Difference between revisions of "Madison, Wisconsin"

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The city of Madison is the hub of the 43, -89 graticule, but the region covers mostly the area to the north. Madison residents should also consider geohashes in the Rockford graticule to the south.

This graticule has a (relatively moribund) Facebook group: Geohashing - Madison, WI. Plans are more likely to be posted here than there, but if you write something there, it will be seen.

Active Hashers

McSushi
Info: Perl Programmer in Middleton, aging hippie in Madison.
Bill Minser
Info: Systems Programmer at UW-Madison. Really I live in (42, -89) but I long for the north.
starbird
Info: Madison-based computer scientist and backgammon consultant, or vice versa. Spends a lot of time in Tokyo.

Bill and starbird usually go hashing together, generally accompanied by Bill's daughter, The Adjectival Toddler. They always go for pie after hashing, so please join them! You can have pie, too.

Former Greats

Dan Simanek
Info: Student at UW-Madison, will try to make it to coordinates within biking distance of the campus.
Tom Schäffer
Info: Graduate from UW-Madison, outdoor enthusiast, and Pirate Extraordinaire. Now living and working in the Rice Lake Graticule.

Expeditions

June 13, 2015 -- JoJo and H-Bar are brand new to this, and thinking about heading to a meetup in a farm field not far from Madison. Update - Prize poultry
May 22, 2013 -- SwensonJ is headed for another very doable hash, on the Military Ridge State Trail, just north of Highway 151.
May 4, 2013 -- SwensonJ will try to make an XKCD meetup at a very accessible hashpoint: a parking lot just off the beltline near Middleton.
October 12, 2012 -- SwensonJ puzzles a farmer west of Governor Nelson State Park.
October 8, 2012 -- McSushi Attempting Public TRONsportation, but failed (intercepted by family vehicle before bus showed up).
July 21, 2012 -- starbird and Bill and his family visit the Madison Recycling Center. Part 1 of a multihash.
June 20, 2012 -- McSushi Attempted midnight geohash in a stormy cornfield, but failed.
May 15, 2012 -- McSushi Public transportation (Madison Metro Route 14) to initial geohash.
December 8, 2011 -- RocketMac grabbed gas, dinner, beer, and... oh yeah... a geohash!
December 5, 2011 -- RocketMac chickened out near a cemetery near the Dells.
December 1, 2011 -- starbird, bushwhacking near the Badger State Trail.
August 22, 2011 -- RocketMac loitered in the parking log of a Piggly Wiggly as part of a multihash adventure
January 15, 2011 -- Bassoon and Montana come on over from the Fond du Lac graticule and head to the Red Cross parking lot in downtown Madison.
July 5, 2010 -- Bassoon, Dedehawk, and Kuderererer, all from the Fond du Lac graticule, invade and head to Baraboo for a deserted commercial road across from the city hall!
April 11, 2010 -- A pleasant Sunday drive
March 22, 2010 -- Elbie visits from Vancouver and gets blinded by science.
November 21, 2009 -- Meeting new Madison-area hashers! Also meeting men with guns.
November 14, 2009 -- Attempted walking hash. Thwarted by a wall.
August 8, 2009 -- Bill goes to Portage. Hooray for playground equipment!
July 25, 2009 -- Bushwhacking to the Wisconsin River.
February 1, 2009 -- The first ever Walking on Water geohash.
January 24, 2009 -- Coldest geohash to date.
December 20, 2008 -- Blowing snow. Fake geese.
December 13, 2008 -- Hiking in the woods in Blue Mounds.
November 22, 2008 -- Be vewy, vewy quiet. We're hunting geohashers.
October 11, 2008 -- Speed Racer near Sun Prairie.
August 23, 2008 -- Not crashing a party near Mount Horeb.
August 11, 2008 -- There is no pie in Cottage Grove.
July 5, 2008 -- Planned but not attempted?
May 31, 2008 -- Playing croquet in an abandoned quarry.
May 24, 2008 -- First and largest ever Madison meetup.

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 {{graticule
-|map = <map lat="43" lon="-89" />
+   | lat= 43
-|nw = [[Marshfield, Wisconsin|Marshfield]]
+   | lon= -89
-|n = [[Wausau, Wisconsin|Wausau]]
+   | nw = [[Marshfield, Wisconsin|Marshfield]]
-|ne = [[Appleton, Wisconsin|Appleton]]
+   | n  = [[Wausau, Wisconsin|Wausau]]
-|w = [[Sparta, Wisconsin|Sparta]]
+   | ne = [[Appleton, Wisconsin|Appleton]]
-|e = [[Fond du Lac, Wisconsin|Fond du Lac]]
+   | w  = [[Sparta, Wisconsin|Sparta]]
-|sw = [[Dubuque, Iowa]]
+   | name = [[Madison, Wisconsin|Madison]]
-|s = [[Rockford, Illinois]]
+   | e  = [[Fond du Lac, Wisconsin|Fond du Lac]]
-|se = [[Schaumburg, Illinois]]
+   | sw = [[Dubuque, Iowa]]
+   | s  = [[Rockford, Illinois]]
+   | se = [[Schaumburg, Illinois]]
 }}
-The city of Madison is the hub of the [http://irc.peeron.com/xkcd/map/map.html?date={{LOCALYEAR}}-{{LOCALMONTH}}-{{LOCALDAY2}}&lat=43&long=-89&zoom=9&abs=-1 43, -89] [[graticule]], but the region covers mostly the area to the north.  Madison residents should also consider geohashes in Stoughton to the south.
+The city of Madison is the hub of the 43, -89 [[graticule]], but the region covers mostly the area to the north.  Madison residents should also consider geohashes in the [[Rockford, Illinois|Rockford]] graticule to the south.
-This graticule also has a Facebook group: [http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=17431443686 '''Geohashing - Madison, WI''']
+This graticule has a (relatively moribund) Facebook group: [http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=17431443686 '''Geohashing - Madison, WI''']. Plans are more likely to be posted here than there, but if you write something there, it will be seen.
-We are just getting going here, and it may take a few weeks to get this site organized, so please be patient. We will try and keep both the Facebook group and this wiki up-to-date with all the same information.  If you have any cool ideas or comments, please post them to the Facebook group or the wiki discussion page, as we would like to keep the main wiki page as 'clean' as possible. Thanks.
+==Active Hashers==
+[[User:McSushi|McSushi]]<br>
+Info: Perl Programmer in Middleton, aging hippie in Madison.<br>
+[[User:wdminser|Bill Minser]]<br>
+Info: Systems Programmer at UW-Madison. Really I live in (42, -89) but I long for the north. <br>
+[[User:starbird|starbird]]<br>
+Info: Madison-based computer scientist and backgammon consultant, or vice versa. Spends a lot of time in [[Tokyo, Japan|Tokyo]].
+Bill and starbird usually go hashing together, generally accompanied by Bill's daughter, The Adjectival Toddler. They always go for pie after hashing, so please join them! You can have pie, too.
-=Participants=
+==Former Greats==
 Dan Simanek<br>
 Info: Student at UW-Madison, will try to make it to coordinates within biking distance of the campus.<br>
-[[User:Tom10animal|Tom Schaffer]]<br>
+[[User:Tom10animal|Tom Schäffer]]<br>
-Info: Student at UW-Madison, outdoor enthusiast, and Pirate Extraordinaire.  I will try to make it to coordinates in this and surrounding graticules accessible by boat.<br>
+Info: Graduate from UW-Madison, outdoor enthusiast, and Pirate Extraordinaire.  Now living and working in the [[Rice Lake, Wisconsin|Rice Lake]] Graticule.<br>
-[[User:wdminser|Bill Minser]]<br>
-Info: Systems Programmer at UW-Madison. Really I live in (42, -89) but I long for the north. <br>
-=History=
-===Saturday, December, 20th, 2008===
-<b>N43°0.8293', W89°20.5304'</b><br />
-The point is in a field west of Lake Waubesa, just south of Lake Farm County Park. See you there!
-===Saturday, December, 13th, 2008===
-<b>N43°2.117', W89°48.9669'</b><br />
