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About

The hashpoint is at Reutlingen, in a forest area between Ohmenhausen and the city centre, almost exactly on a well travelled bike and foot path.

Expedition: Ekorren

Only three days after saturday's hash at Kusterdingen, another one came really near - i.e. less than ten kilometres from my home, and also accessible. So, when I saw the coordinates yesterday, this was a good reason to grab my toolbox and fix the bike.

First stop was after only a few minutes when I remembered what I had forgotten to pack (you see, it's never the if but always what). The thing I'd probably need and didn't pack was the prepared hashpoint marker. I shortly considered turning around but as the luggage check surfaced that I hadn't forgotten notebook and pens I decided to make a new one at the destination instead.

Second stop after two km was for a loose screw - nothing uncommon with that bike, and no reason to go for train wreck consolidation price. Actually I had the neccessary tools in my backpack, so after a short stop I had it fastened and went on.

Around 12:30 I left town and took the new bicycle route through the Ehrenbachtal, which features a covenient slope of between 2 and 5 % except of a very short part, compared to >10% on the shortest route, which isn't really so much shorter anyway. As usual I missed a turn at Immenhausen, the next road was blocked by a truck almost as wide as the road and impossible to pass, so a small detour through Mähringen was unavoidable. When leaving that village for Ohmenhausen, the road was barred with a sign "road closed but open until the building site". Well, it's usually not so much of a problem to pass a building site by bike unless they haven't rebuilt a missing bridge yet, but as there are no bridges on this road I didn't expect them to effectively bar it so I happily passed that sign. Actually, a few hundred metres later, at the next crossroads, there was the same sign barring the road from the other side but nothing like a building site inbetween. Maybe they plan to start building in 2011 and already put up the signs? I went around Ohmenhausen, crossed the industrial area and found an agricultural road which brought me to the small road the hash was on, and arrived at the hash around 13:30.

Finding the exact place was a bit difficult due to poor GPS reception in the forest, so I needed to wait some time but I think it's fairly accurate now. Another problem was pedestrians traffic as I didn't really want to need to explain Geohashing to curious 70 year olds. So it took quite some time to prepare markers, make photos and leave a book. Left the site around 14:00 and headed for a nearby geocache. Which got me on heavy detours on mud paths, but I found it in the end, and then turned back home along another route so that I'd be home before dark.

Achievements:

Of course it's another bicycle expedition, but more interesting, it's a Déjà Vu Geohash. The hash is on the path (within inaccuracy of google maps), and I have taken this path several times before when going by bike to Reutlingen. Though, I can't exactly prove it but only make it plausible. I may be able to prove that I went from Ohmenhausen to centre several times in the past (e.g. if one would look through all of my past bookcrossing releases, there are a number of pairs with one release at Ohmenhausen and the next one not much later in the centre), and there are witnesses that I took the bike for these trips. But although this route is probably the most reasonable to go, there are other, so you will have to believe me. I hope to get a better Déjà Vu Geohash later.

At the hashpoint
Paper marker
Wooden marker
Date, time and coordinates of the hashpoint, temperature of some warmer place.

Ekorren earned the Bicycle geohash achievement

by cycling to the (48, 9) geohash on 2008-11-18.

Ekorren earned the Déjà Vu Geohash Achievement

by reaching the (48, 9) geohash on 2008-11-18, and previously on several occasions.

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 Second stop after two km was for a loose screw - nothing uncommon with that bike, and no reason to go for train wreck consolidation price. Actually I had the neccessary tools in my backpack, so after a short stop I had it fastened and went on.
-Around 12:30 I left town and took the new bicycle route through the Ehrenbachtal, which features a covenient slope of between 2 and 5 percent except of a very short part, compared to >10% on the shortest route, which isn't really so much shorter anyway. As usual I missed a turn at Immenhausen, the next road was closed by a truck almost as wide as the road and impossible to pass, so a small detour though Mähringen was unavoidable. When leaving that village for Ohmenhausen, the road was barred with a sign "road closed but open until the building site". Well, it's usually not so much of a problem to pass a building site by bike unless they haven't rebuilt a missing bridge yet, but as there are no bridges along the next few kilometres this won't happen so I happily passed that sign. Actually, a few hundred metres later, at the next crossroads, there was the same sign closing the road from the other side but nothing like a building site inbetween. Maybe they plan to start building in 2011 but already put up the signs, who knows. I went around Ohmenhausen, crossed the industrial area and found an agricultural road which brought me to the small road the hash was on, and arrived at the hash around 13:30.
+Around 12:30 I left town and took the new bicycle route through the Ehrenbachtal, which features a covenient slope of between 2 and 5 % except of a very short part, compared to >10% on the shortest route, which isn't really so much shorter anyway. As usual I missed a turn at Immenhausen, the next road was blocked by a truck almost as wide as the road and impossible to pass, so a small detour through Mähringen was unavoidable. When leaving that village for Ohmenhausen, the road was barred with a sign "road closed but open until the building site". Well, it's usually not so much of a problem to pass a building site by bike unless they haven't rebuilt a missing bridge yet, but as there are no bridges on this road I didn't expect them to effectively bar it so I happily passed that sign. Actually, a few hundred metres later, at the next crossroads, there was the same sign barring the road from the other side but nothing like a building site inbetween. Maybe they plan to start building in 2011 and already put up the signs? I went around Ohmenhausen, crossed the industrial area and found an agricultural road which brought me to the small road the hash was on, and arrived at the hash around 13:30.
 Finding the exact place was a bit difficult due to poor GPS reception in the forest, so I needed to wait some time but I think it's fairly accurate now. Another problem was pedestrians traffic as I didn't really want to need to explain Geohashing to curious 70 year olds. So it took quite some time to prepare markers, make photos and leave a book. Left the site around 14:00 and headed for a nearby geocache. Which got me on heavy detours on mud paths, but I found it in the end, and then turned back home along another route so that I'd be home before dark.
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Tue 18 Nov 2008 in Stuttgart, Germany: 48.4852361, 9.1656442 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox