2018-08-23 50 -1

Thu 23 Aug 2018 in 50,-1: 50.9582412, -1.0376621 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox

Location

Hyden Wood, near Chidden. The woods look to be criss-crossed with footpaths, so this might be pretty achievable.

Participants

• Dan Q

Plans

I'd originally planned on heading to 2018-08-23 51 -1 because I anticipated that it'd be on or near my route travelling South along almost the entire length of the 51 -1 graticule, but I didn't bargain on such a Northerly hashpoint so I've changed plans and am now aiming to get to this one some time in the morning (I'm hoping to be in Winchester by lunch).

Expedition

The full story's in vlog format, but here's the summary:

• Wasn't originally planning to come to this graticule but instead was going to go to the 51 -1 graticule where I live ([2018-08-23 51 -1 see here]): I was going to be driving almost the entire length of 51 -1 on a journey from Oxford to Winchester anyway, so I figured it'd be easy to divert to any hashpoint. But when the Dow numbers came out, it turned out that the hashpoints in this quadrant of the Earth are all in the North-East corner, and so my journey would be in the opposite direction. Oh no! So instead I decided to "overshoot" and go for this graticule instead, and thus (if successful) expand my Minesweeper Achievement level.
• Hashpoint deep in woodland in the beautiful South Downs National Park. Parked at The Sustainability Centre...

...still writing... more to follow...

Tracklog

• Download full tracklog (includes boring bit where I drive down the A34, too...)

Video

• My vlog of the expedition, for if you like to watch a sweaty man complain about there being too many trees in the woods

Photos

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  Edge of the woods

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  Panorama of the Natural Burial Site that I passed through

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  Looking across the valley, I can see the woods on the other side that I believe to contain the hashpoint

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  This path looks like the best route towards it

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  Success! You can't get closer than this!

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  Panorama of the hashpoint, which surprisingly fell on a disused and unmarked trail

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  Silly (and damp) grin

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  A clever geocache container is in this photo...

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  Full tracklog map, including my drive all the way down from Oxford

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  Annotated map showing the walking part of the expedition

Achievements

DanQ earned the Consecutive geohash achievement by reaching hash points on 2 consecutive days starting on 2018-08-22.

DanQ achieved level 3 of the Minesweeper Geohash achievement by visiting coordinates in Swindon, United Kingdom and 3 of the surrounding graticules.