2020-01-28 -20 16

Tue 28 Jan 2020 in -20,16: -20.3239418, 16.8159630 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox

Location

On farmland about half-way between Okaputo and Otjiwarongo, close to B1.

Participants

• pah (prev|next)
• lia

Expedition

Lia and pah went on a three weeks and ~4000km road trip through Namibia in January and could not explore any hashing opportunities (mostly due to lack of network connectivity) most of the time. On their way back from the Etosha National Park, they found today’s hash point promisingly close to their route on the B1 national road.

When they first left the B1 as per the suggestion from Google, they drove around 6km on a sand road between farming fences and then realized, that this road won’t bring them closer to the hash. So they decided to head back to the main road and look for another entry. Soon they found a service path next to railroad tracks going parallel to the B1 (but still ~200m closer towards the hash). As they continued on this path, they made it as close as 3.2km to the hash, but then there were only fences as far as their eyes could see.

A few hundred meters further, they arrived at a locked gate and accepted, that they won’t reach the hashpoint today and pah missed another opportunity for the Globetrotters Geohash after the previous thwarted attempts on 2016-05-21 and 2019-01-19.

Photos

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  Not getting closer from here...

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  Turning around (spot the butterfly...)

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  Back on B1

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  On a service “road” next to rail tracks

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  As close as we got #1

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  As close as we got #2

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  View in the direction of the hash

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  Fence ...

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  ... more fence

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  Frowns

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  View across the tracks to our hash mobile

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  Closed gate

Achievements

pah and lia earned the Dark Ages achievement by going on an expedition to the (-20, 16) geohash on 2020-01-28.

pah and lia earned the No trespassing consolation prize by almost (3.19 km) reaching the (-20, 16) geohash on 2020-01-28.

pah and lia earned the Virgin graticule honorable mention by being the first to try any hashpoint in the (-20,16) graticule, aiming for the (-20, 16) geohash on 2020-01-28.

pah earned the Globetrotter honorable mention by going on an expedition on his third continent at the (-20, 16) geohash on 2020-01-28.