2011-06-12 45 7

Sun 12 Jun 2011 in 45,7: 45.8714787, 7.1557682 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox

Location

Italian side of Great St Bernard Pass, about 2500 m above sea level.

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Participants

• Crox
• Elisa

Plans

Change trains in Martigny and Sembrancher, take the bus in Orsières, arrive to Grand-St-Bernard at 12:50. Walk to the hash. Same way back, bus leaving at 16:20.

visit

Great St Bernard Hospice, museum and Via Francigena temporary exhibition

Expedition

Everything went according to plan, and we both enjoyed the day, as can be seen from the pictures.

We had a very good (and reasonably priced) coffee resp. ice cream at the hotel on the Italian side, then we visited the museum at the hospice before taking the bus back.

Photos

Train in Sembrancher  Bus in Orsières  Scenic road up to the pass  Elisa about to start from where the bus left us  Lake at the pass  Swiss side of the border  Our first hash in Italy!  Border geohash  On the other side of the pass, way down towards Aosta  View towards our goal (The hashpoint is in the center of the picture.)  We had to walk in the snow  Getting closer...  Only a few meters left, the melting snow was producing wide streams to cross.  Coordinates reached!  ...  We left a marker.  Where we came from, as seen from the hash  Fauna at the geohash - there were hundreds of those.  Flora  Flora (2)  Flora (3)  Flora (4)  Pass seen from the Italian side, with the hospice in the background  We encountered a car race.  XXVIII Aosta - Gran San Bernardo

Achievements

Crox and Elisa earned the Border geohash achievement by crossing the Swiss-Italian border on 2011-06-12 to reach the (45, 7) geohash.