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==Planning==
 
==Planning==
  
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2 blocks from Rupert skytrain station, in a parking lot. Possibly in a tree.
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2 blocks from Rupert skytrain station, in a parking lot. In a tree.
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===Elbie===
 
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I plan to leave UBC around 16:00; according to Translink that should get me there in an hour and 20 mins (99 and then SkyTrain). I'm currently walking pretty slowly, so expect me to be a bit late.
 
  
 
==Participants==
 
==Participants==
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* [[User:Rhonda|Rhonda]] will show up about 5:30 too
 
* [[User:Rhonda|Rhonda]] will show up about 5:30 too
 
* [[User:Elbie|Elbie]] should be there shortly after 17:00 as well
 
* [[User:Elbie|Elbie]] should be there shortly after 17:00 as well
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* Elbie's cousin Stathi
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* [[User:Ray|Ray]] was also there
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==Expedition==
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 +
===Elbie and company===
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I had packed up my geohashing gear -- GPS, camera and chalk -- earlier that day, ready for when I got home from work and errands. I got home from doing groceries with just enough time to clean a box of strawberries and take it with me. I met up with Ray on the way to the UBC bus loop, and from there we took the 99 to Commercial, and then the SkyTrain to Rupert, happily consuming the strawberries en route.
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From Rupert, we followed my GPS's advice and my recollection of the google maps imagery to the hashpoint, arriving around 17:00 and eventually pinpointing it underneath a tree. Waiting for people to arrive, we amused ourselves by climbing the tree.
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Since I was in my cousin Stathi's neck of the woods, I had given him a phone call before setting out. I gave him the coordinates, and he joined us at the hashpoint around 17:15.
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===Rhonda===
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It was a gorgeous hot day and I wandered toward the seabus with sidewalk chalk, juggling balls, and my camera, ready for that rare thing: a Vancouver urban geohash.
 +
 +
Halfway along the skytrain portion of the route, I realized that not only had I not printed off the google maps, I had also forgotten my GPS. But, it was at an intersection I was familiar with, and the hash point was at the corner of a parking lot in the middle of a tree or bush, so I didn't worry too much.
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As I crossed the intersection and walked into view of the parking lot, I spied Elbie and two other people walking toward the hash tree. Elbie saw me at the same time, and we waved at each other. Fortunately, my memory of the hash location agreed with Elbie's GPS, and we settled quickly into the real business of geohashing: attempting to juggle.
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===Xore===
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Xore, who enjoys writing in third person, spent the entire day anticipating this geohash. Not only was it in urban Vancouver, (a rarity in and of itself), but it was in a *TREE*. He could tell from the Google maps. The Internet never lies. How cool was that?
 +
 +
As soon as he could, he bolted from work with a trusty printout from the Googles showing where he needed to go. (He has not yet decided whether he's getting a standalone GPS device or an iPhone) Taking the bus and switching to skytrain, he arrived at Rupert statement shortly before 17:30. Unsure whether people had planned to meet up at the station or at the hashpoint, he waited for a brief minute and decided he'd rather be tree climbing than station waiting. Hoofing it several blocks to the hashpoint, he saw Stathi standing under a tree that was... moving.
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 +
Barely stopping to say hi, Xore climbed up into the tree.
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 +
 +
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Oh wow, get your branches ready. It's about to go up. Everybody in the place grab a branch. But stay on your toes, we're climbing this, let's go.
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 +
:I'm in a tree. i'm in a tree
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:everybody look at me
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:cause i'm climbing in a tree
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:i'm in a tree. i'm in a tree
 +
:Take a good hard look
 +
:at this geohash tree
 +
 +
 +
:I'm in a tree geohashers, take a look at me
 +
:All swaying in the wind and a rustle in the breeze
 +
:Busting dead twigs getting poked here and there
