User:Ekorren

36 / m / 48,9

Introduction

Warning: May contain nuts.

Ekorren - that's the european brown squirrel, scientifically sciurus vulgaris. Jumps around, collects various stuff, hides things and never finds all of it again.

I'm mostly hashing by bike, so I'm somehow restricted to the nearer surroundings of my home coordinates which are roughly N 48°31' E 9°3', as well as weather-restricted. But I don't take both of it very serious. And the first geohash I visited was far away from home...

Statistics

	reached	not reached	Plan B*
Hashpoints scouted	42	7
- saturday 4 pm / centurion	8
- Stuttgart graticule (48,9)	20	3
- Pforzheim graticule (48,8)	15	2
Graticules	8	1
- virgin graticules	4
Countries	3	1
- virgin countries	1
Expeditions by type of transport:
- foot	1
- bike	25	4	1
- public transport	9	3
- public transport + bike	6
- public transport + human powered boat	1
Reasons for failure:
- No access		6	1
- Transportation failure			1
- 24px Mother nature		1

• Plan B: Expedition would usually have failed in this category, but a second approach put it into another one (whether that succeeded or not)

Past Expeditions

	Date	Grat.	Transport		Comments
1	2008-10-28	49 6			On a meadow near Fentange, south of Luxembourg. Virgin graticule and virgin country.
2	2008-11-15	48 9			Near Kusterdingen, on a field. Saturday 4 pm, but didn't meet anyone as nick_mz was late and I didn't expect anyone to come.
3	2008-11-18	48 9			Reutlingen, on a cycle path between Ohmenhausen and the city centre. Déjà vu geohash and probably the only expedition worldwide on that date.
	2008-11-19	48 9			Wannweil, at Gärtnerei Hespeler.
5	2008-11-22	48 9			Tübingen, Rammert forest, near Hofgut Eck. A XKCD'ish snowman (no eyes!) was built and I met nick_mz.
	2008-11-26	48 8			Pforzheim, in front of the slaughterhouse. Met Danatar.
7	2008-11-29	48 9		30px	Sonnenbühl-Genkingen, Öschenbachtal. Ice and slope is a bad combination.
	2008-12-12	48 9		30px	St. Johann-Würtingen, with a lot of snow getting in my way.
	2008-12-15	48 9			Hattenhofen, failed due to fenced area, and there was noone I could ask to be let in.
	2008-12-17	48 9			Reutlingen, and once more too much ice and snow
11	2008-12-27	48 9			Dettenhausen, in the Schönbuch forest
	2009-01-02	49 10			Satteldorf-Gröningen, in a strange tree plantation
13	2009-01-03	48 8			Rottenburg am Neckar
	2009-01-04	48 8			Rottenburg-Ergenzingen
	2009-01-07	48 9			Pliezhausen-Rübgarten, in the Schönbuch forest
	2009-01-10	48 8			Muggensturm
17	2009-01-12	48 8			Lauterbourg (France), a long walk with Ilpadre
	2009-01-26	48 9			Metzingen, another forest
19	2009-01-28	48 8			Rottenburg-Bieringen
	2009-02-13	48 8			Horb-Hohenberg, approach by bike failed because of torn tyre
					second approach by train and bus succeeded
	2009-02-22	51 10			Otterstedt, near a minor road between some unexpected water. Met Danatar, Dawidi, Hans, Thomcat and Tomcat.
	2009-03-01	48 8			Hechingen-Weilheim, not an easy approach
23	2009-03-08	48 8		30px	Schönbuch near Ammerbuch-Breitenholz, game reserve area and the wrong kind of snow.
	2009-03-14	48 9			Tübingen-Pfrondorf, walked all the way and back
	2009-03-19	48 9			Sonnenbühl-Erpfingen, got stuck in snow again and had problems to get back.
	2009-03-22	48 8			Deckenpfronn, in a forest. No snow!
	2009-03-24	48 9			Dettenhausen
	2009-03-26	48 9			Mössingen-Bästenhardt
29	2009-03-29	48 9			Donzdorf, failed due to fenced area
	2009-04-04	48 8			Hechingen-Stetten, near Castle Hohenzollern
31	2009-04-13	49 9			Obersontheim-Herlebach, a "quick" morning detour...
	2009-04-16	48 9			Reutlingen-Degerschlacht, a boring backyard
	2009-04-21	47 9			Mörschwil near Sankt Gallen, a great trip but the meadow was fenced.
	2009-04-25	48 8		30px	In the Black Forest far above Baiersbronn. Met Koepfel.
	2009-04-27	48 9			Tübingen-Lustnau, in the forest. Double expedition: Met Nick_mz on first approach, second expedition for tron achievement.
	2009-05-01	48 8			At Bodelshausen
37	2009-05-04	48 8			Rottenburg-Ergenzingen, 32 m into a field I didn't want to step on. Could also be counted as "reached" by some conventions.
	2009-05-07	48 8			Deckenpfronn again
	2009-05-09	48 9			Between tennis courts at Böblingen
	2009-05-14	47 9			Wangen im Allgäu. You wouldn't expect that meadow to be fenced.
41	2009-05-16	48 8			Haigerloch-Weildorf
42	2009-05-20	48 9			On a main road in Tübingen. Met nick_mz.
43	2009-05-21	48 9			On a meadow outside Münsingen-Magolsheim. Geohashing Day.
	2009-05-27	48 8			Herrenberg
	2009-05-31	47 8			Hüfingen-Sumpfohren. Part 1 of a double hash
	2009-05-31	47 7			Fessenheim. Part 2 of a double hash
47	2009-06-04	48 9			In a forest between Böblingen and Stuttgart
	2009-06-07	48 9			On the main railway line Stuttgart-Ulm, which I was to take that day anyway.
	2009-06-07	47 10			On the Eibsee lake, just below the Zugspitze. Met lots of people.

