainty. I took some pictures, build a quick mark and ... had no idea in which direction I left my bike. But it was just 70 m away, so I finally found it.

Back on the path I waited until 4, and I used the time to search for ticks. That turned out as a good idea as I found two of them. One of them was bigger than usual and has an unusual color, so I wasn't sure that it was a tick, but Wikipedia says it was. At least it was big enough to take a photo of it.

On my way home I stopped at a beer garden where I've never been before. And it turned out that it was a very nice one. I'll certainly come back.

Tracklog

30 KM bike

Photos

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  my bike

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  view in the hash-direction

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  a lot of arum on my way

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  proof one

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  second device is also satisfied

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  pretty much the same view in any direction

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  except in this: there's a bigger tree

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  and in this direction: there's a happy hasher

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  little mark

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  little raptor

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  big beer

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  view from the bench in the beer garden

Achievements

DODO earned the Land geohash achievement by reaching the (49, 8) geohash on 2015-08-15.

DODO earned the Bicycle geohash achievement by cycling 30 KM to the (49, 8) geohash on 2015-08-15.

DODO earned the Velociraptor Geohash Achievement by reaching the (49, 8) geohash for 2015-08-15 with highly visible raptor claw marks.

DODO earned the xkcd Nullaturion achievement by attending 8 Saturday meetups.