Cold geohash achievement

This achievement may be taken by any geohasher or group of geohashers who reach the actual coordinates and document a colder temperature than the previous record holder. The best way to document this is by having an actual thermometer in the picture, but a weather report showing the daily high for a nearby location to be below the previous record is acceptable if it beats the previous record by more than five degrees.

As the first winter of geohashing moves across the northern hemisphere, expect this category to be hotly contested. Or coldly contested.

Current record holder

• Mikkozzz waded in waste-deep water in lake Urja to reach 2008-08-31 60 24 hashpoint, thus pushing the record down to 14.0°C (air). The water temperature was 13.0°C.

Proof of 14.0°C in lake Urja

Previous record holders

• Robyn braved not-quite-frozen swamps at the 2008-08-21 55 -114 geohash, to snipe the record at 14.8°C (59°F). (The little gadget on top of the GPS is a digital thermometer).
• Arvid Nearly froze to death at the 2008-08-20 52 7 hash, at a shivering 66°F (or 19°C). And there was rain too!
• Ok, I'll go... Ted Claims the coldest Geohash to date, with a temperature of 88°F (that's 31.11° metric), for his participation in the 2008-06-07_37_-121 event. Temperature proof is here. FWIW, I drank a frosty beverage, after the hash...

Honorable Mentions

• Arvid had the coldest geohash so far at 2008-09-15 52 7, which was 10.2°C at 27m from the hashpoint. But that was as far as he got. He was in shorts, and needed to get to the other side of a very nettled ditch, so he didn't reach the actual coordinates, and thereby failed to qualify for the coldest geohash.

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This user earned the Cold geohash achievement by reaching the ({{{latitude}}}, {{{longitude}}}) geohash on [[{{{date}}} {{{latitude}}} {{{longitude}}}|{{{date}}}]] while the temperature was {{{temperature}}}.

See Also

If your geohash was cold, but not as cold as the record holder, you may qualify for the Frozen Geohash achievement.