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== Past Expeditions ==
 
== Past Expeditions ==

Revision as of 21:43, 8 March 2009

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Introduction

Warning: May contain nuts.

Ekorren - that's the european brown squirrel, scientifically sciurus vulgaris. Jumps around, collects various stuff, hides things and never finds all of it again.

I found the link to geohashing on some geocaching forum. Ok, I thought, so there's something even more crazy, so let's try it ;) Then I read all of the past XKCD comics and suddenly felt at home. Given that my list of regularily read webcomics is all but short there's really no excuse that I didn't find XKCD earlier.

For a spontanous expedition bicycle will be the only reasonable mode of transport for me, so I'm somehow restricted to the nearer surroundings of my home coordinates which are roughly N 48°31' E 9°3', as well as weather-restricted. Though, the first geohash I visited was far away from home...

Statistics

successful failed
Expeditions total 21 2
- Longtrekbadge.png saturday 4 pm 3
Graticules 5
- Cherry2.PNG virgin graticules 3
Countries 3
- virgin countries 1
Expeditions by type of transport:
- Walk.PNG foot -
- Bikegeohash.png bike 13 2 (+1**)
- Bus.PNG public transport 8
Reasons for failure:
- Notrespassing.gif No access 1 (+1*)
- Trainwreck.png Transportation failure 0 (+1**)
- 24px Mother nature 1

* Plan B failed: Turned into MNB on second approach.

** Plan B worked: Reached the hash by public transport instead.

Past Expeditions

Date Grat. Transport Comments
2008-10-28 49 6 Bus.PNGWalk.PNG Border.PNGCherry2.PNGMinesweeper geohash flag.png On a meadow near Fentange, south of Luxembourg. Virgin graticule and virgin country.
2008-11-15 48 9 Bikegeohash.png Longtrekbadge.pngMinesweeper geohash flag.png Near Kusterdingen, on a field. Saturday 4 pm, but didn't meet anyone as nick_mz was late and I didn't expect anyone to come.
2008-11-18 48 9 Bikegeohash.png Dejavu.pngLastmanstanding.png Reutlingen, on a cycle path between Ohmenhausen and the city centre. Déjà vu geohash and probably the only expedition worldwide on that date.
2008-11-19 48 9 Bikegeohash.png Consecutivegeohash.jpg Wannweil, at Gärtnerei Hespeler.
2008-11-22 48 9 Bikegeohash.png Longtrekbadge.pngMeetup.PNGFrozen.pngSnowman2.png Tübingen, Rammert forest, near Hofgut Eck. A XKCD'ish snowman (no eyes!) was built and I met nick_mz.
2008-11-26 48 8 Bus.PNGWalk.PNG Cherry2.PNGMeetup.PNGMinesweeper geohash flag.png Pforzheim, in front of the slaughterhouse. Met Danatar.
2008-11-29 48 9 Bikegeohash.png Frozen.png30px Sonnenbühl-Genkingen, Öschenbachtal. Ice and slope is a bad combination.
2008-12-12 48 9 Bikegeohash.png Frozen.png30px St. Johann-Würtingen, with a lot of snow getting in my way.
2008-12-15 48 9 Bikegeohash.png Notrespassing.gif Hattenhofen, failed due to fenced area, and there was noone I could ask to be let in.
2008-12-17 48 9 Bikegeohash.png Frozen.pngSnowman2.png Reutlingen, and once more too much ice and snow
2008-12-27 48 9 Bus.PNGWalk.PNG Frozen.png Dettenhausen, in the Schönbuch forest
2009-01-02 49 10 Bus.PNGWalk.PNG Frozen.pngMinesweeper geohash flag.png Satteldorf-Gröningen, in a strange tree plantation
2009-01-03 48 8 Bikegeohash.png Longtrekbadge.pngFrozen.pngConsecutivegeohash.jpgCompass.jpg Rottenburg am Neckar
2009-01-04 48 8 Bikegeohash.png Frozen.pngConsecutivegeohash.jpg Rottenburg-Ergenzingen
2009-01-07 48 9 Bikegeohash.png Frozen.pngSnowman2.png Pliezhausen-Rübgarten, in the Schönbuch forest
2009-01-10 48 8 Bus.PNGWalk.PNG Frozen.png Muggensturm
2009-01-12 48 8 Bus.PNGWalk.PNG Frozen.pngBorder.PNGReverseRegional.pngMeetup.PNG Lauterbourg (France), a long walk with Ilpadre
2009-01-26 48 9 Bikegeohash.png Metzingen, another forest
2009-01-28 48 8 Bikegeohash.png Frozen.png Rottenburg-Bieringen
2009-02-13 48 8 Bikegeohash.png Trainwreck.png Horb-Hohenberg, approach by bike failed because of torn tyre
Bus.PNGWalk.PNG Frozen.png second approach by train and bus succeeded
2009-02-22 51 10 Bus.PNGWalk.PNG Cherry2.PNGMeetup.PNGMinesweeper geohash flag.png Ottersberg, near a minor road between some unexpected water. Met Danatar, Dawidi, Hans, Thomcat and Tomcat.
2009-03-01 48 8 Bikegeohash.png Hechingen-Weilheim, not an easy approach
2009-03-08 48 8 Bikegeohash.png Notrespassing.gif30px Schönbuch near Ammerbuch-Breitenholz, game reserve area and the wrong kind of snow.

