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==Now and Near Future== | ==Now and Near Future== | ||
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===Eventually=== | ===Eventually=== | ||
| − | * Eager to get a globalhash | + | * Eager to get a globalhash using human powered vehicles only |
| + | * Build a cool human powered vehicle to get to geohash in. | ||
* Minesweep home graticule | * Minesweep home graticule | ||
| − | * Meet at least one geohasher with a name starting with each letter of the alphabet. I lack B | + | * Meet at least one geohasher with a name starting with each letter of the alphabet. I currently lack only B, N, U & V. |
* Boat across the Squamish River and reach a geohash in the Tantalus Range. | * Boat across the Squamish River and reach a geohash in the Tantalus Range. | ||
* Examine early Date pages and create expedition pages for the people who reported their expeditions only on the Main Page. | * Examine early Date pages and create expedition pages for the people who reported their expeditions only on the Main Page. | ||
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==Geohashing Equipment== | ==Geohashing Equipment== | ||
* Успех (pronounced ''Oosp-yekh'' a.k.a. "Speckles") my 1991 Kuwahara TO2 Supertour 18-speed bicycle | * Успех (pronounced ''Oosp-yekh'' a.k.a. "Speckles") my 1991 Kuwahara TO2 Supertour 18-speed bicycle | ||
| − | * ''Amazingly Enough'', my [http://www. | + | * A string (up to two and no reason to believe it will stop here) of [[Robyn/Incredibly Crappy Walmart Bicycle|bicycles purchased and then abandoned]] in other graticules. |
| + | * ''Amazingly Enough'', my [http://www.sevylor.com/Pointer-K1-Kayak-P1832C41.aspx inflatable kayak] | ||
* T-Rex, my dinosaur [[Hashscots|hashscot]] | * T-Rex, my dinosaur [[Hashscots|hashscot]] | ||
* Yellow Garmin ''etrex Venture HC'' GPS | * Yellow Garmin ''etrex Venture HC'' GPS | ||
| − | * Canon ''Power Shot SD10'' digital camera | + | * <strike>Canon ''Power Shot SD10'' digital camera</strike> RIP March 2011, sadly missed |
* Gorilla mini camera tripod | * Gorilla mini camera tripod | ||
* Brunton orienteering compass | * Brunton orienteering compass | ||
===Wanted Equipment=== | ===Wanted Equipment=== | ||
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*Camelback waterbag | *Camelback waterbag | ||
== Statistics == | == Statistics == | ||
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===Graticules=== | ===Graticules=== | ||
| − | *'''Hashes Attempted''': | + | ''I'm not very good at keeping this up to date anymore.'' |
| − | *'''Hashes Achieved''': | + | *'''Hashes Attempted''': 148 in >39 [[User:Robyn/Graticule Hopper|different graticules]] |
| − | *'''Retrohashes''': | + | *'''Hashes Achieved''': 99 in >33 different graticules (+2 more without proof) |
| − | *'''Centurion-eligible Saturday Meetups''': 12 in 6 [[User:Robyn/Centurion|different graticules]] | + | *'''Retrohashes''': 2 |
| − | *'''Geohashers met''': | + | *'''Centurion-eligible Saturday Meetups''': >12 in 6 [[User:Robyn/Centurion|different graticules]] |
| − | *'''Continents geohashed''': 1 | + | *'''Geohashers met''': >36 in 7 different graticules |
| + | *'''Continents geohashed''': 2 | ||
| + | *'''Monroe Number''': 5 (via Thomcat)''' | ||
| + | *'''Globalhashes''': 1 | ||
===Things that have thwarted me=== | ===Things that have thwarted me=== | ||
| + | ''Needs updating.'' | ||
*'''Private property''' : 11 | *'''Private property''' : 11 | ||
*'''Being chicken''': 1 | *'''Being chicken''': 1 | ||
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Never turn down a chance to geohash. | Never turn down a chance to geohash. | ||
| − | == | + | ==Recent Geohashes Attempted== |
| − | Most recent are listed first. Single horizontal lines every ten missions, and double lines every fifty, to facilitate counting. Bold numbers are the success count and bold words indicate an award or consolation prize taken for that attempt. | + | Most recent are listed first. Single horizontal lines every ten missions, and double lines every fifty, to facilitate counting. Bold numbers are the success count and bold words indicate an award or consolation prize taken for that attempt. Older geohash expeditions are summarized and linked on [[Robyn/All_Geohashes|their own page]]. |
I've decided to count a geohash "successful" if I: | I've decided to count a geohash "successful" if I: | ||
:(a) get to within the accuracy figure of the coordinates as shown by my GPS, | :(a) get to within the accuracy figure of the coordinates as shown by my GPS, | ||
| − | :(b) have the GPS show a distance remaining of zero, | + | :(b) have the GPS show a distance remaining of zero, or |
