Difference between revisions of "User:Ncbears"

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What We Are

Happily married couple
Love wildlife, esp. bears

Who We Are

Eisen & Bear
We claim the 36 -78 graticule as home.

Hashes Reached

35 -78 on 2009-03-07 - Consecutive/sunrise/trash-hash
35 -78 on 2009-03-06 - Quick hash after work
35 -77 on 2009-03-02 - Snowbear Geohash after work
36 -77 on 2009-02-22 - Rainy Geohash at our favorite State Park – Medoc Mt.
35 -75 on 2009-02-21 - Saturday Meet up at Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge
35 -76 on 2009-02-14 - Saturday Meet up virgin Viking picnic
35 -77 on 2009-02-14 - Easy as pi multi-Geohash
35 -78 on 2009-02-03 - Quick hash
36 -78 on 2009-02-02 - Formal Geotrash Geohash
36 -77 on 2009-01-31 - Saturday Meet up in the country
35 -78 on 2009-01-31 - Frozen sunrise
36 -78 on 2009-01-25 - Wet and muddy Geohash
36 -78 on 2009-01-18 - Midnight Speed Racer Geohash
36 -78 on 2009-01-17 - Saturday Meet up – Teddy Bear picnic with hot cocoa and cookies
35 -79 on 2009-01-16 - Frozen virgin GeoBear amongst the Raptor Traps
35 -77 on 2009-01-15 - Consecutive/Frozen/Circus/Squishy Geohash Madness
35 -77 on 2009-01-14 - Virgin graticule conquered after work
35 -78 on 2009-01-08 - Speed Racer through a residential hash
36 -77 on 2009-01-03 - Saturday Meet up at the lake
36 -75 on 2009-01-01 - Amazing New Year's geohash
36 -78 on 2008-12-27 - Our first geothorns

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(Courtesy of User:Hessophanes/Regiohashing)

Geohash Gallery

Achievements

Land

Ncbears earned the Land geohash achievement

by reaching the (36, -78) geohash on 2008-12-27.

All geohashes are Land unless otherwise indicated.

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Ribbons

Ncbears achieved level 4 of the Minesweeper Geohash achievement

by visiting coordinates in Henderson, North Carolina and 4 of the surrounding graticules.

Ncbears earned the Consecutive geohash achievement

by reaching 5 consecutive hash points starting on 2009-01-14.

Ncbears earned the Consecutive geohash achievement

by reaching 2 consecutive hash points starting on 2009-02-02.

Also 2009-02-21, 2009-02-22, and 2009-03-07

Ncbears earned the Multihash Achievement

by reaching the 2009-01-31 35 -78 and 2009-01-31 36 -77 geohashes on 2009-01-31.

Ncbears earned the Multihash Achievement

by reaching the 2009-02-14 35 -77 and 2009-02-14 35 -76 geohashes on 2009-02-14.

Ncbears earned the Reverse regional achievement

by reaching hash points in all 2 regions of the Henderson, North Carolina (36, -78) graticule.

Ncbears earned the Reverse regional achievement

by reaching hash points in all 2 regions of the Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina (36, -77) graticule.

Ncbears earned the xkcd Nullaturion achievement

by attending 5 Saturday meetups.

Ncbears earned the XKCD-100 Achievement

by reaching the (36, -77) geohash on 2009-01-31.

Also 2009-02-14 and 2009-02-21

NCBears earned the Déjà Vu Geohash Achievement

by reaching the (35, -75) geohash on 2009-02-21, and previously on 2003-06-14.

Ncbears earned the Premonition Geohash Achievement

by planning to go to that location one week prior to the announcement of the Geohash Coordinates.

This user earned the Sunrise Geohash Achievement

by reaching the (36, -75) geohash on 2009-01-01 to smile at the first rays of sun to cross the horizon.

Also 2009-01-31 and 2009-03-07

Ncbears earned the Midnight Geohash achievement

by reaching the (36, -78) geohash on 2009-01-18 in the middle of the night.

Ncbears earned the No Batteries Geohash Achievement

by reaching the (36, -77) geohash on 2009-01-03.

Also 2009-03-02

Ncbears earned the Velociraptor Geohash Achievement

by reaching the (35, -75) geohash for 2009-02-21 with highly visible raptor claw marks.

Ncbears earned the Police Geohash Achievement

by meeting an officer while attempting the (36, -77) geohash on 2009-02-22.

Ncbears earned the Drowned Rat Geohash Achievement

by reaching the (36, -77) geohash on 2009-02-22 despite being thoroughly wet from hiking for 1 hour in the pouring rain and wading across a stream.

This user earned the Frozen Geohash Achievement

by reaching the (35, -78) geohash on 2009-01-31 while the temperature was 23.5°F/-4.7°C.

