User:Yerushalmi

40 / m / 31,35

Note: The birthday provided to this template is not
actually my birthday; it's merely the nearest
approximation of it, as my birthday varies from year
to year. In 2024 my birthday falls out on September 9.
In 2025 it will fall out on August 30.

Um... hi!

Yerushalmi is your friendly neighborhood oleh yashan living in Jerusalem with his beautiful wife and five amazing children, whom he finally managed to convince thanks to years of effort and a pandemic that geohashing might be an interesting experience. His first foray into geohashing was not very successful (four points reached out of only a dozen or so attempts), but after a hiatus of nearly nine years, he's finally starting to rack up the hash points.

My expeditions

Total expeditions: 111

Total successes: 77

Listing

Bolded expeditions indicate successes.

• 2009-03-17_31_34: A drag-along holy no-batteries land geohash in the virgin Beersheba graticule.
• 2009-04-10_31_34: A police no-batteries unleavened land geohash in the Beersheba graticule.
• 2009-04-13_32_34: An unplanned expedition that found my wife and me only 70 meters from the hash point without realization or intention.
• 2009-06-18_32_34: Almost but not quite a Puppet Master Geohash.
• 2009-08-16_31_34: A plain old no-batteries land geohash in the Beersheba graticule. With a surprise celebrity guest.
• 2009-10-06_32_35‎: Rain, paint, and failure in the Haifa East graticule.
• 2009-12-29_32_34: Predestined failure in the Tel Aviv graticule.
• 2011-10-17_32_34: Virgin speed racer land geohash with wife and first child. Last attempt before going on hiatus.
• 2020-08-16_31_34: First attempt after almost nine years of absence. Failure due to reticence at entering someone's field.
• 2020-08-18_32_34: First success in a very long time: a land geohash reached with #2 in tow. Wife and other children did not reach the hashpoint.
• 2020-08-24_32_34: Land geohash in Holon reached with wife, mother-in-law, #1, #2, #4, and #5.
• 2020-08-31_31_34: Car got stuck in a sand dune, causing failure in Holon.
• 2021-07-21_31_34: First full-family geohash: speed racer with wife and #1 through #5.
• 2021-08-13_31_34: Land geohash reached with #1, #2, and #3.
• 2021-08-22_31_34: Land geohash reached with #1 and #2.
• 2021-08-23_31_34: Failed attempt to get the Ambassador achievement - me and #2 reached the land geohash on the way to knock on the person's door, so we didn't bother knocking.
• 2021-08-25_31_35: Expedition failure due to taking too long to leave the house and taking the wrong path due to a trail that wasn't on the map.
• 2021-08-29_32_34: The illusion of success: The geohash was on the other side of a wall, and the first time we got there we were within the circle of uncertainty, but the second time we weren't.
• 2021-09-13_31_34: Expedition failure because of misbehaving kids.
• 2021-09-29_31_34: Attempt to get an ambassador achievement failed because nobody was home.
• 2021-10-05_31_35: Me, #1, and #2 had our first success in 31 35, and a walk geohash to boot.
• 2021-10-07_31_35: Another hash in Jerusalem (twice in a week!), reached by everyone in the family: me, my wife, and #1-#5.
• 2021-11-04_31_34: Success for everyone but #4, who fell asleep in the car. Also successful drag-along of my mother-in-law.
• 2021-11-09_32_34: Success for me and #3; my wife, #4, and #5 stayed in the car.
• 2021-11-15_31_34: Point in the middle of the road, in a very creepy town. We drove through the point by car. Success for everyone, and Unconscious Geohash success for #4.
• 2021-12-06_31_34: Success for me, my wife, #4, and #5, with a mother-in-law drag-along.
• 2021-12-07_32_34: Me and #3 succeeded in ambassadoring ourselves into a closed carpentry shop, but the point turned out to be elsewhere. Failure.
• 2022-01-26_31_34: Success for me, my wife, #3, #4, and #5. On an archaeological site, an ancient city called Sokho.
• 2022-02-09_31_35: A particularly difficult geohash. Me and #2 climbed a mountain pretty much entirely made of thorns.
• 2022-03-20_31_35: Round-trip walk geohash with #3 and #4 to a point just outside of Jerusalem, 2km from my house.
• 2022-04-11_31_34: Gold medal for the most beautiful geohash I've ever done. Success for all of us.
