Difference between revisions of "2023-10-09 36 -116"

Latest revision as of 21:08, 24 May 2024

Location

Near the east entrance to Death Valley National Park.

Participants

Expedition

As I continued towards my conference after 2023-10-09 37 -117, there was plenty of time for a brief side trip to capture this one as well. I had noticed that the little track that goes out towards it from Nevada 374 was right where the highway enters Death Valley National Park, but I didn't expect that to matter especially. But as it happens, the Park is closed due to recent heavy rains, so the highway was closed right at that point, and when I arrived there was a bit of a carnival atmosphere as people chatted with the rangers at the blockade, took their picture at the park sign, and took their picture at the Welcome to Nevada sign, oddly positioned four or five miles from the California border.

The little side road doesn't enter the park but had a pylon on it, so I unpacked my bike and rode about a mile in, then walked another half mile or so to the hashpoint. It was classic Death Valley -- it felt no more than comfortably warm, but was actually 92F -- so again it was nice to have redundant GPS and good landmarks.

After taking pictures and retreating back to the vehicle, I chatted with the ranger at the roadblock a bit and, in the course of the conversation, I did something I've never done before: explained to a civilian what I was actually doing on a geohashing expedition. We agreed that it was basically Pokemon Go without the cartoon monsters.

And at that point, the adventure part of the trip was pretty much over. I continued towards Las Vegas for a far less exciting work conference.

Photos

Leaving Highway 95 at Beatty
The roadblock at the Park entrance
Bicycling down this little road...
...and then down this watercourse...
...and then leaving the bike.
There!
Redundant GPS capacity
Me
View #1
View #2
View #3
Hashcot
Vehicle and Bike, well inside of Nevada

Achievements

Michael5000 earned the Graticule Unlocked Achievement

by being the first to reach any hashpoint in the (36, -116) graticule, here, on 2023-10-09.

Michael5000 earned the Multihash Achievement

by reaching 2 hash points on 2023-10-09. It's a Double Hash.

