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== Location ==
 
== Location ==
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In a pine forest near Le Porge.
  
 
== Participants ==
 
== Participants ==
  
 
[[User:Beltxarga|Beltxarga]] ([[User talk:Beltxarga|talk]])
 
[[User:Beltxarga|Beltxarga]] ([[User talk:Beltxarga|talk]])
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== Plans ==
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On 2024-10-25 (yeah, I'm an [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601 ISO 8601] fan), I noticed that the geohash point fell within an unlocked graticule next to mine (there were still 7 of them at that time!). My first plan was to make the trip by bicycle — a 130 km round-trip almost entirely along bike lanes, and I announced it on Discord ([https://discord.gg/BvRfGat join us]!). But since I’m on holiday, I thought it’d be a great chance to bivouac there and go for the [[Camping geohash achievement]] (one of my [[User:Beltxarga#Cool_achievements_I.27d_like_to_get|target achievements]]). So, I packed up my gear and settled in for a patient wait until the next day.
  
 
== Expedition ==
 
== Expedition ==
  
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Coming soon...
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Here's the tracklog. (Note that it's not an actual recording of my GPS position, but a GPX I prepared in advance to guide me, thanks to the wonderful [https://gpx.studio/ gpx.studio]. Also, for privacy reasons, it starts from Bordeaux although I don't live there.)
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<div style="width:600px;">
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{{tracklog | 2024-10-26_44_-1.gpx}}
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</div>
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I departed on 2024-10-26, around 2 pm, with all my gear: tent, sleeping bag, sleeping pad, rain equipment, stove, food, etc. It's nice to be comfy!
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<gallery heights="300px" mode="packed">
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Image:2024-10-26_44_-1_1.jpg|''Ready to go!''
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</gallery>
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The route was pleasant and mostly uneventful — almost perfect, though I would have preferred it without the rain.
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<gallery heights="200px" mode="packed">
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Image:2024-10-26_44_-1_2.jpg|''Break #1.''
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Image:2024-10-26_44_-1_3.jpg|''Break #2.''
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Image:2024-10-26_44_-1_4.jpg|''Break #3., in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saumos Saumos].''
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Image:2024-10-26_44_-1_5.jpg|''This kind of road can get boring rather quickly.''
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Image:2024-10-26_44_-1_6.jpg|''Time to pull out the rain covers.''
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</gallery>
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Upon arriving near the geohash, I made the mistake of dismounting to take a sandy path, which, unsurprisingly, the rain had made even less passable... After thoroughly mucking up my bike and shoes, I decided to head back to the bike path and continue until reaching the closest point to the geohash. Since this spot qualified for the "camping achievement" I left my bike there and set off on foot toward the geohash. Second setback: no signal! Geohash Droid couldn’t guide me. So, I turned back to my bike and rode nearly a kilometer to find enough reception to load the geohash in the app. Back at my future bivouac point, I left my bike again and finally ventured into the pine forest, guided by the app this time. Success!
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<gallery heights="200px" mode="packed">
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Image:2024-10-26_44_-1_7.jpg|''View from geohash #1.''
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Image:2024-10-26_44_-1_8.jpg|''View from geohash #2.''
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Image:2024-10-26_44_-1_9.jpg|''View from geohash #3.''
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Image:2024-10-26_44_-1_10.jpg|''View from geohash #4 ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Of_jyeDZ3Sg ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED?]).''
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Image:2024-10-26_44_-1_11.jpg|''GPS proof #1.''
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Image:2024-10-26_44_-1_12.jpg|''GPS proof #2.''
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</gallery>
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Back near my bike, about 200 meters from the geohash and in almost pitch black (thank God for headlamps), I set up my tent in the still-pouring rain and finally relaxed a bit: a change of clothes, and of course, meal prep! On the menu: buckwheat bread with butter (forgot the radishes!) and freeze-dried chicken curry. Not the most photogenic (see below), but delicious — and definitely welcome after the afternoon’s efforts!
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<gallery heights="200px" mode="packed">
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Image:2024-10-26_44_-1_13.jpg|Camping distance, proof #1.
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Image:2024-10-26_44_-1_14.jpg|Camping distance, proof #2.
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Image:2024-10-26_44_-1_15.jpg|Dinner #1: buckwheat bread with butter (forgot the radishes!).
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Image:2024-10-26_44_-1_16.jpg|Dinner #2: freeze-dried chicken curry. Notice the [[Picnic achievement|colourful plastic tableware]] 🙃
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</gallery>
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After a good night’s sleep (extended by an hour thanks to the switch to winter time) and a hearty breakfast, it was time to get back in the saddle for the ride home.
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<gallery heights="200px" mode="packed">
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Image:2024-10-26_44_-1_17.jpg|Breakfast #1, and proof I was there in the morning.
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Image:2024-10-26_44_-1_18.jpg|Breakfast #2.
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</gallery>
  