| − | :(c | + | :(c) for airhashes, take a readable photo within 10 seconds of each latitude and longitude. |
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| − | + | *[[2013-03-10 49 -122]] ([[Surrey, British Columbia|Surrey, BC]]): Cold White Rock sidewalk. Success '''#99'''. | |
| − | *[[ | + | *[[2013-02-15 49 -123]] ([[Vancouver, British Columbia|Vancouver, BC]]): Airhash had to work too late to make it a double. Success '''#98'''. |
| − | *[[ | + | *[[2013-01-18 49 -123]] ([[Vancouver, British Columbia|Vancouver, BC]]): Deerhash by Sea-to-Sky. Success '''#97'''. |
| − | + | *[[2013-01-02 49 -123]] ([[Vancouver, British Columbia|Vancouver, BC]]): New Year's pubhash. Success '''#96'''. | |
| − | + | *[[2012-06-02 52 -121]] ([[Likely, British Columbia|Likely, BC]]): Another airhash. Success '''#95'''. | |
| − | *[[ | + | *[[2012-06-02 54 -120]] ([[Hart Ranges, British Columbia|Hart Ranges, BC]]): Airhash with Spencer. Success '''#94'''. |
| − | + | *[[2012-04-03 49 -123]] ([[Vancouver, British Columbia|Vancouver, BC]]): My first ever skihash. Success '''#93'''. | |
| − | + | *[[2012-03-07 49 -123]] ([[Vancouver, British Columbia|Vancouver, BC]]): Ran to and from an on-street Tron hash. Success '''#92'''. | |
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| + | *[[2012-02-29 49 -123]] ([[Vancouver, British Columbia|Vancouver, BC]]): Official alternate leaping with swords at Academie Duello. | ||
| + | *[[2011-09-18 49 -122]] ([[Surrey, British Columbia|Surrey, BC]]): Strawberry field transit/bike hash in Langley. Success '''#91'''. | ||
| + | *[[2011-09-16 49 -123]] ([[Vancouver, British Columbia|Vancouver, BC]]): Iona Beach bike hash. Met lyx & relet Success '''#90'''. | ||
| + | *[[2011-08-28 49 -123]] ([[Vancouver, British Columbia|Vancouver, BC]]): Musqueam transformer rock. Success '''#89'''. | ||
| + | *[[2011-08-27 49 -123]] ([[Vancouver, British Columbia|Vancouver, BC]]): Richmond industrial park. Success '''#88'''. | ||
| + | *[[2011-06-05 49 -123]] ([[Vancouver, British Columbia|Vancouver, BC]]): Best Airhash photo ever. Success '''#87'''. | ||
| + | *[[2011-05-21 49 -122]] ([[Surrey, British Columbia|Surrey, BC]]): Pitt River waterhash for Geohashing Day. Success '''#86'''. | ||
| + | *[[2011-05-14 49 -121]] ([[Chilliwack, British Columbia|Chilliwack, BC]]): Too cheap to rent a power boat, too rough for a kayak. | ||
| + | *[[2011-04-23 49 -122]] ([[Surrey, British Columbia|Surrey, BC]]): Coquitlam Town Centre Park Xore's Birthday Hash. Success '''#85'''. | ||
| + | *[[2011-04-12 49 -123]] ([[Vancouver, British Columbia|Vancouver, BC]]): In an alley in Shaughnessy with a turnout of five geohashers. Success '''#84'''. | ||
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| − | *[[ | + | *[[2011-04-09 49 -123]] ([[Vancouver, British Columbia|Vancouver, BC]]): In some brambles in a park in West Vancouver, with Wade. Success '''#83'''. |
| − | *[[ | + | *[[2011-03-16 49 -122]] ([[Surrey, British Columbia|Surrey, BC]]): Ended a long dry spell with Success '''#82''' at a park in PoCo. |
| − | *[[ | + | *[[2010-10-27 47 11]] ([[Innsbruck, Austria]]): Jingle Cow Hash and a brewery visit near Erlinger Höhe, Germany. Success '''#81'''. |
| − | *[[ | + | *[[2010-10-25 48 12]] ([[Landshut, Germany]]): Met Dawidi, zb, Ekorren & Tanya then toured Regensburg. Success '''#80'''. |
| − | *[[ | + | *[[2010-10-23 49 8]] ([[Mannheim, Germany]]): Met Ekorren and Koepfel but lacked a trained duck to reach the hash. |
| − | *[[ | + | *[[2010-10-20 49 8]] ([[Mannheim, Germany]]): Met Danatar, il padre and Koepfel in a wood in Frauenweiler. Success '''#79'''. |
| − | *[[ | + | *[[2010-10-19 48 8]] ([[Pforzheim, Germany]]): Took some wrong trains and a right train then biked in the rain. Success '''#78'''. |
| − | *[[ | + | *[[2010-09-17 44 -79]] ([[Barrie, Ontario|Barrie, ON]]): Chauffeured to geohash in a golf cart. Success '''#77'''. |
| − | *[[ | + | *[[2010-07-12 49 -122]] ([[Surrey, British Columbia|Surrey, BC]]): Couldn't get to the right spot under the Vedder Canal. |
| − | *[[ | + | *[[2010-07-12 49 -123]] ([[Vancouver, British Columbia|Vancouver, BC]]): Steveston Showroom, no public access. |
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| − | *[[ | + | *[[2010-07-11 48 -122]] ([[Bellingham, Washington|Bellingham, WA]]): Dead end Arlington hash with goats. Success '''#76'''. |
| − | *[[ | + | *[[2010-07-08 50 -119]] ([[Vernon, British Columbia|Vernon, BC]]): Railroad right-of-way hash before breakfast. Success '''#75'''. |
| − | *[[ | + | *[[2010-07-05 50 -119]] ([[Vernon, British Columbia|Vernon, BC]]): Long wet grass field geohash on the way to Salmon Arm. Success '''#74'''. |
| − | *[[ | + | *[[2010-07-04 49 -123]] ([[Vancouver, British Columbia|Vancouver, BC]]): Train station parking lot, at a time no one could agree on. Met Mr & Mrs. Wenslayer-Parent. Success '''#73'''. |
