2008-06-06 42 -71

Fri 6 Jun 2008 in 42,-71: 42.7596630, -71.8253824 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox

About

42.759663N, 71.825383W

This hash is located between Greenville, NH and New Ipswich, NH in the Boston, Massachusetts graticle across the Souhegan River from Rte 123.

Expeditions

AHecht 1:15pm EDT

See story in gallery below.

• GeoSquishing
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  These coordinates are 15 minutes from my office. I didn't find out the coordinates until I was already at work, so I had to make due with what I had with me. I didn't have a camera or separate GPS, so I had to use my phone as a camera and GPS unit (using a bluetooth GPS radio). I put on my emergency rain pants and waterproof boots from my car and headed out. The easiest access to the cache was through a backyard that was nicely mowed all the way to the river. However, not wanting to tresspass, I bushwacked my way down to the banks of the Souhegan.

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  After getting to the river, this is what I was faced with. I was able to get half-way across without any trouble, but the water was too deep to get across the second half dry. After walking up and down the shore, trying to find a better crossing, I decided to go for it and wade in. My waterproof boots quickly became filled with water, and of course the water wouldn't drain out.

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  There was a downed tree crossing the river, but it looked too precarious for me to risk, especially with my GPS and phone in my pockets.

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  The geohash itself was in this nice little clearing.

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  Here I am at the hash. It was just me and the mosquitos.

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  I had made up a stone before leaving work with the coordinates and date on it that I could leave as a marker. Yes, I know, I got the URL wrong.

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  Here is the marker placed at the base of the tree closest to the coordinates.

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  Finally, here is the back back to the river from the geohash. Just think *squish* *squish* *squish* and you'll have a pretty good idea of what the walk back was like. After getting back the car and changing shoes, I went to the nearby Panda Wok restaurant and got pretty good chinese food for lunch.