 +
:Little itty bitty bugs getting up in my hair
 +
 +
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:Take a picture, hey, I'm in a tree branch sway
 +
:I could geohash a tree up on every day
 +
:I got my tshirt up and my work khakis
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:Get my juggling on with the hacki-sackis
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 +
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:I'm playin twister up here, got my right hand blue
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:With my geohashing peeps and the tree climb crew
 +
:But this ain't a joke, this is real as it gets
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:I'm in a tree geohashers, don't you ever forget
 +
 +
 +
:I'm in a tree, i'm in a tree
 +
:everybody look at me
 +
:cause i'm climbing in a tree
 +
:i'm in a tree i'm in a tree
 +
:Take a good hard look
 +
:at this geohash tree
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===Success===
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Everybody had a try with the juggling balls Rhonda had brought, and she then pulled out the juggling rings and tried those too. Unfortunately, the larger surface of the rings led them to behave somewhat like frisbees when the wind caught them, and they refused to make the nice arc required of juggling.
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Then all of us decided to climb the tree, Elbie and Ray for the second time. There was one holdout, Stathi, claiming freshly ironed white shorts as an excuse; the rest of us all installed ourselves comfortably in the branches and discussed geohashing games and took photos. The GPS was sadly unable to get a signal from inside the branches, even when Ray climbed as high as he safely could with it. When Xore showed up, he immediately dropped his backpack and joined us in the tree.
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After some negotiation, the juggling balls were passed up into the tree, and Xore demonstrated his mastery of tree juggling. After a few questions of who had a twister game ([[User:Robyn|Robyn]]) and that it wasn't here, Rhonda remembered the alternate version of twister that she and Robyn had invented [[2009-05-08_49_-120|at a previous geohash]], and explained the rules since this was a perfect tree for testing the rules to ''tree twister''. With a bit of discussion we substituted four different chalk colours for the four different colours of flagging tape Robyn and Rhonda had originally envisioned, and all four geohashers went crazy marking spots of colour on various branches all around them.
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The rule of "don't fall out of the tree" was suggested and passed very quickly, and the game began with the lone ground-bound geohasher calling out limbs and colours from his position where he couldn't see most of the chalk marks. There was little in the way of trying to unbalance the other players, and much in the way of trying to not fall out of the tree. As each player decided a given move wasn't safe for them to make, they declared themselves out of the game and climbed higher in the tree so as to not block the remaining participants.
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After finishing the game of tree twister, we realized that it was 6:30PM and probably time to leave, so we all climbed down and gathered up our stuff to head our separate ways.
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==Photos==
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<gallery>
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Image:2009-06-03 49 -123 strawberries.jpg | A rapidly diminishing supply of strawberries on the 99 B-Line.
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Image:2009-06-03 49 -123 ray99.jpg | Ray getting off the 99 B-Line.
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Image:2009-06-03 49 -123 elbieSkyTrain.jpg | Elbie on the Millennium Line.
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Image:2009-06-03 49 -123 rupert.jpg | We got off at Rupert Station.
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Image:2009-06-03 49 -123 tree.jpg | The hashpoint fell in the area of this tree.
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Image:2009-06-03 49 -123 gps.jpg | Couldn't get a very good shot of Elbie's GPS.
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Image:2009-06-03 49 -123 sign.jpg | A chalk message was made.
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Image:2009-06-03 49 -123 rayTree.jpg | Ray was the first to climb the tree.
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Image:2009-06-03 49 -123 elbieTree.jpg | Elbie was not far behind.
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Image:2009-06-03 49 -123 walmart.jpg | View of Wal-Mart from the hashpoint.
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Image:2009-06-03 49 -123 stathi.jpg | Elbie's cousin Stathi arrives, rather confused about what was going on.
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Image:2009-06-03 49 -123 rhondaJuggling.jpg | Rhonda arrived shortly thereafter, and showed off her juggling balls.
