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|0={{quoteMore|center|As it was my very first expedition, I was very excited about it. I wasn't expecting grand adventure, as the destination was just an hour walk from the city, but I was positively surprised, when I found a medieval tower on my way, that I had no idea was there.|[[2009-02-23_52_-7|JRK]]}} | |0={{quoteMore|center|As it was my very first expedition, I was very excited about it. I wasn't expecting grand adventure, as the destination was just an hour walk from the city, but I was positively surprised, when I found a medieval tower on my way, that I had no idea was there.|[[2009-02-23_52_-7|JRK]]}} | ||
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|11={{quoteMore|center|Put it this way, common sense is my middle name. My first name's "absolutely no".|[[2009-06-15_41_28|Superbest]]}} | |11={{quoteMore|center|Put it this way, common sense is my middle name. My first name's "absolutely no".|[[2009-06-15_41_28|Superbest]]}} | ||
|12={{quoteMore|center|12:25 - What the hell... Edit conflict? Pari!|[[2009-08-29_52_13|davidc]] on Pari, who were both live editing the wiki during the expedition}} | |12={{quoteMore|center|12:25 - What the hell... Edit conflict? Pari!|[[2009-08-29_52_13|davidc]] on Pari, who were both live editing the wiki during the expedition}} | ||
| − | |13={{quoteMore|center|It was barely off the road halfway between a funeral and a baptism, so the attire just kind of happened.|Trane, in #geohashing, about [[2010-02- | + | |13={{quoteMore|center|It was barely off the road halfway between a funeral and a baptism, so the attire just kind of happened.|Trane, in #geohashing, about [[2010-02-06 43 -91]]}} |
| − | |14={{quoteMore|center|I had managed to reach a place where the car horns and cheers from Canada's gold-medal victory in men's Olympic hockey did not reach.|Juventas, [[2010-02- | + | |14={{quoteMore|center|I had managed to reach a place where the car horns and cheers from Canada's gold-medal victory in men's Olympic hockey did not reach.|Juventas, [[2010-02-28 49 -119]]}} |
| − | |15={{quoteMore|center|Okay, if you don't hear back from me in two hours, call the police and tell them to look for me approximately at the 50 10 geohash of the day.|[[User:Mampfred|Mampfred]] on the phone with his wife after dark at [[2010-10- | + | |15={{quoteMore|center|Okay, if you don't hear back from me in two hours, call the police and tell them to look for me approximately at the 50 10 geohash of the day.|[[User:Mampfred|Mampfred]] on the phone with his wife after dark at [[2010-10-18 50 10]]}} |
|16={{quoteMore|center|For some reason a massive goat market had sprung up in my absence.|[[User:Felix Dance|Felix Dance]] on [[2010-11-15 28 77]]}} | |16={{quoteMore|center|For some reason a massive goat market had sprung up in my absence.|[[User:Felix Dance|Felix Dance]] on [[2010-11-15 28 77]]}} | ||
|17={{quoteMore|center|After walking over a kilometer it was time to head into the forest, it was completely dark and I didn't see much of it. It seems like a crazy decision to try to walk the last 700 meters to the hash but it's also a kinda crazy decision to head out half an hour after midnight to try to reach a coordinate in the middle of a forest and then walk by foot for about six hours just to reach "nothing". (...)It was completely wet in the forest, small lakes and swamps had been temporarily created by the melting snow but this time it wouldn't stop me. My shoes got wet after just a few minutes and turned wetter since I had walked in deeper and deeper swamps. (...)I finally reached the geohash and it felt great.|[[User:Vswe|Vswe]] on [[2010-11-18 59 17]]}} | |17={{quoteMore|center|After walking over a kilometer it was time to head into the forest, it was completely dark and I didn't see much of it. It seems like a crazy decision to try to walk the last 700 meters to the hash but it's also a kinda crazy decision to head out half an hour after midnight to try to reach a coordinate in the middle of a forest and then walk by foot for about six hours just to reach "nothing". (...)It was completely wet in the forest, small lakes and swamps had been temporarily created by the melting snow but this time it wouldn't stop me. My shoes got wet after just a few minutes and turned wetter since I had walked in deeper and deeper swamps. (...)I finally reached the geohash and it felt great.|[[User:Vswe|Vswe]] on [[2010-11-18 59 17]]}} | ||
