Difference between revisions of "2012-08-09 56 -2"

Latest revision as of 05:29, 13 August 2019

Location

5) Beside the coast road east of St. Andrews, Fife, Scotland, UK.

Participants

Expedition

Arrived. -- Sourcerer @56.3126,-2.6910 21:19, 09 August 2012 (GMT+01:00)

5 of 5 today :: 2012-08-09_52 0 :: 2012-08-09_52_-0 :: 2012-08-09_52_-1 :: 2012-08-09_53_-2 :: 2012-08-09_56_-2

Neil was geohashing on the way to a wedding in Scotland. This was attempt five of Five. This was the second new graticule of the day and in a new country for good measure. The hashpoint was beside the coast road 7.2 km east of St. Andrew's, Fife, Scotland (The one famous for golf). It was in a damp field of barley. The variety was unusual or perhaps just stunted by the bad weather earlier in the year. Neil walked up the tractor tracks without damaging the crop. The first tracks missed the hashpoint so a parallel line further east was tried. This worked perfectly and the distance dropped to zero. It was getting dark so the evidence photos are not so good. After this expedition, Neil met his friends for a beer. It's their son James who's getting married to Rachel. The hashpoints in latitude 54 and 55 were not at all convenient to get to. This journey was already long and tiring without adding these extra points. This was originally believed to be a virgin achievement but closer checking revealed another expedition in 2009 by Jones. I have added a link from the Dundee page to this expedition.

Photos

Google Earth Overview
The Terrain
The Evidence

Achievements

Sourcerer earned the Multihash Achievement

by reaching 4 hash points on 2012-08-09. It's an Ultra Hash.

Sourcerer earned the Border geohash achievement

by crossing the England-Scotland border on 2012-08-09 to reach the (56, -2) geohash.

Expeditions and Plans

2012-08-09
Atlanta, Georgia	NWoodruff	In a well over grown lot in Vinings.
Youngstown, Ohio	User:Fezzic181	Found the spot out in the middle of the state game lands.
Billings, Montana	Rory	Lake Elmo State Park north of Billings, MT. The actual hash point is in th...
Northampton, United Kingdom	Sourcerer	2) On an urban public path through attractive lawns and trees in Wellingbor...
Birmingham, United Kingdom	Sourcerer	3) A few metres off a public footpath in a hay field. This was near the Gra...
Cambridge, United Kingdom	Sourcerer	1) Sourcerer failed to reach the hashpoint in a very muddy pig field.
Amsterdam, Netherlands	Marvyn	Behind a container-like building in some shrubs in an urban area in Hoofddo...
Manchester, United Kingdom	Sourcerer	4) Close to junction 12 on the M56. The hashpoint was on or very close to t...
Dundee, United Kingdom	Sourcerer	5) Beside the coast road east of St. Andrews, Fife, Scotland, UK.

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Sourcerer's Expedition Links

2012-08-09 53 -2 - 2012-08-09 56 -2 - 2012-08-10 56 -3 - KML file download of Sourcerer's expeditions for use with Google Earth.

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+Neil was geohashing on the way to a wedding in Scotland. This was attempt five of Five. This was the second new  graticule of the day and in a new country for good measure. The hashpoint was beside the coast road 7.2 km east of St. Andrew's, Fife, Scotland (The one famous for golf). It was in a damp field of barley. The variety was unusual or perhaps just stunted by the bad weather earlier in the year. Neil walked up the tractor tracks without damaging the crop. The first tracks missed the hashpoint so a parallel line further east was tried. This worked perfectly and the distance dropped to zero. It was getting dark so the evidence photos are not so good. After this expedition, Neil met his friends for a beer. It's their son James who's getting married to Rachel. The hashpoints in latitude 54 and 55 were not at all convenient to get to. This journey was already long and tiring without adding these extra points. This was  originally believed to be a virgin achievement but closer checking revealed another expedition in [[2009-08-16_56_-2|2009]] by [[User:Jones|Jones]]. I have added a link from the Dundee page to this expedition.
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Thu 9 Aug 2012 in Dundee, UK: 56.3125551, -2.6909587 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox