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== About ==
 
== About ==
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The snow has melted and the sun has returned. To mark this joyous occasion, I decided to go on my first expedition! It was in a housing development area and a muddy field.
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Once again, it's February in rural Illinois. If you guessed "harvested corn field", you're correct!
  
 
== Expedition ==
 
== Expedition ==
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[[User:Shandd|Shandd]]: I was sitting in my electricity class today and had a brief moment to check the geohash wiki. For the past 3 or 4 days I've been checking to see if there was point close enough to me that I could easily make the trip without wasting gas. Today was that day!
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[[User:Excellentdude|excellentdude]]: [[2009-02-15 41 -89|...and now the conclusion]].  I was still on my way home from [[Kirksville, Missouri|northeast Missouri]] to [[Lansing, Michigan|mid-Michigan]].  Having just completed a [[2009-02-15 41 -89|hash]] in the [[Sterling, Illinois|graticule to the west]] and getting a photo or two of the very slight beginnings of sunset, the race was on to get to this potential hash before it was too dark to see and take pictures, not to mention get awesome pictures of the sunset.  As I went, the sun went farther and farther down.  Upon approaching the hash, it was clear that this one was even closer to I-80 than the previous one. I exited the interstate and went approximately two miles to the hash site.  I was able to park at the base of a conveniently located relay tower.  Once stopped, I quickly jumped out of my car and snapped a picture of the sunset from the base of the tower since it was beginning to fade.  While there, I also took a picture of the tower for later reference to the distance to the hash.
  
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Right after school I took to the road with my phones gps, my marker, a road map, an Arial picture of the hashpoint, and my buddy Cody. As was drove to our hashpoint we had high hopes of what was to come, neither of us really knowing what to expect. One thing I did expect was that, no matter how much I thought I planned it out, it would come apparent that I didn't plan it out well. And boy did that hit me in the face. One of our turns lacked a street sign and nearly caused us to miss our turn, then almost right after that we took a turn onto a road that was an exact copy of the one we were supposed to turn out, but not that road. Unknown to us we continued down that road and pulled onto a hill. I almost jumped out of my car to take off to the hashpoint until I realized something...There was a river in my way. This was the wrong road, I knew it, I never saw any river next to the hashpoint, so we wasted about 5 minutes sitting there trying to figure out where we went wrong. Apparently this was just recently built, and was made to look exactly like the other one (which wasn't finished either). Going back onto the path we were supposed to keep following we finally made the correct turn and pulled up to the spot to ditch the car. Taking all of our maps and the marker with us we learned that we were standing in a wind tunnel. The wind nearly ripped my marker apart right after I stepped foot onto the field.  
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I began to walk east down the road until I achieved the correct longitude.  At that point, there was no fence and no houses relatively nearby, so I proceeded under the cover of slight darkness into the harvested corn field. The hash was quickly reached from there!  When I arrived, I got the obligatory photos, another couple photos of the sunset for beauty and the tower for reference, and a shot of the nearest house. As I headed back to my car, I was able to get a couple photos to show just how close I-80 (my route home) was. If you look in the two photos below, you can see the headlights move along the interstate.
  
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When we stepped into the field we sunk into the ground. It was covered in mud and had puddles of water. Out in Aurora the grass is dry, we haven't had any rain for a while and the snow all melted like a week ago, but not here. We quickly tried to make it across the field, coating our shoes in mud and fighting the wind at the same time. Once we hit the general area of the hash I pulled out my phone to try and get the Latitude and Longitude correct, and thats where my biggest frustration came in. The thing barely works! The data would constantly change in almost unpredictable fashions and it was draining my battery. Trying to make sense of it we worked on finding the spot for nearly 20 minutes before giving up on the phone. I fell back onto the Arial picture and used the landscape and buildings to find my way to the spot and check the GPS for it. I was nearly dead on by eye-balling it, only varying by the slightest mark. Quickly we planted the marker and took some pictures before attempting to take a picture of my phone with the date and Latitude and Longitude on it, and thats where the camera became difficult. It refused to take a clear picture of my phone before giving us the last punch in the gut via a low battery message. But none of that mattered anymore, we made it to our first hashpoint, and we were happy about it. Coming back the way we came we fought the wind and mud back to my car and returned home victorious.
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The rest of the drive home was pleasant and uneventful. Yea road trip multihash!  :-)
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== Gallery ==
 
