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“	I didn't bring any skis on this expedition, so when the GPS reported the hash being 59 m from the road, I thought "close enough" and called it a night. No, really, I walked/crawled through the waist-deep snow to reach the hash. I should be declared insane, but I made it.		”
find some more great geohashing quotations here.		—the_ru

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 |0={{quoteMore|center|As it was my very first expedition, I was very excited about it. I wasn't expecting grand adventure, as the destination was just an hour walk from the city, but I was positively surprised, when I found a medieval tower on my way, that I had no idea was there.|[[2009-02-23_52_-7|JRK]]}}
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 |11={{quoteMore|center|Put it this way, common sense is my middle name. My first name's "absolutely no".|[[2009-06-15_41_28|Superbest]]}}
 |12={{quoteMore|center|12:25 - What the hell... Edit conflict? Pari!|[[2009-08-29_52_13|davidc]] on Pari, who were both live editing the wiki during the expedition}}
-|13={{quoteMore|center|It was barely off the road halfway between a funeral and a baptism, so the attire just kind of happened.|Trane, in #geohashing, about [[2010-02-06_43_-91]]}}
+|13={{quoteMore|center|It was barely off the road halfway between a funeral and a baptism, so the attire just kind of happened.|Trane, in #geohashing, about [[2010-02-06 43 -91]]}}
-|14={{quoteMore|center|I had managed to reach a place where the car horns and cheers from Canada's gold-medal victory in men's Olympic hockey did not reach.|Juventas, [[2010-02-28_49_-119]]}}
+|14={{quoteMore|center|I had managed to reach a place where the car horns and cheers from Canada's gold-medal victory in men's Olympic hockey did not reach.|Juventas, [[2010-02-28 49 -119]]}}
-|15={{quoteMore|center|Okay, if you don't hear back from me in two hours, call the police and tell them to look for me approximately at the 50 10 geohash of the day.|[[User:Mampfred|Mampfred]] on the phone with his wife after dark at [[2010-10-18_50_10]]}}
+|15={{quoteMore|center|Okay, if you don't hear back from me in two hours, call the police and tell them to look for me approximately at the 50 10 geohash of the day.|[[User:Mampfred|Mampfred]] on the phone with his wife after dark at [[2010-10-18 50 10]]}}
+|16={{quoteMore|center|For some reason a massive goat market had sprung up in my absence.|[[User:Felix Dance|Felix Dance]] on [[2010-11-15 28 77]]}}
+|17={{quoteMore|center|After walking over a kilometer it was time to head into the forest, it was completely dark and I didn't see much of it. It seems like a crazy decision to try to walk the last 700 meters to the hash but it's also a kinda crazy decision to head out half an hour after midnight to try to reach a coordinate in the middle of a forest and then walk by foot for about six hours just to reach "nothing". (...)It was completely wet in the forest, small lakes and swamps had been temporarily created by the melting snow but this time it wouldn't stop me.  My shoes got wet after just a few minutes and turned wetter since I had walked in deeper and deeper swamps. (...)I finally reached the geohash and it felt great.|[[User:Vswe|Vswe]] on [[2010-11-18 59 17]]}}
+|18={{quoteMore|center|That's when I found out that when you are in a hurry to catch a train you can actually ride a bike while carrying all your ski equipment... |[[User:Crox|Crox]] on [[2011-01-04 46 7]]}}
+|19={{quoteMore|center|Look what technology has wrought. Scott and Amundsen killed/nearly killed themselves getting to the pole, and now we have a permanent base named after them and people can near-instantaneously [[2012-02-26 global|send people already there on silly missions]]. I think they'd be proud? |[[User:Phyzome|Phyzome]] on IRC}}
+|20={{quoteMore|center|You can look up the American slang if you don't know. I've been almost thwarted by beavers twice.|[[User:Robyn|Robyn]] commenting on [[2009-08-25 47 -65]]}}