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|29={{quoteMore|center|"Have faith in my blind navigational skills!"|[[User:Higgs|Higgs]], refusing to look at a GPS during the [[2013-10-21 44 -123]] expedition.}} | |29={{quoteMore|center|"Have faith in my blind navigational skills!"|[[User:Higgs|Higgs]], refusing to look at a GPS during the [[2013-10-21 44 -123]] expedition.}} | ||
|30={{quoteMore|center|Why do I search invisible coordinates while it's wet and dark and uncomfortable outside, knowing that I'll probably end up dirty all over? I can't tell|[[User:Paintedhell|Juja]], [[2013-11-22 50 11]]}} | |30={{quoteMore|center|Why do I search invisible coordinates while it's wet and dark and uncomfortable outside, knowing that I'll probably end up dirty all over? I can't tell|[[User:Paintedhell|Juja]], [[2013-11-22 50 11]]}} | ||
| − | |31={{quoteMore|center|Cake is also highly recommended, especially if you succeed in transporting it to the geohash intact. Sharing cake with strangers at the geohash is a good way to tell people about geohashing. People willing to accept cake from strangers in party hats are probably the sort of people who would consider geohashing.|[ | + | |31={{quoteMore|center|Cake is also highly recommended, especially if you succeed in transporting it to the geohash intact. Sharing cake with strangers at the geohash is a good way to tell people about geohashing. People willing to accept cake from strangers in party hats are probably the sort of people who would consider geohashing.|[[Geohashing Day#Cake|Robyn]]}} |
|32={{quoteMore|center|I was astonished to find that it was only a block away from my cousin's house, which I'd probably been to four or five times! How could I have missed a giant glacial erratic boulder in such proximity? I had to investigate, so I began to take my leave.|[[User:OtherJack|OtherJack]], commenting on [[2014-03-12 47 -122]]}} | |32={{quoteMore|center|I was astonished to find that it was only a block away from my cousin's house, which I'd probably been to four or five times! How could I have missed a giant glacial erratic boulder in such proximity? I had to investigate, so I began to take my leave.|[[User:OtherJack|OtherJack]], commenting on [[2014-03-12 47 -122]]}} | ||
| − | |33={{quoteMore|center|As I was heading back to the truck, I encountered every urban geohasher's worst nightmare: an aggressive, charging, off-leash dog. Fortunately, it was only about the size of a large burrito.|[[User:Michael5000]] on [[2014-03- | + | |33={{quoteMore|center|As I was heading back to the truck, I encountered every urban geohasher's worst nightmare: an aggressive, charging, off-leash dog. Fortunately, it was only about the size of a large burrito.|[[User:Michael5000]] on [[2014-03-26 45 -122]]}} |
|34={{quoteMore|center|A few seconds later I realized that normal people can cross their own tracks.|[[User:RecentlyChanged|RecentlyChanged]] on [[2014-06-18 49 8]]}} | |34={{quoteMore|center|A few seconds later I realized that normal people can cross their own tracks.|[[User:RecentlyChanged|RecentlyChanged]] on [[2014-06-18 49 8]]}} | ||
|35={{quoteMore|center|It had never occurred to me that the first 141km would be easier than those last 50 meters. First of all, there is a distinct lack of landmarks in the middle of the water (and only now, as I type that sentence, does the sheer irony hit me. I guess there's a reason they're called ''land''marks).|[[User:Thepiguy|Thepiguy]] on [[2008-09-01 49 -124]]}} | |35={{quoteMore|center|It had never occurred to me that the first 141km would be easier than those last 50 meters. First of all, there is a distinct lack of landmarks in the middle of the water (and only now, as I type that sentence, does the sheer irony hit me. I guess there's a reason they're called ''land''marks).|[[User:Thepiguy|Thepiguy]] on [[2008-09-01 49 -124]]}} | ||
| − | |36={{quoteMore|center|This should be easy to squeeze through. !*&#@! **@~!! it was a live electric fence.}} | + | |36={{quoteMore|center|This should be easy to squeeze through. !*&#@! **@~!! it was a live electric fence.|[[User:Sourcerer|Sourcerer]] on [[2015-05-19 52 1]]}} |
