Difference between revisions of "2012-07-27 62 6"

Latest revision as of 05:34, 20 March 2024

Location

South-eastern of Ålesund,_Norway, in the woods on a hillside somewhat near a few houses which might be called town or settlement, but don't even have a town sign, at least none I noticed.

Participants

Gefrierbrand
T.W.

Plans

This summer holiday was all about traveling around in Scandinavia. A buddy from University and I decided to go up north to see Norway and Sweden, both astonishingly beautiful countries. Even in the planning stages of our trip (if they can be called that, because there really was almost no planning ahead) I thought about geohashing and how to reach the points. Due to the fact that I didn't want to pay for roaming, we only had Internet access at our stay in Ålesund. I noticed the points nearly ideal location as it did not fell in water or ontop of a mountain or some other unreachable place, of which there are quite a few in Norway.

Expedition

As I finished convincing T.W. to go on an even bigger adventure than the trip itself and had pointed out the possibility of achievements, the only thing left to do was entering the necessary data into Navit and head on. We went along a beautiful road which we had intended to use anyways and only took a small detour in favor of the hash. In really sunny and hot weather, we made the last few hundred meters on foot on a farm track before we had to go strait through the woods. I had left geohashdroid running on my phone since Ålesund and therefore even had a sky view for orientation, which did not help at all, as expected. We headed through boggy forest soil, over small and medium creeks, and stopped every five meters to take pictures of flowers, the surrounding mountains or some roaming cows. As always, the trees got bigger and denser which lead to decreasing GPS signal strength, but as the tracklog shows, I almost certainly passed through the point at some time. I even spent quite some time running around in circles while looking silly with my phone in front of me. We then declared the point as reached on own authority, took the celebratory silly grin picture and headed back while taking even more pictures and continued our trip heading in the general direction of Trondheim, but that's a different story.

Tracklog

Here you go

Photos

General area somewhat around the point.
Beautiful old looking but still in use barn.
Nice stream we had to cross. Signs warned us about salmon parasites, but fishing was allowed nonetheless.
Did I mention how beautiful Norway is?
Probably an exemplar of Digitalis purpurea, which is highly poisonous.
T.W. taking pictures of plants and landscape.
A small part of the forest we had to get through.
Even more forest including another creek.
Me looking around for the best location...
... and hopelessly trying to get better reception.
Taken somewhere near the hash as the GPS signal dropped down before I could take a picture with a closer value.
Stupid Grin including DragAlong T.W. (left)
An old and no longer in use concrete bridge where parts started to fall off already.
Freely roaming cows. Second cow not included in this picture

Achievements

Gefrierbrand earned the Drag-along achievement

by dragging T.W. to the (62, 6) geohash on 2012-07-27.

Gefrierbrand earned the Graticule Unlocked Achievement

by being the first to reach any hashpoint in the (62, 6) graticule, here, on 2012-07-27.

Gefrierbrand earned the Land geohash achievement

by reaching the (62, 6) geohash on 2012-07-27.

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 == Location ==
 South-eastern of [[Ålesund,_Norway]], in the woods on a hillside somewhat near a few houses which might be called town or settlement, but don't even have a town sign, at least none I noticed.
 == Participants ==
-<!-- who attended: If you link to your wiki user name in this section, your expedition will be picked up by the various statistics generated for geohashing. You may use three tildes ~ as a shortcut to automatically insert the user signature of the account you are editing with.
+* [[User:Gefrierbrand|Gefrierbrand]]
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+* T.W.
-*[[User:Gefrierbrand|Gefrierbrand]]
-*T.W.
 == Plans ==
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+This summer holiday was all about traveling around in Scandinavia. A buddy from University and I decided to go up north to see Norway and Sweden, both astonishingly beautiful countries. Even in the planning stages of our trip (if they can be called that, because there really was almost no planning ahead) I thought about geohashing and how to reach the points. Due to the fact that I didn't want to pay for roaming, we only had Internet access at our stay in Ålesund. I noticed the points nearly ideal location as it did not fell in water or ontop of a mountain or some other unreachable place, of which there are quite a few in Norway.
-will follow
 == Expedition ==
-<!-- how it all turned out. your narrative goes here. -->
+As I finished convincing T.W. to go on an even bigger adventure than the trip itself and had pointed out the possibility of achievements, the only thing left to do was entering the necessary data into [http://www.navit-project.org/ Navit] and head on. We went along a beautiful road which we had intended to use anyways and only took a small detour in favor of the hash. In really sunny and hot weather, we made the last few hundred meters on foot on a farm track before we had to go strait through the woods. I had left geohashdroid running on my phone since Ålesund and therefore even had a sky view for orientation, which did not help at all, as expected. We headed through boggy forest soil, over small and medium creeks, and stopped every five meters to take pictures of flowers, the surrounding mountains or some roaming cows.
-Hash reached within GPS error. Details follow.
+As always, the trees got bigger and denser which lead to decreasing GPS signal strength, but as the tracklog shows, I almost certainly passed through the point at some time. I even spent quite some time running around in circles while looking silly with my phone in front of me.
+We then declared the point as reached on own authority, took the celebratory silly grin picture and headed back while taking even more pictures and continued our trip heading in the general direction of Trondheim, but that's a different story.
 == Tracklog ==
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 [https://www.dropbox.com/s/5e8rhsi3nfjavf8/27_07_2012%2012_20%20Hash%281%29.gpx Here you go]
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+File:2012-07-27 62 6 0.jpg | General area somewhat around the point.
+File:2012-07-27 62 6 1.jpg | Beautiful old looking but still in use barn.
+File:2012-07-27 62 6 2.jpg | Nice stream we had to cross. Signs warned us about salmon parasites, but fishing was allowed nonetheless.
+File:2012 07 27 62 6 3.JPG | Did I mention how beautiful Norway is?
+File:2012-07-27 62 6 4.jpg | Probably an exemplar of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digitalis_purpurea Digitalis purpurea], which is highly poisonous.
+File:2012-07-27 62 6 5.jpg | T.W. taking pictures of plants and landscape.
+File:2012-07-27 62 6 6.jpg | A small part of the forest we had to get through.
+File:2012-07-27 62 6 7.jpg | Even more forest including another creek.
+File:2012-07-27 62 6 8.jpg | Me looking around for the best location...
+File:2012-07-27 62 6 9.jpg | ... and hopelessly trying to get better reception.
 File:2012 07 27 62 6-1.JPG | Taken somewhere near the hash as the GPS signal dropped down before I could take a picture with a closer value.
 File:2012 07 27 62 6-2.JPG | Stupid Grin including DragAlong T.W. (left)
+File:2012-07-27 62 6 10.jpg | An old and no longer in use concrete bridge where parts started to fall off already.
+File:2012-07-27 62 6 11.jpg | Freely roaming cows. Second cow not included in this picture
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-Lots more will follow
 == Achievements ==
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+{{drag-along | latitude = 62 | longitude = 6 | date = 2012-07-27 | partner = T.W. | name = [[User:Gefrierbrand|Gefrierbrand]]}}
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+{{land geohash | latitude = 62 | longitude = 6 | date = 2012-07-27 | name = [[User:Gefrierbrand|Gefrierbrand]]}}
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-This might qualify for virgin graticule, but I'm not sure if anyone else has had a successful expedition here. If no one complaines I'm going to take it when I'm filling in the details here, which should be at the end of this weak.
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