Difference between revisions of "2023-12-03 -41 173"

Revision as of 01:33, 9 December 2023

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Location

Down a bank from a walking track, near Mapua, Nelson

Participants

The Quaternary (talk) family geohashers

Plans

A family commemoration event had brought all the family together for a weekend together, and right on queue, an achievable geohash appeared, halfway between where we were staying in our Airbnb and the in-laws place that we were on our way to visit. Couldn’t ask for much better luck than this. Thus, our party of six set off.

Expedition

It appeared that the geohash was close to what appeared to be a walking track. And when we arrived, that did eventuate to be the case - Chayton Track, a shared walking/biking track going through a reserve. We would need to walk about 500 metres down this track and then we'd be about 20 metres from the hash. Brilliant! Oh, and leave horses in the car.

As we walked down the track my companions didn't necessarily share my enthusiasm, as they could see large patches of prickly gorse and blackberry, which I admitted didn't look inviting, but I had experienced far worse (raptors, etc).

A few minutes later we reached the point that we had to plunge down the pretty steep bank and get to the other side of a dead pine tree that we had seen on google maps satellite view. At this point, two of the party refused to continue on the expedition, despite the fact that happily in the vicinity of the hash, it was devoid of prickly vegetation (and raptors). Plus, don't they know you should never split the party?! (They all need to play more DnD).

So scramble down the bank the remaining Fab Four did, and while the GPS went a bit crazy under the trees and in the small gorge, we found a spot which we felt confident was the ordained hashpoint. Success!

PS: Check out this geohash report here 2015-04-06 in the same graticule 8 years ago - the youngest family geohasher has grown somewhat

Tracklog

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Photos

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A conveniently located walking track got us to within 20 metres of the hash
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My enthusiastic geohashing companions
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At the hash!
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Looking west (what is that rope?)
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Looking north
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Looking east
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Looking south
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Looking up
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Getting back up the track was pretty easy, as we discovered a rope someone had put in
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Reunited with the group after our successful hash!

Achievements

Quaternary earned the Electric Vehicle Achievement

by travelling to and from the Geohash in an electric vehicle (-41, 173) geohash on 2023-12-03.

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 == Location ==
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+Down a bank from a walking track, near Mapua, Nelson
 == Participants ==
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+The [[User:Quaternary|Quaternary]] ([[User talk:Quaternary|talk]]) family geohashers
 == Plans ==
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+A family commemoration event had brought all the family together for a weekend together, and right on queue, an achievable geohash appeared, halfway between where we were staying in our Airbnb and the in-laws place that we were on our way to visit. Couldn’t ask for much better luck than this. Thus, our party of six set off.
 == Expedition ==
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+It appeared that the geohash was close to what appeared to be a walking track. And when we arrived, that did eventuate to be the case - Chayton Track, a shared walking/biking track going through a reserve. We would need to walk about 500 metres down this track and then we'd be about 20 metres from the hash. Brilliant! Oh, and leave horses in the car.
+As we walked down the track my companions didn't necessarily share my enthusiasm, as they could see large patches of prickly gorse and blackberry, which I admitted didn't look inviting, but I had experienced far worse (raptors, etc).
+A few minutes later we reached the point that we had to plunge down the pretty steep bank and get to the other side of a dead pine tree that we had seen on google maps satellite view. At this point, two of the party refused to continue on the expedition, despite the fact that happily in the vicinity of the hash, it was devoid of prickly vegetation (and raptors). Plus, don't they know you should never split the party?! (They all need to play more DnD).
+So scramble down the bank the remaining Fab Four did, and while the GPS went a bit crazy under the trees and in the small gorge, we found a spot which we felt confident was the ordained hashpoint.  Success!
+PS: Check out this geohash report here [[2015-04-06 -41 173|2015-04-06]] in the same graticule 8 years ago - the youngest family geohasher has grown somewhat
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+Image:2023_12_03_-41_173_02.JPG | My enthusiastic geohashing companions
+Image:2023_12_03_-41_173_03.JPG | At the hash!
+Image:2023_12_03_-41_173_04.JPG | Looking west (what is that rope?)
+Image:2023_12_03_-41_173_05.JPG | Looking north
+Image:2023_12_03_-41_173_06.JPG | Looking east
+Image:2023_12_03_-41_173_07.JPG | Looking south
+Image:2023_12_03_-41_173_08.JPG | Looking up
+Image:2023_12_03_-41_173_09.JPG | Getting back up the track was pretty easy, as we discovered a rope someone had put in
+Image:2023_12_03_-41_173_10.JPG | Reunited with the group after our successful hash!
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