Difference between revisions of "2017-07-29 41 -71"

Latest revision as of 09:55, 19 February 2020

Location

Around back of the Exeter-West Greenwich Regional High School - again.

Less than 200' from an earlier geohash we achieved.

Participants

Vbob and
Bruce

Plans

Realized on Friday morning that this Saturday hash was going to be a glorious sunny day [I was wrong]; and that the hash was in an interesting public place where the opportunities for Drag-Along and/or already-happened-to-be-here were good [ I was half wrong]; so trying to organize a long-overdue meet up was worthwhile....

Except I'd forgotten my wiki password;
Except that the wiki engine wouldn't send me a reset email;
Even though it let me create a new account and new password; It wouldn't send the new me an email to authorize us to create an expedition page.....

So the word didn't get out, and the raw weather kept the [almost] interested bystanders at home; so partner and I went anyway....

Expedition

Drove there after a lobster lunch with in-laws, outlaws and grandsons. Expected to find some random student athletes using the fields behind the school, but we didn't see another soul. Did the geohash dance under the trees, and found the hash to land in the middle of a picnic table. We were hoping it would be somewhere on the flagstones of a small amphitheater, the center of which is marked with a very nice compass rose, but that was about 100' off the hash.

Photos

iPhone pins us at the hash
the Grin™ x 2
a nice bit of [virtual] hash dead center on the picnic table
even though this would have been a perfect spot for a hash
high school complex

Achievements

Vbob n' Bruce earned the Land geohash achievement

by reaching the (41, -71) geohash on 2017-07-29.

Vbob n' Bruce earned the Déjà Vu Geohash Achievement

by reaching the (41, -71) geohash on 2017-07-29, and previously on 2013-04-24.

2013-04-24 41 -71

2013 hash 41.6062521, -71.6377289

2017 hash 41.6067425, -71.6376951

difference = 0.0004904 N, -0.0000338 E

or about 179' N and 12' E of earlier hash

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 == Location ==
-<!-- where you've surveyed the hash to be -->
 Around back of the Exeter-West Greenwich Regional High School - again.
+Less than 200' from an earlier geohash we achieved.
 == 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:Vbob|Vbob]] and
 *  Bruce
 == Plans ==
-<!-- what were the original plans -->
 Realized on Friday morning that this Saturday hash was going to be a glorious sunny day [I was wrong]; and that the hash was in an interesting public place where the opportunities for Drag-Along and/or already-happened-to-be-here were good [ I was half wrong]; so trying to organize a long-overdue meet up was worthwhile....
-Except I'd forgotten my wiki password;
-Except that the wiki engine wouldn't send me a reset email;
+* Except I'd forgotten my wiki password;
-Even though it let me create a new account and new password;
+* Except that the wiki engine wouldn't send me a reset email;
-It wouldn't send the new me an email to authorize us to create an expedition page.....
+* Even though it let me create a new account and new password; It wouldn't send the new me an email to authorize us to create an expedition page.....
 So the word didn't get out, and the raw weather kept the [almost] interested bystanders at home; so partner and I went anyway....
 == Expedition ==
-<!-- how it all turned out. your narrative goes here. -->
-Drove there after a lobster lunch with inlaws, outlaws and grandsons. Expected to find some random student athletes using the fields behind the school, but we didn't see another soul. Did the geohash dance under the trees, and found the hash to land in the middle of a picnic table. We were hoping it would be somewhere on the flagstones of a small ampitheater, the center of which is marked with a very nice compass rose, but that was about 100' off the hash.
-== Tracklog ==
+Drove there after a lobster lunch with in-laws, outlaws and grandsons. Expected to find some random student
-<!-- if your GPS device keeps a log, you may post a link here -->
+athletes using the fields behind the school, but we didn't see another soul. Did the geohash dance under the
+trees, and found the hash to land in the middle of a picnic table. We were hoping it would be somewhere on
+the flagstones of a small amphitheater, the center of which is marked with a very nice compass rose, but
+that was about 100' off the hash.
 == Photos ==
-<!-- Insert pictures between the gallery tags using the following format:
-Image:2012-##-## ## ## Alpha.jpg | Witty Comment
--->
 <gallery perrow="5">
+Image:2017.07.29_41_-71_hash_by_iPhone.jpg | iPhone pins us at the hash
+Image:2017.07.29_41_-71_Vbob_n'_Bruce_grin.jpg | the Grin™ x 2
+Image:2017.07.29_41_-71_picnic_table_long shot.jpg | a nice bit of [virtual] hash dead center on the picnic table
+Image:2017.07.29_41_-71_compass_rose_1.jpg | even though this would have been a perfect spot for a hash
+Image:2017.07.29_41_-71_back_of_high_school.jpg | high school complex
 </gallery>
 == Achievements ==
 {{#vardefine:ribbonwidth|800px}}
-<!-- Add any achievement ribbons you earned below, or remove this section -->
-<!-- =============== USEFUL CATEGORIES FOLLOW ================
+{{Land geohash
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+| latitude = 41
-[[Category:New report]]
+| longitude = -71
-<!-- ==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. -->
+| date = 2017-07-29
-<!-- Potential categories. Please include all the ones appropriate to your expedition -->
+| name =  [[User:Vbob|Vbob]] n' Bruce
-<!-- 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]]. -->
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-  <!-- if you reached your coords:
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-<!-- or if you failed :(
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-[[Category:Not reached - Mother Nature]]
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-[[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 instead of the actual geohash:
-[[Category:Not reached - Attended alternate location]]
-(Don't forget to delete this final close comment marker) -->
 {{Déjà vu geohash
 | latitude = 41
 | longitude = -71
 | date = 2017-07-29
-| old date = 2013-04-24
+| olddate = 2013-04-24
-| name = [[Vbob]] n' Bruce
+| name =  [[User:Vbob|Vbob]] n' Bruce
 }}
-damfino why the template won't accept or expand the 'old date' correctly....
+[[2013-04-24 41 -71]]
-http://wiki.xkcd.com/geohashing/2013-04-24_41_-71
+hash  41.6062521, -71.6377289
+hash  41.6067425, -71.6376951
+difference = 0.0004904 N, -0.0000338 E
+or about 179' N and 12' E of earlier hash
+[[Category:Expeditions]]
+[[Category:Coordinates reached]]
+[[Category:Expeditions with photos]]
+{{location|US|RI|KE}}


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