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== Participants ==
 
== Participants ==
[[User:Birdray|Birdray]], who also dragged a friend (Vera), unintentionally achieving the drag-along achievement. (Mostly it was just fun to have an adventure buddy.)
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* [[User:Birdray|Birdray]], who also dragged a friend,
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* Charlie, unintentionally achieving the drag-along achievement. (Mostly it was just fun to have an adventure buddy.)
  
 
== Plans ==
 
== Plans ==
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== Expedition ==
 
== Expedition ==
I went to pick up Vera from the bookstore and we went in search of a newspaper. After finding the New York Times at Harris Teeter, we used the Android Geohashing app to map directions to the hashpoint, which was at that point about a mile away. I had my fingers crossed that my phone wouldn't die, as I had somehow fried my charger and was running on about 30% battery before I turned the GPS on. We came to the Y-intersection, parked the car, and started wandering in search of the hashpoint.
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I went to pick up Charlie from the bookstore and we went in search of a newspaper. After finding the New York Times at Harris Teeter, we used the Android Geohashing app to map directions to the hashpoint, which was at that point about a mile away. I had my fingers crossed that my phone wouldn't die, as I had somehow fried my charger and was running on about 30% battery before I turned the GPS on. We came to the Y-intersection, parked the car, and started wandering in search of the hashpoint.
  
"What does it look like?" Vera asked.
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"What does it look like?" Charlie asked.
  
 
"I'm not sure, we haven't found it yet!"
 
"I'm not sure, we haven't found it yet!"
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"Nope, just a set of coordinates."
 
"Nope, just a set of coordinates."
  
Vera commented on the likelihood of getting the cops called on us for wandering around cluelessly in a very affluent neighborhood. Vera had a point.
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Charlie commented on the likelihood of getting the cops called on us for wandering around cluelessly in a very affluent neighborhood. Charlie had a point.
  
 
The app lit up about ten feet from the kerb, to which we promptly had to relocate when a car came along. We took pictures, in which I look like a rabid groundhog given that I'm exceptionally prone to red-eye, as it was getting dark, and then headed back to the car.
 
The app lit up about ten feet from the kerb, to which we promptly had to relocate when a car came along. We took pictures, in which I look like a rabid groundhog given that I'm exceptionally prone to red-eye, as it was getting dark, and then headed back to the car.
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Image:2012-05-15_36_-80_1.jpg | Really nothing much to see here--a dark residential area--other than my absolutely rabid red-eye, which happens in almost every photo of me. Taken by my friend Vera.
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Image:2012-05-15_36_-80_1.jpg | Really nothing much to see here--a dark residential area--other than my absolutely rabid red-eye, which happens in almost every photo of me. Taken by my friend Charlie.
 
Image:2012-05-15_36_-80_2.jpg | A closeup of the coordinates. Also the tell-tale "Your battery is ABOUT TO DIE A HORRIBLE DEATH" red light.
 
Image:2012-05-15_36_-80_2.jpg | A closeup of the coordinates. Also the tell-tale "Your battery is ABOUT TO DIE A HORRIBLE DEATH" red light.
 
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| longitude = -80
 
| longitude = -80
 
| date = 2012-05-15
 
| date = 2012-05-15
| partner = Vera
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| partner = Charlie
 
| name = Birdray
 
| name = Birdray
 
| image = 2012-05-15_36_-80_1.jpg
 
| image = 2012-05-15_36_-80_1.jpg
 
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{{Virgin graticule
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{{Graticule unlocked
 
| latitude = 36
 
| latitude = 36
 
| longitude = -80
 
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[[Category:Expeditions with photos]]
 
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[[Category:Coordinates reached]]
 
[[Category:Coordinates reached]]
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Location

Just to one side of a Y-intersection of two roads in the Country Club neighborhoods of Winston-Salem.

Participants

  • Birdray, who also dragged a friend,
  • Charlie, unintentionally achieving the drag-along achievement. (Mostly it was just fun to have an adventure buddy.)

Plans

I was thrilled to see that the day's hashpoint was not only within two miles of my apartment, but was also on a residential road, i.e. somewhere I could reasonably show up without having to talk my way onto someone's property. We planned to acquire a copy of the day's paper, just to have an old-school timestamp on the expedition. There was also a pre-hash nap planned in, because that's how we roll.

Expedition

I went to pick up Charlie from the bookstore and we went in search of a newspaper. After finding the New York Times at Harris Teeter, we used the Android Geohashing app to map directions to the hashpoint, which was at that point about a mile away. I had my fingers crossed that my phone wouldn't die, as I had somehow fried my charger and was running on about 30% battery before I turned the GPS on. We came to the Y-intersection, parked the car, and started wandering in search of the hashpoint.

"What does it look like?" Charlie asked.

"I'm not sure, we haven't found it yet!"

"Oh! It's... it's not a thing?"

"Nope, just a set of coordinates."

Charlie commented on the likelihood of getting the cops called on us for wandering around cluelessly in a very affluent neighborhood. Charlie had a point.

The app lit up about ten feet from the kerb, to which we promptly had to relocate when a car came along. We took pictures, in which I look like a rabid groundhog given that I'm exceptionally prone to red-eye, as it was getting dark, and then headed back to the car.

Postscript: I greatly regret not attempting the Speed Racer achievement, but as it was getting dark, we decided to hightail it out.

Postpostscript: As it looks like the planned 2010-07-31_36_-80 expedition never occurred, and Oracle989 did not reach the coordinates for the 2009-10-04_36_-80 expedition, I believe this is a virgin graticule achievement. Sebejias, LevinSerra, and Oracle989, let me know if this is not true!

Photos

Achievements

Landgeohash.png
Birdray earned the Land geohash achievement
by reaching the (36, -80) geohash on 2012-05-15.
2012-05-15 36 -80 1.jpg
Drag-along.png
Birdray earned the Drag-along achievement
by dragging Charlie to the (36, -80) geohash on 2012-05-15.
2012-05-15 36 -80 1.jpg
Graticule unlocked.png
Birdray earned the Graticule Unlocked Achievement
by being the first to reach any hashpoint in the (36, -80) graticule, here, on 2012-05-15.
2012-05-15 36 -80 1.jpg