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== Photos ==
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A great experience — and perhaps the first in a long series of “Camping geohash achievements”! 😊
  
 
== Achievements ==
 
== Achievements ==
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{{Land geohash | latitude = 44 | longitude = -1 | date = 2024-10-26 | name = Beltxarga}}
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{{Bicycle geohash | latitude = 44 | longitude = -1 | date = 2024-10-26 | name = Beltxarga}}
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{{Camping geohash
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  | latitude = 44
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  | longitude = -1
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  | date = 2024-10-26
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  | name = Beltxarga
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  | arrival = 7pm
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  | departure = 9am
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  | residence = a tent
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  | distance = 200 meters from
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}}
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{{Graticule unlocked  | latitude = 44 | longitude = -1 | date = 2024-10-26 | name = Beltxarga}}
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{{Minesweeper geohash | graticule = Bordeaux, France | ranknumber = 1 | w = true | name = Beltxarga}}
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{{Minesweeper geohash | graticule = Arcachon, France | ranknumber = 1 | e = true | name = Beltxarga}}
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{{Picnic | latitude = 44 | longitude = -1 | date = 2024-10-26 | name = Beltxarga | food = freeze-dried chicken curry}}
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=== Notes ===
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Although I didn't have dinner/breakfast RIGHT at the geohash, but in my tent, sheltered from the bad weather, I will still grant myself the [[Picnic achievement]].
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Theoretically, this could also have qualified for the [[Midnight Geohash]], but 1. I was 200 meters away and thus not close enough for a "Geohash"-type achievement and 2. I don't think the "second midnight" is good enough. I want the hash to "land on me". So I simply didn't bother.
  
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[[Category:Expeditions]]
 
[[Category:Expeditions]]
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[[Category:Expeditions with photos]]
 
[[Category:Coordinates reached]]
 
[[Category:Coordinates reached]]
 
{{location|FR|33}}
 
{{location|FR|33}}
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Latest revision as of 20:55, 15 November 2024

Sat 26 Oct 2024 in 44,-1:
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Location

In a pine forest near Le Porge.

Participants

Beltxarga (talk)

Plans

On 2024-10-25 (yeah, I'm an ISO 8601 fan), I noticed that the geohash point fell within an unlocked graticule next to mine (there were still 7 of them at that time!). My first plan was to make the trip by bicycle — a 130 km round-trip almost entirely along bike lanes, and I announced it on Discord (join us!). But since I’m on holiday, I thought it’d be a great chance to bivouac there and go for the Camping geohash achievement (one of my target achievements). So, I packed up my gear and settled in for a patient wait until the next day.

Expedition

Here's the tracklog. (Note that it's not an actual recording of my GPS position, but a GPX I prepared in advance to guide me, thanks to the wonderful gpx.studio. Also, for privacy reasons, it starts from Bordeaux although I don't live there.)


I departed on 2024-10-26, around 2 pm, with all my gear: tent, sleeping bag, sleeping pad, rain equipment, stove, food, etc. It's nice to be comfy!

  • Ready to go!

The route was pleasant and mostly uneventful — almost perfect, though I would have preferred it without the rain.

