Difference between revisions of "2024-12-27 43 -92"

Latest revision as of 00:04, 28 December 2024

O Tannenbaum, O Tannenbaum...

Location

Near a street in a development off County Road 117 in Rochester, MN.

Participants

Plans

Kyrkazakh (talk): Well hey, looks like I might get one more in before the new year after all. Driving over sometime this afternoon, though I shan't count chickens pre-hatch.

Expedition

Kyrkazakh (talk): We did have a White Christmas around here, which I am grateful for, but dreary rains came today and melted most of the snow — they picked up right as I headed out. Still: finally, a geohash in Rochester! (Well, Rochester Township, but it's basically still in the city.) I arrived by car, blasting a mashup I created last night of Champagne Supernova and Red Wine Supernova which I call Rosé Supernova. It slaps.

Exited my car and before I knew it (literally) my phone told me I was on top of the hash. Snapped some photos and then ambled down the road to a nearby geocache that was tucked into a small limestone rock face and was called "Stratification Gratification" (cute name right?) Wrote in the log, including a plug for geohashing, which I try to do in many logbooks now since I think geocachers are the kind of folks who might be interested in hashing. Because the cache was wedged in the side of a +3-meter rock face, with the hash on the other side, the hash site wasn't visible and thus this doesn't count for the geocache-related achievement.

The drive back was rainier still, and particularly foggy, so I'm glad I got out and returned when I did. But happy to have bagged another hash, my first in my home county, and to also now be the Graticuleader in 43 -92 (Austin, MN), surpassing Trane's record! Celebrating with a little cider tonight. Happy holidays, folks.

Photos

Happy at a straightforward hash.
Yes indeed.
Some nice lights across the street.
Down...
... and west...
... and east.

Achievements

Kyrkazakh earned the Graticuleader achievement

by achieving the most successful expeditions in the (43, -92) graticule with 4.

Kyrkazakh issued a challenge for the Tale of Two Hashes achievement

by geohashing in a place named Rochester from the (43, -92) geohash on 2024-12-27.

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+[[User:Kyrkazakh|Kyrkazakh]] ([[User talk:Kyrkazakh|talk]]): We did have a White Christmas around here, which I am grateful for, but dreary rains came today and melted most of the snow — they picked up right as I headed out. Still: finally, a geohash in Rochester! (Well, Rochester Township, but it's basically still in the city.) I arrived by car, blasting a mashup I created last night of Champagne Supernova and Red Wine Supernova which I call Rosé Supernova. It slaps.
+Exited my car and before I knew it (literally) my phone told me I was on top of the hash. Snapped some photos and then ambled down the road to a nearby geocache that was tucked into a small limestone rock face and was called "Stratification Gratification" (cute name right?) Wrote in the log, including a plug for geohashing, which I try to do in many logbooks now since I think geocachers are the kind of folks who might be interested in hashing. Because the cache was wedged in the side of a +3-meter rock face, with the hash on the other side, the hash site wasn't visible and thus this doesn't count for the geocache-related achievement.
+The drive back was rainier still, and particularly foggy, so I'm glad I got out and returned when I did. But happy to have bagged another hash, my first in my home county, and to also now be the Graticuleader in 43 -92 (Austin, MN), surpassing Trane's record! Celebrating with a little cider tonight. Happy holidays, folks.
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