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== Expedition == | == Expedition == | ||
| − | + | When I saw this hashpoint appear I thought to myself: that's eminently achievable! I hoped I might be able to slip away from work for a lunchtime cycle to claim it. | |
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| + | But the gods of technology didn't approve of my plan and turned my workday into a catastrophe of the kind that only a computer can, and the chance of taking a long lunch evaporated quickly. But fortune dealt me a second hand when the weather held off into the evening, and I instead opted for a post-dinner huckle in the dark out to this hashpoint. | ||
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| + | I set out around 18:30, South through Stanton Harcourt then North up the adorably-named Ducklington Road. It took some time to sight the somewhat-concealed bridleway around the hill of Cokethorpe School. And then, another challenge - navigating by OpenStreetMap I missed my turning and went straight through a farmyard, and had to carry my bike over a fence at the other end. Turns out the map is wrong and I later found a sign indicating the true course of the bridleway; I'll get that corrected. | ||
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| + | I abandoned my bike for the final 50 metres, trekking through the thick grass of an unmown meadow to the hashpoint and arriving around 19:00. No panoramic photo today it's too dark - but you get a silly grin. | ||
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| + | Plessed with this fast expedition, I diverted on my route home to the Harcourt Arms pub for a pint of their surprisingly-delicious seasonal guest ale, Fairytale of Brew York, which genuinely tastes like stollen. There, I wrote up this expedition report, but I'll have to get home before I can extract my GPSr's tracklog. | ||
== Tracklog == | == Tracklog == | ||
Revision as of 19:54, 5 December 2022
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Location
Bridleway behind Cokethorpe School, West Oxfordshire, UK.
Participants
Expedition
When I saw this hashpoint appear I thought to myself: that's eminently achievable! I hoped I might be able to slip away from work for a lunchtime cycle to claim it.
But the gods of technology didn't approve of my plan and turned my workday into a catastrophe of the kind that only a computer can, and the chance of taking a long lunch evaporated quickly. But fortune dealt me a second hand when the weather held off into the evening, and I instead opted for a post-dinner huckle in the dark out to this hashpoint.
I set out around 18:30, South through Stanton Harcourt then North up the adorably-named Ducklington Road. It took some time to sight the somewhat-concealed bridleway around the hill of Cokethorpe School. And then, another challenge - navigating by OpenStreetMap I missed my turning and went straight through a farmyard, and had to carry my bike over a fence at the other end. Turns out the map is wrong and I later found a sign indicating the true course of the bridleway; I'll get that corrected.
I abandoned my bike for the final 50 metres, trekking through the thick grass of an unmown meadow to the hashpoint and arriving around 19:00. No panoramic photo today it's too dark - but you get a silly grin.
Plessed with this fast expedition, I diverted on my route home to the Harcourt Arms pub for a pint of their surprisingly-delicious seasonal guest ale, Fairytale of Brew York, which genuinely tastes like stollen. There, I wrote up this expedition report, but I'll have to get home before I can extract my GPSr's tracklog.
Tracklog
To follow.
Photos
Here's where I had to park the bike and continue on foot.
Zero point! Too dark to see anything!
Blurry silly grin. Blame night mode.
A pint while I write an initial report.
