2015-09-29 52 0

Tue 29 Sep 2015 in Cambridge, UK: 52.1175554, 0.0828942 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox

Location

Six metres off a footpath between Newton and Foxton, south of Cambridge.

Participants

• Benjw

Plans

Benjw

Not quite sure when I will make this, but it's mostly likely to be about 1:30 - 2pm. Will cycle over to the hashpoint after a lecture in central Cambridge.

PaintedJaguar

Can't make lunchtime or early evening, but if time allows will aim for either the 20:55 or 21:55 train from Cambridge to Foxton. Will look out for any markers left by others (hint!), if they're easy to spot with just torchlight.

Have a good look around. You should see two objects, approximately 10cm across, at the hashpoint. Tongs (talk) 14:49, 29 September 2015 (EDT)

Tongs

Four of us will be driving to the hashpoint and approaching it from the other side - from Cambridge Road, Newton. We hope to be at the hashpoint just before 18:30. We'll try to leave some kind of decorated stone for PaintedJaguar.

Expedition

Expedition One (Benjw)

I was planning to go to the hashpoint this afternoon, after a lecture on Pluto I was attending at noon, but it turned out that my morning commitment finished earlier than expected, leaving enough time to bike out to the hashpoint and back in between. So I did. It helped that I was already on the correct side of Cambridge, so I cycled out from Addenbrooke's hospital on the stripy cycle path, through the Shelfords and out towards Newton. It was a pleasant day for a cycle and there was a light breeze propelling me along, so I arrived at about 10:50. As expected, the hashpoint was easily accessible -- about six metres off a public footpath along the side of a field. The field was bare and the earth was quite solid. Photos were taken and I left the hashpoint at 10:56, nicely in time for a leisurely cycle back into Cambridge via Harston and Trumpington.

Expedition Two (Tongs)

All four of us set out from the south side of Cambridge and, guided by Google Maps, went down ever smaller and smaller roads, then tracks, then, when the GPS receiver reported we were within 500m, we parked up alongside a footpath. We set off past what was probably someone's house and onto a public footpath leading to the field. Not long afterwards, F found an interest path into the woods and, for maybe 300m, we followed the gap in the trees, the sun setting, and birds cawing and flying out of the trees.

After focusing our eyes on nearby things, the end of the path seemed liked an expanse, a huge field over which a beautiful sunset was in progress. We were close to the hashpoint and the familiar countdown of the GPS started as the metres ticked away. We reached the hashpoint, a metre or two from the side of the field and took the required evidence. T left PaintedJaguar some things and we slowly walked back, stopping to investigate some buried shotgun cartridges and a sign about shooting. By now it was dark, and we needed to get our torches out for a walk back through the woods. T played ranger and we stopped off to investigate a fork in the path, with a very real risk of getting lost. Coming back out, we heard an owl hooting!

We got back in the car and spent the twenty minutes going back to Cambridge scoffing the contents of the Emergency Fun Box.

Shiny ribbons earned

Benjw earned the Land geohash achievement by reaching the (52, 0) geohash on 2015-09-29.

Benjw earned the Bicycle geohash achievement by cycling 31.7 km to and from the (52, 0) geohash on 2015-09-29.