2022-01-26 53 9

Wed 26 Jan 2022 in 53,9: 53.6837313, 9.9738293 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox

Location

on a communal playground in Norderstedt-Garstedt, Schleswig-Holstein

Participants

• π π π (talk)
• MikroKosmos

Plans

π π π

Going there by train. Good location for MikroKosmos, if he's still active.

MikroKosmos: Yes, perhaps I will go there after work.

If you tell me when you will arrive, I can try to be there at the same time. --π π π (talk) 11:09, 26 January 2022 (UTC)

MikroKosmos

"Pass by there, after work - before it gets dark."

Expedition

π π π

Since MikroKosmos had not written when he would arrive, I planned to go there at hash o'clock (4 pm), which is also near the end of a usual workday, I think. I took three trains to Garstedt and then cycled the last 1.2 km to the hash, arriving at 15:57. It lay on the grass on/next to a playground belonging to an apartment building, 7 m from a public path, and was freely accessible. No one was there. I located the coordinates and took some photos with my Hashhogs. A slippery balance beam was situated only a few metres from the geohash, don't think I've seen that before on a playground. The cold wind was biting my skin when I had my gloves off, so I went and collected some sticks to spell XKCD on the ground, should MikroKosmos arrive later. A few residents noticed me, but nobody seemed to care about me decorating their communal lawn. I waited around for a while, checking the wiki and listening to my audiobook, but at 4:30 it seemed like my hands were about to freeze off and I headed back. I spent some time at Herold-Center shopping mall, where Garstedt station is located, warming my fingers, reading in books, and looking for a new jersey before checking the wiki again and then taking the trains home.

MikroKosmos

N53° 41.024 E009° 58.430

After work, I went with the train to Bönningstedt and with a bus towards the hash-site. Accidentally I left the bus one station too early, so I had to walk the distance of 2 stations (800m).

I arrived at site around 16:50, where I found on the lawn the wooden mark "XKCD", that π π π created. What a wonderful sign! And the mark was quite well at the hash-coordinates.

I shot some photos as it started getting dark and just 30 meters away I found the geocache "Corona Zeitvertreib", too. After that, I walked to Garstedt, where my next bus departed a while later.

This was the first time, I used public transportation for hashing. :-)

This wasn't the first time, I missed π π π. :-(

Photos

π π π

will follow shortly (7 pictures)

MikroKosmos

• UK20220126 53 9.jpg

  @the hash

Achievements

Both: Land geohash, Bicycle geohash, Public transport geohash