Difference between revisions of "2019-05-04 50 10"

Revision as of 11:12, 6 May 2019

Location

railway station Zella-Mehlis, southern end of platform 5

Participants

Plans

GeorgDerReisende

Traveling by train, standing at the hash at hash o'clock, taking the train at 16:05 for home.

Expedition

GeorgDerReisende

I left home at 10:30 and with a bus and three trains I traveled to Zella-Mehlis. I arrived there at 14:19. I found out, that the hash was on platform 5. But it was an easy hash and I wanted to go to the hash at hash o'clock, so I tried to leave the place. But I wanted to take a first photo. But a man walked into the direction of the hash and he made some strange gestures. And I thought, this behaviour looks like a dancing geohasher. And I walked to the hash and I met Danatar. After the meetup I made a walk to Zella-Mehlis and I walked back to the train station. At hash o'clock I waited again at the hash. But nobody else arrived. At 16:05 I took the train and traveled home.

the hash at platform 5
a stranger at the hash
Danatar is dancing
the site of hash
GeorgDerReisende at the hash at hash o'clock

Danatar

I was on my way from Dresden to Würzburg for a round birthday party and as usual I looked up possible hashpoints along the way. When I noticed this one directly at the Zella-Mehlis train station I decided to visit it. This meant using the route along the A4/A71 via Jena and Suhl, which is a bit longer than my usual route along the A72 via Hof. In order to not drive too many additional kilometers I decided to trade time for distance and left the A4 at the Apolda exit. From there I drove along country roads through Bad Berka, Kranichfeld and Stadtilm to reach the A71 again at Ilmenau. There was just the problem of a few road blocks that forced me to make a few detours, nullifying most of the shortcut. A while later I left the A71 again at the Oberhof exit, driving through the northern part of Zella-Mehlis until I reached the train station which had a very convenient and free of charge parking lot.

When I got out of the car (~14:15), a train arrived. Among the people getting off I noticed somebody with a large white beard. I immediately thought of GeorgDerReisende but rejected that possibility because it was much too early for hash o'clock. I used the tunnel to platform 5 and went to the end of it. The GPS at first showed the spot one meter beyond the guardrail but the spot moved around a bit until I could finally find it on the platform. While taking pictures I noticed the white-bearded guy from before coming to the same platform and walking towards me. It was indeed GeorgDerReisende! Hooray! Because we met, it even counts as a Saturday meetup even though it wasn't 4 pm. We talked a bit, then we parted ways again, with me driving to the Autobahn and onward to Würzburg.

Zella-Mehlis train station
2019-05-04 50 10 d near.jpg

almost there
2019-05-04 50 10 d gps.jpg

GPS
panorama
2019-05-04 50 10 d gdr.jpg

GeorgDerReisende approaching
2019-05-04 50 10 d meetup.jpg

tracklog will follow

Achievements

GeorgDerReisende earned the xkcd Quinquaginturion achievement

by attending 53 Saturday meetups.

Danatar earned the xkcd Quadraginturion achievement

by attending 40 Saturday meetups.

GeorgDerReisende and Danatar earned the Meet-up achievement

by meeting each other at the (50, 10) geohash on 2019-05-04.

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 == Location ==
-railway station Zella-Mehlis, platform 3, southern end
+railway station Zella-Mehlis, southern end of platform 5
 == Participants ==
-[[User:GeorgDerReisende|GeorgDerReisende]]
+* [[User:GeorgDerReisende|GeorgDerReisende]]
+* [[User:Danatar|Danatar]]
 == Plans ==
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 Traveling by train, standing at the hash at hash o'clock, taking the train at 16:05 for home.
 == Expedition ==
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 I left home at 10:30 and with a bus and three trains I traveled to Zella-Mehlis. I arrived there at 14:19. I found out, that the hash was on platform 5. But it was an easy hash and I wanted to go to the hash at hash o'clock, so I tried to leave the place. But I wanted to take a first photo. But a man walked into the direction of the hash and he made some strange gestures. And I thought, this behaviour looks like a dancing geohasher. And I walked to the hash and I met [[User:Danatar|Danatar]]. After the meetup I made a walk to Zella-Mehlis and I walked back to the train station. At hash o'clock I waited again at the hash. But nobody else arrived. At 16:05 I took the train and traveled home.
-== Tracklog ==
-<!-- if your GPS device keeps a log, you may post a link here -->
-== Photos ==
-<!-- Insert pictures between the gallery tags using the following format:
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 -05-04 50 10 GeorgDerReisende 6862.jpg | the hash at platform 5
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 -05-04 50 10 GeorgDerReisende 6970.jpg | GeorgDerReisende at the hash at hash o'clock
 </gallery>
+=== Danatar ===
+I was on my way from Dresden to Würzburg for a round birthday party and as usual I looked up possible hashpoints along the way. When I noticed this one directly at the Zella-Mehlis train station I decided to visit it. This meant using the route along the A4/A71 via Jena and Suhl, which is a bit longer than my usual route along the A72 via Hof. In order to not drive too many additional kilometers I decided to trade time for distance and left the A4 at the Apolda exit. From there I drove along country roads through Bad Berka, Kranichfeld and Stadtilm to reach the A71 again at Ilmenau. There was just the problem of a few road blocks that forced me to make a few detours, nullifying most of the shortcut. A while later I left the A71 again at the Oberhof exit, driving through the northern part of Zella-Mehlis until I reached the train station which had a very convenient and free of charge parking lot.
+When I got out of the car (~14:15), a train arrived. Among the people getting off I noticed somebody with a large white beard. I immediately thought of GeorgDerReisende but rejected that possibility because it was much too early for hash o'clock. I used the tunnel to platform 5 and went to the end of it. The GPS at first showed the spot one meter beyond the guardrail but the spot moved around a bit until I could finally find it on the platform. While taking pictures I noticed the white-bearded guy from before coming to the same platform and walking towards me. It was indeed GeorgDerReisende! Hooray! Because we met, it even counts as a Saturday meetup even though it wasn't 4 pm. We talked a bit, then we parted ways again, with me driving to the Autobahn and onward to Würzburg.
+<gallery>
+File:2019-05-04_50_10_d_bahnhof.jpg|Zella-Mehlis train station
+File:2019-05-04_50_10_d_near.jpg|almost there
+File:2019-05-04_50_10_d_gps.jpg|GPS
+File:2019-05-04_50_10_d_pano.jpg|panorama
+File:2019-05-04_50_10_d_gdr.jpg|GeorgDerReisende approaching
+File:2019-05-04_50_10_d_meetup.jpg|
+</gallery>
+''tracklog will follow''
 == Achievements ==
-{{#vardefine:ribbonwidth|800px}}
-<!-- Add any achievement ribbons you earned below, or remove this section -->
-=== GeorgDerReisende ===
 {{XKCD Centurion | count = 53 | name = GeorgDerReisende }}
+{{XKCD Centurion | count = 40 | name = Danatar }}
-{{Meet-up | latitude = 50 | longitude = 10 | date = 2019-05-04 | name = GeorgDerReisende | other = Danatar }}
+{{Meet-up | latitude = 50 | longitude = 10 | date = 2019-05-04 | name = GeorgDerReisende and Danatar | other = each other }}
 [[Category:Expeditions]]
 [[Category:Expeditions with photos]]
 [[Category:Expedition without GPS]]
 {{location|DE|TH|SM}}
 [[Category:Coordinates reached]]
+[[Category:Danatar]]


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