Difference between revisions of "2023-10-14 40 -116"

Latest revision as of 21:08, 24 May 2024

Location

Just south of Battle Mountain, Nevada.

Participants

Expedition

After the debacle at 2023-10-13 40 -111, I got some coffee in Heber City, found I-80 in Parkdale, stopped for a short run in Salt Lake City, stopped again for a short bike ride at Knolls in the Great Salt Flat, and refueled myself and the vehicle at nightfall in Wendover, at the Nevada-Utah state line.

From there, I continued for an hour or two until I got to Elko, where I found a dark residential street, put down the seat back, got out my blanket, and slept a couple of hours in the car. Waking at 2 a.m., I felt pretty alert, so I drove another hour to Battle Mountain and then a few miles south to the entry point for the hashpoint. I parked at the side of the country road, and then got another two or three hours of sleep.

At sunrise, I grabbed my eclipse-watchin' glasses and hiked the 1.5 km in to the hashpoint, which was another of the semi-desert landscapes that I've been exploring a lot on this trip. I was about a half-hour early for the eclipse, so I got in touch with nature by getting out my phone and playing Wordle, Waffle, Worldle, and so on.

Despite the desert landscape, it was a pretty cloudy morning and actually rained for a while. But, by the time the full eclipse came along, there were enough intermittent cloud breaks that I got a pretty good view of the action, sometimes through the filter glasses and sometimes through the clouds. By the way, although the photos make it look like an orange fire in a black sky, but that's just the filter talking. It turns out that daylight is pretty much daylight in a full annular eclipse. The light is... a bit dimmed, and kind of weird-looking, but if you were busy with something else it would be entirely possible to go through it without ever noticing that anything unusual was happening.

Photos

Sunrise from the hashpoint
View the other direction
It stands for "Battle Mountain"
Me, eclipse-watchin' at the hashpoint
Hashcot, ditto
Partial
Full
Location

Achievements

Michael5000 earned the Graticule Unlocked Achievement

by being the first to reach any hashpoint in the (40, -116) graticule, here, on 2023-10-14.

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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! :)
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 == Location ==
-<!-- where you've surveyed the hash to be -->
+Just south of Battle Mountain, Nevada.
 == Participants ==
 [[User:Michael5000|Michael5000]]
-== Plans ==
+== Expedition ==
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+After the debacle at [[2023-10-13 40 -111]], I got some coffee in Heber City, found I-80 in Parkdale, stopped for a short run in Salt Lake City, stopped again for a short bike ride at Knolls in the Great Salt Flat, and refueled myself and the vehicle at nightfall in Wendover, at the Nevada-Utah state line.
-== Expedition ==
+From there, I continued for an hour or two until I got to Elko, where I found a dark residential street, put down the seat back, got out my blanket, and slept a couple of hours in the car.  Waking at 2 a.m., I felt pretty alert, so I drove another hour to Battle Mountain and then a few miles south to the entry point for the hashpoint.  I parked at the side of the country road, and then got another two or three hours of sleep.
-<!-- how it all turned out. your narrative goes here. -->
+At sunrise, I grabbed my eclipse-watchin' glasses and hiked the 1.5 km in to the hashpoint, which was another of the semi-desert landscapes that I've been exploring a lot on this trip.  I was about a half-hour early for the eclipse, so I got in touch with nature by getting out my phone and playing Wordle, Waffle, Worldle, and so on.
-== Tracklog ==
+Despite the desert landscape, it was a pretty cloudy morning and actually rained for a while.  But, by the time the full eclipse came along, there were enough intermittent cloud breaks that I got a pretty good view of the action, sometimes through the filter glasses and sometimes through the clouds.  By the way, although the photos make it look like an orange fire in a black sky, but that's just the filter talking.  It turns out that daylight is pretty much daylight in a full annular eclipse.  The light is... a bit dimmed, and kind of weird-looking, but if you were busy with something else it would be entirely possible to go through it without ever noticing that anything unusual was happening.
-<!-- if your GPS device keeps a log, you may use Template:Tracklog, post a link here, or both -->
 == Photos ==
 <gallery perrow="5">
-File:2023-10-14 40 -116 a.jpg|
+File:2023-10-14 40 -116 a.jpg|Sunrise from the hashpoint
-File:2023-10-14 40 -116 b.jpg|
+File:2023-10-14 40 -116 b.jpg|View the other direction
-File:2023-10-14 40 -116 c.jpg|
+File:2023-10-14 40 -116 c.jpg|It stands for "Battle Mountain"
-File:2023-10-14 40 -116 d.jpg|
+File:2023-10-14 40 -116 d.jpg|Me, eclipse-watchin' at the hashpoint
-File:2023-10-14 40 -116 e.jpg|
+File:2023-10-14 40 -116 e.jpg|Hashcot, ditto
-File:2023-10-14 40 -116 f.jpg|
+File:2023-10-14 40 -116 f.jpg|Partial
-File:2023-10-14 40 -116 g.jpg|
+File:2023-10-14 40 -116 g.jpg|Full
-File:2023-10-14 40 -116 h.jpg|
+File:2023-10-14 40 -116 h.jpg|Location
-File:2023-10-14 40 -116 i.jpg|
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 == Achievements ==
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