2024-02-16 32 -109

Fri 16 Feb 2024 in 32,-109: 32.1421274, -109.4907922 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox

Location

Off Apache Pass Road, south of Bowie.

Participants

• Michael5000

Expedition

After flying to Phoenix last Sunday and nabbing that day's local hashpoint, I spent a week doing software training things. When my class ended today, I headed south to Tucson, then continued east on I-10 as far as the small desert town of Willcox. From there, State Road 186 headed south across the flats and then into some hills, through a tiny village with the delightful name of Dos Cabezas, and on to where I turned left onto Apache Pass Road.

It's a dirt road, but I'd found a website earlier in the day that had promised that it was "suitable for passenger cars for its entire length," and that certainly proved true for its westmost five miles. I only saw two other vehicles using it, both of which passed me at the hashpoint with the drivers giving me puzzled glances: what a random, remote, not-particularly-scenic place to stop. Well, that's geohashing for you.

Photos

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  Pulling to the side of Apache Pass Road

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  A yucca plant in the center foreground lives at the hashpoint

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  Back at the intersection with Arizona 186

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Achievements

Michael5000 earned the Graticule Unlocked Achievement by being the first to reach any hashpoint in the (32, -109) graticule, here, on 2024-02-16.