+|21={{quoteMore|center|As I saw him running back down the hill I exclaimed, "He's running back, that means he must have found it.", I was quickly rebuffed with, "Unless he's being chased!"|Two companions talking during [[2012-06-16 33 -117]]}}
+|22={{quoteMore|center|In any weather, at any hour of the day or night, I have been anxious to improve the nick of time, and notch it on my stick too; to stand on the meeting of two eternities, the past and future, which is precisely the present moment; to toe that line. [...] I would gladly tell all that I know about it, and never paint "No admittance" on my gate.|Thoreau, on geohashing.}}
+|23={{quoteMore|center|The people of the internet would not accept it if we were five metres off|[[User:Marvyn|Marvyn]] to the landowner at [[2012-08-17 51 5]]}}
+|24={{quoteMore|center|Pro-Tip: do not, I repeat DO NOT go on a cross-swamp adventure in shorts and sandals.|[[User:JRK|JRK]] reflects on lessons learned during [[2013-08-07 51 23]]}}
+|25={{quoteMore|center|I think we are going to make it to the coordinates. — No, we will burst. |[[User:LeslieHapablap|LeslieHapablap]] while checking heading and distance on his GPS in difficult mountain terrain, and [[User:1-0|1-0]] while stuffing himself with wild blueberries during [[2013-08-24 47 11]].}}
+|26={{quoteMore|center|Do you want to hit up the Portland geohash with Alison and me? Today. Like right now. We're going to drive to your house if you don't answer.|[[User:Frogman|Frogman]] initiates an expedition to [[2013-09-07 45 -122]] with an increasingly menacing series of text messages.}}
+|27={{quoteMore|center|Geohashing takes you places. In my case to a place where a rainbow appeared while I was already taking pictures for a panorama. I doubt that the same thing will happen to me a second time. Thank you, Randall.|[[User:Hermann|Hermann]], commenting on [[2013-09-16 53 9]].}}
+|28={{quoteMore|center|"Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God."|Kurt Vonnegut, discussing geohashing, in "Cat's Cradle" (1963).}}
+|29={{quoteMore|center|"Have faith in my blind navigational skills!"|[[User:Higgs|Higgs]], refusing to look at a GPS during the [[2013-10-21 44 -123]] expedition.}}
+|30={{quoteMore|center|Why do I search invisible coordinates while it's wet and dark and uncomfortable outside, knowing that I'll probably end up dirty all over? I can't tell|[[User:Paintedhell|Juja]], [[2013-11-22 50 11]]}}
+|31={{quoteMore|center|Cake is also highly recommended, especially if you succeed in transporting it to the geohash intact. Sharing cake with strangers at the geohash is a good way to tell people about geohashing. People willing to accept cake from strangers in party hats are probably the sort of people who would consider geohashing.|[http://wiki.xkcd.com/wgh/index.php?title=Geohashing_Day&diff=111696&oldid=111684 Robyn]}}
+|32={{quoteMore|center|I was astonished to find that it was only a block away from my cousin's house, which I'd probably been to four or five times! How could I have missed a giant glacial erratic boulder in such proximity? I had to investigate, so I began to take my leave.|[[User:OtherJack|OtherJack]], commenting on [[2014-03-12 47 -122]]}}
+|33={{quoteMore|center|As I was heading back to the truck, I encountered every urban geohasher's worst nightmare: an aggressive, charging, off-leash dog. Fortunately, it was only about the size of a large burrito.|[[User:Michael5000]] on [[2014-03-26 45 -122]]}}
+|34={{quoteMore|center|A few seconds later I realized that normal people can cross their own tracks.|[[User:RecentlyChanged|RecentlyChanged]] on [[2014-06-18 49 8]]}}
+|35={{quoteMore|center|It had never occurred to me that the first 141km would be easier than those last 50 meters. First of all, there is a distinct lack of landmarks in the middle of the water (and only now, as I type that sentence, does the sheer irony hit me. I guess there's a reason they're called ''land''marks).|[[User:Thepiguy|Thepiguy]] on [[2008-09-01 49 -124]]}}
+|36={{quoteMore|center|This should be easy to squeeze through. !*&#@! **@~!! it was a live electric fence.}}
