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Today's location is in a sugar beet field near the village of Vilchband. The hashpoint is in the state Baden-Württemberg, about 350 meters west of the state border to Bavaria (This is not important at all, but you might wonder about the dashed line on the map).
 
Today's location is in a sugar beet field near the village of Vilchband. The hashpoint is in the state Baden-Württemberg, about 350 meters west of the state border to Bavaria (This is not important at all, but you might wonder about the dashed line on the map).
  
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== Expedition ([[User:Danatar|Danatar]])==
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Wow, a Saturday hashpoint in by bike reachable distance, even though "reachable distance" in this case means "farther than I would voluntarily go" and though I am expecting guests for dinner! Getting easily addicted to useless but funny things like geohashing, I really had no choice, I had to go there.
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Armed with a map printout, directions and supplies (water, chocolate), I mounted my bike and set out for the countryside. The road google had chosen for me turned out to be a medium traffic country road without any bicycle lane, but luckily nobody run me over. It was going mostly uphill with the steepest slope shortly before the hashpoint, but I had no real problems getting there. I arrived at the dirt track next to the hashpoint at 3:55 p.m. and used some guessing (and counting steps) to find the right spot. Then, after a detour around a ditch, I took some steps into the field (the sugar beets have enough space between them) and started to document my success. As expected, nobody else showed up.
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On my way back, I was happy to be able to go downhill so much, because I haven't cycled more than 30 kilometers in one day for years and my legs were getting really heavy. My bar of chocolate was the thing that kept me going. I had to eat three bites for every kilometer, but it took the weariness away and gave me enough energy (no, it was a normal chocolate bar with no added "spices") to get home in time to finish the onion tart for my guests. Distance cycled: 29.7 km there + 30.5 km back = 60.2 km total
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Nobody seems to have visited this graticule before. Proof that I went by bike (photo 3) to the correct location (photos 1 to 3) can be taken from the gallery (I'm still watching eBay for a GPS).
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{{Graticule unlocked | latitude = 49 | longitude = 9 | date = 2008-09-20 | name = Danatar }}
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{{Bicycle geohash | latitude = 49 | longitude = 9 | date = 2008-09-20 | name = Danatar | image = 2008-09-20_49_9_3bike.jpg }}
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Image:2008-09-20_49_9_1vilchband.jpg‎|1) Vilchband town sign
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Image:2008-09-20_49_9_2hash.jpg|2) Coordinates reached, including Stupid Grin<sup>tm</sup>
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Image:2008-09-20_49_9_3bike.jpg|3) Date & time, means of transport, hashpoint area
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Image:2008-09-20_49_9_4schoko.jpg|4) My head feels so light, does this mean not enough sugar or too much of it? Ba-ba-doodle-doo...
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Image:2008-09-20_49_9_giraffe.jpg‎| Africa is not on my map, did I take a wrong turn?
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Image:2008-09-20_49_9_sonnenblume.jpg| A beautiful sun flower, the only one blooming amid five dozen.
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[[Category:Expeditions with photos]]
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[[Category:Expedition without GPS]]
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[[Category:Coordinates reached]]
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Latest revision as of 07:35, 20 March 2024

Sat 20 Sep 2008 in Würzburg, Germany:
49.5939233, 9.8365649
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Location

Today's location is in a sugar beet field near the village of Vilchband. The hashpoint is in the state Baden-Württemberg, about 350 meters west of the state border to Bavaria (This is not important at all, but you might wonder about the dashed line on the map).

Expedition (Danatar)

Wow, a Saturday hashpoint in by bike reachable distance, even though "reachable distance" in this case means "farther than I would voluntarily go" and though I am expecting guests for dinner! Getting easily addicted to useless but funny things like geohashing, I really had no choice, I had to go there.

Armed with a map printout, directions and supplies (water, chocolate), I mounted my bike and set out for the countryside. The road google had chosen for me turned out to be a medium traffic country road without any bicycle lane, but luckily nobody run me over. It was going mostly uphill with the steepest slope shortly before the hashpoint, but I had no real problems getting there. I arrived at the dirt track next to the hashpoint at 3:55 p.m. and used some guessing (and counting steps) to find the right spot. Then, after a detour around a ditch, I took some steps into the field (the sugar beets have enough space between them) and started to document my success. As expected, nobody else showed up.

On my way back, I was happy to be able to go downhill so much, because I haven't cycled more than 30 kilometers in one day for years and my legs were getting really heavy. My bar of chocolate was the thing that kept me going. I had to eat three bites for every kilometer, but it took the weariness away and gave me enough energy (no, it was a normal chocolate bar with no added "spices") to get home in time to finish the onion tart for my guests. Distance cycled: 29.7 km there + 30.5 km back = 60.2 km total

Nobody seems to have visited this graticule before. Proof that I went by bike (photo 3) to the correct location (photos 1 to 3) can be taken from the gallery (I'm still watching eBay for a GPS).


Graticule unlocked.png
 Danatar earned the Graticule Unlocked Achievement
by being the first to reach any hashpoint in the (49, 9) graticule, here, on 2008-09-20.
Bikegeohash.png
 Danatar earned the Bicycle geohash achievement
by cycling to the (49, 9) geohash on 2008-09-20.
2008-09-20 49 9 3bike.jpg


  • 1) Vilchband town sign

  • 2) Coordinates reached, including Stupid Grintm

  • 3) Date & time, means of transport, hashpoint area

  • 4) My head feels so light, does this mean not enough sugar or too much of it? Ba-ba-doodle-doo...

  • Africa is not on my map, did I take a wrong turn?

  • A beautiful sun flower, the only one blooming amid five dozen.

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