2020-06-30 -37 145

Tue 30 Jun 2020 in Melbourne East: -37.6820519, 145.0991574 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox

Expeditions

Location

On the bank of the Plenty River in Plenty Gorge Park.

Participants

Steve

Expedition

I took advantage of a pretty flexible work situation to jump on the bike a bit before 3pm. The location looked awesome: a reasonable distance (about 48km round trip), in Plenty Gorge Park close to a mountain bike trail, near a river but not actually in it.

Riding there was fairly straightforward: straight up the St Georges Rd trail into a cold headwind. I entered the park at the earliest point, to maximise the amount of mountain bike trail. It was great! I'm a little bit out of practice so took it pretty gentle, walking a few particularly rocky or slippery sections, while listening to a podcast about de-cluttering. As I got closer, I noticed that the trails were no longer on OSM, so I had to keep checking to see if I was getting closer.

Eventually I found myself 11 metres from the point - but at the top of a very steep, overgrown embankment. It was almost a cliff. I considered backtracking to a bridge to be able to walk along the river. However, I carefully stumbled and slipped my way down the embankment, leaving my helmet on for safety. As soon as I was down, I checked the app and was already at 1.5m. Success!

The ride home was also great. I went a different way, along the Plenty River Trail, which felt completely unfamiliar. Lots of amazing bushland, birds, etc. Pretty excellent all up!

This user earned the Bicycle geohash achievement by cycling to the (-37, 145) geohash on 2020-06-30.

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