User:Werther

30 / m / 46,11

I am a 18 years old guy living in the small city of Trento, northern Italy. I pride myself in being the most active Italian geohasher, but that's not a great accomplishment- I don't have any regular competition.

I got to know geohashing on the 12th of August, 2012, and it was instant love. Trentino is not the easiest place to get around- it's all mountains around here, and some places can be quite hard to reach. On the other hand, though, Trento is on the bottom left corner of a graticule- this means I have three other graticules nearby should the location in mine be unreachable. I mostly hash via public transport, as I don't have a driver's license yet.

At the end of 2012 I released a report on all the expeditions I did during the year, which you can read here. Thanks for visiting my userpage, and feel free to leave a message for anything- even if you just want to chat.

My expeditions

No.	Date/link	Graticule	Municipality	Actual location	Outcome	Means of transportation	Notes !
01	2012-08-13	Trento	Trento	A swampy meadow in Viote, Mt.Bondone	Reached	Intercity bus (202)	First geohash!
02	2012-08-24			Outside a house in the Laste neighborhood	Reached	None (walked)
03	2012-08-26			In a porphiry quarry near Gazzadina	Reached	City bus (3)	First expedition with GPS. One of my favorites
04	2012-08-27		Egna (BZ)	In a parking lot in Egna	Failed	Intercity bus (104)	Forgot to save the coordinates on the GPS, asked my sister to text them to me, she mispelled them.
05	2012-09-02	Verona	Dro	On the side of a country road north of Dro	Reached	Intercity bus (204)
06	2012-09-20	Padova	Vallarsa	In the small village of Albaredo	Reached	Intercity bus (301 and 310)	Deflowered Padova graticule
07	2012-12-29	Trento	Sanzeno	In an apple field north of Banco	Reached	Train (FTM) and intercity bus (627)	Personal favourite
08	2013-01-02		Cinte Tesino	Inside a house in Cinte Tesino	Failed	Intercity bus (401 and 405)	No trespassing geohash. Also first expedition in a snowstorm
09	2013-02-17	Padova	Isera	Outside a group of houses in Cornalé	Reached	Train (FS) and Rovereto city bus (2)
10	2013-03-30	Trento	Taio	In an apple field west of Segno	Reached	Train (FTM)	Drowning rat geohash
11	2013-04-01		Trento	In the woods between Sopramonte and Baselga, on the foothills of Mt.Bondone	Reached	City bus (6)
12	2013-04-05		Civezzano	On the northbound lane of SP71, just east of Civezzano	Reached	Intercity bus (103)
13	2013-05-05		Pergine Valsugana	In a meadow of unknown purposes, next to a major highway in Pergine	Reached	Intercity bus (401 and 403)

Planned but not attempted expeditions (hopefully future retros)

2012-12-14: Snowstorm struck in the morning causing transport delays, my timetable wouldn't allow me to go on an adventure.

2012-01-21: Bad weather, had a cold, and it was too difficult (also implied lots of time)

Achievements

Werther earned the Land geohash achievement by reaching the (46, 11) geohash on 2012-08-26.

Werther earned the Public transport geohash achievement by reaching the (46, 11) geohash on 2012-08-26 via Trentino Trasporti network.

Werther achieved level 2 of the Minesweeper Geohash achievement by visiting coordinates in Trento, Italy and 2 of the surrounding graticules.

Werther earned the Drowned Rat Geohash Honourable Mention by reaching the (46, 11) geohash on 2013-03-30 despite being partially wet from heavy rain an umbrella could only partially cover.

• Side note/shameless bragging: I could have claimed both land geohash and Public Transport geohash on my first expedition, but I lacked proof for those two.

Hidden goals

These are my ultimate achievements- they will take something like five years to accomplish but well, I like challenges.

1) Hashing once in every of the 217 Trentino municipalities (so far: 9)

2) Using at least once every Trentino city/intercity bus line, which are quite a lot (I don't know the exact number!) (so far: 3x Trento city network, 7x intercity network, FTM railway included)

3) Using at least once every Trentino Trasporti bus (according to their website, there are 714 of them, just sayin': 16 so far, train included)