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And DON'T FORGET to add your expedition and the best photo you took to the gallery on the Main Page! We'd love to read your report, but that means we first have to discover it! :) | And DON'T FORGET to add your expedition and the best photo you took to the gallery on the Main Page! We'd love to read your report, but that means we first have to discover it! :) | ||
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| + | In a hilly mixture of acres and wilderness near Bargas | ||
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| + | My first geohash… attempt — failed. | ||
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| + | On the map it had looked like I could get pretty close to the geohash on the road, albeit unpaved the last few kilometers. When I got to the unpaved part after a nice one hour ride over small country roads with few traffic, it turned out that the conditions might have been fine for a handy motocross machine, but not for a 400 kg Goldwing. Moreover, the path got narrow and showed pronounced ruts, so that I could not have turned around. Should one go on under such conditions? Of course not, stupid! | ||
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| + | In retrospective, I suspect that I had a serious attack of get-there-itis, a well known phenomenon among pilots. I stubbornly rode on, and it got really bad. After about a kilometer, I reached a crossroad embedded in a flat, level area where I could turn around and park the bike, soaked in fear sweat. | ||
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| + | The GPS showed the geohash still three kilometers away. I took a foot path leading roughly in the right direction, but after about 100 meters, it turned and I would have had to walk cross country. The terrain was a mixture of acres and wilderness, and if I avoided the acres, it would have taken quite some time, more than I had planned to spend, to reach the geohash, so I decided to give up at that point. That might also have been motivated by the fact that I was afraid of the ride back over the barely passable path and I wanted to get it over with. | ||
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| + | This part of the ride did indeed give me a few moments of shock, but in the end I reached the paved road for a relaxing one hour cruise back home. | ||
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| + | This experience made me think and thereafter I strictly avoided unpaved roads with the Godwing… until expedition [[2021-09-30_39_-4]]. | ||
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| + | Image:2021-05-22 39 -4 L1040270.JPG | As far as I could get on the bike. | ||
| + | Image:2021-05-22 39 -4 L1040267.JPG | Looking in the direction of the (not reached) geohash, about three kilometers away. | ||
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Latest revision as of 16:57, 4 October 2021
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Location
In a hilly mixture of acres and wilderness near Bargas
Participants
Plans
Expedition
My first geohash… attempt — failed.
On the map it had looked like I could get pretty close to the geohash on the road, albeit unpaved the last few kilometers. When I got to the unpaved part after a nice one hour ride over small country roads with few traffic, it turned out that the conditions might have been fine for a handy motocross machine, but not for a 400 kg Goldwing. Moreover, the path got narrow and showed pronounced ruts, so that I could not have turned around. Should one go on under such conditions? Of course not, stupid!
In retrospective, I suspect that I had a serious attack of get-there-itis, a well known phenomenon among pilots. I stubbornly rode on, and it got really bad. After about a kilometer, I reached a crossroad embedded in a flat, level area where I could turn around and park the bike, soaked in fear sweat.
The GPS showed the geohash still three kilometers away. I took a foot path leading roughly in the right direction, but after about 100 meters, it turned and I would have had to walk cross country. The terrain was a mixture of acres and wilderness, and if I avoided the acres, it would have taken quite some time, more than I had planned to spend, to reach the geohash, so I decided to give up at that point. That might also have been motivated by the fact that I was afraid of the ride back over the barely passable path and I wanted to get it over with.
This part of the ride did indeed give me a few moments of shock, but in the end I reached the paved road for a relaxing one hour cruise back home.
This experience made me think and thereafter I strictly avoided unpaved roads with the Godwing… until expedition 2021-09-30_39_-4.
Tracklog
Photos
As far as I could get on the bike.
Looking in the direction of the (not reached) geohash, about three kilometers away.
