Difference between revisions of "2017-02-08 47 11"

Latest revision as of 16:05, 20 June 2020

Location

In Zillertal, Austria, somewhere at the end of route B169 leading through the valley. Judging from the map and later, reality, right on the road. Stilluptal is a very scenic side valley of Zillertal. Absolutely beautiful in summer, not so easily accessible in winter.

Participants

Rincewind (talk) and a ninja-dragalong

Plans

For the last couple of vacations here, I've more or less constantly checked coordinates, but they never seemed reachable as a side activity, or not at all. In the alps, "not reachable" is happening more often than not in winter. Yesterday I saw that the coordinates fall exactly onto a spot at the end of B169 road- which means federal road and hence, has winter service. That looked promising... It was exactly at the other side of the mountain chain where we were skiing, of course, but you can't have everything. So the plan was to simply get my first Austria hash and drag my snowboard wielding friend along.

Expedition

We've had our skiing day and where quite exhausted, but decided to go- you never know when another opportunity might present itself. The B169 road, however, went less and less federal in appearance, getting narrower and narrower with each village. At some point they used signs sparsely, too and we only much later realised we must be on another road just parallel- and on the other side of the small river. But it lead to the spot, anyway, so we proceeded, only to be stopped by a sign that the road is private, damaged and will not be repaired and that it's forbidden to drive there anymore. It wasn't serviced, as well, but it was less than a mile... So we decided to park and hike it. Through snow. With night closing in and being exhausted... After a fourth of the way, we decided to abandon, because the steep climb in snow was a bit much for us. After stumbling back to the car, we tried to find back the B169 road, which was probably easier than losing it in the first place. Two miles on, we passed the spot, made the necessary photos, marked the spot (with non-permanent chalk marker spray) and then reversed the car for a (completely unproven) speedracer achievement. That was not too hard or dangerous to get, since the road is limited to 30km/h at the site. :)

If I hadn't lost directions, it would have qualified for an easy hash achievement, even. Made it back and now we're recovering from all our adventures.

Photos

Successful Austria hash. :)
XKCD was here... (Chalk paint)
Enroute to the coordinates
Happy hasher, happy ninja
View from the hash... With night falling, it looked quite menacing.

Achievements

Rincewind and a dragalong-ninja earned the Land geohash achievement

by reaching the (47, 11) geohash on 2017-02-08.

Rincewind and a dragalong-ninja earned the Speed racer achievement

by passing through the (47, 11) geohash on 2017-02-08 at 30 mind-boggling kilometers per hour..

Rincewind earned the Drag-along achievement

by dragging a ninja to the (47, 11) geohash on 2017-02-08.

@@ Line 20: / Line 20: @@
 == Location ==
 <!-- where you've surveyed the hash to be -->
+In Zillertal, Austria, somewhere at the end of route B169 leading through the valley. Judging from the map and later, reality, right on the road. Stilluptal is a very scenic side valley of Zillertal. Absolutely beautiful in summer, not so easily accessible in winter.
 == Participants ==
@@ Line 37: / Line 38: @@
 The B169 road, however, went less and less federal in appearance, getting narrower and narrower with each village. At some point they used signs sparsely, too and we only much later realised we must be on another road just parallel- and on the other side of the small river. But it lead to the spot, anyway, so we proceeded, only to be stopped by a sign that the road is private, damaged and will not be repaired and that it's forbidden to drive there anymore. It wasn't serviced, as well, but it was less than a mile... So we decided to park and hike it. Through snow. With night closing in and being exhausted...
 After a fourth of the way, we decided to abandon, because the steep climb in snow was a bit much for us.
-After stumbling back to the car, we tried to find back the B169 road, which was probably easier than losing it in the first place. Two miles on, we passed the spot, made the necessary photos (most will be uploaded later), marked the spot (with non-permanent chalk marker spray) and then reversed the car for a (completely unproven) speedracer achievement.
+After stumbling back to the car, we tried to find back the B169 road, which was probably easier than losing it in the first place. Two miles on, we passed the spot, made the necessary photos, marked the spot (with non-permanent chalk marker spray) and then reversed the car for a (completely unproven) speedracer achievement.
-That was not too hard or dangerous to get, since the road is limited to 30km/h. :)
+That was not too hard or dangerous to get, since the road is limited to 30km/h at the site. :)
 If I hadn't lost directions, it would have qualified for an easy hash achievement, even.
 Made it back and now we're recovering from all our adventures.
-== Tracklog ==
-<!-- if your GPS device keeps a log, you may post a link here -->
 == Photos ==
@@ Line 53: / Line 51: @@
 Image:2017-02-08_47_11_Rincewind_1486573994271.jpg|Successful Austria hash. :)
 Image:2017-02-08_47_11_Rincewind_1486574080331.jpg|XKCD was here... (Chalk paint)
+Image:2017-02-08 47 11 hashdriving.jpg|Enroute to the coordinates
+Image:2017-02-08 47 11 hashgrinII.jpg|Happy hasher, happy ninja
+Image:2017-02-08 47 11 hashsurroundings.jpg|View from the hash... With night falling, it looked quite menacing.
 </gallery>
 == Achievements ==
 {{#vardefine:ribbonwidth|800px}}
+{{land geohash
+    | latitude = 47
+    | longitude = 11
+    | date = 2017-02-08
+    | name = [[User:Rincewind|Rincewind]] and a dragalong-ninja
+}}
+{{Speed racer
+    | latitude = 47
+    | longitude = 11
+    | date = 2017-02-08
+    | name = [[User:Rincewind|Rincewind]] and a dragalong-ninja
+    | speed = 30 mind-boggling kilometers per hour.
+}}
+{{drag-along
+    |latitude = 47
+    | longitude = 11
+    | date = 2017-02-08
+    | partner = a ninja
+    | name = [[User:Rincewind|Rincewind]]
+}}
 <!-- Add any achievement ribbons you earned below, or remove this section -->
-<!-- =============== USEFUL CATEGORIES FOLLOW ================
-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. -->
-[[Category:New report]]
-<!-- ==REQUEST FOR TWITTER BOT== Please leave either the New report or the Expedition planning category in as long as you work on it. This helps the twitter bot a lot with announcing the right outcome at the right moment. -->
-<!-- Potential categories. Please include all the ones appropriate to your expedition -->
-<!-- If this is a planning page:
-[[Category:Expedition planning]]
--->
-<!-- If all those plans are never acted upon, change [[Category:Expedition planning]] to [[Category:Not reached - Did not attempt]]. -->
-<!-- An actual expedition:
+<!-- =============== USEFUL CATEGORIES FOLLOW ================ -->
 [[Category:Expeditions]]
--- and one or more of --
 [[Category:Expeditions with photos]]
-[[Category:Expeditions with videos]]
 [[Category:Expedition without GPS]]
--->
-<!-- if you reached your coords:
 [[Category:Coordinates reached]]
+<!-- or if you failed :(
---><!-- or if you failed :(
 [[Category:Coordinates not reached]]
 -- and a reason --
@@ Line 102: / Line 110: @@
 (Don't forget to delete this final close comment marker) -->
+{{location|AT|T|SZ}}


Wed 8 Feb 2017 in 47,11: 47.0740375, 11.7563917 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox