2022-07-02 55 8

Sat 2 Jul 2022 in 55,8: 55.0524589, 8.4160675 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox

Location

This Geohash is located on the Ellenbogen peninsula in List on Sylt.

Participants

• Fippe
• Leidenfrost and his father
• π π π

Expedition

Fippe

In the morning, I took the train from Hannover to Hamburg central. It was late, so I missed my next train to Elmshorn. Instead, I took the train to Hamburg-Altona and waited for the next train there. And that train went all the way to Westerland on Sylt. Sylt is of course an island, but a rail causeway connects it to the mainland, so no ferry was involved. I was expecting more punks on the train - there were just two, but they were quite audible.

In Westerland, I got a rental bike. It had electric support, super thick tires and was colored hot red. :D With this kind of vehicle I could cycle up north to the Ellenbogen peninsula in no time. There were dunes, seagulls, the North Sea of course, sheep, and not a single punk. It seems that the island is still mostly populated by men in polo shirts and women with fancy purses. The coordinates were located a bit next to the path on some grass.

After reaching the Geohash and recording proof, I visited the northernmost point of Germany on a nearby beach. I could see the Danish island Rømø from there, and my phone switched over to the Danish mobile data network. This was a personal record for me going north without air travel being involved.

Afterwards, I cycled to the settled part of List, the town that the Ellenbogen belongs to, and from there back to Westerland. I got a late lunch (two fish buns), returned the rental bike, and went back to the train station. At the station, Leidenfrost's train had just arrived. We had a brief meeting, before I needed to get on my train. It was nice to meet you!

After meeting Leidenfrost, I took the train via Elmshorn, Hamburg central and Uelzen back to Hannover.

Leidenfrost

On 2021-07-21 I calibrated NWoodruff's notification-tool for 55,8-Sylt. Almost a year later, it happened, and on a weekend too. At 15:32 I got an email, checked Geohashing.info, and immediately cancelled my plans for Saturday. I contacted π π π to coordinate, who would be busy running an event with friends, that I just cancelled for Geohashing. The next day, I took the RB 81 from Hamburg-Rahlstedt to Hamburg Central Station with a few drunk party-people who were ready to go to the Schlagermove. At 14:02 I took the RE 60 to Westerland (Sylt) arriving at 17:05, my train-car contained two punks.

Arriving in Westerland, I met Fippe, we talked about hashing for a minute, until he needed to catch his train. It was also nice to meet you!

Owing to a crash, I wasn't confident in my bike just yet, so I planned on walking a few kilometres to the hash. However, by coincidence my mother had recently taken up a job on the island, so I asked her if she would take me to the Ellenbogen, but she wouldn't be there that day, however, by even more coincidence my father was looking forward to spending a nice weekend on Sylt, so I promptly convinced him to spend some of that time hashing.

We took off at Westerland by car, and about 20 minutes later we arrived at a toll-booth for the private road, paid 6 Euros, and about 10 minutes later we arrived at the parking lot closest to the hash. After a few minutes of walking, we arrived at the part of the road closest to the hash, and after making sure no one was watching, we stepped on the dunes, part of the nature reserve Nord-Sylt, and tried to only step on a thin path possibly established by the sheep. After a short, careful hashdance, I reached the coordinates, made some photos as proof, dragged my father along to the coordinates, captured photo-evidence, and carefully walked back to the road and the parking lot.

Being so close to the northernmost natural land-point of Germany, I decided to go to the beach, and along the shore until I reached the coordinates established as the northernmost, took a few pictures, admired the view, and walked back to the car, where, after finding out that I was going to miss my 19:19 train by just a few minutes we went to List auf Sylt and got a Fischbrötchen (fish bun), and made our way, leisurely, back to the train-station Westerland (Sylt), where I got the 20:19 RE 6 back to Hamburg-Altona from where I made my way back home.

While waiting for the train to arrive, π π π informed me that he would arrive in Westerland (Sylt) ten minutes after my train had already started, so we figured out where our trains passed each other, which happened to be in Keitum, but despite out best efforts we were unable to see each other, which foiled even the broadest definition of a meet-up.

Trivia

This Geohash is located on the northernmost land-point the hash has ever fallen in Germany. This is also the first successful hash-expedition to 55,8-Germany.

Photos

Fippe

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  The train in Altona

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  On the way to the Geohash

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  The rental bike near the coordinates

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  The site of the Geohash

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  Proof

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  The Geohash

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  At the northernmost point of Germany

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  The northernmost point, Denmark in the background

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  A nearby view

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  In List

Leidenfrost

following

Ribbons

Fippe, Leidenfrost and π π π earned the Land geohash achievement by reaching the (55, 8) geohash on 2022-07-02.

Is it true that Leidenfrost and Fippe earned the meet-up achievement? In principle, yes. But while the meeting happened while geohashing, it did not occur at the coordinates (2022-07-02 55 8).

Fippe earned the XKCD-100 Achievement by voyaging 317 km to reach the (55, 8) geohash on 2022-07-02.

Leidenfrost earned the XKCD-100 Achievement by voyaging 196 km to reach the (55, 8) geohash on 2022-07-02.

π π π earned the XKCD-100 Achievement by voyaging 173 km to reach the (55, 8) geohash on 2022-07-02.

Fippe achieved level 1 of the Minesweeper Geohash achievement by visiting coordinates in Esbjerg, Denmark and 1 of the surrounding graticules.

Leidenfrost achieved level 1 of the Minesweeper Geohash achievement by visiting coordinates in Esbjerg, Denmark and 1 of the surrounding graticules.

Leidenfrost achieved level 1 of the Minesweeper Geohash achievement by visiting coordinates in Kolding, Denmark and 1 of the surrounding graticules.

π π π achieved level 2 of the Minesweeper Geohash achievement by visiting coordinates in Esbjerg, Denmark and 2 of the surrounding graticules.

π π π achieved level 3 of the Minesweeper Geohash achievement by visiting coordinates in Kolding, Denmark and 3 of the surrounding graticules.

Fippe achieved level 4 of the Minesweeper Geohash achievement by visiting coordinates in Helgoland, Germany and 4 of the surrounding graticules.

π π π achieved level 6 of the Minesweeper Geohash achievement by visiting coordinates in Flensburg, Germany and 6 of the surrounding graticules.

Leidenfrost earned the Drag-along achievement by dragging his father to the (55, 8) geohash on 2022-07-02.

Is it true that Leidenfrost earned the Admit one achievement? In principle, yes. But while we did pay 6 Euros for the toll road, this was only necessary for travel via car (2022-07-02 55 8).

Fippe, Leidenfrost and π π π earned the Country Virgin Graticule Achievement by being the first to reach the hashpoint while the geohash was in Germany in the (55, 8) graticule, during the (55, 8) geohash on 2022-07-02.

Fippe, Leidenfrost and π π π earned the Country North geohash Achievement by reaching the northernmost hashpoint in Germany, during the (55, 8) geohash on 2022-07-02.