| − | *[[ | + | *[[2010-07-03 47 -122]] ([[Seattle, Washington|Seattle, WA]]): No trespassing and likely the wrong place, but we met [[User:Joannac|Joannac]]! |
| − | *[[ | + | *[[2010-07-01 49 -123]] ([[Vancouver, British Columbia|Vancouver, BC]]): Canada Day picnic on a streetcorner. Success '''#72'''. |
| − | *[[ | + | *[[2010-05-22 49 -123]] ([[Vancouver, British Columbia|Vancouver, BC]]): Mouseover Day Sechelt waterhash. Thwarted by a hissing sound. |
| − | *[[ | + | *[[2010-05-21 49 -122]] ([[Surrey, British Columbia|Surrey, BC]]): Geohashing uphill hike in the dark. Thwarted by 365 metres of pitch black dense forest. |
| − | *[[ | + | *[[2010-05-09 49 -123]] ([[Vancouver, British Columbia|Vancouver, BC]]): Seven-minute old retrohash in a West Vancouver parking lot. |
| − | *[[ | + | *[[2010-05-07 45 -120]] ([[Goldendale, Washington|Goldendale, WA]]): Thwarted by barbed wire near Centerville, Washington. |
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| − | *[[ | + | *[[2010-05-02 49 -123]] ([[Vancouver, British Columbia|Vancouver, BC]]): Success '''#71''' in the rain near Rice Lake. |
| − | + | *[[2010-05-01 53 -113]] ([[Edmonton, Alberta|Edmonton, AB]]): Success '''#70''' across the road from Edmonton International Airport. | |
| − | *[[ | + | *[[2010-03-28 global]] ([[Globalhash]]): Helicopter borderhash with Wade, near St. Maries, Idaho. '''Globalhash #1'''. |
| − | *[[ | + | *[[2010-02-07_49_-123]] ([[Vancouver, British Columbia|Vancouver, BC]]): Success '''#69''' at a non-existent church in Squamish. |
| − | *[[ | + | *[[2009-12-30 49 -123]] ([[Vancouver, British Columbia|Vancouver, BC]]): Brambly hash just off the dyke south of the airport. Brought Wade, met Elbie. Success '''#68'''. |
| − | *[[ | + | *[[2009-11-18 35 -78]] ([[Raleigh, North Carolina|Raleigh, NC]]): In which Robyn chooses geohashing over physiological needs. Success '''#67'''. |
| − | *[[ | + | *[[2009-11-18 35 -77]] ([[Greenville, North Carolina|Greenville, NC]]): No trespassing between a pig farm and a cotton field. |
| − | *[[ | + | *[[2009-11-17 35 -77]] ([[Greenville, North Carolina|Greenville, NC]]): Sandwich deja-presque-retrohash. |
| − | *[[ | + | *[[2009-11-07 49 -122]] ([[Surrey, British Columbia|Surrey, BC]]): Elbie and Wade on imaginary 160th Street. Success '''#66'''. |
| − | *[[ | + | *[[2009-09-20 47 -121]] ([[Seattle, Washington|Seattle, WA]]): Solo over-the-fence reach in Duvall, Washington. Success '''#65'''. |
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| − | + | See [[Robyn/All_Geohashes]] for links to my previous one hundred geohashing expeditions. | |
==Geohashers Met== | ==Geohashers Met== | ||
Alphabetical by username. Date is first meeting at a geohash. | Alphabetical by username. Date is first meeting at a geohash. | ||
| + | * '''Abigailme''' - resplendent and smiling on the grass before I arrived at the geohash on [[2011-04-23 49 -122|Xore's birthday]]. | ||
*[[User:Adrian|Adrian]] - on a bicycle with Twilightcity at the llama farm on [[2009-01-24 49 -123|2009-01-24]]. | *[[User:Adrian|Adrian]] - on a bicycle with Twilightcity at the llama farm on [[2009-01-24 49 -123|2009-01-24]]. | ||
*[[User:Arbron|Arbron]] - strolling down 22nd Avenue looking at his iPhone on [[2009-03-09 49 -123|2009-03-09]]. | *[[User:Arbron|Arbron]] - strolling down 22nd Avenue looking at his iPhone on [[2009-03-09 49 -123|2009-03-09]]. | ||
| + | * '''Charlotte''' - trying to photograph Klaus in front of the train station on [[2010-07-04 49 -123|2010-07-04]]. | ||
*[[User:DaleF|DaleF]] - freezing his teeth with a blue geosquishy on [[2008-09-25 49 -123|2008-09-25]]. | *[[User:DaleF|DaleF]] - freezing his teeth with a blue geosquishy on [[2008-09-25 49 -123|2008-09-25]]. | ||
| + | *[[User:Danatar|Danatar]] - wet, eating cookies in a wood in Frauenweiler on [[2010-10-20 49 8|2010-10-20]]. | ||
| + | *[[User:Dawidi|Dawidi]] - leading an informative tour of Regensburg on [[2010-10-25 48 12|2010-10-25]]. | ||
| + | *[[User:Ekorren|Ekorren]] - unstoppable in his knowledge of train schedules on [[2010-10-23 49 8|2010-10-23]]. | ||
*[[User:Elbie|Elbie]] - in a double kayak with [[User:thepiguy|thepiguy]] on [[2009-03-29 49 -124|2009-03-29]]. | *[[User:Elbie|Elbie]] - in a double kayak with [[User:thepiguy|thepiguy]] on [[2009-03-29 49 -124|2009-03-29]]. | ||
*[[User:Fbfree|Fbfree]] - in the middle of a thorn bush on [[2009-07-17 49 -122|2009-07-17]] | *[[User:Fbfree|Fbfree]] - in the middle of a thorn bush on [[2009-07-17 49 -122|2009-07-17]] | ||
*[[User:Flag guy|Flag guy]] - 300 m from the Seymour River geohash on [[2009-07-10 49 -123|2009-07-10]]. | *[[User:Flag guy|Flag guy]] - 300 m from the Seymour River geohash on [[2009-07-10 49 -123|2009-07-10]]. | ||
