Difference between revisions of "2013-03-07 52 7"

Latest revision as of 05:38, 6 August 2019

Location

Close to the town of Lathen, in Germany

Participants

Elwingelfje and her mom
Juanita

Plans

Drive to the edge of the forest, walk through the forest, discover what the odd tear / circle shaped structure is, catch the hash and go back home. Possibly do a multi-hash (which failed because the hash in the Enschede graticule was in the middle of a fenced meadow and I had no idea who was the owner and even if I had known I would've been too chicken to ask them permission anyway).

Expedition

I always thought my parents looked upon geohashing as a somewhat silly hobby, a remnant of puberty and its unbridled spending of one's free time, so to speak. On Wednesday I was visiting my parents and staying the night, and I happened to show my mom the hash for Thursday, and that it wasn't that far away. She surprised me by saying: "Well, why don't we go there then? It would be a nice walk!" My thought exactly. She even seemed a little insulted when I said that I found her surprisingly adventurous: "Don't you think I am adventurous then, huh?"

I won't bore you with our driving adventures. Suffice to say we didn't use a navigational device and found out to our shame that Google Maps doesn't show if crossing roads are level or not. We parked the car at the edge of the forest, near the 70.

It was a really nice walk! The weather wasn't too bad, even a bit of sun, and the forest was nice and a bit hilly, with singing birds. I also found out what the teardrop shaped weird railway looking thingy was - it's [this], a high speed monorail test track called Transrapid. It's going to be demolished but we saw it in all its glory. Luckily it was on pillars so it didn't impede our progress. Wikipedia also just told me that something quite horrible happened there. In 2006 one of the trains doing a test run collided with a maintainance vehicle and 23 people were killed. The cause turned out to be a human error.

We left the forest again and came across a seriously smelly dung deposit. Then we walked a little further along the edge of the forest - and reached the hash! Yay! A picture was taken and happiness all around. And lots of streamers and confetti and...

Photos

The hashpoint
The hashers

Achievements

Elwingelfje and Juanita earned the Land geohash achievement

by reaching the (52, 7) geohash on 2013-03-07.

Elwingelfje and Juanita earned the Border geohash achievement

by crossing the the Netherlands-Germany border on 2013-03-07 to reach the (52, 7) geohash.

Elwingelfje earned the Drag-along achievement

by dragging Juanita to the (52, 7) geohash on 2013-03-07.

elwingelfje achieved level 2 of the Minesweeper Geohash achievement

by visiting coordinates in Enschede, Netherlands and 2 of the surrounding graticules.

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 == Participants ==
-[[User:Elwingelfje|Elwingelfje]] ([[User talk:Elwingelfje|talk]]) and her mom, Juanita
+* [[User:Elwingelfje|Elwingelfje]] and her mom
+* Juanita
 == Plans ==
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 == Expedition ==
-<!-- how it all turned out. your narrative goes here. -->
+I always thought my parents looked upon geohashing as a somewhat silly hobby, a remnant of puberty and its unbridled spending of one's free time, so to speak. On Wednesday I was visiting my parents and staying the night, and I happened to show my mom the hash for Thursday, and that it wasn't that far away. She surprised me by saying: "Well, why don't we go there then? It would be a nice walk!" My thought exactly. She even seemed a little insulted when I said that I found her surprisingly adventurous: "Don't you think I am adventurous then, huh?"
+I won't bore you with our driving adventures. Suffice to say we didn't use a navigational device and found out to our shame that Google Maps doesn't show if crossing roads are level or not. We parked the car at the edge of the forest, near the 70.
+It was a really nice walk! The weather wasn't too bad, even a bit of sun, and the forest was nice and a bit hilly, with singing birds. I also found out what the teardrop shaped weird railway looking thingy was - it's [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transrapid this]], a high speed monorail test track called Transrapid. It's going to be demolished but we saw it in all its glory. Luckily it was on pillars so it didn't impede our progress. Wikipedia also just told me that something quite horrible happened there. In 2006 one of the trains doing a test run collided with a maintainance vehicle and 23 people were killed. The cause turned out to be a human error.
-== Tracklog ==
+We left the forest again and came across a seriously smelly dung deposit. Then we walked a little further along the edge of the forest - and reached the hash! Yay! A picture was taken and happiness all around. And lots of streamers and confetti and...
-<!-- if your GPS device keeps a log, you may post a link here -->
 == Photos ==
-<!-- Insert pictures between the gallery tags using the following format:
-Image:2012-##-## ## ## Alpha.jpg | Witty Comment
--->
 <gallery perrow="5">
+Image:2013-03-07_52_7_hashpoint.JPG | The hashpoint
+Image:2013-03-07_52_7_meandmom.JPG | The hashers
 </gallery>
 == Achievements ==
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-<!-- Add any achievement ribbons you earned below, or remove this section -->
+{{land geohash
+| latitude = 52
+| longitude = 7
+| date = 2013-03-07
+| name = [[User:Elwingelfje|Elwingelfje]] and Juanita
+}}
+{{Border geohash achievement
+| latitude = 52
+| longitude = 7
+| date = 2013-03-07
+| country1 = the Netherlands
+| country2 = Germany
+| name = [[User:Elwingelfje|Elwingelfje]] and Juanita
+}}
+{{drag-along
+| latitude = 52
+| longitude = 7
+| date = 2013-03-07
+| partner = Juanita
+| name = [[User:Elwingelfje|Elwingelfje]]
+}}
-<!-- =============== USEFUL CATEGORIES FOLLOW ================
+{{Minesweeper geohash
-Delete the next line ONLY if you have chosen the appropriate categories below. If you are unsure, don't worry. People will read your report and help you with the classification. -->
+| graticule = Enschede, Netherlands
-[[Category:New report]]
+| ranknumber = 2
+| ne = true
+| e = true
+| w = true
+| name = elwingelfje
+}}
-<!-- Potential categories. Please include all the ones appropriate to your expedition -->
-<!-- If this is a planning page:
-[[Category:Expedition planning]]
--->
-<!-- An actual expedition:
 [[Category:Expeditions]]
--- and one or more of --
-[[Category:Expeditions with photos]]
-[[Category:Expeditions with videos]]
 [[Category:Expedition without GPS]]
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+[[Category:Expeditions with photos]]
-<!-- if you reached your coords:
 [[Category:Coordinates reached]]
+{{location|DE|NI|EL}}
---><!-- or if you failed :(
-[[Category:Coordinates not reached]]
--- and a reason --
-When there is a natural obstacle between you and the target:
-[[Category:Not reached - Mother Nature]]
-When there is a man-made obstacle between you and the target:
-[[Category:Not reached - No public access]]
-When you failed get your GPS, car, bike or such to work:
-[[Category:Not reached - Technology]]
-When you went to an alternate location, or decided early on to abort the expedition:
-[[Category:Not reached - Did not attempt]]
-(Don't forget to delete this final close comment marker) -->


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