| − | |37={{quoteMore|center|So I failed to reach the | + | |37={{quoteMore|center|So I failed to reach the hashpoint. I wet my trouser legs by wading through the damp barley. I got covered in clay mud. And I got two lifetime firsts, wildlife spotting. Result!|[[User:Sourcerer|Sourcerer]] on [[2015-07-13 52 1]]}} |
|38={{quoteMore|center|"As long as you won't kill me and bury me in the woods..."|[[User:ZettS|ZettS]]' drag-along on [[2016-02-03 53 10]]}} | |38={{quoteMore|center|"As long as you won't kill me and bury me in the woods..."|[[User:ZettS|ZettS]]' drag-along on [[2016-02-03 53 10]]}} | ||
|39={{quoteMore|center|"I've washed off the dried blood, emptied my pockets of twigs and pine park fragments and showered the resinous detritus out of my hair."|[[2016-05-31_52_-3|Sourcerer in Wales]]}} | |39={{quoteMore|center|"I've washed off the dried blood, emptied my pockets of twigs and pine park fragments and showered the resinous detritus out of my hair."|[[2016-05-31_52_-3|Sourcerer in Wales]]}} | ||
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|45={{quoteMore|center|I left the bicycle at the roadside 400 metres from the point and continued on foot. I quickly noticed that I was walking into a swarm of about a million mosquitoes. –– [After reaching the geohash] I took another, slightly more accessible route back to the bicycle and began to cycle back towards the major road. The swarm of mosquitoes still followed me for half a kilometre until I could reach level road and accelerate away from them.|[[User:Kripakko|Kripakko]] on [[2019-06-07 63 29]]}} | |45={{quoteMore|center|I left the bicycle at the roadside 400 metres from the point and continued on foot. I quickly noticed that I was walking into a swarm of about a million mosquitoes. –– [After reaching the geohash] I took another, slightly more accessible route back to the bicycle and began to cycle back towards the major road. The swarm of mosquitoes still followed me for half a kilometre until I could reach level road and accelerate away from them.|[[User:Kripakko|Kripakko]] on [[2019-06-07 63 29]]}} | ||
|46={{quoteMore|center|How barbed is the wire?|[[User:Felix Dance|Felix Dance]] to [[User:Stevage|Stevage]] on [[2009-09-19 -37 145]]}} | |46={{quoteMore|center|How barbed is the wire?|[[User:Felix Dance|Felix Dance]] to [[User:Stevage|Stevage]] on [[2009-09-19 -37 145]]}} | ||
| + | |47={{quoteMore|center|"I ain't jokin', babe, I've got to ramble | ||
| + | Oh yeah | ||
| + | Baby, baby, I be leavin' | ||
| + | We really got to ramble | ||
| + | I can hear it callin' me the way it used to do."|Led Zeppelin, on geohashing, in "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You" (1969).}} | ||
| + | |48={{quoteMore|center|I said: “You can turn off the headlights, but do not—I say again—do not turn off the car. Just to clarify, do not turn off the car. And in case you didn’t hear me the first time, do not turn off the car.”|[[User:Pwc|Pwc]] on [[2024-04-26 -37 145]]}} | ||
| + | |49={{quoteMore|center|The plan was as follows: we'd send in Other Katie to impress the gate staff using the skills she'd learned in her Beginner Level Poi class.<br>Meanwhile, Tony and I would dress The Yaris as a shrub and quietly push it past on the right.|[[User:Kt|KT]] on [[2022-04-17 -38 143]]}} | ||
| + | |50={{quoteMore|center|"Hey Steve"<br>"Yeah?"<br>"What are those birds sitting on?"<br>"Um, they're floating on the water"<br>"Oh yeah, that makes sense."<br>"They're sitting on water".|[[User:Stevage|Stevage]] and [[User:Kt|KT]] on [[2023-08-12 -37 144]]}} | ||
| + | |51={{quoteMore|center|Here I felt very calm, while leaning backwards over a big drop, with absolutely no way to catch myself if something happened to the rope.|[[User:Stevage|Stevage]] on [[2022-07-11 -39 146]]}} | ||
| + | |52={{quoteMore|center|He says "What were you doing back there." Instead of giving an explanation of geohashing, I say "I was looking for a GPS point." He says, and I wish I could make something up like this, "Well, where did you lose it?"|[[User:NWoodruff|Nwoodruff]] on [[2011-01-22 33 -84]]}} | ||
