2015-08-07 52 1

Fri 7 Aug 2015 in 52,1: 52.5252822, 1.2376178 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox

Location

In a lake! Lower Tasburgh, Norfolk, UK.

Participants

Sourcerer

Plans

Expedition two of two spanning midnight - 2015-08-06 52 0 - 2015-08-07 52 1 - ETA 00:00? This does not look reachable but it's worth a try.

Expedition

• As expected, not reachable. -- Sourcerer (talk) @52.5253,1.2369 23:35, 6 August 2015 (GMT+01:00)

I arrived a few minutes before midnight only to find almost military grade fences with an electrified wire running along the top. There was no way to sneak through this without doing damage, even if the electrics were not live. In any case the Google Earth view showed the hashpoint in a lake. After the initial failure I made a half hearted attempt to locate another approach from the north. There was access to a cricket pitch but this probably did not connect with the lakes. I could not find another route heading south. I abandoned the scene just after midnight to ensure it was not a failed retrohash.

August is proving to be a bad month for the Norwich graticule. We are a week into the month and have managed only one reachable hashpoint. Perhaps our luck will improve. Of course it could be much worse; at least I'm not based in Texel! 2015-08-03 52 1 was obviously in the garden of a private house. On the other fail-days, the hashpoints were in the north sea.

I added the lakes to OpenStreetMap so at least the outing was not totally wasted.

• Arrived. -- Sourcerer (talk) @52.5253,1.2377 16:01, 7 August 2015 (GMT+01:00)

Photos

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  Closest approach. @52.5253,1.2369

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  Track in Google Earth

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  Electric Fence in Four Languages.

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  Barbed Wire on top of the gate.

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  Proof. @52.5253,1.2377

Achievements

Sourcerer earned the No trespassing consolation prize by almost (49 metres) reaching the (52, 1) geohash on 2015-08-07.

Sourcerer earned the OpenStreetMap achievement by contributing to OpenStreetMap based on their expedition to the (52, 1) geohash on 2015-08-07.

Expeditions and Plans

2015-08-07
Buffalo, New York	Pedalpusher	Shoulder of Jamison Rd in front of Moog
Erfurt, Germany	Reinhard	On the road between Lippelsdorf and Schmiedefeld, Thuringia, Germany.
Norwich, United Kingdom	Sourcerer	In a lake! Lower Tasburgh, Norfolk, UK.

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Sourcerer's Expedition Links

2015-08-06 52 0 - 2015-08-07 52 1 - 2015-08-08 51 1 - KML file download of Sourcerer's expeditions for use with Google Earth.