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Image:2009-06-03 49 -123 rhondaBalls.jpg | Which she happily shared!
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Image:2009-06-03 49 -123 rhondaDisks.jpg | Rhonda had disks, too!
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Image:2009-06-03 49 -123 rhondaTree.jpg | Rhonda then joined in the tree-climbing fun.
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Image:2009-06-03 49 -123 elbieRhondaRayTree.jpg | Elbie, Rhonda and Ray wait in the tree for Xore to arrive.
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Image:2009-06-03 49 -123 xore.jpg | Xore arrived and immediately scrambled up to join Elbie, Rhonda and Ray.
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Image:2009-06-03 49 -123 xoreTreeJuggling.jpg | Xore juggling in the tree.
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Image:2009-06-03 49 -123 rayTree2.jpg | Ray climbed as high as he could.
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Image:2009-06-03 49 -123 elbieTree2.jpg | Elbie from Ray's view.
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Image:2009-06-03 49 -123 stathiBelow.jpg | Stathi stayed below to take photos.
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Image:2009-06-03 49 -123 twisterSpots.jpg | We made Twister markings on the branches with chalk.
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Image:2009-06-03 49 -123 treeTwister1.jpg | Playing Tree-Twister.
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Image:2009-06-03 49 -123 stathiBelow2.jpg | Stathi called out the instructions from below.
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Image:2009-06-03 49 -123 rightFootYellow.jpg | Right foot yellow!
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Image:2009-06-03 49 -123 treeTwister2.jpg | Moving in the tree was tricky.
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Image:2009-06-03 49 -123 treeTwister3.jpg | And nobody fell out of the tree :)
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</gallery>
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==Achievements==
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{{Regional geohash | name = Elbie and Xore | region = GVRD | image = 2009-06-03 49 -123 elbieTree.jpg}}
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{{Minesweeper geohash
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{{Drag-along | latitude = 49 | longitude = -123 | date = 2009-06-03 | name = Elbie | image = 2009-06-03_49_-123_stathi.jpg | partner = Stathi}}
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{{Drag-along | latitude = 49 | longitude = -123 | date = 2009-06-03 | name = Elbie | image = 2009-06-03_49_-123_rayTree.jpg | partner = [[User:Ray|Ray]]}}
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{{land_geohash | latitude = 49 | longitude = -123 | date = 2009-06-03 | name = Everybody | image = 2009-06-03 49 -123 sign.jpg}}
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{{Public transport geohash | latitude = 49 | longitude = -123 | date = 2009-06-03 | name = Elbie, Ray, Rhonda and Xore | busline = 99B-Line and SkyTrain | image = 2009-06-03 49 -123 elbieSkyTrain.jpg}}
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{{Circus_geohash
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    | latitude = 49
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    | longitude = -123
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    | date = 2009-06-03
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    | name = Rhonda and Xore
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    | image = 2009-06-03_49_-123_rhondaDisks.jpg
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    | performance = juggling
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}}
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{{gratuitous ribbon
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    | color = green
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    | icon = Trees.PNG
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    | latitude = 49
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    | longitude = -123
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    | date = 2009-06-03
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    | achievement = monkey games achievement
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    | description = climbing a tree directly on the hashpoint then playing games in it
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    | name = Rhonda, Elbie, Ray, and Xore
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    | image = 2009-06-03_49_-123_elbieRhondaRayTree.jpg
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}}
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[[Category:Coordinates reached]]
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[[Category:Expeditions]]
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[[Category:Elbie]]
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{{location|CA|BC|MV}}

