2010-11-20 45 -73

Sat 20 Nov 2010 in 45,-73: 45.1520055, -73.5408657 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox

A pleasant ride, followed by a short walk using a crappy smartphone GPS. The part worth to mention about this Geo Hash was that we (Jucks & Cem) drove from Pennsylvania to Montreal to visit a friend a day before on Friday.

Location

Today's location was a 45min ride from where we started. It was pretty much in the middle of a farm, a couple hundred meters off a country road.

Participants

• Jucks - Who finally got to his first GeoHash after wanting to do it for so long.
• Ipek - A fellow xkcd reader and a hashing enthusiast. Her first hash also.
• Cem - A friend of Jucks who was curious about Geo Hashing. His first hash.

Expedition

We planned on being there at 4pm, but ended up leaving home at that time. We bought beer and a frisbee for when we got there. The hash point was near a road, so we just drove there. The car GPS took us really close to our target point. After we found a place to leave the car, we continued on foot to the location, which was in the middle of a farm field. We threw a frisbee around a couple times and each drank our victory beers at the hash point.

Photos

• Ipek.JPG

  Freezing in Montreal

• Ipek cem.JPG

  Still freezing in Montreal

• Cem.JPG

  Sipping the beer of victory

• 45.JPG

  Proof of coordinates

• 45 73.JPG

  The date is hard to see, but it's there on the blackberry...

• Ilc.JPG

  The obligatory grin

Achievements

Jucks, Ipek earned the Drag-along achievement by dragging Cem to the (45, -73) geohash on 2010-11-20.

Jucks, Ipek, Cem earned the Land geohash achievement by reaching the (45, -73) geohash on 2010-11-20.