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== Local Geohashers ==
 
== Local Geohashers ==
* [[User:Jevanyn|Jevanyn]] lives in [[Newark, New Jersey|North Jersey]], and will try for geohashes that are reasonably close.
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* [[User:Jevanyn|Jevanyn]] lives in [[Newark, New Jersey|North Jersey]], and has multiple thwarted attempts at geohashes in the thin sliver of NJ that is in the SE corner of this graticule.  Also, if anyone makes plans for a meetup in Scranton, LMK.
  
 
== Notable Activities ==
 
== Notable Activities ==

Revision as of 14:52, 1 May 2012

Ithaca, New York Binghamton, New York Cooperstown, New York
Berwick Scranton Newburgh, New York
Harrisburg Allentown Newark, New Jersey

Today's location: not yet announced

The Scranton, Pennsylvania graticule is at latitude 41N, longitude -75W. It is entirely landlocked, and lies mostly within Pennsylvania. It includes parts of Delaware and Sullivan counties in New York state, and a small portion of Sussex or Warren county, New Jersey.

Daily Location

[Today's Location:]

Cities in this Graticule

  • Scranton
  • Wilkes-Barre
  • Carbondale
  • East Stroudsburg

Local Geohashers

  • Jevanyn lives in North Jersey, and has multiple thwarted attempts at geohashes in the thin sliver of NJ that is in the SE corner of this graticule. Also, if anyone makes plans for a meetup in Scranton, LMK.

Notable Activities

2009-10-04: Jevanyn had plans to go hiking through Worthington Park, on the Jersey side of the Delaware, but was too sick to make the expedition.

2011-03-06: Jevanyn tried for a midnight geohash, but the hashpoint was several hundred yards from the closest landmark, and he thought the better of it.