Difference between revisions of "2013-02-20 42 -88"

Revision as of 21:38, 2 March 2013

Location

It appears to be a very reachable hash, on a sidewalk in a nice neighborhood in Lake Zurich.

Participants

Plans

StatMan22: Once I get home from work and pick up a camera, I will go right over! The hash is just over a mile driving distance from my house.

Swoop2: I may be able to drive over after work. It is a 3 mile detour from my normal route home.

Expedition

StatMan22: It was a real easy trip there after work. Parked pretty much right on the spot... It was freezing out though and the GPS was a bit jumpy, so it took a long time to get the exact coordinates. I walked around in a 5 foot circle for about 5 minutes, then my hands got too cold and I probably looked a bit odd to the cars driving past. Ended up actually getting the coordinates dead on when I got back in the car! I tried to carve an "XKCD" in the snow bank with my keys in case Swoop came by later, but it was pretty rock solid. I ended up throwing a slab of ice on top of it to signify human involvement... I assume he did not notice. Photos to come!

Swoop2: Well things fell apart at work today so I got out to late to go after work. But I did manage to drag my entire family along on this quest a few hours later. I arrived at 9:20PM so it was quite dark and bitterly cold. Two of my kids jumped up on the snowbank that StatMan22 mentioned (thanks for thinking of us). We got a few blurry, frozen pictured and jumped back into our warm minivan. StatMan22, great photos! Thanks for sharing.

Photos

It was cold... Close enough!
Proof of coldness.
Proof that I was there.
Got the coordinates on the dot in the car!!

Snowbank!
Three frozen questors
Kids on the snowbank!

Achievements

StatMan22 earned the Couch Potato Geohash Honorable Mention

by living near the (42, -88) geohash on 2013-02-20.

Swoop2 earned the Frozen Geohash Achievement

by reaching the (42, -88) geohash on 2013-02-20 while the temperature was 16 °F.

StatMan22 and Swoop2 earned the Tale of Two Hashes achievement

by meeting the challenge by Calamus to geohash in Lake Zurich going to the (47, 8) geohash on 2012-06-30.

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