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| − | I'm hoping to find the [[2022-02-19 52 -2]] hashpoint one day earlier and one graticule over, and I | + | I'm hoping to find the [[2022-02-19 52 -2]] hashpoint one day earlier and one graticule over, and I ''think'' I can stretch the range on the electric car enough to be able to return home via this hashpoint too. |
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| + | Update: managed to change the car after finding the [[2022-02-19 52 -2]] point, so I can make this. Probably be there about midday, weather-permitting. | ||
== Expedition == | == Expedition == | ||
| − | + | Following my successful expedition to [[2022-02-19 52 -2]] (which completed level 6 of my minesweeper grid) I stayed overnight in a delightful converted hayloft near the hashpoint before pressing on the following morning to this hashpoint (via a whole series of delightful geocaches in and around the village of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blakedown Blakedown]). | |
| − | + | I didn't expect much of this hashpoint, but I wanted the excuse to recharge the car before going for another leg of my journey - either a trip up to visit a friend in Lichfield or else a hashing expedition one graticule further East where today's hashpoint seemed to be in a graveyard! But more on that later. | |
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| − | + | I parked at the Morrisons car park at (52.757778, -1.752222) at 14:48 and hooked up to the charger there (once I eventually found it). I had some difficulty making it work, but it seemed to get started eventually. Then I began my walk to the hashpoint. This was far from the picturesque walk of yesterday, taking me through a series of housing estates that were nondescript at best, unpleasantly scuzzy at worst. Shooting video as I walked, I was at one point loudly mocked by a group of young men passing in an artificially-loud car, but it was an activity that soon had to end anyway as the rain began to pour down. At around 15:11 my GPSr ran out of battery power (I'd failed to find its charging cable the night before) and there's a clear gap in my tracklog: fortunately I was also equipped with not one but two backup devices (my phone, of course, and my watch), so I was able to continue heading in the right direction, and when I found a convenience store near (52.739167, -1.998333) I bought some AA batteries (my GPSr can have its rechargable battery removed and 3 × AA batteries put in its place to allow it to continue) and pressed on to the hashpoint. | |
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| − | + | As anticipated, the hashpoint was on a road dividing a light industrial park from a housing estate, right outside a plant specialising in bending plate aluminium; I reached it at 15:23:48. I walked back the same route as the rain began to fall more and more heavily: by the time I reached the car it had become torrential. The dubious charging point I'd used had taken £16 from my bank card but provided only enough charge to take the car from 66% to 67% battery, which - combined with the rapidly-worsening weather - made me rethink my plans to visit Lichfield or explore further East and I instead used my remaining distance to take a long (slow, wet, diversion-filled) drive home. Ugh. | |
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| − | + | == Tracklog == | |
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| − | + | {{ tracklog | DanQ-tracklog_2022-02-19-and-20.gpx }} | |
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| − | + | == Photos == | |
| − | + | I shot video of most of this expedition but don't have time to edit it, so here are stills from the video instead: | |
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| + | Image:vlcsnap-2022-02-24-10h47m47s119.png | The rain has started | ||
| + | Image:vlcsnap-2022-02-24-10h48m29s482.png | This is what happens if you start building a house but forget to stop | ||
| + | Image:vlcsnap-2022-02-24-10h48m52s273.png | Swapping in some AA batteries | ||
| + | Image:vlcsnap-2022-02-24-10h49m19s405.png | Zero point | ||
| + | Image:vlcsnap-2022-02-24-10h49m42s448.png | Damp grin | ||
| + | Image:20220220_155638.jpg | Damned car still at 67% battery, sigh | ||
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Location
Outside a warehouse full of sheet aluminium, Kitts Green Road, Birmingham.
Participants
Plans
I'm hoping to find the 2022-02-19 52 -2 hashpoint one day earlier and one graticule over, and I think I can stretch the range on the electric car enough to be able to return home via this hashpoint too.
Update: managed to change the car after finding the 2022-02-19 52 -2 point, so I can make this. Probably be there about midday, weather-permitting.
Expedition
Following my successful expedition to 2022-02-19 52 -2 (which completed level 6 of my minesweeper grid) I stayed overnight in a delightful converted hayloft near the hashpoint before pressing on the following morning to this hashpoint (via a whole series of delightful geocaches in and around the village of Blakedown).
I didn't expect much of this hashpoint, but I wanted the excuse to recharge the car before going for another leg of my journey - either a trip up to visit a friend in Lichfield or else a hashing expedition one graticule further East where today's hashpoint seemed to be in a graveyard! But more on that later.
I parked at the Morrisons car park at (52.757778, -1.752222) at 14:48 and hooked up to the charger there (once I eventually found it). I had some difficulty making it work, but it seemed to get started eventually. Then I began my walk to the hashpoint. This was far from the picturesque walk of yesterday, taking me through a series of housing estates that were nondescript at best, unpleasantly scuzzy at worst. Shooting video as I walked, I was at one point loudly mocked by a group of young men passing in an artificially-loud car, but it was an activity that soon had to end anyway as the rain began to pour down. At around 15:11 my GPSr ran out of battery power (I'd failed to find its charging cable the night before) and there's a clear gap in my tracklog: fortunately I was also equipped with not one but two backup devices (my phone, of course, and my watch), so I was able to continue heading in the right direction, and when I found a convenience store near (52.739167, -1.998333) I bought some AA batteries (my GPSr can have its rechargable battery removed and 3 × AA batteries put in its place to allow it to continue) and pressed on to the hashpoint.
As anticipated, the hashpoint was on a road dividing a light industrial park from a housing estate, right outside a plant specialising in bending plate aluminium; I reached it at 15:23:48. I walked back the same route as the rain began to fall more and more heavily: by the time I reached the car it had become torrential. The dubious charging point I'd used had taken £16 from my bank card but provided only enough charge to take the car from 66% to 67% battery, which - combined with the rapidly-worsening weather - made me rethink my plans to visit Lichfield or explore further East and I instead used my remaining distance to take a long (slow, wet, diversion-filled) drive home. Ugh.
Tracklog
My GPSr kept a tracklog of my entire two-day expedition:
File:DanQ-tracklog 2022-02-19-and-20.gpx
Photos
I shot video of most of this expedition but don't have time to edit it, so here are stills from the video instead:
The rain has started
This is what happens if you start building a house but forget to stop
Swapping in some AA batteries
Zero point
Damp grin
Damned car still at 67% battery, sigh