| + | |53={{quoteMore|center|"I'll take you to the owner," he finally says to my relief. But on the way he adds, "Just say you're from the Income Tax Authority, you don't have to go through this whole..."|[[User:Yerushalmi|Yerushalmi]], trying for an Ambassador achievement on [[2025-01-14_31_34]]}} | ||
| + | |54={{quoteMore|center|The 'L' name is short for 'elevated', which is how you know it's underground.|[[User:Tarasaurus|Tarasaurus]] riding Chicago's rail system to [[2024-08-04 41 -87]]}} | ||
| + | |55={{quoteMore|center|"We're not allowed to trespass, right? That's in the rules." said Wade.<br/>"Right, but we are allowed to visit people we haven't met yet to tell them that their house has been specially chosen by the Internet," explained Robyn|on [[2008-07-06 47 -121]]}} | ||
| + | |56={{quoteMore|center|Alternative title: "How I came to believe I was locked in a cemetery with a partially emptied bag of gluten-free ginger snaps when this was not, in fact, the case."|[[User:Codae|Codae]] at [[2014-10-03 37 -122]]}} | ||
| + | |57={{quoteMore|center|I had no knowledge of the point, a lack of appropriate clothing and footwear for climbing on uneven grassy terrain, and a dissuaded mentality from the technological issues. But was I going to give up and start heading back? Initially, yes! That changed though, I realised that I'd come this far, and I'd gotten so close, and actually, the point was in an area that was relatively distinct on the satellite imagery. I'd turned away from a rural point before due to hills and I was not doing it again, so I went through the (unlocked) gate and started climbing.|[[User:KerrMcF|KerrMcF]] at [[2024-01-28 56 -4]]}} | ||
| + | |58={{quoteMore|center|Whatever it is, it's access, and I'll take it.|[[User:KerrMcF|KerrMcF]] about a gap in the fence at [[2024-03-22 56 -4]]}} | ||
| + | |59={{quoteMore|center|I decided, for some reason, that it would be better, faster, and easier to go back to the path on a different route [...] You can see on my route log that I spent a lot of time in this general area; as it turns out, the ground can turn into quite a severe bog quite quickly when you're not looking.|[[User:KerrMcF|KerrMcF]] moments before panicking at [[2024-03-30 56 -4]]}} | ||
| + | |60={{quoteMore|center|The accompanying sound of a rescue helicopter above, however, was not the most comforting.|[[User:KerrMcF|KerrMcF]] alone in the woods at [[2024-08-11 56 -4]]}} | ||
| + | |61={{quoteMore|center|As I continued walking through the farm, I heard a shout of "Oi!". ''Ah, nice, the farmer is trying to get his dogs to quieten down, that's good.''|[[User:KerrMcF|KerrMcF]] momemts before being shouted at when attempting [[2025-01-20 56 -4]]}} | ||
| + | |62={{quoteMore|center|Oh, great. It's in the multi-story car park of a shopping centre that I have been to many, many times - an opportunity for a Multiple elevations achievement, something I've been wanting to do for a long time - and I'm over 1,600km away.|[[User:KerrMcF|KerrMcF]] after seeing the geohash for [[2024-09-08 55 -4]]}} | ||
| + | |63={{quoteMore|center|I decided to make a small monument to my own greatness. My ego in this moment, tired, cold, far away from home and covered in mud, astounds me. What made me think that I should make a monument when all I had to do to reach this place was make my way along a muddy path?|[[User:MyrtleGlacy|MyrtleGlacy]] at [[2025-01-03 46 21]]}} | ||
| + | |64={{quoteMore|center|Ah, let me think about it again: no water, need water, pained legs, and I have to do the current progress 3 more times... hey, let's continue!|[[User:10d100h|10d100h]] making bad decisions during [[2025-02-08 38 -122]]}} | ||
| + | |65={{quoteMore|center|The logical conclusion, therefore, is to turn around.<br>But the geohash. The geohash. Geohash!! Around am I the tree!|[[User:10d100h|10d100h]] during [[2025-02-08 38 -122]]}} | ||
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| “ | Look what technology has wrought. Scott and Amundsen killed/nearly killed themselves getting to the pole, and now we have a permanent base named after them and people can near-instantaneously send people already there on silly missions. I think they'd be proud?
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