2011-03-20 49 8

Sun 20 Mar 2011 in 49,8: 49.3877725, 8.6268758 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox

Location

In a field south of Eppelheim.

Plans

The point is only about about 5 km west of Heidelberg, so it should be easy to walk there. For most of the way, I'll just have to follow a street that I've already used during other expeditions (here, and here). I won't miss that chance to add another walk geohash to my collection. --ilpadre 11:33, 18 March 2011 (EDT)

Sounds good. I'll be there as well. How about a meet-up? Can you be there around 13:00? Fivetonsofflax 19:02, 18 March 2011 (EDT)

Hey guys, we (Mampfred and LadyBB) happen to have an appointment in Hirschberg at 2pm. The hash is about 20 minutes out but we'd like to have a bit of buffer so we could try to be there around 12:30 and mess up the Meetup Graph a bit, any chance you guys could make it that early (and miss a proper lunch, sorry)? We don't nkow yet how long we'll be in Hirschberg, so meeting afterwards isn't really an option. - Mampfred 04:34, 19 March 2011 (EDT)

Update, I sent ilpadre my mobile number in case we want to plan offline, Fivetonsofflax has the email function disabled, shout if you want it too :) We're going for the 50,8 now to get a nice consecutive*3 tomorrow - Mampfred 04:44, 19 March 2011 (EDT)

12:30 sounds good, I would've been there in that general timeframe anyway. I'm looking forward to meeting all of you! --ilpadre 05:01, 19 March 2011 (EDT)

12:30 is fine for me as well. I didn't even know about the e-mail option. Just activated it :) --Fivetonsofflax 12:00, 19 March 2011 (EDT)

12:30 it is, see you tomorrow. - Mampfred 15:11, 19 March 2011 (EDT)

Participants

• ilpadre
• fivetonsofflax
• Euterkuh
• Mampfred
• LadyBB

Expedition

Mampfred & LadyBB

We arrived about half an hour too early and had a walk around the field to see where the closest point from the edge towards the hash would be. After walking around for about 20 minutes (hoping that the rest of the hashers would turn up early as well ;) we decided to just wait for a good opportunity with no other people around and enter the field.

A couple of minutes passed and we were down to one last jogger coming up the path. Right, as as he's past us we'll so ... wait a minute ... hey, he's slowing down ... and waiving at us ... turns out it was ilpadre.

ilpadre

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fivetonsofflax & Euterkuh

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Tracklogs

ilpadre

http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=1005983

Mampfred & LadyBB

See here.

5tof and Euterkuh

http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=1006925

Photos

ilpadre

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  Still a lot of construction work on the way.

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  A whole new city district.

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  Another revisit of 2009-01-21 49 8.

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  The first three geohashers at the coordinates.

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  Two men with bare feet.

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  An onion ring.

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  Why geohashing is fun, explained in fifteen words: Two men with bare feet destroying an onion ring in the middle of a field.

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  Successfully stuffing all the five of us into a phonebooth.

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  One last group shot.

Mampfred & LadyBB

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  Coordinates ...

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  ... reached.

5tof and Euterkuh

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  Euterkuh on his way to fivetonsofflax's hobbit-hole

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  The beginning of our journey

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  The most comfortable of all possible tracks.

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  First break.

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  Second break, just a few meters away from the hash.

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  Behold! It is The One Onion Ring!

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  The Ring at Piece-of-Horse-Dung Doom. It shall exude its devilish stink no more.

Achievements

Mampfred, LadyBB, ilpadre, fivetonsofflax and Euterkuh earned the Phonebooth stuffing achievement by helping stuff a phonebooth near the (49, 8) geohash on 2011-03-20.

Mampfred and LadyBB earned the Consecutive geohash achievement by reaching 3 consecutive hash points starting on 2011-03-18.

Mampfred, LadyBB, ilpadre, fivetonsofflax and Euterkuh earned the Land geohash achievement by reaching the (49, 8) geohash on 2011-03-20.

fivetonsofflax and Euterkuh earned the Hobbit Achievement by bearing a ring and baring their feet to and from the (49, 8) geohash on 2011-03-20.