User:Ekorren

38 / 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...

Plans (if any)

Planning means to substitute random with error.

Statistics

	#points	reached		Plan B*
		yes	no
Hashpoints scouted	139	120	19
- saturday 4 pm / centurion	21	21
- Stuttgart graticule (48,9)	60	50	10
- Pforzheim graticule (48,8)	49	43	6
- 19 other graticules	29	25	2
Graticules	21	21
- virgin graticules	5
Countries	6	6
- virgin countries	1
Expeditions by type of transport:
- foot	2	2
- bike only	75	64	11	1
- public transport	44	38	6
- public transport + bike	17	15	2
- public transport + human powered boat	1	1
Reasons for failure:
- No access	13		13
- Transportation failure				1
- 24px Mother nature	6		6
- Stupidity				1

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

Past Expeditions

See here for a detailed list of past expeditions. Might not include the most recent ones.

Most recent expeditions:

123. 2010-11-14 48 9 Kusterdingen-Mähringen (bike, 22.45 km)

124. 2010-11-21 52 7 Dörpen (train+walking)

125. 2010-11-24 48 9 Reutlingen-Altenburg (bike, 33.60 km)

126. 2010-11-29 48 8 Rottenburg am Neckar (bike, 72.90 km)

127. 2010-12-01 48 9 Tübingen-Kreßbach (bike, 17.8 km)

128. 2010-12-02 48 9 Pliezhausen (train&bus)

129. 2010-12-18 48 8 Neustetten-Remmingsheim (bike, 38.7 km)

130. 2010-12-23 48 9 Dettingen/Teck (train+bike, bike part 37.47 km)

131. 2010-12-29 48 9 Reutlingen (train)

132. 2011-01-06 48 8 Balingen-Engstlatt, with myka and Erin (train)

133. 2011-01-09 47 8 Gächlingen (SH,CH), with crox, myka and Erin (train+bus)

134. 2011-01-15 49 8 Stutensee-Blankenloch, with Koepfel (train+bike, bike part 38.07 km)

135. 2011-01-16 49 8 Neckarsteinach, with Ilpadre (bike, 24.60 km)

136. 2011-01-17 48 8 Ötisheim (train+bike, bike part 34.40 km)

137. 2011-01-29 48 8 Balingen-Endingen (train+walking)

138. 2011-02-10 48 8 Rottenburg-Dettingen (bike)

139. 2011-02-11 48 9 Reutlingen-Betzingen (bike)

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 Regional geohashing achievement by reaching a hash point in all 2 graticules belonging to Zollernalbkreis.	48 8 48 9
Ekorren earned the Regional geohashing achievement by reaching a hash point in all 2 graticules belonging to Stadt Hechingen.	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 earned the Reverse regional achievement by reaching hash points in all 2 regions of the Zürich, Switzerland (48, 7) graticule.	Germany Switzerland
Ekorren completed the Minesweeper Geohash achievement by visiting coordinates in Stuttgart, Germany and all 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 7 of the Minesweeper Geohash achievement by visiting coordinates in Pforzheim, Germany and 7 of the surrounding graticules.	49 7 49 8 49 9 48 7 48 8 48 9 47 7 47 8 47 9
This user achieved level 5 of the Minesweeper Geohash achievement by visiting coordinates in Strasbourg, France and 5 of the surrounding graticules.	49 6 49 7 49 8 48 6 48 7 48 8 47 6 47 7 47 8
Ekorren achieved level 2 of the Minesweeper Geohash achievement by visiting coordinates in Berlin, Germany and 2 of the surrounding graticules.	53 12 53 13 53 14 52 12 52 13 52 14 51 12 51 13 51 14
Ekorren achieved level 1 of the Minesweeper Geohash achievement by visiting coordinates in Goslar, Germany and 1 of the surrounding graticules.	52 9 52 10 52 11 51 9 51 10 51 11 50 9 50 10 50 11

Progress on regional hash for Baden-Württemberg: (9 of 11)

	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.