• 2022-04-18_31_35: Failure due to lack of access from the highway and a massive dust storm.
• 2022-05-16_31_34: In a pumpkin field 200m away from where I got married (the venue is now abandoned). My wife, #1, and #5 chickened out of crossing a dry riverbed. Success for me, #3, and #4.
• 2022-07-26_31_34: Everyone but me chickened out because of loose dogs, and forced me to comply with their chickening out.
• 2022-08-24_31_34: My first of what will become known as a Train Day(tm). Success in Kfar Chabad. I missed meeting Deneko and Yosef.
• 2022-08-25_32_34: Train day to the edge of an artificial lake near Binyamina.
• 2022-08-28_31_34: Train day, to a grove of olive or date trees, according to what I wrote at the time. I genuinely don't remember a thing about this hash.
• 2022-10-15_32_34: Saturday night hash on the way home from my brother's house. Success for me, my wife, and #3; everyone else was asleep in the car.
• 2022-11-10_31_34: Train day. Expedition abandoned due to family medical emergency.
• 2022-11-28_32_35: Train day to Afula. Success.
• 2022-12-19_32_34: Train day to an orange grove near Netanya, and my first successful Ambassador achievement!
• 2023-01-16_32_35: Train day. Expedition abandoned due to forgetting my laptop power cable at home.
• 2023-01-19_32_34: Train day to outside a basketball court in Netanya.
• 2023-02-13_32_34: Train day to farmland that had a no trespassing sign.
• 2023-02-21_31_35: Just outside Jerusalem, but failed the walk geohash with #3 and #5 due to time constraints.
• 2023-02-28_31_35: Train day. Success in Beit Shemesh.
• 2023-03-16_32_34: Train day to a field outside Hadera, and my return to contemporaneous expedition reporting.
• 2023-03-23_33_35: Train day. Virgin graticule. Success!
• 2023-04-10_32_34: Expedition called off due to thunderstorm that began shortly after our arrival.
• 2023-04-13_31_34: Train day. Success in Sderot.
• 2023-04-17_31_34: The most fun failure I've ever had, with #3 and #5. #5 still brings up the fun time a cow chased us and Aba slipped and fell off a cliff.
• 2023-04-18_31_34: Train day. No trespassing failure in Yashresh. Weirded a guy out asking him to come into his garden.
• 2023-05-09_31_35: Failure due to not recognizing the point was in a closed military zone.
• 2023-05-21_31_34: Train day. Success near haystacks in Gvaram.
• 2023-05-28_32_34: Train day. Failure. I remember nothing about this.
• 2023-05-31_31_34: Train day. Successfully reached a point just inside or just outside a community center (I covered both just in case).
• 2023-06-12_31_34: Ambassador achievement in Shekef. The owner of a goat farm let me climb over the fence into his grazing yard.
• 2023-06-19_31_35: Children misbehaved, we set out late, we lost our way.
• 2023-06-20_32_34: Just off the Shvil Ramot Menashe nature trail. A pleasant few hours' walk from Moshav Ofer to Kibbutz Bat Shlomo.
• 2023-08-17_31_34: A sidewalk in Rishon Letziyon. Easy walk to the train station and back.
• 2023-08-20_31_34: Success for me, #1, #2, #3, and #4, in the Ben Shemen Forest. My wife and #5 were with us, but forgot to actually step into the point area.
• 2023-08-22_31_35: On the side of route 443. The question is, is the point close enough that driving in the shoulder will grab it? Answer: No.
• 2023-08-24 31 34: Ambassador achievement! I called the Ella Valley Wineries and got permission to go into one of their long-abandoned vineyard.
• 2023-08-28 32 34: A few dozen meters from the Tropical Fish store just outside Tel Mond. Success for me, #1, #2, and #3.
• 2023-09-06 31 35: Pleasant walk in Rabin Park.
• 2023-11-23_32_35: After a long illness-and-war-induced hiatus, my first return to geohashing fails at the foot of the Galilee Cliffs.
• 2023-12-04 30 35: Virgin graticule achievement, the first success in 30 35! A disused lot in Hatzeva.
• 2023-12-05 31 34: Unremarkable hash in the middle of a random field.
• 2023-12-10 32 35: Success for me, #2, and #3, after failing to cross a river.
• 2023-12-17 31 34: Field near Beit Guvrin.
• 2023-12-20 31 34: One of the more difficult and beautiful geohashes I've ever had. 2-hour walk to a dry and verdant riverbed.