How I use the symbols in this table

Achievements

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Bus.PNG
Ekorren earned the Public transport geohash achievement
by reaching the (49, 6) geohash on 2008-10-28 via rail and bus.
DB-650.0-at-night.jpg
Landgeohash.png
Ekorren earned the Land geohash achievement
by reaching the (49, 6) geohash on 2008-10-28.
GH281008.49.6.ekorren.jpg
Hashcollision.png
Ekorren earned the Hash collision honorable mention
by discovering the geocache GC11ZMH ca. 600 m from the (49, 6) geohash on 2008-10-28.
Bikegeohash.png
Ekorren earned the Bicycle geohash achievement
by cycling to the (48, 9) geohash on 2008-11-15.
20081115-48-9-View.jpg
Lastmanstanding.png
Ekorren earned the Last Man standing achievement
by being the the only hasher world-wide to go on a geohashing expedition on 2008-11-18.
2008-11-18-48-9-Marker1.jpg
Consecutivegeohash.jpg
Ekorren earned the Consecutive geohash achievement
by reaching 2 consecutive hash points starting on 2008-11-18.
Snowman2.png
Ekorren and Nick_mz earned the Snowman Geohash Achievement
by building a snowman at the (48, 9) geohash on 2008-11-22.
2008-11-22-48-9-snowman.jpg
Meetup.PNG
Ekorren almost earned the Meet-up achievement
by meeting Nick_mz, but without photographic proof, at the (48, 9) geohash on 2008-11-22.
Meetup.PNG
Ekorren earned the Meet-up achievement
by meeting Danatar at the (48, 8) geohash on 2008-11-26.
2008-11-26 48 8 hp.jpg

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Frozen.png
Ekorren earned the Frozen Geohash Achievement
by reaching the (48, 9) geohash on 2008-12-12 while the temperature was around -3. This was the third sub zero hash where he couldn't bring an accurate thermometre, but this time it didn't get above zero the whole day anywhere in the area...
2008-12-12 48 9 Marker.jpg
Notrespassing.gif
Ekorren earned the No trespassing consolation prize
by almost reaching the (48, 9) geohash on 2008-12-15.
Compass.jpg
Ekorren earned the No Batteries Geohash Achievement
by reaching the (48, 8) geohash on 2009-01-03.
2009-01-03 48 8 Clock.jpg
Regionalhashingsimple.png
Ekorren earned the Regional geohashing achievement
by reaching a hash point in all 2 graticules belonging to Landkreis Tübingen.
Wappen Landkreis Tuebingen.png
Consecutivegeohash.jpg
Ekorren earned the Consecutive geohash achievement
by reaching 3 consecutive hash points starting on 2009-01-02.
Border.PNG
Ekorren earned the Border geohash achievement
by crossing the Germany-France border on 2009-01-12 to reach the (48, 8) geohash.
2009-01-12 48 8 Bordersign.jpg

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ReverseRegional.png
Ekorren earned the Reverse regional achievement
by reaching hash points in all 2 regions of the Pforzheim, Germany (48, 8) graticule.

Template:Virgin graticuleTemplate:Mnb geohash

Minesweeper geohash empty.png Minesweeper geohash empty.png Minesweeper geohash flag.png
Minesweeper geohash flag.png Minesweeper geohash 2.png Minesweeper geohash empty.png
Minesweeper geohash empty.png Minesweeper geohash empty.png Minesweeper geohash empty.png
Ekorren achieved level 2 of the Minesweeper Geohash achievement
by visiting coordinates in Stuttgart, Germany and 2 of the surrounding graticules.
Centurion0.png
Ekorren earned the xkcd Nullaturion achievement
by attending 3 Saturday meetups.


For the following achievements the rules had to be stretched a bit, usually because of insufficient proof. I put the ribbons here anyway but don't insist on counting them, and will definitely try to replace them.

Dejavu.png
Ekorren knows he earned the Déjà Vu Geohash Achievement
by reaching the (48, 9) geohash on 2008-11-18, and previously on several occasions, but the proof is a bit weak.
2008-11-18-48-9-Path.jpg

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I can't decide whether 2008-11-29_48_9 and 2008-12-12_48_9 qualify for a MNIMB. They were both made difficult by snow, ice, and a terrain that provides generally no easy trails. After careful examination I came to the conclusion that they beat some of the existing MNIMB hashes but are themselves still beaten by quite a number of others which leave me humble and in awe. I'll take the ribbon for now.

Tools

I run another of those online hashing tools, built to contain everything important on a glance and work on virtually every device not entirely uncapable of browsing. See here.

GPS for sale

2009-02-07: I just ordered myself a replacement for the old first generation Garmin Etrex (yellow) which I had in use on my expeditions so far. It's neither a new or a very good one, nor does it look like new (after all, it is an outdoor model), but it was sufficient to decide for a spot, track a way (with a few precautions), and also find most of the caches I searched with it yet.

Postage is affordable to everywhere. About the price, that still needs some research. To be honest, these things are sold on ebay for more than they are IMHO worth, and I need the money, so the price I would get there is kind of a guideline - minus the fees, of course. On the other hand, unlike the average ebay seller, I'm willing to share experiences and advice how to get the most out of it, and possibly throw in a piece of rebuilt electronic scrap that happens to work as a serial data cable if you don't feel like building that yourself. These cables cost a fortune alone if you buy them from Garmin.

Please contact me by mail if interested. --Ekorren 23:18, 7 February 2009 (UTC)