2011-02-06 60 17

Sun 6 Feb 2011 in 60,17: 60.0878971, 17.4495572 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox

Location

Out in the woods north of Uppsala. A 30km walk away.

Participants

Vswe

Plans

I will try to walk there. Leave in the morning and hopefully coming back after a 12 hours and 60 km walk :D

Expedition

After packing some food to bring I left home some time before 8AM, on foot of course. I went north for hours, changing roads from time to time. I got a very unpleasant surprise after just one and a half hour(about 8.5 km), my feet had already started to feel a bit sore. Not much but just the tiniest bit. Not a good sign, I still had more than 20km left to the hashpoint and then 30 back again. So why this big miscalculation? I wasn't tired from my last expedition two days ago but my body was probably not in the best possible condition after the 7km walk that day. And for these kinds of walks you need all energy you can get.

Anyways, I couldn't give up already just for feeling a bit tired. While I walked I ate the food I brought: 2 bananas and 2 sandwiches to mention a few things(and also to mention most of the things). And so I walked, after about 3 hours of walking a group of deers crossed my path some meters away. This is not the first time I meet deers on geohashing expeditions. In fact my first expedition ever involved meeting deers. Apart from that instance not much happened and it was fun anyways, I think that's a good thing with geohashing. Some time after meeting the deers I felt really tired in my legs and feet but I continued on. Changed to the last road, 6 km to go.

Later on I saw two buses in some sort of bus parking but didn't thought any more about it but sat down on a rock and took my third and last sandwich while resting my legs. After a short pause I continued on the road until I were 268 meters from the coordinate. The forest was deeply covered in snow (of course) and the last part had been tiresome but feeling the hashpoint close I brought forth energy and headed into the snow. 268 meters later I would have been there if I would have been flying, since I wasn't there was still some way left. Finally I reached the point, happy as usual. Took some pictures and headed out to the road again.

Back on the road I started to feel tired again, more than ever, but started walking south. What else where there to do? I pretty fast realized that I weren't able to walk the whole way back and aimed for a bus in a village about 10km away(almost along the way back). It was now hurting when I walked. Now I started to think about those two buses again, maybe they were in traffic. I realized that one of those probably was bus 842 which I had seen many times during the day(it went almost the same way as I did). 5 kilometers away from the hash I reached the buses and one was number 842 just as I had thought and it was just about to leave. Perfect.

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