2015-04-14 49 8

Tue 14 Apr 2015 in 49,8: 49.0014446, 8.1751953 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox

Location

Forest, but near a route if visited for hashing more then once (twice). It will be my third of four countries in this graticule.

Participants

RecentlyChanged (talk)

Plans

I'm currently premium member on geocaching.com, so I made this: geocaching route.

I should have much time and it is hopefully nice outside. I'm planning to make a tron, which could be really difficult this time if I really combine it with a lot of caches, we will see. First thing I surely will do is charge my devices to the max! Also I plan on doing this by bike.

Start will be around 11 am.

Expedition

On my way now, had to buy food and solved a few mystery caches - RecentlyChanged (talk) 05:49, 14 April 2015 (EDT)

I started to cache in Rheinstetten where I picked up GC37GGC and slightly afterward GC3R56R. After some following the GPS, but not looking at a map (I've had my Garmin eTrex 10 with me) I made it to Mörsch, where I first picked up GC563PY, then GC53N0N and finally the legendary GC4C2JC. I already knew how the last one will look like, because my cousin showed it to me about a year ago and told me how awesome that one is. More Caches schould be like that one!

Then I went on to the ferry, where I ate lunch at about 3 pm and picked up GC49GWK, sadly this cache is really damaged, that made finding out the code obsolete. After crossing the Rhein I solved the puzzle for GC55GM3 but I wasn't able to find the cache at the spot. That was around 4 pm, so I decided after 15 minutes to move on. The next one I tried GC1RDAA did cost me even more time, because i was really eager to see the cache, seemed to be interesting judging by the comments. It should be hidden inside a potato (Grumbeer seems to mean that, what was new for me). But it really was getting late.

I moved on to GC1RPJN which was an easy, but still funny, find. The place where it was hidden was so obvious I even thought I will not go there, because it seemed tooooo obvious. But I made such a mistake already in the past, so I've decided to look at the obvious hiding place, and there it was!

Then I finally moved on to the hash which even lay on some kind of track, even though I had to cross a small swamp/really big puddle.

Finally I went home over Hagensbach and Maximiliansau where I catched the tram. I came home at about 7.30 pm, to see my street blocked by police because of a rally by PEGIDA. I first had to convince them, that I just wanted into the house in sight behind the cordon of police and did not want to throw stones at them or the Pegida-people. They let me in eventually.

It was a great day for hashing (and caching)! The weather was really perfect!

Tracklog

yay!

Photos

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  Stupid grin, after an exhausting 5 hour trip (I'm not back yet). @49.0017,8.1753

Achievements

RecentlyChanged earned the Land geohash achievement by reaching the (49, 8) geohash on 2015-04-14.