2013-09-19 52 9

Thu 19 Sep 2013 in 52,9: 52.5359765, 9.8002534 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox

Location

The hash lies in a small forest south of the interchange between the motorways A7 and A352 in the communal area of Wedemark, Germany.

Participants

GeorgDerReisende

Plans

I will go there by hitchhiking, walking to the hash, then travel back to Kassel, maybe a stop in Hannover.

Expedition

I have left home at 11:00, waited at my spot for about an hour, waited again at the service stations Göttingen and Harz and at last I got a lift to the junction of Mellendorf, where I arrived at 17:00. Which is one and a half hours more than I had planned for this journey. From there I have walked to the hash, through forests and along fields, walked along a street over the motorway. Then I made a turn to the right (the street does a turn to the left there) and found me near the hash, but I couldn't find the forest streets, which Google's maps show. So I stumbled through the pathless forest to the hash — and I have found it. But where had been the way out? Of course, I have a GPS-receiver so it is no problem at all. I have found the way out of the forest, made my way on another forest roads and ended at last at the truckstop of Gailhof. I arrived there at 19:40. I needed about an hour to get a car onto the motorway, with this car I got a lift to the service station Allertal, which is north of Gailhof and from there a Jaguar to the service station Göttingen and from there a third car to a motorway parking place above Kassel. I arrived there at 23:20. But I couldn't get the bus from the nearby bus stop, because the bus had been one minute too early! So I went home from there, but for 2 1/2 kilometers I could get another bus, but then I had to walk again and arrived at home at 0:40. So I needed for my way home five hours, but I had a longer journey because of the detour to Allertal.

Photos

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  the start of the search

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  climbing a bridge

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  crossing the motorway

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  going to the right

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  there shall be a way

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  somewhere next to the hash

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  that is the way!

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  proof1

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  the north

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  the west

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  the south

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  and the east, what is the difference?

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  proof2

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  where is the way out?

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  this is the way out

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  the internet was here

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  grin

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  the small river Wietze nearby

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  interesting architecture in Gailhof

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  to the left: the truckstop of Gailhof; in the middle: the street to Gailhof

Achievements

GeorgDerReisende earned the Thumbs Up Geohash Achievement by hitchhiking to the (52, 9) geohash on 2013-09-19, and withstanding the Vogon poetry of the driver.