2016-07-10 49 8

Sun 10 Jul 2016 in 49,8: 49.5020188, 8.6925195 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox

Location

On a grassland in the forest above Großsachsen

Participants

DODO

Plans

I haven't been hashing for quite a while and I had time today so I decided to visit the hash. The weather was great, sunny but yet not to hot in the morning and so I try to get there by bike.

Expedition

I started at home at 10 am. The wind was gently blowing from the rear and so I came along very quickly. At high noon I was close to the Bergstraße (mountain road) and had to go a little bit upwards into the Odenwald. For the last two kilometers I had to ride some steep gravel paths through the dense forest. Finally, when the path came to an end, there was a surprise to me: a big grassy clearing. I hoped for a good gps-reception and walked into it (although I was pretty sure that it was full with millions of ticks and other raptors). Well, the reception was not good at all and my shown position jumped around wildly, so I walked for more than 15 minutes through the waist-high grass, but finally I got a shot that was good enough.

From here on is not much to tell. I rode back to the street and down to the rhine valley, continued to Weinheim and rode back home by train.

Tracklog

51 KM by bike

Photos

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  proof of transport

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  the clearing

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  proof (kind of)

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  stupid grin

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  view to the north (east looked the same)

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  the south

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  the west

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  back at my bike

Achievements

DODO earned the Land geohash achievement by reaching the (49, 8) geohash on 2016-07-10.

DODO earned the Bicycle geohash achievement by cycling 51 KM to the (49, 8) geohash on 2016-07-10.

Unbelievable, but this was my first expedition by bike in 2016.