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Planning

2 blocks from Rupert skytrain station, in a parking lot. In a tree.

Participants

  • Xore can be there after work
  • Rhonda will show up about 5:30 too
  • Elbie should be there shortly after 17:00 as well
  • Elbie's cousin Stathi
  • Ray was also there

Expedition

Elbie and company

I had packed up my geohashing gear -- GPS, camera and chalk -- earlier that day, ready for when I got home from work and errands. I got home from doing groceries with just enough time to clean a box of strawberries and take it with me. I met up with Ray on the way to the UBC bus loop, and from there we took the 99 to Commercial, and then the SkyTrain to Rupert, happily consuming the strawberries en route.

From Rupert, we followed my GPS's advice and my recollection of the google maps imagery to the hashpoint, arriving around 17:00 and eventually pinpointing it underneath a tree. Waiting for people to arrive, we amused ourselves by climbing the tree.

Since I was in my cousin Stathi's neck of the woods, I had given him a phone call before setting out. I gave him the coordinates, and he joined us at the hashpoint around 17:15.

Rhonda

It was a gorgeous hot day and I wandered toward the seabus with sidewalk chalk, juggling balls, and my camera, ready for that rare thing: a Vancouver urban geohash.

Halfway along the skytrain portion of the route, I realized that not only had I not printed off the google maps, I had also forgotten my GPS. But, it was at an intersection I was familiar with, and the hash point was at the corner of a parking lot in the middle of a tree or bush, so I didn't worry too much.

As I crossed the intersection and walked into view of the parking lot, I spied Elbie and two other people walking toward the hash tree. Elbie saw me at the same time, and we waved at each other. Fortunately, my memory of the hash location agreed with Elbie's GPS, and we settled quickly into the real business of geohashing: attempting to juggle.

Xore

Xore, who enjoys writing in third person, spent the entire day anticipating this geohash. Not only was it in urban Vancouver, (a rarity in and of itself), but it was in a *TREE*. He could tell from the Google maps. The Internet never lies. How cool was that?

As soon as he could, he bolted from work with a trusty printout from the Googles showing where he needed to go. (He has not yet decided whether he's getting a standalone GPS device or an iPhone) Taking the bus and switching to skytrain, he arrived at Rupert statement shortly before 17:30. Unsure whether people had planned to meet up at the station or at the hashpoint, he waited for a brief minute and decided he'd rather be tree climbing than station waiting. Hoofing it several blocks to the hashpoint, he saw Stathi standing under a tree that was... moving.

Barely stopping to say hi, Xore climbed up into the tree.


Oh wow, get your branches ready. It's about to go up. Everybody in the place grab a branch. But stay on your toes, we're climbing this, let's go.

I'm in a tree. i'm in a tree
everybody look at me
cause i'm climbing in a tree
i'm in a tree. i'm in a tree
Take a good hard look
at this geohash tree


I'm in a tree geohashers, take a look at me
All swaying in the wind and a rustle in the breeze
Busting dead twigs getting poked here and there
Little itty bitty bugs getting up in my hair


Take a picture, hey, I'm in a tree branch sway
I could geohash a tree up on every day
I got my tshirt up and my work khakis
Get my juggling on with the hacki-sackis


I'm playin twister up here, got my right hand blue
With my geohashing peeps and the tree climb crew
But this ain't a joke, this is real as it gets
I'm in a tree geohashers, don't you ever forget


I'm in a tree, i'm in a tree
everybody look at me
cause i'm climbing in a tree
i'm in a tree i'm in a tree
Take a good hard look
at this geohash tree

Success

Everybody had a try with the juggling balls Rhonda had brought, and she then pulled out the juggling rings and tried those too. Unfortunately, the larger surface of the rings led them to behave somewhat like frisbees when the wind caught them, and they refused to make the nice arc required of juggling.

Then all of us decided to climb the tree, Elbie and Ray for the second time. There was one holdout, Stathi, claiming freshly ironed white shorts as an excuse; the rest of us all installed ourselves comfortably in the branches and discussed geohashing games and took photos. The GPS was sadly unable to get a signal from inside the branches, even when Ray climbed as high as he safely could with it. When Xore showed up, he immediately dropped his backpack and joined us in the tree.

After some negotiation, the juggling balls were passed up into the tree, and Xore demonstrated his mastery of tree juggling. After a few questions of who had a twister game (Robyn) and that it wasn't here, Rhonda remembered the alternate version of twister that she and Robyn had invented at a previous geohash, and explained the rules since this was a perfect tree for testing the rules to tree twister. With a bit of discussion we substituted four different chalk colours for the four different colours of flagging tape Robyn and Rhonda had originally envisioned, and all four geohashers went crazy marking spots of colour on various branches all around them.

