2023-01-22 53 10

Sun 22 Jan 2023 in 53,10: 53.6875241, 10.0802566 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox

Location

on a residential street in Hamburg-Lemsahl-Mellingstedt

Participants

• π π π (talk)
• MikroKosmos

Plans

MikroKosmos

Today: "Oh, the hash is nearby. Go on!"

Expedition

π π π

Hooray, our second unplanned meetup!

I took the train to Kiwittsmoor and then had to cycle 6 km (rather 7 km because I missed two turns), having replaced the day before my bike's broken bottom bracket ball bearing (amazing alliteration). Around halfway, I noticed that pedaling seemed more arduous than usual, and a short while later my tyre had become completely flat. I didn't have a repair kit (and it would've been too cold for that anyway), but I still wanted to reach the hash because it wasn't that far. The hash lay smack in the middle of a residential road in Lemsahl-Mellingstedt, a rural-looking village that actually belongs to Hamburg. I mostly pushed my bike for the last leg until I reached Birkenhöhe street.

I had just reached the point, feeling grateful that it wasn't 5 m to either side where it would've been inaccessible, when I saw a cyclist come down the road. I naturally assumed he was a resident, and when he approached ever more I expected him to tell me off. Only after he'd greeted me did I notice that it was MikroKosmos, who I hadn't seen since our first unplanned meetup at 2020-11-24 53 10 more than two years ago! (We'd missed each other on seven other occasions because we can only communicate through the wiki, and every time at least one of us did not update or check it. In the future, I will try to post my plans as soon as they become concrete when hashing near Norderstedt.)

We talked for a short while and recorded proof before MikroKosmos continued on his way. On the house nearest to the hash, I noticed some inbuilt coordinates, which I assumed to indicate the house's position. After posting them on discord, others pointed out that they didn't make sense – the seconds were over sixty! Fippe eventually figured out that the designer must've thought for some reason that seconds, unlike minutes, went to 100. I wonder if the occupants of the house know this, such a mistake would bug me extremely.

Looking up the fastest way to get home, I concluded I could have a look at some nearby sights, including an ~3500 year old bronze-age burial mound 500 m from the hash, the Wittmoor (Hamburg's last raised bog) starting 600 m down the street, and the memorial for the KZ Wittmoor another 300 m south. I climbed the mound, pushed my bike through the moor (which didn't look that spectacular, to be honest, though I wasn't in the centre) and tried to find a geocache right next to the memorial, but couldn't find anything and there were way too many muggles about to continue searching everywhere. So I walked to a bus stop and, having pushed my bike almost 4 km from the hash (by now the coat had almost fully separated from the rim), took a bus to Glashütte and another to Norderstedt Mitte, then the train to Henstedt-Ulzburg and finally had to walk all the way home from the station.

MikroKosmos

In the afternoon I noticed that today's hash wasn't far away and reachable without doubt.

So I took my bicycle and rode to HH-Lemsahl-Mellingstedt, which is about 5 km away. The hash was located on the street named Birkenhöhe.

When turning right to enter the street, I saw a person walking on it, about 150 m away - near the hash. Coming nearer, I recognized π π π, who had reached the hash short before.

"Funny, we met again - without having sheduled it." We talked for a while and took photos. Then I went on with my bicycle-trip.

Photos

π π π

to follow (14 pictures)

MikroKosmos

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  position on street

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  position on GPSr

Achievements

Land geohash, Public transport geohash (π π π), Bicycle geohash (MikroKosmos)

π π π earned the Earliest geohasher achievement by arriving first at the (53, 10) geohash on 2023-01-22.