Difference between revisions of "2012-04-07 35 -89"

Latest revision as of 05:41, 20 March 2024

Location

In a small field just off of Raleigh LaGrange road, near I-40.

Participants

Mayor and Amanda

Plans

Drive out there, park, walk to the hash, party time.

Expedition

Minus the part where I took the wrong exit and was headed East on I-40 instead of West, We found the geohash pretty easily.

But to start with, I should note that, previously, the only two times Amanda has come with me, we've failed to reach the hash point for various reasons. So she thought she was bad luck. I tried to convince her otherwise: it was only twice, and I've failed before when she wasn't with me, but she was adamant. So I figured the only way to prove that she wasn't bad luck was to take her along for a 'sure thing' geohash, and this expedition looked to be just that. Drive, park, walk, done.

So we drove. And then we realized we had failed to prepare in any way. Amanda was wearing shorts, and we didn't bring the backpack with all of our stuff in it. So that was pretty stupid. And the field the hash point was in was gross scratchy grass with broken glass everywhere. And then we got really scared that the hash point was in a tiny swamp in the middle of the field, and that we'd failed yet again. But we traipsed around it and, while the gps tried to figure out where the heck it was, we discovered the hash point was most definitely not in the swamp, and that we'd already walked through it. So we took pictures and got out of there, because it was in a sketchy area, and Amanda was scratched up and muddy and very much grumpy with me for the whole thing... Relatively easy and straight-forward, but not exactly comfortable. But hey, now she can't say she's bad luck.

Photos

Parked the car
Someone left us some detailed instructions...
Daphne the Greyhound
Smokey the Siberian Husky
Girl and her Dog
The view was breathtaking.
Fuzzy view of the GPS we put too much faith in. We're the green diamond.
MSPaint Map, as is my absurdly low-tech custom... :\

Achievements

Amanda earned the Land geohash achievement

by reaching the (35, -89) geohash on 2012-04-07.

MayorOfBoxTown earned the Graticule Unlocked Achievement

by being the first to reach any hashpoint in the (35, -89) graticule, here, on 2012-04-07.

MayorOfBoxTown achieved level 2 of the Minesweeper Geohash achievement

by visiting coordinates in East Memphis, Tennessee and 2 of the surrounding graticules.

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 == Location ==
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+In a small field just off of Raleigh LaGrange road, near I-40.
 == Participants ==
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+[[User:MayorOfBoxTown|Mayor]] and Amanda
 == Plans ==
-<!-- what were the original plans -->
+Drive out there, park, walk to the hash, party time.
 == Expedition ==
-<!-- how it all turned out. your narrative goes here. -->
+Minus the part where I took the wrong exit and was headed East on I-40 instead of West, We found the geohash pretty easily.
+But to start with, I should note that, previously, the only two times Amanda has come with me, we've failed to reach the hash point for various reasons.  So she thought she was bad luck.  I tried to convince her otherwise: it was only twice, and I've failed before when she wasn't with me, but she was adamant.  So I figured the only way to prove that she wasn't bad luck was to take her along for a 'sure thing' geohash, and this expedition looked to be just that.  Drive, park, walk, done.
-== Tracklog ==
+So we drove.  And then we realized we had failed to prepare in any way.  Amanda was wearing shorts, and we didn't bring the backpack with all of our stuff in it.  So that was pretty stupid.  And the field the hash point was in was gross scratchy grass with broken glass everywhere.  And then we got really scared that the hash point was in a tiny swamp in the middle of the field, and that we'd failed yet again.  But we traipsed around it and, while the gps tried to figure out where the heck it was, we discovered the hash point was most definitely ''not'' in the swamp, and that we'd already walked through it.  So we took pictures and got out of there, because it was in a sketchy area, and Amanda was scratched up and muddy and very much grumpy with me for the whole thing...  Relatively easy and straight-forward, but not exactly comfortable. But hey, now she can't say she's bad luck.
-<!-- if your GPS device keeps a log, you may post a link here -->
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+Image:Parked.JPG | Parked the car
+Image:Locate.JPG | Someone left us some detailed instructions...
+Image:Daphne.JPG | Daphne the Greyhound
+Image:Smokey.JPG | Smokey the Siberian Husky
+Image:Amanda and Smokey.JPG | Girl and her Dog
+Image:2012-04-07 35 -89 Hashpoint.JPG | The view was breathtaking.
+Image:2012-04-07 35 -89 Proof Sortof.JPG | Fuzzy view of the GPS we put too much faith in.  We're the green diamond.
+Image:2012-04-07 35 -89 Map.JPG | MSPaint Map, as is my absurdly low-tech custom... :\
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+{{land geohash
+    | latitude = 35
+    | longitude = -89
+    | date = 2012-04-07
+    | name = Amanda
+    | image = Amanda and Smokey.JPG}}
+{{Graticule unlocked
+    | latitude = 35
+    | longitude = -89
+    | date = 2012-04-07
+    | name = [[User:MayorOfBoxTown|MayorOfBoxTown]]
+    | image = Locate.JPG}}
+{{Minesweeper geohash
+    | graticule = East Memphis, Tennessee
+    | ranknumber = 2
+    | s = true
+    | w = true
+    | name = [[User:MayorOfBoxTown|MayorOfBoxTown]]}}
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