2010-03-13 49 8

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Location

In a forest near Darmstadt.

Participants

• ilpadre
• Fivetonsofflax
• Euterkuh
• A RNZ reporter
• Koepfel
• Ekorren

Plans

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Expedition

Ekorren and Koepfel used to S-Bahn to get from the previous expedition (2010-03-13 48 8) to Heidelberg. At the platform, they met Ilpadre and and a few minutes later Fivetonsofflax, Euterkuh and a friend of them, the RNZ reporter. We entered the Regionalbahn to Frankfurt. In the train, we started eating the cake Ekorren bought in Büchenbronn on his previous expedition.

By 14:24, we arrived in Darmstadt Süd. From there, we started walking through the southern suburbs of Darmstadt At one point, we turned right into a residential area only to find ourselves in front of a small creek, with no bridge nearby. Even though this turned out to be avoidable, as there was a bridge for the main road a few blocks away, it was a perfect opportunity for some awesome pictures and a video (see below) of us leaping over the creek.

Next, we walked by a newly built police station. It was located at a busy road, with no biking path and only a narrow pedestrian path. However, in front of the police station, they decided t build a new pedestrian path, even with a wide biking path. Even though it's only about 150 meters long, it forces cyclists to get off the road and join the road again a few seconds later. Obviously everything is fully equipped with traffic signs pointing that out.

From there, we left the main road and continued on forest paths. We saw several art-sy objects that were placed along the path and came by a large rock that was apparently related to Goethe somehow. Time for some more action shots photos of Fivetonsofflax and Euterkuh for the newspaper article.

After that, we came by a small lake, also named after Goethe. The hash was getting closer, when we met a man asking us where we were going. This time, we explained geohashing to him and chatted with him for a while.

As 16:00 was getting closer, we went on to the hashpoint, which we quickly found somewhere in the middle of the forest. We celebrated, placed two markers at a tree (one on paper and one on a plate of wood, Ilpadre brought that) and took lots of photos.

On the way back, we located two geocaches, one even within a kilometer from the hashpoint (Hash collision honorable mention) and Fivetonsofflax collected some trash from the forest (Geotrash achievement). We were back at the station Darmstadt Süd by 17:15 and took a Regionalbahn back to Heidelberg, We ate some more cake on the train, Ilpadre took a photo as we drove through the 2010-03-10 49 8 hashpoint he visited a few days ago.

In Heidelberg, Ilpadre Euterkuh and the reporter left the station, whereas Ekorren, Fivetonsofflax and Koepfel entered the S-Bahn to Karlsruhe, Fivetonsofflax left one station later in Kirchheim, Koepfel in Karlsruhe and Ekorren took a few other trains back to Tübingen.

others feel free to expand the report if I missed something

Tracklog

http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=528717

Media Coverage

A reporter of the Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung, a newspaper published in and around Heidelberg, was with us on this expedition. He wrote an article on geohashing and this expedition, which was published on April 1st:

Ekorren, Euterkuh, Fivetonsofflax, Ilpadre and Koepfel earned the Media Attention Geohash Achievement by being immortalized in the hearts of others during the (49, 8) geohash on 2010-03-13 in an article on geohashing in the Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung.

Gallery

Photos

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  Saying goodbye to the train that brought us here

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  No hashcard was posted, but a postbox with that ancient post symbol is notable anyway

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  There is a through way here. The internet said so.

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  150 meter bike path

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  Free for forest visitors (those who don't want to visit the forest anyway aren't allowed to enter)

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  Devil's claw and God's mountain

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  Climbing for the RNZ article.

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  Goethe was here. Just like almost everywhere else.

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  The group at the lake

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  Koepfel's hashscot

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  Obligatory

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  Coordinates reached, 4 pm.

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  If two trees of different kinds love another very much...

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  Geotrash collecting

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  Back at the station

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  Beware the ghost train!

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  Inevitably going through the 2010-03-10 coordinates

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  Eating cake on the ride back

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  Back in Heidelberg

(Koepfel's pictures)

Videos

Two videos Koepfel took:

on the way to the hashpoint, jumping over a creek

obligatory 360° at the hashpoint