2018-05-08 49 8

Tue 8 May 2018 in 49,8: 49.7543410, 8.7789276 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox

Location

In a forest in the Odenwald near Modautal.

Participants

• Timm

Plans

• Timm: I'll take my bike and will probably arrive around 15:30.
• I won't be on time at all. I vastly underestimated the steepness and the lack of paved bike paths -- Timm (talk) @49.8148,8.7133 15:47, 8 May 2018 (GMT+02:00)

Expedition

I came home from uni around noon and was in the mood for cycling. The hashpoint was 20km away, so I got on my new old bike and took off for my first big tour through the Odenwald.

The trip turned out to be way more challenging than I expected; the bike only had 6 gears and I wasn't very used to cycling uphill, but the biggest problems were the unpaved mountain bike trails that OsmAnd chose for my route that I didn't check before leaving. However, I made it on top of the last hill in one piece and it was still light, so I was happy. The hash was in a thicket of undergrowth near the hilltop through which I had to climb to get within precision range. After taking a few pictures and spelling "XKCD" on the ground with a couple of branches (which will probably puzzle a forester), I left for home. The trip back was a little easier, maybe because my dying phone battery made me forgo OsmAnd's guidance.

Photos

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  My bike

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  On top of the first hill

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  One of the more comfortable bike paths

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  Panorama

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  The hash is on top of the hill across this valley

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  A village in the valley

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  The forest near the hash

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  Proof

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  The internet was here

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  Grin

Tracklog

Alltrails - Only contains one way because my battery died.

Achievements

Timm earned the Two to the N achievement by reaching 22 hashpoints on 2018-05-08 49 8 and is promoted to Level 2 (Coordinates reached).

Timm earned the Bicycle geohash achievement by cycling to and from the (49, 8) geohash on 2018-05-08.

Timm earned the Land geohash achievement by reaching the (49, 8) geohash on 2018-05-08.