2019-09-24 55 9

Tue 24 Sep 2019 in 55,9: 55.4010999, 9.8828975 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox

Location

deep inside a very dense and bosky coniferous forest near Ejby or Ørslev, Denmark

Participants

• Leidenfrost (talk)
• π π π (talk)

Expedition

π π π (log from April 2020)

After completing 2019-09-24 55 11 (read the story of our day so far there), we finally arrived at this hash at 8 pm, the sun having set almost an hour ago. It meant a detour of 20 min and 9 km. After driving through some forest roads, we found the nearest spot on the street and parked 300 m from the hashpoint by an enormous pile of chipped wood. We couldn't see anything, but thankfully I had a very luminous torch. So we walked the forest path for a while, then had to go into the forest to get to the location. The distance to the hash was only about 150 m, but it was hard to navigate and we actually covered much more distance. To our misfortune, the forest was coniferous and extremely dense. We had to endure a whole lot of needles and branches in our faces, and often the forest was so dense that we couldn't walk and had to crawl on the floor. We tried to walk around some of the most bosky parts, but often that just wasn't possible. In all, it took us more than 10 minutes get to the geohash. We took pictures, then tried to find the shortest way to a forest path. We did find a path, but had to walk through a lot of what maybe was holly with stingy leaves. Now we needed to get back to the car, and managed to do so after walking about 500 m along the paths.

Taking off again, we noticed that our fuel was low and navigated to the next petrol station, which was closed. Now desperate, we had to refuel at the next station, which thankfully was operating on its own. Otherwise we might've ran out on our way to the nearest city. We then continued on driving 60 km to the town of Christiansfeld, thus reaching two geohashes and four World Heritage sites (of 7 in Denmark, 5 including the day before) in a single day. Afterward, we finally drove the last 200 km home, arriving shortly before midnight. So that's the story of our first multihash, still the only geohash I did in the dark. It's also one of the only Double Hashes in non-adjacent graticules ever. 24 September 2019 might easily have been the most eventful day of my life, and I'm not sure if I've ever driven more in one day. What an adventure.

Photos

will follow shortly (8 pictures)

Achievements

Land geohash, Dark Ages

If there was ever a hash for which we could claim the MNIMB Geohash, it would be this one, because the forest was really extremely dense and prickly and it was very dark. But I feel like it's not quite enough for it, considering other challenges geohashers have overcome to get that achievement.

Leidenfrost and π π π earned the Multihash Achievement by reaching the 2019-09-24 55 11 and 2019-09-24 55 9 geohashes on 2019-09-24.