How I use the symbols in this table

Achievements

Regional achievements

All regional achievements I can think of. Selected Minesweepers.

Ekorren earned the Regional geohashing achievement by reaching a hash point in all 2 graticules belonging to Landkreis Tübingen.	48 8 48 9
Ekorren earned the Regional geohashing achievement by reaching a hash point in all 2 graticules belonging to Landkreis Böblingen.	48 8 48 9
Ekorren earned the Reverse regional achievement by reaching hash points in all 2 regions of the Pforzheim, Germany (48, 8) graticule.	Germany France
Ekorren achieved level 5 of the Minesweeper Geohash achievement by visiting coordinates in Stuttgart, Germany and 5 of the surrounding graticules.	49 8 49 9 49 10 48 8 48 9 48 10 47 8 47 9 47 10
Ekorren achieved level 4 of the Minesweeper Geohash achievement by visiting coordinates in Pforzheim, Germany and 4 of the surrounding graticules.	49 7 49 8 49 9 48 7 48 8 48 9 47 7 47 8 47 9

Progress on regional hash for Baden-Württemberg:
49 8 49 9 49 10
48 7 48 8 48 9 48 10
47 7 47 8 47 9 47 10

Location achievements

Only the first one of a kind, except of Déjà vu geohashes. See icons in list for more.

Ekorren earned the Land geohash achievement by reaching the (49, 6) geohash on 2008-10-28.

Ekorren earned the Hash collision honorable mention by discovering the geocache GC11ZMH ca. 600 m from the (49, 6) geohash on 2008-10-28.

Ekorren earned the Water geohash achievement by reaching the (47, 10) geohash on 2009-06-07 by rowing boat.

Ekorren knows he earned the Déjà Vu Geohash Achievement by reaching the (48, 9) geohash on 2008-11-18, and previously on several occasions, but the proof is a bit weak.

Ekorren and Nick_mz earned the Déjà Vu Geohash Achievement by reaching the (48, 9) geohash on 2009-05-20, and previously on countless trips, among them 2009-04-27_48_9 and 2008-12-27 48 9.

Ekorren earned the Déjà Vu Geohash Achievement by reaching the (48, 9) geohash on 2009-06-07, and previously on 2009-04-21, 2009-05-14 and countless other occasions.

Getting there

Only the first one of a kind.

Ekorren earned the Public transport geohash achievement by reaching the (49, 6) geohash on 2008-10-28 via rail and bus.

Ekorren earned the Bicycle geohash achievement by cycling to the (48, 9) geohash on 2008-11-15.

Ekorren earned the Walk geohash Achievement by reaching the (48, 9) geohash on 2009-03-14 on foot, travelling a distance of 16 km.

Ekorren earned the No Batteries Geohash Achievement by reaching the (48, 8) geohash on 2009-01-03.

Ekorren earned the Border geohash achievement by crossing the Germany-France border on 2009-01-12 to reach the (48, 8) geohash.

This user earned the Tron achievement by not crossing his own tracks on the 2009-04-27 48 9 expedition.