+|37={{quoteMore|center|So I failed to reach the [[2015-07-13 52 1|hashpoint]]. I wet my trouser legs by wading through the damp barley. I got covered in clay mud. And I got two lifetime firsts, wildlife spotting. Result!}}
+|38={{quoteMore|center|"As long as you won't kill me and bury me in the woods..."|[[User:ZettS|ZettS]]' drag-along on [[2016-02-03 53 10]]}}
+|39={{quoteMore|center|"I've washed off the dried blood, emptied my pockets of twigs and pine park fragments and showered the resinous detritus out of my hair."|[[2016-05-31_52_-3|Sourcerer in Wales]]}}
+|40={{quoteMore|center|"To be swallowed by a peat crevasse followed by a wet land collapse would be an interesting way to meet ones doom. You'd be found three thousand years later, well preserved, with a [[User:Crox/Poster|Crox poster]]!"|[[2016-05-31_52_-3|Sourcerer in Wales]]}}
+|41={{quoteMore|center|It'd be a betrayal of everything I held dear to not do it|[[User:Felix_Dance|Felix]], about a [[2016-08-06 -13 131|hash]]}}
+|42={{quoteMore|center|You see, it's only one sentence away from my home.|[[User:Jens|Jens]], about a particularly easy [[2018-02-19 50 11|hash]]}}
+|43={{quoteMore|center|Try to contain your squeeks of excitement as the distance falls followed by the satisfied "Yes" if it drops below 310 metres.|[[User:Sourcerer|Sourcerer]]: [[Air geohash achievement]] at the [[2018-01-31_43_19|hash]]}}
+|44={{quoteMore|center|It ultimately took me almost two hours to travel the 1.4 km and to reach the hashpoint. Sometimes I got more stable ground under my feet, sometimes –– I sank to metre-deep snow and could barely climb up. But I consider Mother Nature my bitch and would let nothing stop me.|[[User:Kripakko|Kripakko]] on [[2019-04-14 62 30]]}}
+|45={{quoteMore|center|I left the bicycle at the roadside 400 metres from the point and continued on foot. I quickly noticed that I was walking into a swarm of about a million mosquitoes. –– [After reaching the geohash] I took another, slightly more accessible route back to the bicycle and began to cycle back towards the major road. The swarm of mosquitoes still followed me for half a kilometre until I could reach level road and accelerate away from them.|[[User:Kripakko|Kripakko]] on [[2019-06-07 63 29]]}}
+|46={{quoteMore|center|How barbed is the wire?|[[User:Felix Dance|Felix Dance]] to [[User:Stevage|Stevage]] on [[2009-09-19 -37 145]]}}
+|47={{quoteMore|center|"I ain't jokin', babe, I've got to ramble
+Oh yeah
+Baby, baby, I be leavin'
+We really got to ramble
+I can hear it callin' me the way it used to do."|Led Zeppelin, on geohashing, in "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You" (1969).}}
+|48={{quoteMore|center|I said: “You can turn off the headlights, but do not—I say again—do not turn off the car. Just to clarify, do not turn off the car. And in case you didn’t hear me the first time, do not turn off the car.”|[[User:Pwc|Pwc]] on [[2024-04-26 -37 145]]}}
+|49={{quoteMore|center|The plan was as follows: we'd send in Other Katie to impress the gate staff using the skills she'd learned in her Beginner Level Poi class.<br>Meanwhile, Tony and I would dress The Yaris as a shrub and quietly push it past on the right.|[[User:Kt|KT]] on [[2022-04-17 -38 143]]}}
+|50={{quoteMore|center|"Hey Steve"<br>"Yeah?"<br>"What are those birds sitting on?"<br>"Um, they're floating on the water"<br>"Oh yeah, that makes sense."<br>"They're sitting on water".|[[User:Stevage|Stevage]] and [[User:Kt|KT]] on [[2023-08-12 -37 144]]}}
+|51={{quoteMore|center|Here I felt very calm, while leaning backwards over a big drop, with absolutely no way to catch myself if something happened to the rope.|[[User:Stevage|Stevage]] on [[2022-07-11 -39 146]]}}
+|52={{quoteMore|center|He says "What were you doing back there." Instead of giving an explanation of geohashing, I say "I was looking for a GPS point." He says, and I wish I could make something up like this, "Well, where did you lose it?"|[[User:NWoodruff|Nwoodruff]] on [[2011-01-22 33 -84]]}}
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