2012-08-19 49 7

Sun 19 Aug 2012 in 49,7: 49.2624920, 7.0300963 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox

Location

In the forest between Dudweiler and the University, about 640 meters from Triqueon's house.

Participants

• Triqueon
• r007

Plans

We'll saunter out there at about 16:00, provided r007 gets back to Saarland in time. Since we currently have no available GPS, we may have to approximate to the best of our ability, but that should be about as good as GPS accuracy for this particular hash.

Seems like we'll make 16:00 to start out -Triqueon 09:51, 19 August 2012 (EDT)

Expedition

So, at precisely 16:00, we started off. Today's the hottest day of the year here, I estimate temperatures in excess of 35° C. So even the 10 minute walk got up quite a sweat. Not having a working GPS device, we used terrain knowledge and best guess estimates, comparison of which with Google Earth puts us within 15m of the actual spot, so I'll count it as a success. We marked the point and will go back for verification. We hung around for 10 minutes before the heat became too much, and we returned to Triqueon's for a beer.

General success all around.

Photos

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  Triqueon looking smug

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  r007 kneeling for XKCD

Achievements

Triqueon earned the Land geohash achievement by reaching the (49, 7) geohash on 2012-08-19.

r007 earned the Land geohash achievement by reaching the (49, 7) geohash on 2012-08-19.

Triqueon earned the Walk geohash Achievement by reaching the (49, 7) geohash on 2012-08-19 on foot, travelling a distance of 1.2km.

r007 earned the Walk geohash Achievement by reaching the (49, 7) geohash on 2012-08-19 on foot, travelling a distance of 1.2km.

Triqueon earned the Couch Potato Geohash Honorable Mention by living near the (49, 7) geohash on 2012-08-19.