-Sam, the baby and I went west to Blue Mounds today. The hash point was about a half-mile off the road, right between Blue Mound State Park and Brigham Park. As we drove in, the views were gorgeous. Brigham Park is almost as high up as Blue Mound, so we could see miles of farms terraced out on rolling hills. The day was beautiful - temps in the low 40's. There was about a foot of wet snow on the ground. We parked the minivan along the road, threw the baby in a backpack and trudged into the woods. After about forever following deer tracks through the underbrush and snow, we were almost there. And the ground sloped sharply down. Facing an uphill trudge back to the car and exhausted from the 40lbs on my back, we gave up. We pulled out the "The Internet Was Here" sign and a staple gun and attached it to a tree. <br>
-By the time we reached the car the sun was down and we were famished. Blue Mound has two seedy looking bars, but no diner. We drove back through Mt Horeb, but it was crawling with people. At the edge of town we had to wait for a line of 18 firetrucks decked out in Christmas lights followed by a four-wheeler pulling Santa. The baby was happy, but we were cold and wet. Patty melts and rootbeer all around at the Culver's in Verona.
---Bill
-===Saturday, November, 22nd, 2008===
-<b>N43°27.9312', W89°1.3294'</b><br />
-Sam, the baby and I ventured out into the wilds of Columbia County. The spot was easy to find - about 50 yards off a back road, just down the hill from the goat pen at a farm. The field had been harvested recently, so walking out into into it was no adventure. Except for the popping sounds all around and the little specks of blaze orange on every ridge and in every clump of trees. That's right. We walked out into a field in dark clothing on the first day of gun deer season in rural Wisconsin. I am happy to report no injuries. We planted a small "The internet was here" sign, but alas forgot the cameras.<br />
-Is there a combat zone achievement?<br />
---Bill
-===Saturday, October 11th, 2008===
-<b>N43.188392°, W89.146815°</b><br>
-Globetrotter Sam, the baby and I were at the meetup time/place on Saturday, Oct 11th. It was along a country road just east of Sun Prairie. The relative ease of getting to the spot made me hopeful that some of you would join us. We did see lots of pickup trucks and a few tractors, but alas no cool dudes (or dudettes) from the tubes. We stood along the road for 20 minutes or so, then went back to Sun Prairie for pie.<br>
-The moral of the story - if you miss the meetups, you miss the pie. See you soon.<br />
---Bill
-{{Speed Racer geohash
-    | latitude = N43.188392°
-    | longitude = W89.146815°
-    | date = 2008-10-11
-    | name = Bill Minser
-}}
-===Saturday, August 23th, 2008===
-<b>N43.021297°, W89.777397°</b><br>
-I got pretty close. The spot a few hundred yards past the end of a long (1/2 mile?) dead end country road. When I got to the end of the road, there was a farm and a dog and a whole lot of cars. I thought y'all were having a big geohashing party, but then I noticed a few of the guests where in their 70's. Perhaps it was discriminatory on my part, but I tend to think of geohashers as a bit younger than that. I didn't have the cajones to interrupt the family reunion to verify my assessment, so I just turned around and went to the Firehouse Muster in Mt. Horeb. Firetrucks are sweeeeet! --Bill
-===Saturday, August 11th, 2008===
-<b>N43.091382°, W89.058595°</b><br>
-The weather was perfect and the scene was lovely. The spot was about 75 yards off of a little country road east of Cottage Grove. It was in a valley in a hayfield between two cornfields between two classic farmsteads. I arrived at approx 4:15 and enjoyed the bucolic scene for about 15 minutes before getting back in the car. Explored Cottage Grove on the way back. Town needs a diner. --Bill
-===Saturday, July 5th, 2008===
+==Expeditions==
-<b>N43°8.9366', W89°55.2777'</b><br>
+*[[2015-06-13 43 -89|June 13, 2015]] -- [[User:JoJo|JoJo]] and [[User:H-Bar|H-Bar]] are brand new to this, and thinking about heading to a meetup in a farm field not far from Madison. Update - Prize poultry
