2023-09-05 47 8

Tue 5 Sep 2023 in 47,8: 47.6204576, 8.7357352 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox

Location

Located in a field near Ossingen (ZH), Switzerland.

Participants

globescorer

Plans

In the evening I want to achieve a geohash by bike for the first time. And this like a Tron! That would give me 2 new achievements. All in all, that's about 15km to ride. I'll get there around 6:45pm.

Planned route...

Expedition

And so it was. Exactly as I had planned, I cycled this route. On the way I fished a geocache and took a few photos from time to time. For the whole loop (15.0km) I needed 1h 17min. Since I only use the bike a few times and don't have a pro bike anyway, I'm glad I was able to cover the distance reasonably well.

I recorded the route using the ramblr app. But I still don't know how to include this data here... We'll see...

So I drove off from the small village of Niederwil. The trickiest thing was getting across the river without crossing paths, which would take away my chance at the TRON achievement. So I decided on the car bridge near Gütighausen on the way there and the well-known railway bridge on the way back.

From Wiki: The principal civil engineering structure on the line is the Thurbrücke Ossingen, a 332 metres (1,089 ft) long and 42 metres (138 ft) high five-span truss bridge over the River Thur.

Photos

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  First bridge is the road bridge in Gütighausen

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  bridge view east

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  bridge view west

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  view from above the wineyards towards the mountain Säntis

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  on the way

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  sign from the village Ossingen (for the first time)

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  then leaving Ossingen towards hashpoint (located somewhere at the horizon behind the sign)

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  The Geohash

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  The view from the Geohash to west

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  The Proof

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  Another Proof

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  these are memorial stones nearby from a local family

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  approaching the railway bridge

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  The famos railway bridge

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  view to the east

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  view to the west

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  On the way

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  view to Niederwil

my bicycle...

Tracklog

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Achievements

globescorer earned the Bicycle geohash achievement by cycling 15 km to and from the (47, 8) geohash on 2023-09-05.

globescorer earned the Tron achievement by reaching and returning from the (47, 8) geohash without crossing his own tracks on 2023-09-05.

globescorer earned the Land geohash achievement by reaching the (47, 8) geohash on 2023-09-05.