2022-01-31 41 2

Mon 31 Jan 2022 in Barcelona, Catalonia: 41.4518566, 2.0505326 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox

Location

In the Torrent d'en Llobet (stream) in Valldoreix, Catalonia. I know the area very well. I usually go for walks or running there.

Participants

SastRe.O

Plans

I will walk there from home. I think I can be there in 30-40 minutes with no rush.

Expedition

Everything went nice and smoothly. Went for it at 17:00 meaning I still had like 1:30 hours of sunlight and took the binoculars with me in case I spot some interesting birds.

I didn't take the direct route but instead this nice marked path that goes through some of the landmarks of Valldoreix. The castle (from 1160, only a wall stands), the old football field, some old masies and lastly the path goes by the stream where the hash fell.

Along the way I found nothing special. Regarding birds the usual: robins, tits, sparrows and black redstarts. What I also encountered were some friendly cats. Well, I met them that it seemed they were having a firendly-ish stand-off staring at each others eyes but as I approached them carefully they both came very happily to me together. They even slapped each other kind of gently to go first for the pets so I will assume brothers. This is how I got the rare double-hashcat.

Now the final approach. I say it fell on a stream but it only carries water when it has rained and were are currently in a drought. So terrain and nature were gentle on me. Even with a thick vegetable cover I didn't had to dance much and I had rapidly a success reading on my rGPS.

Since it was on the bed of the stream and I had no way out in front of me and I had to re-do my steps and thus denying my tron-achievement. You can't have it all.

The rest was a pleasant walk back home. This is my start of 2022.

Photos

Single cat.  Double cat!  Castle of Canals.  Robin pondering about its life.  Also saw some goats.  Hashpoint on the bed of the stream.  Proof with GPSr.  The sun set, time to go home.

Achievements

SastRe.O earned the Walk geohash Achievement by reaching the (41, 2) geohash on 2022-01-31 on foot, travelling a distance of 7.29km.

SastRe.O earned the double-hashcat Achievement by petting simultaneously two cats at the (41, 2) geohash on 2022-01-31.

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Barcelona, Spain	SastRe.O	In the Torrent d'en Llobet (stream) in Valldoreix, Catalonia. I know th...

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