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Sat 21 Dec 2024 in Seattle: 47.6789452, -122.1395403 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox

Location

Ever so slightly inside an apartment complex in northwest Redmond

Participants

• User:Darkid
• Thomcat
• Pwbriggs

Plans

Darkid: Bike (a fairly short distance) and arrive at ~4

Thomcat: Drive, arrive similar time

Pwbriggs: In the area to cut a Christmas tree (by car), will stop on the way home (around 1). This will be my first attempted hash.

Expedition

A leak in my ceiling and a poorly timed temporary fix by the landlord indicate I may be a little late... --Thomcat (talk) 23:21, 21 December 2024 (UTC)

Pwbriggs: Left home at about 11:30 with family. We arrived at a tree farm near the hash just after noon. As is the tradition in our family, we then began the tree debates, wherein we compare every tree in the field on a variety of characteristics (how cool the top looks, whether there's enough gap in the branches to build lego buildings on the branches, etc.) Naturally, it started dumping rain around then.

After around an hour of this most of the family had decided it was too wet and cold and dark (it was the winter solstice), and were pulling themselves out of the debate. The two main opinions that remained were (1) in favor of a certain tree that met most of our general criteria and (2) in favor of any tree except that one. At around 13:15, we decided we would just have to cut down a tree and get it over with. We then carried our new tree to the stand, which had run out of tree netting. For the next 15 minutes, a couple of us meticulously tied the tree to the roof while the others sat in the somewhat warmer and drier car.

A bit after 13:30, we finally headed to the geohash. The hash was located behind an apartment complex, so there was plenty of parking. None of us felt like being out in the rain any longer than necessary, so we drove around and found another parking lot in the back, right next to the hash. A couple of us wandered around trying to find the exact spot. We dug around in the car for some tape to hang up the poster, but couldn't find any. We ended up leaving the poster in the grass.

We only spotted one lady walking her dog around the apartment grounds, and nobody approached us despite having arrived on a rainy Saturday with a car full of people and a tree on our roof. Not having spotted any other hashers (I failed to check the meetup page and plan ahead), we cleared out quickly, as it had started raining again. On the way home, we stopped to pick up some warm drinks from a nearby coffee shop. We arrived home just before 14:30.

Photos

Pwbriggs: I will add my photos/proof once Google Photos gets around to syncing them.

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  GPS says I'll be there at 10 after @47.7998,-122.3111

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  front @47.6790,-122.1399

Achievements

Pwbriggs: this is my first time geohashing, surely there's some achievement for that? I have not researched this yet.