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And DON'T FORGET to add your expedition and the best photo you took to the gallery on the Main Page! We'd love to read your report, but that means we first have to discover it! :) | And DON'T FORGET to add your expedition and the best photo you took to the gallery on the Main Page! We'd love to read your report, but that means we first have to discover it! :) | ||
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| − | + | From [[2023-10-12 37 -113]], I continued north to Cedar City on I-15, then took a local road called the "Lund Highway" northwest across the Escalante Desert. It is the kind of landscape where the hills look five miles away but are actually thirty miles away, and the kind of highway that is only paved for the first 10 miles or so. There was a golden sunset as I drove across the flats, which was beautiful but also a bit worrisome, as I find that it often gets really dark after the sun goes down. | |
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| + | Well. After passing through Lund, I successfully figured out which of the unsigned roads I ought to be following, and parked at the side of the road about 550 meters from the hashpoint. Grabbing a flashlight out of the little geohashing kit that [[user:Mrs.5000|Mrs.5000]] give me for my last birthday, I turned on the vehicle's dome light and then jumped out and started across the sagebrush towards the hashpoint. | ||
| − | + | It turned out that the hashpoint was by a power pole, and that there was... well, not exactly a "road," but a pair of wheel ruts following the powerline route, so it was an easy route with good footing for most of the way. Still, I didn't linger too long at the hashpoint -- it was starting to get pretty cold, for one thing -- and I was glad to have the flashlight, especially in the last two or three minutes. | |
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| + | File:2023-10-12 38 -113 a.jpg|The plan of approach | ||
| + | File:2023-10-12 38 -113 b.jpg|Across the Escalante Desert at sundown | ||
| + | File:2023-10-12 38 -113 c.jpg|The hashpoint pole | ||
| + | File:2023-10-12 38 -113 d.jpg|The view west | ||
| + | File:2023-10-12 38 -113 e.jpg|The view east | ||
| + | File:2023-10-12 38 -113 f.jpg|An easy route back to the car | ||
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Latest revision as of 21:08, 24 May 2024
| Thu 12 Oct 2023 in 38,-113: 38.0965110, -113.4116425 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox |
Location
A remote area of Iron County. Seven or eight miles north of Lund, a village of three or four houses.
Participants
Expedition
From 2023-10-12 37 -113, I continued north to Cedar City on I-15, then took a local road called the "Lund Highway" northwest across the Escalante Desert. It is the kind of landscape where the hills look five miles away but are actually thirty miles away, and the kind of highway that is only paved for the first 10 miles or so. There was a golden sunset as I drove across the flats, which was beautiful but also a bit worrisome, as I find that it often gets really dark after the sun goes down.
Well. After passing through Lund, I successfully figured out which of the unsigned roads I ought to be following, and parked at the side of the road about 550 meters from the hashpoint. Grabbing a flashlight out of the little geohashing kit that Mrs.5000 give me for my last birthday, I turned on the vehicle's dome light and then jumped out and started across the sagebrush towards the hashpoint.
It turned out that the hashpoint was by a power pole, and that there was... well, not exactly a "road," but a pair of wheel ruts following the powerline route, so it was an easy route with good footing for most of the way. Still, I didn't linger too long at the hashpoint -- it was starting to get pretty cold, for one thing -- and I was glad to have the flashlight, especially in the last two or three minutes.
Photos
The plan of approach
Across the Escalante Desert at sundown
The hashpoint pole
The view west
The view east
An easy route back to the car
Achievements
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Michael5000 earned the Graticule Unlocked Achievement
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Michael5000 earned the Multihash Achievement
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