Ekorren earned the Déjà Vu Geohash Achievement by reaching the (48, 8) geohash on 2010-06-29, and previously on several occasions using the bus through the hash.

Ekorren earned the Déjà Vu Geohash Achievement by reaching the (48, 9) geohash on 2010-09-27, and previously on several occasions by bus or bike.

Ekorren earned the Déjà Vu Geohash Achievement by reaching the (48, 9) geohash on 2010-11-24, and previously on countless trips, tracklogs on request.

Getting there

Only the first one of a kind. One border hash per country.

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.

Ekorren earned the Border geohash achievement by crossing the Germany-Denmark border on 2010-08-21 to reach the (55, 8) geohash.

Ekorren earned the Tron achievement by reaching and returning from the (48, 9) geohash without crossing his own tracks on 2009-04-27.

Ekorren earned the XKCD-100 Achievement by voyaging ca. 850 km to reach the (52, 13) geohash on 2009-08-29.

Ekorren earned the Ambassador achievement by obtaining permission from the owner of the meadow orchard to access the (48, 8) geohash on 2010-10-28.

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 Birthday Geohash Achievement by reaching the (48, 9) geohash on his birthday, 2009-08-15.

Ekorren earned the Sunrise Geohash Achievement by reaching the (48, 8) geohash on 2009-10-09 to smile at the first rays of sun to cross the horizon.

Ekorren earned the 1st Hashiversary achievement by attempting a hash point exactly on the 1st anniversary of his inaugural geohashing expedition.

Ekorren earned the 2010 Mouse Over Day achievement by ending a long dry spell of unvisited hashes in the (48, 8) graticule on the Saturday following May 21st 2010.

Ekorren earned the 2nd Hashiversary achievement by attempting a hash point exactly on the 2nd anniversary of his inaugural geohashing expedition.

Ekorren earned the xkcd Viginturion achievement by attending 20 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 Consecutive geohash achievement by reaching 6 consecutive hash points starting on 2010-06-25.

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.

Ekorren earned the Multihash Achievement by reaching the 2009-09-28 48 9 and 2009-09-28 48 10 geohashes on 2009-09-28.

Ekorren earned the Multihash Achievement by reaching the 2010-03-13 48 8 and 2010-03-13 49 8 geohashes on 2010-03-13.

Miscellaneous achievements

Usually 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.

Ekorren earned the Speed racer achievement by passing through the (48, 9) geohash on 2009-08-02 at 30 km/h.

Ekorren earned the Picnic achievement by eating breakfast at the (48, 8) geohash on 2009-10-09.

Hashcards

Please add confirmations here.

ekorren earned the Hashcard achievement by sending a postcard of the hashpoint area to UnwiseOwl on the (49, 10) expedition on 2009-01-02.

Ekorren earned the Hashcard achievement by sending a postcard of the hashpoint area to joannac on the (48, 8) expedition on 2009-01-12.

ekorren earned the Hashcard achievement by sending a postcard of the hashpoint area to dawidi on the (47, 9) expedition on 2009-05-14.

All participants earned the Hashcard achievement by sending a postcard of the hashpoint area to various people on the (47, 10) expedition on 2009-06-07.

Ekorren earned the Hashcard achievement by sending a postcard of the hashpoint area to srs0 on the (48, 8) expedition on 2009-06-10.

Ekorren earned the Hashcard achievement by sending a postcard of the hashpoint area to Reinhard on the (48, 9) expedition on 2009-07-19.

... 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 Plan B achievement by continuing the expedition despite a major failure of technology, thanks to redundant engines, and thus reaching the (48, 8) geohash on 2009-02-13.

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 the (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.

Ekorren earned the Green Ribbon by going on 100 expeditions without ever using motorized individual transport for the way to the hash, the 100th being the (48, 9) geohash on 2010-06-25.

Is it true that Ekorren earned the hash by getting far closer than GPS accuracy? In principle, yes. But he still tends to believe that the exact point was inside the house. (2010-10-30 48 9).

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.