| + | *[[User:galaxstar|galaxstar]] - playing Twister outdoors in six degree weather [[2009-03-05 49 -123|2009-03-05]]. | ||
*[[User:Garyuuko|Garyuuko]] astride a Buell motorcycle on [[2008-11-08 49 -123|2008-11-08]] in Richmond. | *[[User:Garyuuko|Garyuuko]] astride a Buell motorcycle on [[2008-11-08 49 -123|2008-11-08]] in Richmond. | ||
*[[User:HollyB|HollyB]] - bouncing happily in the rain [[2008-09-25 49 -123|2008-09-25]] at Heather and 16th. | *[[User:HollyB|HollyB]] - bouncing happily in the rain [[2008-09-25 49 -123|2008-09-25]] at Heather and 16th. | ||
| + | *[[User:Ilpadre|Ilpadre]] - taking group photos in the woods in Frauenweiler on [[2010-10-20 49 8|2010-10-20]] | ||
*[[User:Jaem|Jaem]] - protecting his new mobile device with a towel on [[2008-09-25 49 -123|2008-09-25]]. | *[[User:Jaem|Jaem]] - protecting his new mobile device with a towel on [[2008-09-25 49 -123|2008-09-25]]. | ||
| + | * '''Jeff''' - jumping off a bicycle by an alley in Shaughnessy. | ||
| + | *[[User:Joannac|Joannac]] - in a Vietnamese restaurant before trying to reach the wrong coordinates [[2010-07-03 47 -122|2010-07-03]]. | ||
*[[User:Juventas|Juventas]] - after surviving an hour stuck in construction traffic on [[2009-05-08 49 -120|2009-05-08]]. | *[[User:Juventas|Juventas]] - after surviving an hour stuck in construction traffic on [[2009-05-08 49 -120|2009-05-08]]. | ||
| − | *[[User: | + | * '''Klaus''' - risking death by taxicab to reach the coordinates on [[2010-07-04 49 -123|2010-07-04]]. |
| + | *[[User:Koepfel|Koepfel]] - like a drowned rat, with mini-T-Rex, in Frauenweiler, on [[2010-10-20 49 8|2010-10-20]]. | ||
*[[User:Lumy|Lumy]] - In a sailboat with a pirate flag as he landed at Ambleside Beach on [[2009-07-11 49 -123|2009-07-11]]. | *[[User:Lumy|Lumy]] - In a sailboat with a pirate flag as he landed at Ambleside Beach on [[2009-07-11 49 -123|2009-07-11]]. | ||
| + | *[[User:lyx|lyx]] - in a swamp at Iona Beach on [[2011-09-16 49 -123|2011-09-16]]. | ||
*[[User:MylSh|MylSh]] - toasting the geohash in gingerale on [[2009-03-05 49 -123|2009-03-05]]. | *[[User:MylSh|MylSh]] - toasting the geohash in gingerale on [[2009-03-05 49 -123|2009-03-05]]. | ||
| + | *[[User:Osmie|Osmie]] - On a path in a Coquitlam park, asking us if we were geohashers, on [[2011-04-23 49 -122|Xore's birthday]]. | ||
| + | * '''Paul''' on a hill in Coquitlam at [[2011-04-23 49 -122|Xore's birthday]]. | ||
*[[User:plypkie|plypkie]] - in a sailboat on Ambleside beach trying to reach the [[2009-07-11 49 -123|2009-07-11]] geohash. | *[[User:plypkie|plypkie]] - in a sailboat on Ambleside beach trying to reach the [[2009-07-11 49 -123|2009-07-11]] geohash. | ||
| + | *[[User:Qunchuy|Qunchuy]] - in a hotel hallway and then went geohashing on [[2009-07-26 40 -75]]. | ||
| + | *[[User:relet|relet]] - while biking the other way, yelling "I'll be right back! Don't wait for me!" on [[2011-09-16 49 -123|2011-09-16]]. | ||
*[[User:Rhonda|Rhonda]] - paddling her brand new inflatable kayak to Anvil Island on [[2009-04-08 49 -123|2009-04-08]]. | *[[User:Rhonda|Rhonda]] - paddling her brand new inflatable kayak to Anvil Island on [[2009-04-08 49 -123|2009-04-08]]. | ||
*[[User:Rhonda's mom|Rhonda's mom]] - in a red Jeep on [[2009-05-10 50 -120|2009-05-10]]. | *[[User:Rhonda's mom|Rhonda's mom]] - in a red Jeep on [[2009-05-10 50 -120|2009-05-10]]. | ||
| − | *Rhonda's dad - who hasn't chosen a | + | *'''Rhonda's dad''' - who hasn't chosen a username yet, driving the red Jeep on [[2009-05-10 50 -120|2009-05-10]]. |
| − | *Simon - who doesn't have a username yet, dragged by Elbie, and amazed that people understood his geeky jokes, on [[2009-05-23 49 -123|2009-05-23]] | + | *'''Simon''' - who doesn't have a username yet, dragged by Elbie, and amazed that people understood his geeky jokes, on [[2009-05-23 49 -123|2009-05-23]] |
| + | * '''SoBe''' - not getting too much grass on the cake on [[2011-04-23 49 -122|Xore's birthday]]. | ||
*[[User:srs0|srs0]] - inflating a boat [[2008-09-21 49 -123|2008-09-21]] at a sunrise water geohash. | *[[User:srs0|srs0]] - inflating a boat [[2008-09-21 49 -123|2008-09-21]] at a sunrise water geohash. | ||
*[[User:SueB|SueB]] - looking good in her shorts [[2009-04-28 49 -122|2009-04-28]] in a Coquitlam driveway | *[[User:SueB|SueB]] - looking good in her shorts [[2009-04-28 49 -122|2009-04-28]] in a Coquitlam driveway | ||
| + | *[[User:Tanya|Tanya]] - stunningly dressed and fitting in instantly with an experienced geohashing crowd on | ||
*[[User:thepiguy|thepiguy]] - cursing like a pirate on [[2008-09-19 49 -122|2008-09-19]] at a midnight geohash. | *[[User:thepiguy|thepiguy]] - cursing like a pirate on [[2008-09-19 49 -122|2008-09-19]] at a midnight geohash. | ||