  • Break #1.

  • Break #2.

  • Break #3., in Saumos.

  • This kind of road can get boring rather quickly.

  • Time to pull out the rain covers.

Upon arriving near the geohash, I made the mistake of dismounting to take a sandy path, which, unsurprisingly, the rain had made even less passable... After thoroughly mucking up my bike and shoes, I decided to head back to the bike path and continue until reaching the closest point to the geohash. Since this spot qualified for the "camping achievement" I left my bike there and set off on foot toward the geohash. Second setback: no signal! Geohash Droid couldn’t guide me. So, I turned back to my bike and rode nearly a kilometer to find enough reception to load the geohash in the app. Back at my future bivouac point, I left my bike again and finally ventured into the pine forest, guided by the app this time. Success!

  • View from geohash #1.

  • View from geohash #2.

  • View from geohash #3.

  • View from geohash #4 (ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED?).

  • GPS proof #1.

  • GPS proof #2.

Back near my bike, about 200 meters from the geohash and in almost pitch black (thank God for headlamps), I set up my tent in the still-pouring rain and finally relaxed a bit: a change of clothes, and of course, meal prep! On the menu: buckwheat bread with butter (forgot the radishes!) and freeze-dried chicken curry. Not the most photogenic (see below), but delicious — and definitely welcome after the afternoon’s efforts!


  • Camping distance, proof #1.

  • Camping distance, proof #2.

  • Dinner #1: buckwheat bread with butter (forgot the radishes!).

  • Dinner #2: freeze-dried chicken curry. Notice the colourful plastic tableware 🙃

After a good night’s sleep (extended by an hour thanks to the switch to winter time) and a hearty breakfast, it was time to get back in the saddle for the ride home.

  • Breakfast #1, and proof I was there in the morning.

  • Breakfast #2.

A great experience — and perhaps the first in a long series of “Camping geohash achievements”! 😊

Achievements

Landgeohash.png
 Beltxarga earned the Land geohash achievement
by reaching the (44, -1) geohash on 2024-10-26.
Bikegeohash.png
 Beltxarga earned the Bicycle geohash achievement
by cycling to the (44, -1) geohash on 2024-10-26.
PoisonIvy.png
 Beltxarga earned the Camping geohash achievement
by camping in a tent 200 meters from the (44, -1) geohash on 2024-10-26, from 7pm to 9am.
Graticule unlocked.png
 Beltxarga earned the Graticule Unlocked Achievement
by being the first to reach any hashpoint in the (44, -1) graticule, here, on 2024-10-26.
Minesweeper geohash empty.png Minesweeper geohash empty.png Minesweeper geohash empty.png
Minesweeper geohash flag.png Minesweeper geohash 1.png Minesweeper geohash empty.png
Minesweeper geohash empty.png Minesweeper geohash empty.png Minesweeper geohash empty.png
Beltxarga achieved level 1 of the Minesweeper Geohash achievement
by visiting coordinates in Bordeaux, France and 1 of the surrounding graticules.
Minesweeper geohash empty.png Minesweeper geohash empty.png Minesweeper geohash empty.png
Minesweeper geohash empty.png Minesweeper geohash 1.png Minesweeper geohash flag.png
Minesweeper geohash empty.png Minesweeper geohash empty.png Minesweeper geohash empty.png
Beltxarga achieved level 1 of the Minesweeper Geohash achievement
by visiting coordinates in Arcachon, France and 1 of the surrounding graticules.
Picnic.png
 Beltxarga earned the Picnic achievement
by eating freeze-dried chicken curry at the (44, -1) geohash on 2024-10-26.

Notes

Although I didn't have dinner/breakfast RIGHT at the geohash, but in my tent, sheltered from the bad weather, I will still grant myself the Picnic achievement.

Theoretically, this could also have qualified for the Midnight Geohash, but 1. I was 200 meters away and thus not close enough for a "Geohash"-type achievement and 2. I don't think the "second midnight" is good enough. I want the hash to "land on me". So I simply didn't bother.


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