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Triumphant group photo

Location

South of Hopkinton, NH. In the middle of a dense swamp.

Participants

• Myself (Odysseus) and my siblings:
• Michael
• Anna
• Sarah
• Juliana

Plans

I convinced my family to go on what I thought would be "a short quarter-mile walk to a spot next to a creek".

Expedition

We parked our car safely on the side of the road and started to make a b-line for the geohash. We came upon a swamp, seemingly nothing too bad, and it appeared to end soon ahead. (I say "appeared"). The swamp slowly got denser, deeper, and all around swampier. It started drizzling and we had one casualty, Anna, who fell into waist-high swamp water. The morale of the troops was less than desirable, but despite being slowed to a rate of about 20 feet per minute, we eventually made it to the spot. Or rather, as close as we could get.

For our return trip, we thought it'd be best to find another way back. We went a little out of our way to what seemed to be woods. Sure enough, the swamp slowly cleared and we were greeted with a nice, relatively dry woodland path. We made good time on the non-swampland and came to the road, very wet, but happy.

Photos

• Photo Gallery
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  The entrance to the swamp, so innocent looking

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  Juliana, trooper

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  Sarah, tripod holder

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  Anna, the one who fell in (while holding tripod)

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  Myself, the one responsible for getting us into this mess

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  Michael, path forger

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  Proof we got there

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  Some swamp water

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  Valiant tripod holder

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  Group photo taken thanks to the wonders of tripods

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  Feigning smiles

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  Carnivorous plants

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  We found a trail for the return trip

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  Trail turns out to be very nice

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  Final hurdle

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  Michael goes to get the car

Achievements

I think we're deserving of this achievement, the swamp was very dense, deep, and it was raining. We were all very wet. Template:Mnimb geohash