*[[User:Thomcat|Thomcat]] - with his ''two kids'' on a Ballard side street on [[2009-01-22 47 -122|2009-01-22]]. | *[[User:Thomcat|Thomcat]] - with his ''two kids'' on a Ballard side street on [[2009-01-22 47 -122|2009-01-22]]. | ||
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*[[User:Xore|Xore]] - walking along highway 99 to join our formal wine & cheese party on [[2009-04-18 49 -122|2009-04-18]] | *[[User:Xore|Xore]] - walking along highway 99 to join our formal wine & cheese party on [[2009-04-18 49 -122|2009-04-18]] | ||
*[[User:yangman|yangman]] - Coasting down Sorrento Street on [[2009-04-28 49 -122|2009-04-28]] on his mountain bike. | *[[User:yangman|yangman]] - Coasting down Sorrento Street on [[2009-04-28 49 -122|2009-04-28]] on his mountain bike. | ||
| + | *[[User:zb|zb]] - Abducted to his house in Münich after a Regensburg tour on [[2010-10-25 48 12|2010-10-25]]. | ||
| + | * '''ZZ''' - pointing the way to where the nerds were, on [[2011-04-23 49 -122|Xore's birthday]]. | ||
== Achievements == | == Achievements == | ||
| − | These are the ribbons I have earned or updated | + | These are the ten or so ribbons I have earned or updated recently. I have moved all the older ribbons to [[User:Robyn/Achievement ribbons|their own page]]. |
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| + | {{Tron | ||
| + | | latitude = 49 | ||
| + | | longitude = -123 | ||
| + | | date = 2012-03-07 | ||
| + | | tracklog = http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=1477468 | ||
| + | | possessive = her | ||
| + | | name = Robyn | ||
| + | | image = 2012-03-07 49 -123.Robyn.JPG | ||
| + | }}{{Geohashing Day | ||
| + | | latitude = 49 | ||
| + | | longitude = -122 | ||
| + | | year = 2011 | ||
| + | | coorddate= 2011-05-21 | ||
| + | | celebration = kayaking around an island | ||
| + | | name = [[User:Robyn|Robyn]] | ||
| + | }}{{A Tale of Two Hashes | latitude = 49 | longitude = -123 | date = 2011-04-12 | name = [[User:Robyn|Robyn]]|user2 =[[User:Aperfectring|APR]], [[User:Jiml|Jim]], and [[User:Rhonda|Rhonda]] | place = Vancouver | ||
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| + | }}{{Globetrotter | ||
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| + | | name = [[User:Robyn|Robyn]] | ||
| + | | northamerica = true | ||
| + | | eurasia = true | ||
| + | | continents = 2 | ||
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| + | }}{{gratuitous ribbon | ||
| + | | color =red | ||
| + | | icon = Dog.png | ||
| + | | latitude = 49 | ||
| + | | longitude = -123 | ||
| + | | name = Robyn | ||
| + | | date = 2010-07-01 | ||
| + | | achievement = doghash achievement | ||
| + | | description = petting a friendly dog at the hashpoint | ||
| + | | image = 2010-07-01_49_9_hashdog.JPG | ||
| + | }}{{Train wreck | ||
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| + | | latitude = 49 | ||
| + | | longitude = -123 | ||
| + | | date = 2010-05-22 | ||
| + | | reason = using an inflatable boats that wouldn't stay that way | ||
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* I obsess about every page belonging to its proper categories, and every category belonging to a category, all the way up to the [[:Category:Root categories|root]]. | * I obsess about every page belonging to its proper categories, and every category belonging to a category, all the way up to the [[:Category:Root categories|root]]. | ||
* I came to this wiki knowing nothing about wiki, so I sympathize with others and am working on the [[Help:Contents|Help]] page, and the initial experience for new users. | * I came to this wiki knowing nothing about wiki, so I sympathize with others and am working on the [[Help:Contents|Help]] page, and the initial experience for new users. | ||
| − | * Experimenting with the [[ | + | * Experimenting with the [[Geohashing:Current events|Current events]] page to make it more relevant. |
* Maintaining [[:Template:New on the wiki]] for Main Page announcements. | * Maintaining [[:Template:New on the wiki]] for Main Page announcements. | ||
* In progress: [[Geohash on Private Property]]. | * In progress: [[Geohash on Private Property]]. | ||
Latest revision as of 21:26, 22 January 2022
I'm Robyn. I hash on foot, by bicycle and by transit, usually bringing my Hashscot T-Rex with me. I try to avoid going by car, because burning fuel for pointless expeditions is dumb, but exercising for pointless expeditions is the win. I am deeply addicted to geohashing, however, so what began as sometimes stopping off at a geohash in a car while on my way elsewhere, has escalated to sometimes answering the call of distant geohashes too juicy for me to resist, but too far for me to bike before midnight.
