Difference between revisions of "2012-02-29 42 -71"

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Location

Probably on someone's driveway
Near Lost Pond Reservation
Border of Newton, MA and Brookline, MA

Participants

Phyzome plans to attend -- poke on IRC or userpage to coordinate!

Plans

Phyzome: I plan on taking the Green Line out after work, maybe starting around 4:30. I'll either walk from there or take bus 60 to get closer. If I walk through the woods, I can shave 0.7 miles off the walk from the Green Line. Will bring chocolate.

Expedition

Phyzome:

I left work at around 4:45 PM EST, taking the Red Line to Park Street, then the Green Line (D/Riverside) out to Brookline Hills. My planning was kind of terrible, so my photos of Google Maps (which I use in lieu of a proper streetmap-integrated GPS) did not include how to get from the T station to bus 60. By the time I figured it out (using a map I still had loaded in my browser on my laptop) I had just missed the bus, and had to wait for about 20 minutes. The bus dropped me off in some commercial mall-hell thingy, and I wandered down to "Boylston St", which is a highway in its own right at that point, and started west. My old, crappy GPS didn't see much in the way of satellites, but I knew my turn-off to the south was Dudley Rd.

As I walked west, I noted the fence running down the middle of the divided highway. I really should have paid more attention to that. I only encountered one crossing, halfway to Dudley Rd... *including* Dudley Rd. Oops! Backtrack, cross, walk west again. Finally.

The second photo of the gallery is there to commemorate my learning two lessons:

Cross highways as soon as possible, you may not get another chance
Dial down the flash when photographing retroreflective materials

Photos

Waiting for the bus
2 lessons learned

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 == Expedition ==
-<!-- how it all turned out. your narrative goes here. -->
-== Tracklog ==
+Phyzome:
-<!-- if your GPS device keeps a log, you may post a link here -->
+I left work at around 4:45 PM EST, taking the Red Line to Park Street, then the Green Line (D/Riverside) out to Brookline Hills. My planning was kind of terrible, so my photos of Google Maps (which I use in lieu of a proper streetmap-integrated GPS) did not include how to get from the T station to bus 60. By the time I figured it out (using a map I still had loaded in my browser on my laptop) I had just missed the bus, and had to wait for about 20 minutes. The bus dropped me off in some commercial mall-hell thingy, and I wandered down to "Boylston St", which is a highway in its own right at that point, and started west. My old, crappy GPS didn't see much in the way of satellites, but I knew my turn-off to the south was Dudley Rd.
+As I walked west, I noted the fence running down the middle of the divided highway. I really should have paid more attention to that. I only encountered one crossing, halfway to Dudley Rd... *including* Dudley Rd. Oops! Backtrack, cross, walk west again. Finally.
+The second photo of the gallery is there to commemorate my learning two lessons:
+# Cross highways as soon as possible, you may not get another chance
+# Dial down the flash when photographing retroreflective materials
 == Photos ==
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 <gallery perrow="5">
+Image:2012-02-29 42 -71 waiting for bus.jpg | Waiting for the bus
+Image:2012-02-29 42 -71 hasher-proof fence.jpg | 2 lessons learned
 </gallery>
-== Achievements ==
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-<!-- Add any achievement ribbons you earned below, or remove this section -->
-[[Category:Expedition planning]]
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-[[Category:Expeditions with videos]]
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-[[Category:Not reached - Did not attempt]]   when you went to an alternate location, or decided early on to abort the expedition.
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