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Image:2010-03-19 Map.jpg|Saved my butt
 
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Image:2010-03-19 Marker2.JPG|Stupid Grin
 
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Image:2010-03-19 marker.JPG|Marker
 
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Image:2010-03-19 pretty sweet.JPG|View towards hashpoint
 
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Image:2010-03-19 houses near hash.JPG| Houses near hashpoint
 
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== Achievements ==
 
== Achievements ==
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== Photos ==
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<gallery perrow="4">
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Image:2009-02-15 41 -88 First Sunset.jpg|Sunset upon arrival
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Image:2009-02-15 41 -88 Tower For Reference.jpg|Tower below which I parked
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Image:2009-02-15 41 -88 Clear Tower Sunset Portrait.jpg|Tower and sunset from hash
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Image:2009-02-15 41 -88 Tower Sunset Landscape Alpha.jpg|Ditto
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Image:2009-02-15 41 -88 The Hash.jpg‎‎‎|The hash itself
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Image:2009-02-15 41 -88 Nearest House Portrait.jpg‎|Nearest house
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Image:2009-02-15 41 -88 I-80 Alpha.jpg|I-80
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Image:2009-02-15 41 -88 I-80 Beta.jpg|Ditto
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Image:2009-02-15 41 -88 GPS.png|I made it!
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Image:2009-02-15 41 -88 Bad Hair Grin.jpg‎‎‎|Bad hair goofy grin
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[[Category:Expeditions]]
 
[[Category:Expeditions]]
 
[[Category:Expeditions with photos]]
 
[[Category:Expeditions with photos]]
 
[[Category:Coordinates reached]]
 
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[[Category:Meetup on 2009-02-15]]
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[[Category:Meetup in 41 -88]]
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Latest revision as of 01:53, 8 August 2019

Sun 15 Feb 2009 in Aurora:
41.3692524, -88.5834935
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About

Once again, it's February in rural Illinois. If you guessed "harvested corn field", you're correct!

Expedition

excellentdude: ...and now the conclusion. I was still on my way home from northeast Missouri to mid-Michigan. Having just completed a hash in the graticule to the west and getting a photo or two of the very slight beginnings of sunset, the race was on to get to this potential hash before it was too dark to see and take pictures, not to mention get awesome pictures of the sunset. As I went, the sun went farther and farther down. Upon approaching the hash, it was clear that this one was even closer to I-80 than the previous one. I exited the interstate and went approximately two miles to the hash site. I was able to park at the base of a conveniently located relay tower. Once stopped, I quickly jumped out of my car and snapped a picture of the sunset from the base of the tower since it was beginning to fade. While there, I also took a picture of the tower for later reference to the distance to the hash.

I began to walk east down the road until I achieved the correct longitude. At that point, there was no fence and no houses relatively nearby, so I proceeded under the cover of slight darkness into the harvested corn field. The hash was quickly reached from there! When I arrived, I got the obligatory photos, another couple photos of the sunset for beauty and the tower for reference, and a shot of the nearest house. As I headed back to my car, I was able to get a couple photos to show just how close I-80 (my route home) was. If you look in the two photos below, you can see the headlights move along the interstate.

The rest of the drive home was pleasant and uneventful. Yea road trip multihash!  :-)

Achievements

Landgeohash.png
 excellentdude earned the Land geohash achievement
by reaching the (41, -88) geohash on 2009-02-15.
Frozen.png
 excellentdude earned the Frozen Geohash Achievement
by reaching the (41, -88) geohash on 2009-02-15 while the temperature was below the freezing point of water.
Multihash.png
 excellentdude earned the Multihash Achievement
by reaching the 2009-02-15 41 -89 and 2009-02-15 41 -88 geohashes on 2009-02-15.

Photos

  • Sunset upon arrival

  • Tower below which I parked

  • Tower and sunset from hash

  • Ditto

  • The hash itself

  • Nearest house

  • I-80

  • Ditto

  • I made it!

  • Bad hair goofy grin

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