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== Plans ==
 
== Plans ==
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I was in Spain having an adventure with my eldest. It involved driving from Barcelona up to the Atlantic coast, and then south to the Med coasr, and back to Madrid.  So many opportunities might present themselves.
  
 
== Expedition ==
 
== Expedition ==
Posting from iPad and wi fi chalecged, so I will fix this later. But today driving south thru Spain got my first European hash
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The 10th was a long drive day, from Bilbao on the north (Atlantic) coast to Salamanca (200 Km W. of Madrid) down E-80/A-62. The hash appeared to be in a field not too far off the highway. Leaving the highway we crept through the edge of another medieval village, with waves and smiles. there was a road that took us back up toward the river, and let up pull up a couple 100 m away from the hash. Walking most of the way on a drainage ditch let us achieve the hash with a minimal walk across freshly plowed field.  A lovely spot, with ruins near by, as in most of Spain.
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We were challenged by lack of mapping, and lack of my trusty PN-20 GPS. So we were using the ipad GPS
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with the Spain NavMii app for our driving guidance. It suffers from open source maps that are not
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particularly good (for Spain, anyway). And Motion X's GPS HD for walking adventures. It can download
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Bing or Goggle maps and/or imagery, but needs a wifi connection. often missing. Also loaded on the ipad
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was Hunter Researches Theodolite, which geotags photos. when I remember to turn it on.
  
 
== Tracklog ==
 
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== Photos == 
 
== Photos == 
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Image:2012-04-10 42 -4 01 hash exit.jpg|Getting off A62.
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Image:2012-04-10 42 -4 02 rental car.jpg|Rental cars are great for driving down bad roads.
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Image:2012-04-10 42 -4 03 Number 1 son.jpg|He thought the whole idea was wierd. But he was real excited once we got here.
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Image:2012-04-10 42 -4 04 ruin.jpg | Everywhere you look, something old.
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Image:2012-04-10 42 -4 05 oops.jpg | This was supose to be my 'proof' photo. but I had ledt the in app GPS switch off. Someday I will learn how to work my ipad.
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Image:2012-04-10 42 -4 06 real near.jpg | Here is the GPS HD nav page.  As you can see, it has drifted to "15 ft off", and has no coordinates displayed. But we really were here. Or there. Jeremy and I know we made it anyway.
 
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If we were not the first in this graticle will someone please point that out.
  
 
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Latest revision as of 05:40, 20 March 2024

Tue 10 Apr 2012 in 42,-4:
42.1561587, -4.0656454
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Location

In a field in the village of Villaverde de Mogina.

Participants

And his son/navigator/non-hasher, jgt.

Plans

I was in Spain having an adventure with my eldest. It involved driving from Barcelona up to the Atlantic coast, and then south to the Med coasr, and back to Madrid. So many opportunities might present themselves.

Expedition

The 10th was a long drive day, from Bilbao on the north (Atlantic) coast to Salamanca (200 Km W. of Madrid) down E-80/A-62. The hash appeared to be in a field not too far off the highway. Leaving the highway we crept through the edge of another medieval village, with waves and smiles. there was a road that took us back up toward the river, and let up pull up a couple 100 m away from the hash. Walking most of the way on a drainage ditch let us achieve the hash with a minimal walk across freshly plowed field. A lovely spot, with ruins near by, as in most of Spain.


We were challenged by lack of mapping, and lack of my trusty PN-20 GPS. So we were using the ipad GPS
with the Spain NavMii app for our driving guidance. It suffers from open source maps that are not
particularly good (for Spain, anyway). And Motion X's GPS HD for walking adventures. It can download
Bing or Goggle maps and/or imagery, but needs a wifi connection. often missing. Also loaded on the ipad
was Hunter Researches Theodolite, which geotags photos. when I remember to turn it on.

Tracklog

== Photos == 

Achievements

Graticule unlocked.png
kydlt earned the Graticule Unlocked Achievement
by being the first to reach any hashpoint in the (42, -4) graticule, here, on 2012-04-10.

If we were not the first in this graticle will someone please point that out.