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* [[User:Phyzome|Phyzome]]: I'll try to make it. I have a UPS delivery sometime today, but I might blow them off and wait around for it tomorrow instead.
 
* [[User:Phyzome|Phyzome]]: I'll try to make it. I have a UPS delivery sometime today, but I might blow them off and wait around for it tomorrow instead.
  
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== Report ==
 
== Report ==
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1 person showed up.
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===[[User:Phyzome|Phyzome]]===
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I arrived at around 15:45 and lurked suspiciously around the Huron Ave side. The alley had stairs going up to the left and down to the right. At the bottom of the latter was a retaining wall, and beyond that... the coordinates! I taped a sign to the wall with my username and phone number, then scoped out the other approaches.
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A little after 16:00 I climbed over the wall (maybe 4-5 feet tall?) and onto the dirt floor of the alley. I rechecked the satellite image and noticed that the spot was marked precisely by a drainspout coming off of the building to my left. (A good thing, too, because my GPS receiver was failing to turn on.) I scooted up the wall a bit—does that count as an air geohash? :-P
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I hung around the sidewalk near the alley until 16:30, when my linguistics professor from the fall semester happened to bike past. I explained to her about geohashing (a bit disappointed that that was not her reason for being there), then headed home. On the way back to Harvard Station I spotted a woman wearing [http://store.xkcd.com/xkcd/#Useless an XKCD shirt]. I mentioned I was geohashing, and encouraged her to check it out.
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All in all, a decent hash, but I would have been happier if other people had showed up (especially the ones who said they would...)
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{{land geohash
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    | date = 2009-05-08
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    | latitude = 42
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    | longitude = -71
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    | name = [[User:Phyzome|Phyzome]]
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    | image = 2009-05-08 42,-71 timestamp proof.jpg
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}}
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{{No_batteries_geohash
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    | date = 2009-05-08
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    | latitude = 42
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    | longitude = -71
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    | name = [[User:Phyzome|Phyzome]]
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    | image = 2009-05-08 42,-71 victory.jpg
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}}
  
 
== Gallery ==
 
== Gallery ==
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[[Category:Expedition Planning]]
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<gallery>
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Image:2009-05-08 42,-71 raptor commuters.jpg|Some raptors waiting for the train
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Image:2009-05-08 42,-71 fence soldier.jpg|The fence is keeping watch
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Image:2009-05-08 42,-71 oh crap.jpg|This doesn't look promising
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Image:2009-05-08 42,-71 maybe so.jpg|Let's have a peek under this stairway and over this wall, shall we?
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Image:2009-05-08 42,-71 in the alley.jpg|I got in!
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Image:2009-05-08 42,-71 air hash QUESTION-MARK.jpg|Does this count as an aerial hash? :-P
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Image:2009-05-08 42,-71 timestamp proof.jpg|Proof!
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Image:2009-05-08 42,-71 victory.jpg|The white blob from the satellite view — from below
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Image:2009-05-08 42,-71 looking back.jpg|Looking back along the alley
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Image:2009-05-08 42,-71 ominous raptor.jpg|A raptor perches on a gravestone
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</gallery>
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[[Category:Expeditions]]
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[[Category:Expeditions with photos]]
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[[Category:Coordinates reached]]
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{{location|US|MA|MI}}

Latest revision as of 03:14, 8 August 2019

Fri 8 May 2009 in 42,-71:
42.3822991, -71.1317194
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Recon

The hashpoint is in an alley next to Caldwell Bank in Cambridge. Approaches:

  • Huron Ave: From Google Street View, it appears that the alley is blocked off by a stairway and a wall.
  • Concord Ave: There's a parking lot, but the alley might not be accessible from there.
  • Royal Ave: Residential. We could try asking permission to go through their yard.

Planning

  • Phyzome: I'll try to make it. I have a UPS delivery sometime today, but I might blow them off and wait around for it tomorrow instead.

Report

1 person showed up.

Phyzome

I arrived at around 15:45 and lurked suspiciously around the Huron Ave side. The alley had stairs going up to the left and down to the right. At the bottom of the latter was a retaining wall, and beyond that... the coordinates! I taped a sign to the wall with my username and phone number, then scoped out the other approaches.

A little after 16:00 I climbed over the wall (maybe 4-5 feet tall?) and onto the dirt floor of the alley. I rechecked the satellite image and noticed that the spot was marked precisely by a drainspout coming off of the building to my left. (A good thing, too, because my GPS receiver was failing to turn on.) I scooted up the wall a bit—does that count as an air geohash? :-P

I hung around the sidewalk near the alley until 16:30, when my linguistics professor from the fall semester happened to bike past. I explained to her about geohashing (a bit disappointed that that was not her reason for being there), then headed home. On the way back to Harvard Station I spotted a woman wearing an XKCD shirt. I mentioned I was geohashing, and encouraged her to check it out.

All in all, a decent hash, but I would have been happier if other people had showed up (especially the ones who said they would...)

Landgeohash.png
 Phyzome earned the Land geohash achievement
by reaching the (42, -71) geohash on 2009-05-08.
2009-05-08 42,-71 timestamp proof.jpg
Compass.jpg
 Phyzome earned the No Batteries Geohash Achievement
by reaching the (42, -71) geohash on 2009-05-08.
2009-05-08 42,-71 victory.jpg

Gallery

  • Some raptors waiting for the train

  • The fence is keeping watch

  • This doesn't look promising

  • Let's have a peek under this stairway and over this wall, shall we?

  • I got in!

  • Does this count as an aerial hash? :-P

  • Proof!

  • The white blob from the satellite view — from below

  • Looking back along the alley

  • A raptor perches on a gravestone

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