2016-04-29 52 13

Fri 29 Apr 2016 in 52,13: 52.4743019, 13.3020541 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox

Location

At a street in Wilmersdorf, by a school publisher building.

Participants

• meta-alt
• (new user :) Moment, bitte!)
• Shiyan
• Fenmar

Plans

This afternoon, after class, I checked the Geohash, and it was simply too close to ignore.

Fenmar & Shiyan

Some days ago, Shiyan and I decided that we want to meet up and were looking for something to do that was more than just "watching tv while doing nothing", so I mentioned geohashing. I haven't done any expeditions lately, but was more than willing to get back into the game. Shiyan has never gone Geohashing, but is an avid reader of the xkcd comics, so the mindset is definitely the right one. Unfortunately, the only day we both had time to do something was Friday evening, and since I had to work until 5pm the hash location would have to be really convenient for us to attempt it. On Thursday evening we discovered that the point was less than 3km from my home, so naturally we decided to have a go.

Expedition

Fenmar & Shiyan

I left work at 5pm and we met at the Grunewald train station at 6. After that we had a short stop at my house to plan the route (as I wanted to attempt the Tron achievement) and set off to the hash. It was a 2.3 km walk through the residential area Grunewald and Schmargendorf and beside some historic architectural building there was not much of interest on such a short route. I did take some pictures of some flower arrangements though.

As we got near the location, I double- and triple-checked the map for the exact spot because I really did not want to accidentally go too far and then having to backtrack as that would invalidate the tron achievement. It was clear from the map that the location was in front of the Cornelsen building, of which I took some more photos.

And we were lucky: The point was in fact right in front of the main entrance, but not inside the building, so it was easily accessible. I convinced Shiyan to participate at least in one proof photo, before we continued our way to circle back to my home.

Tracklog

Fenmar: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B1DxM8SFvC8bNTVNdTVMcUdJMkE

Photos

Fenmar & Shiyan

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  Beautiful flowers

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  Even more beautiful flowers

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  Target in Sight

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  Proof Photo with stupid grin™

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  Coordinate proof

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  Achievement Get

Achievements

Fenmar & Shiyan

Fenmar and Shiyan earned the Land geohash achievement by reaching the (52, 13) geohash on 2016-04-29.

Fenmar earned the Drag-along achievement by dragging Shiyan to the (52, 13) geohash on 2016-04-29.

Fenmar and Shiyan earned the Walk geohash Achievement by reaching the (52, 13) geohash on 2016-04-29 on foot, travelling a distance of 6.3km.

Fenmar and Shiyan earned the Tron achievement by reaching and returning from the (52, 13) geohash without crossing their own tracks on 2016-04-29.