2023-08-17 55 -3

Thu 17 Aug 2023 in 55,-3: 55.9791888, -3.7652093 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox

Location

In a field near Falkirk, roughly 5km from the Falkirk High train station.

Participants

• KerrMcF

Plans

This will be KerrMcF's first geohash and, as his home graticule's coordinates are in water, travelling east is easier. Since he is volunteering from 11-2, he expects to arrive at the location around 4:15pm and will do so mostly via public transport to Falkirk.

Expedition

KerrMcF

I took the bus to Glasgow and then the train from Glasgow Queen Street to Falkirk High. This was then followed by a 5km walk to the geohash. Along the way, I found a set of stairs that were not displayed on OpenStreetMaps, so I added them to this. The approximate view of the geohash is highlighted in one of the below images. The route to the geohash required crossing a railway line and a canal, the first was done by tunnel and the second by bridge. Unfortunately, I did not reach the geohash until 75 minutes after I had originally planned due to struggling to find the entrance to the field it was located in, but I eventually did reach it and successfully completed my first geohash!

I had researched earlier if there was a nearby geocache, and there was! I went to find it after my geohash and although I was able to find it only 342m away from the geohash, the presence of a hill prevented them from being within sight of each other. I also forgot my pen. No hash collision today. I didn't take any photos of it as I'm only just now realising the honourable mention conditions but I'll link the listing below and claim that anyway.

Returning home was not as easy, my phone died on the way back to the train station (must bring a battery pack on future expeditions!) and managing journey times was far more difficult than it needed to be. The bus I had gotten into Glasgow does not run after 5:30pm so I had to improvise with the infrequent train journeys back home. Both the journey in and back took 90 minutes each.

Photos

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  Bus tickets no longer seem to be a thing here

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  Fortunately train tickets are

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  Entrance to the woods I walked through

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  The OSM missing stairs

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  Obnoxious red circle/arrow highlighting the rough location of the geohash

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  A very echoey tunnel under the railway line

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  Reached the geohash

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  First panorama of the geohash

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  Second panorama of the geohash

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  Route of the walk from the station to the geohash and back

Achievements

KerrMcF earned the Land geohash achievement by reaching the (55, -3) geohash on 2023-08-17.

KerrMcF earned the Public transport geohash achievement by reaching the (55, -3) geohash on 2023-08-17 using public transit.

KerrMcF earned the OpenStreetMap achievement by contributing to OpenStreetMap based on their expedition to the (55, -3) geohash on 2023-08-17.

KerrMcF earned the Hash collision honorable mention by discovering the geocache GC2X5DM 342m from the (55, -3) geohash on 2023-08-17.

Progress

Council Area	Postcode	NUTS	Centicule	New Achievements
Falkirk	FK(1)	UKM76	97	Land geohash Public Transport geohash OpenStreetMap achievement

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