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== Expedition ==
 
== Expedition ==
I had been trying to do this for a while: find a geohash somewhere in Europe, and get there and back again in one day. For this, three things needed to be in place:
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I had been trying to do this for a while: find a geohash somewhere in Europe (not in NL or BE), and get there and back again in one day. For this, three things needed to be in place:
 
#A reachable geohash (not in water, someone's house, or on the top of a mountain)
 
#A reachable geohash (not in water, someone's house, or on the top of a mountain)
 
#An affordable way of getting there on one or two days' notice
 
#An affordable way of getting there on one or two days' notice

Revision as of 08:54, 11 November 2018

Sat 10 Nov 2018 in 46,6:
46.6937706, 6.7751711
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Location

Neyruz-sur-Moudon, canton of Vaud, Switzerland.

Participants

FelixTheCat (talk)

Expedition

I had been trying to do this for a while: find a geohash somewhere in Europe (not in NL or BE), and get there and back again in one day. For this, three things needed to be in place:

  1. A reachable geohash (not in water, someone's house, or on the top of a mountain)
  2. An affordable way of getting there on one or two days' notice
  3. Something interesting nearby that I would visit even if I wasn't hashing

Many times I've cross-checked Google Flights and geohashing.info on Friday evenings to see if I could make such a trip on the weekend, but opportunities have so far been very few. But this weekend, the stars were aligned correctly. There was a hash in a forest near Lausanne, there were still affordable flights available to Geneva, and I had always wanted to visit the old Montreux recording studio used by Queen and Freddie Mercury's statue on the waterfront. So on Friday evening I booked flight tickets and a rental car and went to bed early. I got up very early the next morning and set off!

There

The hash

The sights

And back again

Tracklog

Today I covered a total of 1896 km!

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Achievements

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FelixTheCat (talk) earned the Land geohash achievement
by reaching the (46, 6) geohash on 2018-11-10.