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 And DON'T FORGET to add your expedition and the best photo you took to the gallery on the Main Page! We'd love to read your report, but that means we first have to discover it! :)
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-| lat={{#explode:{{SUBPAGENAME}}| |1}}
+| lat=36
-| lon={{#explode:{{SUBPAGENAME}}| |2}}
+| lon=-116
-| date={{#explode:{{SUBPAGENAME}}| |0}}
+| date=2023-10-09
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 == Participants ==
-<!-- who attended: If you link to your wiki user name in this section, your expedition will be picked up by the various statistics generated for geohashing. You may use three tildes ~ as a shortcut to automatically insert the user signature of the account you are editing with.
+[[User:Michael5000|Michael5000]]
--->
-== Plans ==
+== Expedition ==
-<!-- what were the original plans -->
+As I continued towards my conference after [[2023-10-09 37 -117]], there was plenty of time for a brief side trip to capture this one as well.  I had noticed that the little track that goes out towards it from Nevada 374 was right where the highway enters Death Valley National Park, but I didn't expect that to matter especially.  But as it happens, the Park is closed due to recent heavy rains, so the highway was closed right at that point, and when I arrived there was a bit of a carnival atmosphere as people chatted with the rangers at the blockade, took their picture at the park sign, and took their picture at the Welcome to Nevada sign, oddly positioned four or five miles from the California border.
-== Expedition ==
+The little side road doesn't enter the park but had a pylon on it, so I unpacked my bike and rode about a mile in, then walked another half mile or so to the hashpoint.  It was classic Death Valley -- it felt no more than comfortably warm, but was actually 92F -- so again it was nice to have redundant GPS and good landmarks.
-<!-- how it all turned out. your narrative goes here. -->
+After taking pictures and retreating back to the vehicle, I chatted with the ranger at the roadblock a bit and, in the course of the conversation, I did something I've never done before: explained to a civilian what I was actually doing on a geohashing expedition.  We agreed that it was basically Pokemon Go without the cartoon monsters.
-== Tracklog ==
+And at that point, the adventure part of the trip was pretty much over.  I continued towards Las Vegas for a far less exciting work conference.
-<!-- if your GPS device keeps a log, you may use Template:Tracklog, post a link here, or both -->
 == Photos ==
-<!-- Insert pictures between the gallery tags using the following format:
-Image:2020-##-## ## ## Alpha.jpg | Witty Comment
--->
 <gallery perrow="5">
-File:2023-10-09 36 -116 a.jpg|
+File:2023-10-09 36 -116 a.jpg|Leaving Highway 95 at Beatty
-File:2023-10-09 36 -116 b.jpg|
+File:2023-10-09 36 -116 l.jpg|The roadblock at the Park entrance
-File:2023-10-09 36 -116 c.jpg|
+File:2023-10-09 36 -116 b.jpg|Bicycling down this little road...
-File:2023-10-09 36 -116 d.jpg|
+File:2023-10-09 36 -116 c.jpg|...and then down this watercourse...
-File:2023-10-09 36 -116 e.jpg|
+File:2023-10-09 36 -116 j.jpg|...and then leaving the bike.
-File:2023-10-09 36 -116 f.jpg|
+File:2023-10-09 36 -116 d.jpg|There!
-File:2023-10-09 36 -116 g.jpg|
+File:2023-10-09 36 -116 m.jpg|Redundant GPS capacity
-File:2023-10-09 36 -116 h.jpg|
+File:2023-10-09 36 -116 e.jpg|Me
-File:2023-10-09 36 -116 i.jpg|
+File:2023-10-09 36 -116 f.jpg|View #1
-File:2023-10-09 36 -116 j.jpg|
+File:2023-10-09 36 -116 g.jpg|View #2
-File:2023-10-09 36 -116 k.jpg|
+File:2023-10-09 36 -116 h.jpg|View #3
-File:2023-10-09 36 -116 l.jpg|
+File:2023-10-09 36 -116 i.jpg|Hashcot
-File:2023-10-09 36 -116 m.jpg|
+File:2023-10-09 36 -116 k.jpg|Vehicle and Bike, well inside of Nevada
 </gallery>
 == Achievements ==
 {{#vardefine:ribbonwidth|100%}}
-<!-- Add any achievement ribbons you earned below, or remove this section -->
+{{Graticule unlocked
-__NOTOC__
+    | latitude = 36
-<!-- =============== USEFUL CATEGORIES FOLLOW ================
+    | longitude = -116
-Delete the next line ONLY if you have chosen the appropriate categories below. If you are unsure, don't worry. People will read your report and help you with the classification. -->
+    | date = 2023-10-09
-[[Category:New report]]
+    | name = Michael5000
-<!-- ==REQUEST FOR TWITTER BOT== Please leave either the New report or the Expedition planning category in as long as you work on it. This helps the twitter bot a lot with announcing the right outcome at the right moment. -->
+}}
+{{Multihash2
-<!-- Potential categories. Please include all the ones appropriate to your expedition -->
+    | date = 2023-10-09
-<!-- If this is a planning page:
+    | count = 2
-[[Category:Expedition planning]]
+    | name = Michael5000
--->
+}}
-<!-- If all those plans are never acted upon, change [[Category:Expedition planning]] to [[Category:Not reached - Did not attempt]]. -->
+__NOTOC__
-<!-- An actual expedition:
 [[Category:Expeditions]]
--- and one or more of --
 [[Category:Expeditions with photos]]
-[[Category:Expeditions with videos]]
-[[Category:Expedition without GPS]]
--->
-<!-- if you reached your coords:
 [[Category:Coordinates reached]]
+{{location|US|NV|NY}}
---><!-- or if you failed :(
-[[Category:Coordinates not reached]]
--- and a reason --
-When there is a natural obstacle between you and the target:
-[[Category:Not reached - Mother Nature]]
-When there is a man-made obstacle between you and the target:
-[[Category:Not reached - No public access]]
-When you failed get your GPS, car, bike or such to work:
-[[Category:Not reached - Technology]]
-When you went to an alternate location instead of the actual geohash:
-[[Category:Not reached - Attended alternate location]]
-(Don't forget to delete this final close comment marker) -->


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