Difference between revisions of "2024-11-05 44 -93"

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Carlson Towers as seen from hash site.

Location

Outside the Carlson Towers in Minnetonka, MN.

Participants

Kyrkazakh (talk) 21:59, 5 November 2024 (UTC)

Plans

Happy(?) Election Day everyone. Kyrkazakh is planning to head over to the hash in the midday or later evening if traffic isn't too bad.

Expedition

I had time to kill after work but before my next class, so across the Twin Cities I went. Destination: Carlson Towers, part of a complex of buildings created (I think) for the company that owns Radisson and a couple other hotel chains. Interstate 94 was clogged up on both the way there and the way back, RIP. Honestly pretty straightforward, I would label 'easy' if it didn't require ~1h10m total travel time for me to visit. Gray spitting rainy day in Minnesota today, and the rain continued when I pulled up into the parking lot. Made the last little trek to the (honestly quite nice and well-maintained) front park-ish area where the hash was, all in the rain, so I got a little bit wet. Honorable mention for Drowned Rat, I suppose! Exact hash site was no more than a couple feet off the polished stone walkway. I went up towards the Towers, snapped some photos including one of the confusing statue of Pegasus bucking a rider, and saw a man in a suit talking into a phone very business-like. Alas, I couldn't tarry because I had aforementioned class — I hurried back through traffic to my college and arrived only two minutes late. Huzzah! My first urban hash.

Photos

Although it has a polished corporate aesthetic, the architecture ain't too bad. I've seen much worse.
Approaching hash site from the west, looking north. Very few of the offices/tower complexes around here have a genuinely decent green space like this.
Through the trees.
Through the trees from the exact hash site.
Obligatory. Statistically speaking, someone in the buildings or nearby parking garage likely saw me doing this and must've been very confused.
Look Ma, I made it!
Didn't see any plaque so I'm calling this statue "Formula One Pegasus Racing".
At least they have the new MN flag.
Damp. Time to head home.

Achievements

Kyrkazakh earned the Two to the N achievement

by reaching 2¹ hashpoints on 2024-11-05 44 -93 and is promoted to Level 1 (Coordinates reached).

Kyrkazakh earned the Drowned Rat Geohash Honourable Mention

by reaching the (44, -93) geohash on 2024-11-05 despite being partially wet from puddle-hopping and a rain shower.

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 == Location ==
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 == Expedition ==
-[[User:Kyrkazakh|Kyrkazakh]]: success ~14:15 local time, will post full report later.
+I had time to kill after work but before my next class, so across the Twin Cities I went. Destination: Carlson Towers, part of a complex of buildings created (I think) for the company that owns Radisson and a couple other hotel chains. Interstate 94 was clogged up on both the way there and the way back, RIP. Honestly pretty straightforward, I would label 'easy' if it didn't require ~1h10m total travel time for me to visit. Gray spitting rainy day in Minnesota today, and the rain continued when I pulled up into the parking lot. Made the last little trek to the (honestly quite nice and well-maintained) front park-ish area where the hash was, all in the rain, so I got a little bit wet. Honorable mention for Drowned Rat, I suppose! Exact hash site was no more than a couple feet off the polished stone walkway. I went up towards the Towers, snapped some photos including one of the confusing statue of Pegasus bucking a rider, and saw a man in a suit talking into a phone very business-like. Alas, I couldn't tarry because I had aforementioned class — I hurried back through traffic to my college and arrived only two minutes late. Huzzah! My first urban hash.
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+Image:Carlson approach.jpeg | Although it has a polished corporate aesthetic, the architecture ain't too bad. I've seen much worse.
+Image:Carlson park.jpeg | Approaching hash site from the west, looking north. Very few of the offices/tower complexes around here have a genuinely decent green space like this.
+Image:Carlson towers trees.jpeg | Through the trees.
+Image:Carlson towers and tree.jpeg | Through the trees from the exact hash site.
+Image:Carlson thumbs up.jpeg | Obligatory. Statistically speaking, someone in the buildings or nearby parking garage likely saw me doing this and must've been very confused.
+Image:Carlson proof.PNG | Look Ma, I made it!
+Image:Carlson Pegasus.jpeg | Didn't see any plaque so I'm calling this statue "Formula One Pegasus Racing".
+Image:Carlson flags.jpeg | At least they have the new MN flag.
+Image:Carlson half drowned rat.jpeg | Damp. Time to head home.
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