2012-03-07 49 -123

Wed 7 Mar 2012 in 49,-123: 49.2182219, -123.0828108 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox

Location

E 57th Ave, near Ross St, in Vancouver, on the grass between sidewalk and road.

Participants

• Arbron
• robbat2
• Wade
• Rhonda
• Robyn

Plans

I'm going to be in the area, so I'll try to reach the point around 14:30. - Arbron

That's not far from home for me, so I'll detour via there on my way home after work. - User:robbat2

I'll try to get there after work today, around 19:30 to 20:00. - Wade

It's way out of my way for biking home from downtown to North Van, but my triathlon training schedule calls for a bike workout this evening. This sounds like a good bike workout, being 50 minutes (according to google) in the opposite direction of home. That means I'd get there about 18:00. Hey, can I Tron it using work as my start and end point? - Rhonda

I'm going to run it and aim to be there when the after work people arrive. -Robyn 19:23, 7 March 2012 (EST)

Expeditions

Robyn

I made it a Tron (thanks Rhonda for reminding me) and intended to meet up with at least one of the other parties. I left home and ran pretty much straight there, realizing on the way that it would have been perfect for a Juggernaut instead of --heck as well as-- the Tron, and it may still qualify if I did the math. I zig-zagged across the road a few times because the sidewalk couldn't make up its mind what side to be on, and then realized I had gone half a block past it, thinking it was on the south side, not the north side of the Park. So I cut through the park and over the fence: had to have some effort involved in getting a Tron. I found the spot with a very careful non-path-cutting GPS dance, marked the dirt with xkcd and then stepped back to the sidewalk to chalk it, and there stopped the GPS/timer.

I spent an hour playing in the park across the street and running up and down the not-very-steep hill as prescribed in my triathlon training schedule. I meant to stay until Rhonda arrived, but the temperature was dropping fast as the sun went down and I was getting cold. So I went back to the coordinates, restarted the GPS, and ran home.

And yes, I remembered to stay west of my outbound path, very carefully not taking streets that might not go through and might force me east. I cut through a park and found a lighted artificial turf soccer field I didn't know was there. I thought that park had a running track. So the question is does it have both or did they take out the running track when I wasn't looking?

Sorry I missed everyone else. I hope you had a good time and were warmer than me.

Arbron

I had a meeting in the area at 12:30, so decided to stop by the hash after it was done. Unfortunately my meeting was moved downtown, but I wasn't going to give up that easy. Left Chinatown at 14:05, stopped for a quick Starbucks, and arrived at the hash point at precisely 14:30.

I walked down the block to the hash point and began taking a couple of photos. While doing so, I noticed a young woman across the street in the park making what appeared to be a sign of some sort. Curious, I walked across the street as she was finishing, and low and behold she had crafted some fine Geohashing signage. We talked briefly (turns out this was her first hash), took some photos, and said our goodbyes.

Then I went home and watched the iPad announcement :).

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