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== Location == | == Location == | ||
| − | + | Featherbed Rd., within the Sourlands natural preserve in Hillsborough. | |
== Participants == | == Participants == | ||
| − | + | Officially it was just [[User:Jevanyn|Jevanyn]], but I did encounter two other cars while I was there. | |
== Plans == | == Plans == | ||
| − | + | I was originally going to go in the late afternoon, if at all, because my son's [http://www.google.com?q=Pinewood+Derby Pinewood Derby] was scheduled for that day. But the snow the night before (2-3 inches) prompted the school to stay closed on Saturday, which postponed the event. After some sledding, which exhausted everyone but me, I headed out for what I expected to be a short expedition. | |
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== Expedition == | == Expedition == | ||
| − | + | My initial approach was to not follow pre-determined directions and just drive toward the hashpoint, but I decided I didn't have the time and would likely end up stuck in the snow somewhere unnecessary. | |
| + | Luckily, I know where I was going, because a strange weather phenomenon caused my GPS signal to drift. I had the very weird experience of sitting still, but watching the blue dot on the GPS travel several feet a second, as if following something else. | ||
| − | + | As the geohash was in a fairly wooded area, the light coating of snow highlighted the damage done to a large percentage of trees, standing or lying at all angles. (For anyone not following the weather in the US, an early season snowstorm dropped 4 inches of wet snow at the end of October. Most trees in the 40N latitudes still had leaves, and the otherwise modest snowfall brought a lot of trees to the ground, disrupting power for over a week to some residents.) A few trunks pointed directly at or over roadways, showing they had blocked those roads (or threatened to) before being cleared. | |
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| + | Image:2012-01-21_40_-74_14-27-48-677.jpg | Many trees were damaged in the Halloween snowstorm. [http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=40.47400000&lon=-74.71600000&zoom=16&layers=B000FTF @40.4740,-74.7160] | ||
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| + | Image:2012-01-21_40_-74_14-29-55-155.jpg | Someone seems to have been here earlier, and turned around on this narrow bit of road. [http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=40.47403352&lon=-74.71659669&zoom=16&layers=B000FTF @40.4740,-74.7166] | ||
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Latest revision as of 02:10, 13 August 2019
| Sat 21 Jan 2012 in 40,-74: 40.4743653, -74.7163425 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox |
Location
Featherbed Rd., within the Sourlands natural preserve in Hillsborough.
Participants
Officially it was just Jevanyn, but I did encounter two other cars while I was there.
Plans
I was originally going to go in the late afternoon, if at all, because my son's Pinewood Derby was scheduled for that day. But the snow the night before (2-3 inches) prompted the school to stay closed on Saturday, which postponed the event. After some sledding, which exhausted everyone but me, I headed out for what I expected to be a short expedition.
Expedition
My initial approach was to not follow pre-determined directions and just drive toward the hashpoint, but I decided I didn't have the time and would likely end up stuck in the snow somewhere unnecessary.
Luckily, I know where I was going, because a strange weather phenomenon caused my GPS signal to drift. I had the very weird experience of sitting still, but watching the blue dot on the GPS travel several feet a second, as if following something else.
As the geohash was in a fairly wooded area, the light coating of snow highlighted the damage done to a large percentage of trees, standing or lying at all angles. (For anyone not following the weather in the US, an early season snowstorm dropped 4 inches of wet snow at the end of October. Most trees in the 40N latitudes still had leaves, and the otherwise modest snowfall brought a lot of trees to the ground, disrupting power for over a week to some residents.) A few trunks pointed directly at or over roadways, showing they had blocked those roads (or threatened to) before being cleared.
Photos
Many trees were damaged in the Halloween snowstorm. @40.4740,-74.7160
Someone seems to have been here earlier, and turned around on this narrow bit of road. @40.4740,-74.7166