• 2023-12-26 31 35: Creek bed just outside Jerusalem. Mushrooms and snakes but no badgers.
• 2024-01-01 32 34: Unused land near a highway junction. Crossed a creek on a very convenient ladder.
• 2024-01-09 32 34: No sleep and an injured foot. Limped my way to an avocado grove.
• 2024-01-14 31 34: Wading through a shin-high river to a forest outside Kiryat Gat.
• 2024-01-22 32 35: A pleasant walk from Dalia to Binyamina, during which I encountered an open dungeon.
• 2024-01-29_31_35: My first meetup: Me and #1 met Yosef
• 2024-02-01 31 34: Late-night failure to get to a point between some buildings in Rehovot.
• 2024-02-05 31 34: A pecan grove outside Ashkelon, during which I encountered a bird stuck in midair.
• 2024-02-06 32 35: No way through the mud outside Afula
• 2024-02-12 32 35: Meetup with MetricSystemDude in Afula, and a very convenient path that led exactly to the point. Dragged my father along, but he wouldn't go in the mud.
• 2024-02-18 32 34: Late-night trip to a small park in Ramat Hachayal and back.
• 2024-02-25 31 34: A field of crops outside Yavne. Failed to reach the point and lost my jacket to boot.
• 2024-03-01 31 35: Quick trip to the Har Herzl military cemetery on a Friday morning.
• 2024-03-04 32 35: Climbed Mount Carmel and navigated without GPS until I was three meters from the point.
• 2024-03-08 31 35: Forest just outside Jerusalem. Another Friday morning hash.
• 2024-03-12 32 34: Part one of my first multihash! Met MetricSystemDude in an abandoned bus repair facility in Haifa.
• 2024-03-12 31 34: Part two of my first multihash! On the grounds of a grove of trees belonging to the Latrun monastery.
• 2024-03-15 31 35: Another great Friday hash close to Jerusalem, but while navigating ancient agricultural terraces I ran out of time and had to go home.
• 2024-03-17 31 34: Blocked by crops in Talmei Yafe. There was a furrow in the field but it narrowed until I realized, 12m from the point, that I could go no farther.
• 2024-03-21 31 35: Quick late-night bus ride to Modi'in and back to grab a point on a sidewalk.
• 2024-03-28 32 35: Train day to Ginigar and a long walk to a sun-hardened field.
• 2024-04-04 31 34: Train day to Ashdod. Blocked by a closed railroad crossing, had to go a very long way around, but I made it.
• 2024-04-30 32 34: Annoying failure; made it to within 2 meters of the circle of uncertainty but couldn't find a non-trespassy way around.
• 2024-05-05 31 34: A successful day out with #3, #4, and #5 in the Beit Guvrin National Park. We made it to the point, then saw amazing Temple-era underground chambers.
• 2024-05-07 32 34: Almost got arrested for photographing the parking lot of a defense contractor.
• 2024-06-02 32 34: A train brought me almost but not quite to the point. Twice.
• 2024-06-10 32 35: No-batteries ambassador achievement in a vineyard
• 2024-06-16 32 35: A particularly exhausting no-batteries success achieved by counting trees outside Kibbutz Pelech.
• 2024-06-18 32 34: Part 1 of my second-ever multihash: lugging around an enormous piece of art in a public park in Tirat Hacarmel.
• 2024-06-18 31 34: Part 2 of my second-ever multihash: lugging around an enormous piece of art in a playground in Kibbutz Tzor'a.
• 2024-07-24 31 34: Slow-mo drivethrough of a hash in Kiryat Ekron, with #3-5.
• 2024-08-18_40_-74: First attempt (and first failure) outside of Israel. Construction prevented me, my wife, #1, #3, and #4 from reaching the point.
• 2024-09-12 31 35: Ran out of time walking outside Kibbutz Shoresh.
• 2024-09-15 31 34: Success for me, my wife, and #3-5 in the Ben Shemesh forest, featuring a picnic and bees.
• 2024-09-17 32 35: GPS jamming outside Haifa briefly lifts, for just enough time that I could reach the point successfully.
• 2024-10-09_31_34: Point was in a bus station, I reached the point while on a bus, then got off the bus to take the panorama.
• 2024-10-27_32_34: Under an electricity pylon in Hadera.
• 2024-10-29_31_34: In a dry riverbed in Sde Moshe. Easily-avoidable thorns.
• 2024-10-30 31 34: Long walk around a dry riverbed to an under-construction neighborhood of Ofakim.
• 2024-11-12 31 34: A little bit of deja vu: a point just outside the synagogue that had been at the center of my very first expedition back in 2009.

