2010-08-01 60 10

Sun 1 Aug 2010 in 60,10: 60.2756420, 10.4991637 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox

Location

A pretty steep piece of forest near a road, near Østre Olimb, between Jevnaker and Lunner.

Today's battleship location is: E 3

Participants

• W
• eiggen
• relet

Plans

W_ mentioned yesterday evening that they were going to visit my graticule, leaving me no choice but to cycle those 20km to meet them. :D -- relet

Expedition

relet

Fortunately, I did actually wake up in the morning. Even before my alarm clock did. After throwing some rundstykker in the oven, both for breakfast and rations.

The cycle trip was a bit uneventful, since it was basically the same way I took to Grymyr. Except for the last third, which was uphills in the direction of Lunner. Crawling up the hills, I reached the surroundings of the geohash at 11:00 cum tempore. No trace of W or eiggen, so I parked my bike, and disappeared into the bushes. I briefly considered whether I should attach a sign to my bike:

THE INTERNET IS [ IN ]. 
  Consultations: 5¢

Unfortunately, I did not bring my tape, so I discarded the idea.

There was a very convenient trail leading right to a big rock. At the rock, my GPS told me that it was within 8m of the geohash. It showed me some other numbers too, always with an accuracy of d-2m, where d is the distance displayed. I figured, that would be a good place to wait for eventual visitors.

And lo and behold, soon enough I heard voices. They seemed to be discussing for a while, before they discovered my bicycle and the trail. As expected, it were W and eiggen on their training run from Lunner.

all together

We introduced ourselves, and decided to zero in on the geohash together. Everyone ran away in different directions. Eventually, eiggen's and relet's deviced showed sufficiently low numbers near a tree near the rock, with W still scrambling some fifteen meters lower through the bushes, shouting some readings. We decided on a majority vote, and began to write a marker.

Photos

A random field on the way  W pretending to have come running all the way from Lunner  eiggen zeroing in  Two out of three devices agree on a location  eiggen marking the territory  Group grin  Our marker  relet's cycle route.