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===Step three===
 
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after briefly ascertaining that I can swim well, the guy watches in amusement as I strip down and run, shouting, into the frigid lake.  Within 3m the bottom is gone - so much for wading.  5m or so of head-above-water breaststroke and I am dangerously, incredibly cold.  This was a very dumb idea.  Half-shrieking like a girl, I turn around, curse, swim to shore with what feels like my last remaining energy, and scramble out as the friendly stranger photographs my defeat.
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after briefly ascertaining that I can swim well, the guy watches in amusement as I strip down and run, shouting, enduring numerous [[Raptor Geohash|raptor bites]] on my ankles (unnoticed at the time), into the frigid lake.  Within 3m the bottom is gone - so much for wading.  5m or so of head-above-water breaststroke and I am dangerously, incredibly cold.  This was a very dumb idea.  Half-shrieking like a girl, I turn around, curse, swim to shore with what feels like my last remaining energy, and scramble out as the friendly stranger photographs my defeat.
  
 
He seemed impressed that I tried, though, and wanted to know about this Internet thing.  As I dried myself, I told him to google geohashing (and spelled it for him), and he said he would!  Forgot to get his name, though.
 
He seemed impressed that I tried, though, and wanted to know about this Internet thing.  As I dried myself, I told him to google geohashing (and spelled it for him), and he said he would!  Forgot to get his name, though.
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File:2012-02-11 IMG 2940.JPG|Halfway back
 
File:2012-02-11 IMG 2940.JPG|Halfway back
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File:2012-02-11 IMG 2941.JPG|Defeated, but happy to not be in shock
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File:2012-02-11 IMG 2941.JPG|Defeated, but happy to not be in shock...
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File:2012-02-11 IMG 294x.JPG|and amused to discover the mark of the raptor
 
File:2012-02-11 IMG 2945.JPG|The unreached hash, a third of the way to that island
 
File:2012-02-11 IMG 2945.JPG|The unreached hash, a third of the way to that island
 
File:2012-02-11 IMG 2942.JPG|(336 measly feet)
 
File:2012-02-11 IMG 2942.JPG|(336 measly feet)
 
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== Achievements ==
 
 
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| color    = black
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| user    = {{{OtherJack|}}}
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| achievement = [[MNB Geohash|"Mother Nature's Bitch" Consolation Prize]]
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| action  = trying and failing to swim 100m through 5-10C water in a pair of boxers to reach the [http://carabiner.peeron.com/xkcd/map/map.html?lat=47&long=-122&date=2012-02-11 (47, -122) geohash] on [[2012-02-11 47 -122|2012-02-11]]
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| category = MNB geohash consolation prize
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}}
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{{Radio Yerevan|achievement=[[Drowned Rat Geohash|drowned]][[Raptor Geohash|raptor]][[Tron achievement|Tron]]<s>walk</s>[[Walk geohash|run]][[Meet-up achievement|meetup]][[Water Geohash|water]][[Drowned Rat Geohash|rat]][[Main Page|hash]]
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|user= [[User:OtherJack|OtherJack]]
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|detail = the hashpoint was not, in fact, reached
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|date = 2012-02-11
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|latitude = 47
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|longitude = -122
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}}
  
 
[[Category:Expedition planning]]
 
[[Category:Expedition planning]]
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[[Category:Expeditions with photos]]
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[[Category:Coordinates not reached]]

Revision as of 04:15, 13 February 2012

Sat 11 Feb 2012 in 47,-122:
47.6794559, -122.3434046
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Location

In Green Lake, a mile from OtherJack's house, just offshore of Aurora & 70th

Participants


Plans

Update Friday 11:25am (PST): their website http://www.greenlakeboatrentals.net/ says no boats til April. So hoping for either another geohasher with a boat, or wade it!

I'm going to see if the park rents boats... I know they do in summer at least. Might even be wade-able, it's only a few hundred feet offshore. 4pm will be the appointed time, unless I get a better idea. --OtherJack

Expedition

Well, no boats materialized, so I resolved to try and wade/swim it. The hashpoint was in something of a back-water bay formed by Duck Island and the nearby peninsula, only 100m offshore, and Green Lake is rather tame as major Seattle water-bodies go... so I thought it might be possible. Google searches for the bathymetry yielded nothing but conflicting and less-than-promising maps from 1938 and 1969. I'd never swum in water nearly this cold (5-10C) before, but thought I'd give it a try... I mean, it was a mile (well, 2km) from my house!!

Seeking to maximize the number of achievements I would bag, I set off running at about twenty minutes to four from my home on the hill northeast of the lake, trusty towel in my backpack, GPS turned on, taking the long way there (south and clockwise round the lake) so as to be eligible for a Tron. It was a bracing, drizzly afternoon, 48F (9C) at the weather station near my house - typical Northwest winter. As I ran, I somewhat nervously considered what I was about to do, and lamented that the effort was not making me much warmer. Soon enough, I had arrived at my launch point by Aurora and 70th. Now it was time for the interesting part.

Step one

ask a bystander what time it is. Middle-aged lady says it's 4pm. Excellent.

Step two

ask someone who looks unhurried if they wouldn't mind taking my camera and snapping a couple pictures of me, uh, trying to make it 100m out toward that island in my boxers carrying a double-ziploc-bagged GPS because of, uh, the Internet. Amazingly, my very first mark is game for this. (It must be understood that in Green Lake park everyone is actively walking or running round the lake... no one is just sitting on a bench enjoying the view or anything.) He is a 30ish man, taking a leisurely stroll accompanied by a woman his age who, being smarter than him, realizes that I'm not in my right mind, and declines to speak.

Step three

after briefly ascertaining that I can swim well, the guy watches in amusement as I strip down and run, shouting, enduring numerous raptor bites on my ankles (unnoticed at the time), into the frigid lake. Within 3m the bottom is gone - so much for wading. 5m or so of head-above-water breaststroke and I am dangerously, incredibly cold. This was a very dumb idea. Half-shrieking like a girl, I turn around, curse, swim to shore with what feels like my last remaining energy, and scramble out as the friendly stranger photographs my defeat.

He seemed impressed that I tried, though, and wanted to know about this Internet thing. As I dried myself, I told him to google geohashing (and spelled it for him), and he said he would! Forgot to get his name, though.

The run back north and east felt blissfully warm and easy. Out of some sort of pride, I insisted on completing the Tron route back (via Stroud Ave and N/NE 80th St), even though it no longer mattered.

Photos

  • Halfway back

  • Defeated, but happy to not be in shock...

  • 2012-02-11 IMG 294x.JPG

    and amused to discover the mark of the raptor

  • The unreached hash, a third of the way to that island

  • (336 measly feet)


This user earned the "Mother Nature's Bitch" Consolation Prize
by trying and failing to swim 100m through 5-10C water in a pair of boxers to reach the (47, -122) geohash on 2012-02-11.
Boatless.PNG
 Is it true that OtherJack earned the drownedraptorTronwalkrunmeetupwaterrathash?
In principle, yes.
But the hashpoint was not, in fact, reached (2012-02-11 47 -122).
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