My achievements

Yerushalmi earned the Drag-along achievement by dragging his wife to the (31, 34) geohash on 2009-03-17.

Yerushalmi earned the Land geohash achievement by reaching the (31, 34) geohash on 2009-03-17.

Yerushalmi earned the Holy hash achievement by reaching the sacred (31, 34) location, which is a synagogue that happened to be at the hashpoint. Or that the hashpoint was in Israel. Whichever works. Anyway, on 2009-03-17.

Yerushalmi earned the Graticule Unlocked Achievement by being the first to reach any hashpoint in the (31, 34) graticule, here, on 2009-03-17.

Yerushalmi earned the No Batteries Geohash Achievement by reaching the (31, 34) geohash on 2009-03-17.

Yerushalmi and his wife earned the Police Geohash Achievement by being pulled over for no apparent reason while attempting the (31, 34) geohash on 2009-04-10.

Yerushalmi and his wife earned the Unleavened Geohash achievement by eating matzo and pastrami sandwiches at the (31, 34) geohash on 2009-04-10.

Yerushalmi and his wife earned the Celebrity Geohash achievement by meeting a guy in a monkey suit on the way to the (31, 34) geohash on 2009-08-16.

Fun Stuff

Articles

On the difference between a man and a GPS.

The Israeli Geohasher's Theme Song

קום והתהלך בארץ
בתרמיל ובמקל,
וודאי תפגוש בדרך
שוב את ארץ ישראל.
יחבקו אותך דרכיה
של הארץ הטובה,
היא תקרא אותך אליה
כמו אל ערש אהבה.

זאת אכן אותה הארץ.
זו אותה האדמה
ואותה פיסת הסלע
הנצרבת בחמה.
ומתחת לאספלט
לבניני הראוה,
מסתתרת המולדת
בישנית וענוה.

קום והתהלך בארץ
בתרמיל ובמקל,
וודאי תפגוש בדרך
שוב את ארץ ישראל.
יחבקו אותך דרכיה
של הארץ הטובה,
היא תקרא אותך אליה
כמו אל ערש אהבה.

וכרמי עצי הזית
ומסתור המעין,
עוד שומרים על חלומה
וחלומנו הישן.
וגגות אודמים על הר
וילדים על השבילים.
במקום שבו הלכנו
עם חגור ותרמילים.