Difference between revisions of "2015-07-23 49 9"

Latest revision as of 04:27, 15 August 2019

Location

Near a skidder trail inside the Gramschatzer Wald.

Participants

Expedition

As soon as I noticed the quite close proximity of todays hashpoint to my location, I had made up my mind to go there somehow. First I considered walking and going in a straight line for the juggernaut achievement, but a quick study in Google Earth revealed that I would have to cross a highly frequented road at a very unsafe (and quite illegal) place. I therefore chose a bicycle and regular roads as the quicker and easier alternative.

On my way I passed a historical marker for the Battle of Würzburg in 1796 and the related "High Cross". According tho the text, the battle occurred across a 12 km long front-line and included 74000 fighting men. I was therefore surprised that the memorial cross was so plain, simple and ugly. But as the marker explained, the original one had been destroyed by a storm and the replacement one had to be replaced again as a road was built there.

I had to go up and down again and again along the hilly terrain, and it was easy to imagine how the forests and terrain was used in the mentioned battle – however I was much more concerned with actually traveling on them than reminiscing about the past. The accumulated total height difference I had to manage was about 900 m with the steepest hill at an inclination of 54%. Walking the last few hundred meters through the forest was really easy in comparison – as was reaching the actual point as it was conveniently located in a small opening with great GPS reception.

Photos

View over hilly terrain
Historical marker for the "High Cross"
"High Cross"
Broken high seat
Small trail leading towards the point
The X marks the spot
stupid grin™
Proof
Heightmap (on the way home, which was easier)

Achievements

Gefrierbrand earned the Land geohash achievement

by reaching the (49, 9) geohash on 2015-07-23.

Gefrierbrand earned the Bicycle geohash achievement

by cycling 9.4 km to and from the (49, 9) geohash on 2015-07-23.

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 | lat=49
-| lon=09
+| lon=9
 | date=2015-07-23
+| graticule_name=Würzburg
+| graticule_link=Würzburg, Germany
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-__NOTOC__
 == Location ==
-<!-- where you've surveyed the hash to be -->
+Near a skidder trail inside the [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gramschatzer_Wald Gramschatzer Wald].
 == 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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-== Plans ==
+== Expedition ==
-<!-- what were the original plans -->
+As soon as I noticed the quite close proximity of todays hashpoint to my location, I had made up my mind to go there somehow. First I considered walking and going in a straight line for the juggernaut achievement, but a quick study in Google Earth revealed that I would have to cross a highly frequented road at a very unsafe (and quite illegal) place. I therefore chose a bicycle and regular roads as the quicker and easier alternative.
-== Expedition ==
+On my way I passed a historical marker for the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_W%C3%BCrzburg Battle of Würzburg] in 1796 and the related "High Cross". According tho the text, the battle occurred across a 12&nbsp;km long front-line and included 74000 fighting men. I was therefore surprised that the memorial cross was so plain, simple and ugly. But as the marker explained, the original one had been destroyed by a storm and the replacement one had to be replaced again as a road was built there.
-<!-- how it all turned out. your narrative goes here. -->
-== Tracklog ==
+I had to go up and down again and again along the hilly terrain, and it was easy to imagine how the forests and terrain was used in the mentioned battle – however I was much more concerned with actually traveling
-<!-- if your GPS device keeps a log, you may post a link here -->
+on them than reminiscing about the past. The accumulated total height difference I had to manage was about 900&nbsp;m with the steepest hill at an inclination of 54%. Walking the last few hundred meters through the forest was really easy in comparison – as was reaching the actual point as it was conveniently located in a small opening with great GPS reception.
 == Photos ==
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+File:2015-07-23 49 09 1.jpg| View over hilly terrain
+File:2015-07-23 49 09 2.jpg| Historical marker for the "High Cross"
+File:2015-07-23 49 09 3.jpg| "High Cross"
+File:2015-07-23 49 09 4.jpg| Broken high seat
+File:2015-07-23 49 09 5.jpg| Small trail leading towards the point
+File:2015-07-23 49 09 6.jpg| The X marks the spot
+File:2015-07-23 49 09 7.jpg| stupid grin™
+File:2015-07-23 49 09 8.jpg| Proof
+File:2015-07-23 49 09 9.png| Heightmap (on the way home, which was easier)
 </gallery>
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+{{land geohash
+    | latitude = 49
+    | longitude = 9
+    | date = 2015-07-23
+    | name = Gefrierbrand
+}}
+{{bicycle geohash
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+    | latitude = 49
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+    | longitude = 9
-[[Category:New report]]
+    | date = 2015-07-23
+    | name = Gefrierbrand
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+    | distance = 9.4&nbsp;km
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+}}
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+{{location|DE|BY|WÜ}}
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-[[Category:Not reached - Technology]]
-When you went to an alternate location instead of the actual geohash:
-[[Category:Not reached - Attended alternate location]]
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