2016-03-28 49 8

Mon 28 Mar 2016 in 49,8: 49.7981983, 8.4769133 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox

Location

A field near Stockstadt am Rhein.

Participants

• DODO
• Q-Owla
• Q-Owl

Plans

DODO: Take the train to Worms and walk to the hash. It's almost 28 KM to the hash and I can start in Worms around 10:30, so I think, I'll arrive some minutes after hash o'clock.

Q-Owla and Q-Owl did not have a look at this page (sorry!) and planned to drive to Stockstadt after lunch.

Expedition

Q-Owla and Q-Owl: We drove near Stockstadt and reached the hp at 14:00 h. Cold and very windy here! It was not in the fenced sheep-run, but south of it. :-)
Later we found about 10 geocaches in and around Stockstadt and Erfelden. And we found a wood full of abloom Scilla near Erfelden. :-))

DODO:

		I had certain difficulties with the trains. First I had to take a bus in Speyer instead of a train due to construction works on the rails. I had to change to the train in Schifferstadt. Then I left the train at Ludwigshafen main station, but the train I wanted to catch only stopped at Ludwigshafen city center. I hurried to get the next train to Mannheim main station to get an earlier train, but just got the one, that also stopped in Ludwigshafen main station. But finally I reached Worms at 10:37, just 15 minutes later than expected.
I left the station at the "backdoor" (as you can see on the picture) and walked out of the town. Soon I reached some rails and followed them for a while but sometimes the way runs through some kind of forest and I found my first violets for this year
	After an hour I reached the rhine river and followed it for a while (well almost three hours). The paths lead me through typical alluvial forests.
		I made my first break at this sign to read about the old ferry that was at this place since the 12. century. Later I saw the former nuclear power plant of Biblis on the other side of the river.
		Rheindürkheim was the only village I saw on my way on the left side of the river. And it was very windy.
	If the hash would have been here, Andres Gorz would have gained a coffin achievement (although I don't think he's really buried here, thats not legal in germany, and anyway not wise, to burry someone so close to a river. He might come back to soon). It was almost 2 pm when I reached the ferry to Gernsheim. Mind the industrial area on the other side. I'll have to cross it soon.
Sometimes the way feels like in prison, but when I came near the hash, the landscape was rural again, and close to the hash was this former mill.
		proof and view to the four directions: the sheep, the town, the mill and the Odenwald
	Oh, and to the hasher of course. After half an hour break and another hour of walking backwards, I was very happy to reach the Hotel in Biebesheim. Here I found that the Q-Owls had been at the hash just before me. Darn, we missed once again.

Photos

DODO

• DODO-2016-03-28 49 8-1.jpg

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  Proof

• DODO-2016-03-28 49 8-2.jpg

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Photos will follow when I've finished this years hashtour.

Q-Owla and Q-Owl

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  Hashpoint behind that sheep-run and the farm in the rear

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  Proof 0.766 m

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  View from the hp east

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  View north

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  View west

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  View south

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  Grin²

Achievements

DODO, Q-Owla, Q-Owl earned the Land geohash achievement by reaching the (49, 8) geohash on 2016-03-28.

DODO, Q-Owla, Q-Owl earned the Avoid Each Other Achievement by launching two independent expeditions without meeting up at the (49, 8) geohash on 2016-03-28.

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Expeditions and Plans

2016-03-28
Mannheim, Germany	DODO, Q-Owla, Q-Owl	A field near Stockstadt am Rhein.
Norwich, United Kingdom	ChromeCrusaders, Sourcerer	A patch of public land very close to a patch of private land, East Ruston, ...

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