2014-04-05 51 9

Sat 5 Apr 2014 in 51,9: 51.2257061, 9.8014290 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox

Location

on an abandoned railway track near Laudenbach

Participants

GeorgDerReisende

Plans

I will hitchhike to that place to be there at 16:00 for a xkcd-meetup.

Expedition

		I started to hitchhike at Kaufungen-Papierfabrik at 12:30. After one minute a car stopped and I got a lift to Großalmerode. As many times I wanted to explain my quest to the driver. But soon as I used the word geohashing, the driver said he know about the game. As always I understood that the driver is thinking about geocashing and I wanted to correct him. But he stayed at his statement, that he knows about geohashing. And he told me, that he has a friend in Hamburg, who does sometimes geohashing. Then he told me, that his sons do geocashing and I understood, that he knew the difference. This driver brought me to Epterode to the former railway station, where I arrived and started to walk at 12:53.
		Then I walked through Epterode. The road itself was signed as a county road, but at the end of the village the county road ended too.
		Behind the hill I had a first look to Laudenbach. As I passed Laudenbach I had a first look to the railway (here on the bridge).
		Then I walked along the track and at least I was able to reach the hash by five meters. Look around:
to the north	to the east	to the south
		But then I tried to go nearer to the hash, to go into the cut. And 40 meters away I found a small path crossing the railway track and from there I could walk along the track to the hash.
		proof!
		view to the east and to the south along the track
		A grinning geohasher. Behind my left shoulder you see the hashmark.
		Then I waited until 16:00 for some friends, but nobody arrived. Then I walked a bit around and here is another view of the hash.

Achievements

GeorgDerReisende earned the xkcd Decurion achievement by attending 11 Saturday meetups.

GeorgDerReisende earned the Thumbs Up Geohash Achievement by hitchhiking to the (51, 9) geohash on 2014-04-05, and withstanding the Vogon poetry of the driver.