When I'm at home in Vancouver, I'll usually try for the nearest hash in Vancouver, in Surrey or across the border to Bellingham. I get over to Victoria from time to time, too. I have good maps locally. I also travel all over North America for work, so you'll see me at strange graticules elsewhere. I might just surprise you some day.
I am also known on the internets as Qov. I'm recognizable as another Internet personality as well, but I can trust you not to blab, right?
Contents
Now and Near Future
- Who knows!
Eventually
- Eager to get a globalhash using human powered vehicles only
- Build a cool human powered vehicle to get to geohash in.
- Minesweep home graticule
- Meet at least one geohasher with a name starting with each letter of the alphabet. I currently lack only B, N, U & V.
- Boat across the Squamish River and reach a geohash in the Tantalus Range.
- Examine early Date pages and create expedition pages for the people who reported their expeditions only on the Main Page.
- Create a Virgin Graticule map/list of Pioneers.
Geohashing Equipment
- Успех (pronounced Oosp-yekh a.k.a. "Speckles") my 1991 Kuwahara TO2 Supertour 18-speed bicycle
- A string (up to two and no reason to believe it will stop here) of bicycles purchased and then abandoned in other graticules.
- Amazingly Enough, my inflatable kayak
- T-Rex, my dinosaur hashscot
- Yellow Garmin etrex Venture HC GPS
Canon Power Shot SD10 digital cameraRIP March 2011, sadly missed- Gorilla mini camera tripod
- Brunton orienteering compass
Wanted Equipment
- Camelback waterbag
Statistics
Graticules
I'm not very good at keeping this up to date anymore.
- Hashes Attempted: 148 in >39 different graticules
- Hashes Achieved: 99 in >33 different graticules (+2 more without proof)
- Retrohashes: 2
- Centurion-eligible Saturday Meetups: >12 in 6 different graticules
- Geohashers met: >36 in 7 different graticules
- Continents geohashed: 2
- Monroe Number: 5 (via Thomcat)
- Globalhashes: 1
Things that have thwarted me
Needs updating.
- Private property : 11
- Being chicken: 1
- Body of water: 1
- Transportation failure: 3
- Mis-setting the GPS: 1
- Time constraints: 4
- Terrain/weather too nasty to continue safely: 7
- Inability to use a camera: 1
- Went to an alternate instead:3
Never turn down a chance to geohash.
Recent Geohashes Attempted
Most recent are listed first. Single horizontal lines every ten missions, and double lines every fifty, to facilitate counting. Bold numbers are the success count and bold words indicate an award or consolation prize taken for that attempt. Older geohash expeditions are summarized and linked on their own page.
I've decided to count a geohash "successful" if I:
- (a) get to within the accuracy figure of the coordinates as shown by my GPS,
- (b) have the GPS show a distance remaining of zero, or
- (c) for airhashes, take a readable photo within 10 seconds of each latitude and longitude.
- 2013-03-10 49 -122 (Surrey, BC): Cold White Rock sidewalk. Success #99.
- 2013-02-15 49 -123 (Vancouver, BC): Airhash had to work too late to make it a double. Success #98.
- 2013-01-18 49 -123 (Vancouver, BC): Deerhash by Sea-to-Sky. Success #97.
- 2013-01-02 49 -123 (Vancouver, BC): New Year's pubhash. Success #96.
- 2012-06-02 52 -121 (Likely, BC): Another airhash. Success #95.
- 2012-06-02 54 -120 (Hart Ranges, BC): Airhash with Spencer. Success #94.
- 2012-04-03 49 -123 (Vancouver, BC): My first ever skihash. Success #93.
- 2012-03-07 49 -123 (Vancouver, BC): Ran to and from an on-street Tron hash. Success #92.
- 2012-02-29 49 -123 (Vancouver, BC): Official alternate leaping with swords at Academie Duello.
- 2011-09-18 49 -122 (Surrey, BC): Strawberry field transit/bike hash in Langley. Success #91.
- 2011-09-16 49 -123 (Vancouver, BC): Iona Beach bike hash. Met lyx & relet Success #90.
- 2011-08-28 49 -123 (Vancouver, BC): Musqueam transformer rock. Success #89.
- 2011-08-27 49 -123 (Vancouver, BC): Richmond industrial park. Success #88.
- 2011-06-05 49 -123 (Vancouver, BC): Best Airhash photo ever. Success #87.