About the MNIMB: During winter neither snow nor ice or a terrain that provides generally no easy trails could hold me from doing expeditions by bike. The one in the ribbon is just one of several snow-obstacled frozen mountain hashes. After careful examination I came to the conclusion that some of them definitely beat a number of the existing MNIMB hashes but are themselves still beaten by quite a number of others which leave me humble and in awe. I take the ribbon not for a single one but as kind of a lifetime achievement.

Timing achievements

Interesting repetitions may be relisted.

Ekorren earned the Last Man standing achievement by being the the only hasher world-wide to go on a geohashing expedition on 2008-11-18.

Nick_mz and Ekorren earned the Midnight Geohash achievement by reaching the (48, 9) geohash on 2009-05-20 in the middle of the night.

Ekorren earned the 2009 Geohashing Day achievement by just being there in the (48, 9) graticule on May 21st 2009.

Ekorren earned the xkcd Nullaturion achievement by attending 8 Saturday meetups.

Multiples

Longest consecutive runs at that time, and all multihashes.

Ekorren earned the Consecutive geohash achievement by reaching 2 consecutive hash points starting on 2008-11-18.

Ekorren earned the Consecutive geohash achievement by reaching 3 consecutive hash points starting on 2009-01-02.

Ekorren earned the Multihash Achievement by reaching the 2009-05-31 47 8 and 2009-05-31 47 7 geohashes on 2009-05-31.

Ekorren earned the Multihash Achievement by reaching the 2009-06-07 48 9 and 2009-06-07 47 10 geohashes on 2009-06-07.

Miscellaneous achievements

Only one of a kind. Interesting repetitions may be relisted. See icons in list for more.

Ekorren and Nick_mz earned the Snowman Geohash Achievement by building a snowman at the (48, 9) geohash on 2008-11-22.

Ekorren almost earned the Meet-up achievement by meeting Nick_mz, but without photographic proof, at the (48, 9) geohash on 2008-11-22.

Ekorren earned the Meet-up achievement by meeting Danatar at the (48, 8) geohash on 2008-11-26.

Ekorren earned the Frozen Geohash Achievement by reaching the (48, 9) geohash on 2008-12-12 while the temperature was around -3. This was the third sub zero hash where he couldn't bring an accurate thermometre, but this time it didn't get above zero the whole day anywhere in the area...

Koepfel and Ekorren earned the Drag-along achievement by dragging some stranger in the forest to the (48, 8) geohash on 2009-04-25.

Ekorren has visited an Easy Geohash by reaching the (48, 9) geohash on 2009-06-07 without really trying.

Nine people earned the Phonebooth stuffing achievement by helping stuff a phonebooth near the (47, 10) geohash on 2009-06-07.

Ekorren earned the Speed racer achievement by passing through the (48, 9) geohash on 2009-06-07 at almost 140 km/h.

Hashcards

Please add confirmations here.

... and one more (in february) that hasn't been confirmed

... and you never know what may be on the way!

Consolation prizes

Only one of a kind. See icons for more.

Ekorren earned the No trespassing consolation prize by almost reaching the (48, 9) geohash on 2008-12-15.

Never give up on the first real problem. Otherwise I'd have a train wreck and trail of blood ribbon as well.

Gratuitous ribbons

Ekorren earned the Easter Bunny Ribbon by photographing the Easter Bunny on Easter Monday, en route to the (49, 9) geohash on 2009-04-13.

Ekorren earned the Biked on Mount Everest Ribbon by climbing more than 8848 m on bike expeditions until reaching (48, 8) geohash on 2009-05-01.

Ekorren earned the Unavoidable Geohash by being unable to reroute a train around the (48, 9) geohash on 2009-06-07.

Tools

I run another of those online hashing tools, built to contain everything important on a glance and work on virtually every device not entirely uncapable of browsing, or providing a convenient overview for a region. See here.

GPS for sale

2009-02-07: I just ordered myself a replacement for the old first generation Garmin Etrex (yellow) which I had in use on my expeditions so far. It's neither a new or a very good one, nor does it look like new (after all, it is an outdoor model), but it was sufficient to decide for a spot, track a way (with a few precautions), and also find most of the caches I searched with it yet.

Postage is affordable to everywhere. About the price, that still needs some research. To be honest, these things are sold on ebay for more than they are IMHO worth, and I need the money, so the price I would get there is kind of a guideline - minus the fees, of course. On the other hand, unlike the average ebay seller, I'm willing to share experiences and advice how to get the most out of it, and possibly throw in a piece of rebuilt electronic scrap that happens to work as a serial data cable if you don't feel like building that yourself. These cables cost a fortune alone if you buy them from Garmin.

Please contact me by mail if interested. --Ekorren 23:18, 7 February 2009 (UTC)