-This is about half mile south of Hwy 14 and a little more than a mile east of County Hwy H. There is no apparent road access, so if you make the trip, be prepared to walk.
+*[[2013-05-22 43 -89|May 22, 2013]] -- [[User:Swensonj|SwensonJ]] is headed for another very doable hash, on the Military Ridge State Trail, just north of Highway 151.
+*[[2013-05-04 43 -89|May 4, 2013]] -- [[User:Swensonj|SwensonJ]] will try to make an XKCD meetup at a very accessible hashpoint: a parking lot just off the beltline near Middleton.
+*[[2012-10-12 43 -89|October 12, 2012]] -- [[User:Swensonj|SwensonJ]] puzzles a farmer west of Governor Nelson State Park.
+*[[2012-10-08 43 -89|October 8, 2012]] -- [[User:McSushi|McSushi]] Attempting Public TRONsportation, but failed (intercepted by family vehicle before bus showed up).
+*[[2012-07-21 43 -89|July 21, 2012]] -- [[User:Starbird|starbird]] and [[User:wdminser|Bill]] and his family visit the Madison Recycling Center. Part 1 of a multihash.
+*[[2012-06-20 43 -89|June 20, 2012]] -- [[User:McSushi|McSushi]] Attempted midnight geohash in a stormy cornfield, but failed.
+*[[2012-05-15 43 -89|May 15, 2012]] -- [[User:McSushi|McSushi]] Public transportation (Madison Metro Route 14) to initial geohash.
+*[[2011-12-08 43 -89|December 8, 2011]] -- [[User:RocketMac|RocketMac]] grabbed gas, dinner, beer, and... oh yeah... a geohash!
+*[[2011-12-05 43 -89|December 5, 2011]] -- [[User:RocketMac|RocketMac]] chickened out near a cemetery near the Dells.
+*[[2011-12-01 43 -89|December 1, 2011]] -- [[User:starbird|starbird]], bushwhacking near the Badger State Trail.
+*[[2011-08-22 43 -89|August 22, 2011]] -- [[User:RocketMac|RocketMac]] loitered in the parking log of a Piggly Wiggly as part of a [[User:RocketMac/2011-08-22 MultiHash|multihash adventure]]
+*[[2011-01-15 43 -89|January 15, 2011]] -- [[User:Bassoon|Bassoon]] and Montana come on over from the Fond du Lac graticule and head to the Red Cross parking lot in downtown Madison.
+*[[2010-07-05 43 -89|July 5, 2010]] -- [[User:Bassoon|Bassoon]], [[User:Dedehawk|Dedehawk]], and [[User:Kuderererer|Kuderererer]], all from the Fond du Lac graticule, invade and head to Baraboo for a deserted commercial road across from the city hall!
+*[[2010-04-11 43 -89|April 11, 2010]] -- A pleasant Sunday drive
+*[[2010-03-22 43 -89|March 22, 2010]] -- [[User:Elbie|Elbie]] visits from Vancouver and gets blinded by science.
+*[[2009-11-21 43 -89|November 21, 2009]] -- Meeting new Madison-area hashers! Also meeting men with guns.
+*[[2009-11-14 43 -89|November 14, 2009]] -- Attempted walking hash. Thwarted by a wall.
+*[[2009-08-08 43 -89|August 8, 2009]] -- Bill goes to Portage. Hooray for playground equipment!
+*[[2009-07-25 43 -89|July 25, 2009]] -- Bushwhacking to the Wisconsin River.
+*[[2009-02-01 43 -89|February 1, 2009]] -- The first ever [[Walking on water geohash achievement|Walking on Water]] geohash.
+*[[2009-01-24 43 -89|January 24, 2009]] -- [[Cold geohash achievement|Coldest]] geohash to date.
+*[[2008-12-20 43 -89|December 20, 2008]] -- Blowing snow. Fake geese.
+*[[2008-12-13 43 -89|December 13, 2008]] -- Hiking in the woods in Blue Mounds.
+*[[2008-11-22 43 -89|November 22, 2008]] -- Be vewy, vewy quiet. We're hunting geohashers.
+*[[2008-10-11 43 -89|October 11, 2008]] -- [[Speed racer achievement|Speed Racer]] near Sun Prairie.
+*[[2008-08-23 43 -89|August 23, 2008]] -- Not crashing a party near Mount Horeb.
+*[[2008-08-11 43 -89|August 11, 2008]] -- There is no pie in Cottage Grove.
+*[[2008-07-05 43 -89|July 5, 2008]] -- Planned but not attempted?
+*[[2008-05-31 43 -89|May 31, 2008]] -- Playing croquet in an abandoned quarry.
+*[[2008-05-24 43 -89|May 24, 2008]] -- First and largest ever Madison meetup.
 [[Category:Wisconsin]]
-[[Category:Active Graticules]]
+[[Category:Inactive graticules]]

Marshfield	Wausau	Appleton
Sparta	Madison	Fond du Lac
Dubuque, Iowa	Rockford, Illinois	Schaumburg, Illinois
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