2018-07-31 42 -3

Tue 31 Jul 2018 in Burgos: 42.3740329, -3.6793426 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox

First Geohash!

Long time lurker, but finally found a close enough geohash in a day I had some spare time. It wasn't too far away, so I was able to reach it by bike and it was just in the middle of a path in an easy area, so I decided to try and get the no batteries achievement. I brought my phone with me, but didn't use it till the end to take some pictures and check that I was really there with the GPS.

It's also the first time someone goes geohashing on this graticule, so it seems I'm gonna be lonely around here.

Location

The geohash was in a path near Villatoro, just about two or three km north of Burgos. This path seemed to be used to access a shooting range that no longer exists as the only evidence I could find of its existence was an old signal post. Nearby there were also two really big rounded buildings which are probably water reservoirs, but I didn't check.

Participants

• Gormaz

Expedition

I left home with my bike and my printed map at about 18:00 and reached the geohash at around 19:15 (local time). It was close to the city, but in an area I hadn't cycled through previously, so I had checked OpenStreetMap thoroughly. However, the path I intended to follow wasn't there or maybe it was covered in vegetation, so I had to improvise and go down a small really steep way. This time it was downhill and I managed to stay on my bike, but I was sure the other way wasn't going to be so easy. Finally, I arrived at the geohash without any other problem, took some pictures, checked the location with my phone, eat a little bit and went back home. I tried to avoid the steep path, but there's a railway I had to cross and the only path I knew that crossed it left me with two options: climbing it up or arriving at a semi-highway with lots of traffic, which I wanted to avoid, so I chose the first one.

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  My two companions during the trip.

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  Location was checked with my phone's GPS once I got to the destination.

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  One of the maps I printed to take with me.

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  Photo of the rounded buildings shown on the map taken from the geohash.

Insightful trivia

• I cycled over dog poop, twice.
• I saw a kind of lizard that wasn't the most typical ones around here, but it fled before I could take a better look at it.
• A rabbit crossed the road just in front of me.

Achievements

Gormaz earned the Bicycle geohash achievement by cycling ~20 km to and from the (42, -3) geohash on 2018-07-31.

Gormaz earned the No Batteries Geohash Achievement by reaching the (42, -3) geohash on 2018-07-31.

Gormaz earned the Graticule Unlocked Achievement by being the first to reach any hashpoint in the (42, -3) graticule, here, on 2018-07-31.

Gormaz earned the Two to the N achievement by reaching 20 hashpoints on 2018-07-31 42 -3 and is promoted to Level 0 (Coordinates reached).