User:Lizwiz

About

39 / f / 43,-2

New to Geohashing!

Already have several people in mind to drag along through the unexplored basque graticules!

I will mostly be using bike and/or public transport.

Achievements

LizWiz earned the Graticule Unlocked Achievement by being the first to reach any hashpoint in the (43, -2) graticule, here, on 2012-03-12.

LizWiz earned the No Batteries Geohash Achievement by reaching the (43, -2) geohash on 2012-03-12.

LizWiz earned the Land geohash achievement by reaching the (43, -2) geohash on 2012-03-12.

LizWiz earned the Public transport geohash achievement by reaching the (43, -2) geohash on 2012-03-12 using public transit.

This user earned the Globetrotter achievement by visiting hashpoints on 2 continents.

LizWiz earned the Graticule Unlocked Achievement by being the first to reach any hashpoint in the (43, -3) graticule, here, on 2014-01-18.

This user earned the Graticule Unlocked Achievement by being the first to reach any hashpoint in the (43, -1) graticule, here, on 2014-02-03.

The Captain and Crew of the ship Itxasaiz earned the Water geohash achievement by reaching the (43, -2) geohash on 2016-08-25 by sailboat.

LizWiz earned the Drag-along achievement by dragging the captain and crew of the ship Itxasaiz to the (43, -2) geohash on 2016-08-25.

My first Geohash

2012-03-12_43_-2 I'd been consumed by the concept of geohashing for the past week, checking nearby hashpoints daily in spite of not yet having a gps, and planning many conquests in a yet unhashed area. So when the hashpoint turned out to be less than 20km from my workplace, I didn't want to miss the opportunity. I used public transport (train) to get to the hash-town Usurbil, and then rode my bicycle.

In spite of not having a GPS, GoogleMaps allowed me to accurately determine when I was at a distance of about 60m SSE from the hashpoint thanks to some power-lines crossing the path. When I arrived to the point on the path where the powerlines were directly overhead, I ventured off the path into the forest on foot (in a NNW-ish direction, as estimated by powerlines&path) to get as close as possible to the actual hashpoint. There were poky brambles.

Hashpoints I've been to (or would have liked to)

01 Usurbil on Mar 12, 2012

02 Villabona on May 10, 2012

03 三郷 on Oct 8, 2012

--- Nürtingen on Oct 29, 2012

--- Donostia on Oct 30, 2012

04 Eibar on Dec 6, 2013

05 Bidezabal on Jan 18, 2014

06 Hendaye on Feb 3, 2014

07 Orio/Donostia on Aug 25, 2016

Using Juja's very nice userpage (which seems to have been shamelessly copy-pasted from relet's...) as my model.