- 2011-05-21 49 -122 (Surrey, BC): Pitt River waterhash for Geohashing Day. Success #86.
- 2011-05-14 49 -121 (Chilliwack, BC): Too cheap to rent a power boat, too rough for a kayak.
- 2011-04-23 49 -122 (Surrey, BC): Coquitlam Town Centre Park Xore's Birthday Hash. Success #85.
- 2011-04-12 49 -123 (Vancouver, BC): In an alley in Shaughnessy with a turnout of five geohashers. Success #84.
- 2011-04-09 49 -123 (Vancouver, BC): In some brambles in a park in West Vancouver, with Wade. Success #83.
- 2011-03-16 49 -122 (Surrey, BC): Ended a long dry spell with Success #82 at a park in PoCo.
- 2010-10-27 47 11 (Innsbruck, Austria): Jingle Cow Hash and a brewery visit near Erlinger Höhe, Germany. Success #81.
- 2010-10-25 48 12 (Landshut, Germany): Met Dawidi, zb, Ekorren & Tanya then toured Regensburg. Success #80.
- 2010-10-23 49 8 (Mannheim, Germany): Met Ekorren and Koepfel but lacked a trained duck to reach the hash.
- 2010-10-20 49 8 (Mannheim, Germany): Met Danatar, il padre and Koepfel in a wood in Frauenweiler. Success #79.
- 2010-10-19 48 8 (Pforzheim, Germany): Took some wrong trains and a right train then biked in the rain. Success #78.
- 2010-09-17 44 -79 (Barrie, ON): Chauffeured to geohash in a golf cart. Success #77.
- 2010-07-12 49 -122 (Surrey, BC): Couldn't get to the right spot under the Vedder Canal.
- 2010-07-12 49 -123 (Vancouver, BC): Steveston Showroom, no public access.
- 2010-07-11 48 -122 (Bellingham, WA): Dead end Arlington hash with goats. Success #76.
- 2010-07-08 50 -119 (Vernon, BC): Railroad right-of-way hash before breakfast. Success #75.
- 2010-07-05 50 -119 (Vernon, BC): Long wet grass field geohash on the way to Salmon Arm. Success #74.
- 2010-07-04 49 -123 (Vancouver, BC): Train station parking lot, at a time no one could agree on. Met Mr & Mrs. Wenslayer-Parent. Success #73.
- 2010-07-03 47 -122 (Seattle, WA): No trespassing and likely the wrong place, but we met Joannac!
- 2010-07-01 49 -123 (Vancouver, BC): Canada Day picnic on a streetcorner. Success #72.
- 2010-05-22 49 -123 (Vancouver, BC): Mouseover Day Sechelt waterhash. Thwarted by a hissing sound.
- 2010-05-21 49 -122 (Surrey, BC): Geohashing uphill hike in the dark. Thwarted by 365 metres of pitch black dense forest.
- 2010-05-09 49 -123 (Vancouver, BC): Seven-minute old retrohash in a West Vancouver parking lot.
- 2010-05-07 45 -120 (Goldendale, WA): Thwarted by barbed wire near Centerville, Washington.
- 2010-05-02 49 -123 (Vancouver, BC): Success #71 in the rain near Rice Lake.
- 2010-05-01 53 -113 (Edmonton, AB): Success #70 across the road from Edmonton International Airport.
- 2010-03-28 global (Globalhash): Helicopter borderhash with Wade, near St. Maries, Idaho. Globalhash #1.
- 2010-02-07_49_-123 (Vancouver, BC): Success #69 at a non-existent church in Squamish.
- 2009-12-30 49 -123 (Vancouver, BC): Brambly hash just off the dyke south of the airport. Brought Wade, met Elbie. Success #68.
- 2009-11-18 35 -78 (Raleigh, NC): In which Robyn chooses geohashing over physiological needs. Success #67.
- 2009-11-18 35 -77 (Greenville, NC): No trespassing between a pig farm and a cotton field.
- 2009-11-17 35 -77 (Greenville, NC): Sandwich deja-presque-retrohash.
- 2009-11-07 49 -122 (Surrey, BC): Elbie and Wade on imaginary 160th Street. Success #66.
- 2009-09-20 47 -121 (Seattle, WA): Solo over-the-fence reach in Duvall, Washington. Success #65.
See Robyn/All_Geohashes for links to my previous one hundred geohashing expeditions.
Geohashers Met
Alphabetical by username. Date is first meeting at a geohash.
- Abigailme - resplendent and smiling on the grass before I arrived at the geohash on Xore's birthday.
- Adrian - on a bicycle with Twilightcity at the llama farm on 2009-01-24.
- Arbron - strolling down 22nd Avenue looking at his iPhone on 2009-03-09.
- Charlotte - trying to photograph Klaus in front of the train station on 2010-07-04.
- DaleF - freezing his teeth with a blue geosquishy on 2008-09-25.
- Danatar - wet, eating cookies in a wood in Frauenweiler on 2010-10-20.
- Dawidi - leading an informative tour of Regensburg on 2010-10-25.
- Ekorren - unstoppable in his knowledge of train schedules on 2010-10-23.
- Elbie - in a double kayak with thepiguy on 2009-03-29.
- Fbfree - in the middle of a thorn bush on 2009-07-17
- Flag guy - 300 m from the Seymour River geohash on 2009-07-10.
- galaxstar - playing Twister outdoors in six degree weather 2009-03-05.