The rule of "don't fall out of the tree" was suggested and passed very quickly, and the game began with the lone ground-bound geohasher calling out limbs and colours from his position where he couldn't see most of the chalk marks. There was little in the way of trying to unbalance the other players, and much in the way of trying to not fall out of the tree. As each player decided a given move wasn't safe for them to make, they declared themselves out of the game and climbed higher in the tree so as to not block the remaining participants.

After finishing the game of tree twister, we realized that it was 6:30PM and probably time to leave, so we all climbed down and gathered up our stuff to head our separate ways.

Photos

  • A rapidly diminishing supply of strawberries on the 99 B-Line.

  • Ray getting off the 99 B-Line.

  • Elbie on the Millennium Line.

  • We got off at Rupert Station.

  • The hashpoint fell in the area of this tree.

  • Couldn't get a very good shot of Elbie's GPS.

  • A chalk message was made.

  • Ray was the first to climb the tree.

  • Elbie was not far behind.

  • View of Wal-Mart from the hashpoint.

  • Elbie's cousin Stathi arrives, rather confused about what was going on.

  • Rhonda arrived shortly thereafter, and showed off her juggling balls.

  • Which she happily shared!

  • Rhonda had disks, too!

  • Rhonda then joined in the tree-climbing fun.

  • Elbie, Rhonda and Ray wait in the tree for Xore to arrive.

  • Xore arrived and immediately scrambled up to join Elbie, Rhonda and Ray.

  • Xore juggling in the tree.

  • Ray climbed as high as he could.

  • Elbie from Ray's view.

  • Stathi stayed below to take photos.

  • We made Twister markings on the branches with chalk.

  • Playing Tree-Twister.

  • Stathi called out the instructions from below.

  • Right foot yellow!

  • Moving in the tree was tricky.

  • And nobody fell out of the tree :)

Achievements

Regionalhashingsimple.png
 Elbie and Xore earned the Regional geohashing achievement
by reaching a hash point in all possible GVRD graticules.
2009-06-03 49 -123 elbieTree.jpg
Minesweeper geohash empty.png Minesweeper geohash empty.png Minesweeper geohash empty.png
Minesweeper geohash empty.png Minesweeper geohash 2.png Minesweeper geohash flag.png
Minesweeper geohash empty.png Minesweeper geohash flag.png Minesweeper geohash empty.png
Elbie and Xore achieved level 2 of the Minesweeper Geohash achievement
by visiting coordinates in Vancouver, British Columbia and 2 of the surrounding graticules.
Drag-along.png
 Elbie earned the Drag-along achievement
by dragging Stathi to the (49, -123) geohash on 2009-06-03.
2009-06-03 49 -123 stathi.jpg
Drag-along.png
 Elbie earned the Drag-along achievement
by dragging Ray to the (49, -123) geohash on 2009-06-03.
2009-06-03 49 -123 rayTree.jpg
Landgeohash.png
 Everybody earned the Land geohash achievement
by reaching the (49, -123) geohash on 2009-06-03.
2009-06-03 49 -123 sign.jpg
Bus.PNG
 Elbie, Ray, Rhonda and Xore earned the Public transport geohash achievement
by reaching the (49, -123) geohash on 2009-06-03 via 99B-Line and SkyTrain.
2009-06-03 49 -123 elbieSkyTrain.jpg
Circusgeohash.GIF
 Rhonda and Xore earned the Circus Geohash Achievement
by juggling at the (49, -123) geohash on 2009-06-03.
2009-06-03 49 -123 rhondaDisks.jpg
Trees.PNG
 Rhonda, Elbie, Ray, and Xore earned the monkey games achievement
by climbing a tree directly on the hashpoint then playing games in it (49, -123) geohash on 2009-06-03.
2009-06-03 49 -123 elbieRhondaRayTree.jpg
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