User:Stevage

Ratings given are epicness: higher epic ratings given for effort, drama, difficulty, interesting location, interesting events en route.

Successful hashes

Date/location	Summary	Epicness	Transport	Time of day
2008-06-21 -37 145	Bunyip State Park, in the mud and rain, with Felix.	8/10	Bike	Dark
2009-05-28 -37 144	Cheetham Wetlands, on a peaceful weeknight, with Felix.	6.5/10	Car and foot	Dark
2009-07-24 -36 146	In a paddock near Wangarratta, with a few people (including Felix and tAlex). Daylight!	5/10	Car and foot	Late afternoon
2009-08-05 -37 145	In someone's front garden, Plenty, arriving solo by bike, meeting with Felix, tAlex and others.	3/10	Bike	Night
2009-12-16 -37 145	In someone's front garden, Claytonish, solo.	2/10	Car	Night
2010-06-07 -37 145	In a house under construction in Oakleigh, on the way home from work, solo.	3/10	Bike	Night
2010-07-11 -37 144	In the bush vaguely near Castlemaine, at dusk, solo.	8/10	Bike	Dusk
2010-07-21 -38 145	On an oval in Skye, in the foggy dark, with Ellen.	5/10	Car and foot	Night
2010-07-23 -37 145	On a rural property near Broadford, with a couple of hiking buddies.	5/10	Car and foot	Night
2010-08-09 -37 144	In a spooky cemetery, Footscray.	6/10	Car	Night
2010-11-05 28 77	Virgin graticule, New Delhi during Diwali!	9/10	Public transport and foot	Night
2011-10-15 -37 145	Lame car hash on a busy road.	1/10	Car	Night
2011-10-16 -37 145	Awesome mountain biking through Kinglake National Park. Music video and everything!	8/10	Bike	Afternoon
2011-10-22 -37 147	Virgin graticule on a road cycling trip home from Bairnsdale.	6/10	Bike	Midday
2011-10-29 -37 148	Virgin graticule en route to mountain biking adventure in Snowy River NP.	5/10	Car and foot	Morning
2011-10-30 -37 148	Same graticule next day, wet, muddy bush bashing.	6/10	Car and foot	Night
2011-10-31 -38 146	In a flat paddock near Yarram.	3/10	Car and foot	Morning
2011-10-31 -38 145	In a flat paddock near Inverloch, with port.	4/10	Car and foot	Afternoon
2011-11-09 -37 144	In Wesley College, 400m from a conference I was attending, creates a surprising battle of wits with myself.	5.5/10	Foot	Afternoon

Near misses

1. 2009-05-25 -37 144 - South Melbourne, passed within 25m, but didn't bother to leave public transport for the occasion. 0/10
2. 2009-07-17 -36 146 - in a paddock nearish Bright, saw the hashpoint, but didn't get out of the car. 0/10
3. 2010-08-08 -37 144 - Wading into Port Philip Bay, out of time. 5/10

Unsuccessful hashes

1. 2009-05-30 -37 145 - a house next to a park in suburbia, by car, solo. Private property. 2/10
2. 2009-06-08 -37 144 - blinded by science (Felix!), in a paddock near Macedon, with Matt, by bicycle in the dark. 5/10
3. 2009-09-19 -37 145 - failed due to unexpected water. Solo bike quest through forbidden water catchment in Yarra Ranges, eventually descending steep gully and turning back due to existential crisis, inadequate lighting and waterfall within a couple of hundred metres of the point. 9/10

Results

Stevage achieved level 4 of the Minesweeper Geohash achievement by visiting coordinates in Melbourne East and 4 of the surrounding graticules.

Graticule map (thanks Michael5000!)

This area represents the whole of Victoria. The two blue graticules are totally water. Dark lightgrey are New South Wales or ACT. Only proper expeditions are counted below; half-hearted attempts or known failures aren't counted.

N\E	141	142	143	144	145	146	147	148	149
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-35
-36						Albury Wodonga 1/1
-37				Melbourne West 4/5	Melbourne East 7/9	Mansfield	Bairnsdale 1/1 Virgin graticule!	Orbost 2/2 Virgin graticule!
-38				Geelong	Pakenham 2/2	Traralgon 1/1	Sale