- Garyuuko astride a Buell motorcycle on 2008-11-08 in Richmond.
- HollyB - bouncing happily in the rain 2008-09-25 at Heather and 16th.
- Ilpadre - taking group photos in the woods in Frauenweiler on 2010-10-20
- Jaem - protecting his new mobile device with a towel on 2008-09-25.
- Jeff - jumping off a bicycle by an alley in Shaughnessy.
- Joannac - in a Vietnamese restaurant before trying to reach the wrong coordinates 2010-07-03.
- Juventas - after surviving an hour stuck in construction traffic on 2009-05-08.
- Klaus - risking death by taxicab to reach the coordinates on 2010-07-04.
- Koepfel - like a drowned rat, with mini-T-Rex, in Frauenweiler, on 2010-10-20.
- Lumy - In a sailboat with a pirate flag as he landed at Ambleside Beach on 2009-07-11.
- lyx - in a swamp at Iona Beach on 2011-09-16.
- MylSh - toasting the geohash in gingerale on 2009-03-05.
- Osmie - On a path in a Coquitlam park, asking us if we were geohashers, on Xore's birthday.
- Paul on a hill in Coquitlam at Xore's birthday.
- plypkie - in a sailboat on Ambleside beach trying to reach the 2009-07-11 geohash.
- Qunchuy - in a hotel hallway and then went geohashing on 2009-07-26 40 -75.
- relet - while biking the other way, yelling "I'll be right back! Don't wait for me!" on 2011-09-16.
- Rhonda - paddling her brand new inflatable kayak to Anvil Island on 2009-04-08.
- Rhonda's mom - in a red Jeep on 2009-05-10.
- Rhonda's dad - who hasn't chosen a username yet, driving the red Jeep on 2009-05-10.
- Simon - who doesn't have a username yet, dragged by Elbie, and amazed that people understood his geeky jokes, on 2009-05-23
- SoBe - not getting too much grass on the cake on Xore's birthday.
- srs0 - inflating a boat 2008-09-21 at a sunrise water geohash.
- SueB - looking good in her shorts 2009-04-28 in a Coquitlam driveway
- Tanya - stunningly dressed and fitting in instantly with an experienced geohashing crowd on
- thepiguy - cursing like a pirate on 2008-09-19 at a midnight geohash.
- Thomcat - with his two kids on a Ballard side street on 2009-01-22.
- Twilightcity - stopping his bicycle in front of a llama farm on 2009-01-24.
- Wade - geohashing with me since 2008-07-06, often by motorbike
- Xore - walking along highway 99 to join our formal wine & cheese party on 2009-04-18
- yangman - Coasting down Sorrento Street on 2009-04-28 on his mountain bike.
- zb - Abducted to his house in Münich after a Regensburg tour on 2010-10-25.
- ZZ - pointing the way to where the nerds were, on Xore's birthday.
Achievements
These are the ten or so ribbons I have earned or updated recently. I have moved all the older ribbons to their own page.
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Robyn earned the Tron achievement
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Robyn earned the 2011 Geohashing Day achievement
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Robyn earned the Tale of Two Hashes achievement
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Robyn earned the Globetrotter achievement
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Robyn earned the doghash achievement
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Robyn earned the Train wreck consolation prize
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Robyn earned the 2010 Mouse Over Day achievement
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Robyn earned the Globalhash achievement
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Robyn earned the MacGyver Honourable Mention
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Wade & Robyn earned the Wedding anniversary geohash achievement
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Progress Towards Multihash Achievements
- Graticule Hopper - progress towards logging 100 different graticules.
- Mode of transport - working out an interesting way to display how I get to each geohash.
- My bicycle geohashes - cumulative total of cycling distance. No ribbon yet, but there might be someday.
- Notifications - graticules I'm watching for the right spot
- Regional Geohash for British Columbia - progress towards logging all the graticules in my province.
- BC Regional Districts that I am working on geohashing.
- xkcd Centurion - progress towards making 100 Saturday meetups.
Wiki Stuff
Things you can blame me for on the wiki.
- Maintaining consistency and organization of the Achievements page, monitoring proposed achievements to ensure achievements are suitable, and well formatted.
- I obsess about every page belonging to its proper categories, and every category belonging to a category, all the way up to the root.
- I came to this wiki knowing nothing about wiki, so I sympathize with others and am working on the Help page, and the initial experience for new users.
- Experimenting with the Current events page to make it more relevant.
- Maintaining Template:New on the wiki for Main Page announcements.
- In progress: Geohash on Private Property.
- Started pages Transportation to the Geohash and Games We Play. Keeping an eye out for additions.
- Making expedition pages and User pages for Ninja geohashers.
- Conducted project tracking Vancouver geohashes for a month to quantify accessibility issues in Vancouver graticule.
- Working on a way of displaying/recording Virgin Graticule conquests.
- Generally trying to do things that make the wiki better.
- Oh, and I boss everyone around, too.
57 / f / 49,-123Categories:
- Tron achievement
- Geohashing Day achievement
- A Tale of Two Hashes achievement
- Globetrotters geohash achievement
- Gratuitous ribbon achievement
- Train wreck consolation prize
- Globalhash achievement
- Wedding anniversary geohash achievement
- Walk geohash achievement
- Geohashers
- Geohashers in their 50s
- Geohashers in 49,-123
- Addicted to geohashing
- Geohashers in Canada
- Unimportant geohashers