Also 2009-01-16 at 27.3°F/-2.6°
Also 2009-01-15 at 28.4°F/-2.0°
Also 2009-01-01 at 30.6°F/-0.8°C

Ncbears earned the Snowman Geohash Achievement

by building a snowman at the (35, -77) geohash on 2009-03-02.

Ncbears has visited an Easy Geohash

by reaching the (35, -77) geohash on 2009-02-14 without really trying.

Ncbears earned the GeoTrash Geohash Achievement

by cleaning up the (36, -78) geohash on 2009-01-25.

Also 2009-01-17, 2009-02-02, 2009-02-21, and 2009-03-07

NCBears earned the Speed racer achievement

by passing through the (35, -78) geohash on 2009-01-08 at the maximum legal speed.

Also 2009-01-18 36 -78

Ncbears earned the Formal attire achievement

by looking good at the (36, -75) geohash on 2009-01-01.

Also 2009-02-02

This user earned the Buccaneer Geohash Achievement

by pillaging the coast of NC dressed as Vikings at the (35, -76) geohash on 2009-02-14.

Ncbears earned the Picnic achievement

by eating a Valentine’s Day picnic at the (35, -76) geohash on 2009-02-14.

Ncbears earned the Circus Geohash Achievement

by spinning poi at the (35, -77) geohash on 2009-01-15.

Ncbears earned the First Sip GeoSquishy Achievement

by enjoying a slushy carbonated beverage at the (35, -77) geohash on 2009-01-15.

Ncbears earned the 5 Star GeoSquishy Achievement

by earning 5 stars all at the (35, -77) geohash on 2009-01-15.

Honorable Mention

Ncbears earned the Déjà vu Geohash Honorable Mention

by being within ½ mile from the 2009-02-22 36 -77 hash while hiking on 2006-07-07.

NCBears earned the Hash Collision Honorable Mention by finding the GCGF7E geocache 298 meters from the 2009-01-01 36 -75 hashpoint.

Proof of Hash Collision

Ncbears at the Geocache.
Garmin Track Mapping
Goggle Earth Screenshot

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 ==Hashes Reached==
+*[[Raleigh, North Carolina|35 -78]] on [[2009-03-07 35 -78|2009-03-07]] - Consecutive/sunrise/trash-hash
 *[[Raleigh, North Carolina|35 -78]] on [[2009-03-06 35 -78|2009-03-06]] - Quick hash after work
 *[[Greenville, North Carolina|35 -77]] on [[2009-03-02 35 -77|2009-03-02]] - Snowbear Geohash after work
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 {{consecutive geohash | count = 5 | latitude = 35 | longitude = -77 | date = 2009-01-14 | name = Ncbears}}
 {{consecutive geohash | count = 2 | latitude = 36 | longitude = -78 | date = 2009-02-02 | name = Ncbears}}
-*Also [[2009-02-21_35_-75]] and [[2009-02-22_36_-77]]
+*Also [[2009-02-21_35_-75|2009-02-21]], [[2009-02-22_36_-77|2009-02-22]], and [[2009-03-07_35_-78|2009-03-07]]
 {{Multihash | latitude1 = 35 | longitude1 = -78 | latitude2 = 36 | longitude2 = -77 | date = 2009-01-31 | name = Ncbears | image = 01_31_09_Location_001.jpg }}
 {{Multihash | latitude1 = 35 | longitude1 = -77 | latitude2 = 35 | longitude2 = -76 | date = 2009-02-14 | name = Ncbears | image = 02_14_09_35_76_Location_Multihash_060.jpg}}
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 {{Sunrise geohash|latitude=36|longitude=-75|date=2009-01-01|image=01_01_09_Sunrise_Geohash_N36_W75_2.jpg}}
-*Also [[2009-01-31 35 -78|2009-01-31]]
+*Also [[2009-01-31 35 -78|2009-01-31]] and [[2009-03-07_35_-78|2009-03-07]]
 {{Midnight geohash|latitude=36|longitude=-78|date=2009-01-18|name=Ncbears|image=01_18_09_Midnight_Geohash_009.jpg}}
 {{No_batteries_geohash | latitude = 36 | longitude = -77 | date = 2009-01-03 | name = Ncbears | image = 2009_01_03_N36_W77_Geohash_Map.jpg}}
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 {{Geotrash | latitude = 36 | longitude = -78 | date = 2009-01-25 | name = Ncbears | image = 01_25_09_Geohash_Geotrash_040.jpg }}
-*Also [[2009-01-17 36 -78|2009-01-17]] , [[2009-02-02 36 -78|2009-02-02]] , and [[2009-02-21 35 -75|2009-02-21]]
+*Also [[2009-01-17 36 -78|2009-01-17]], [[2009-02-02 36 -78|2009-02-02]], [[2009-02-21 35 -75|2009-02-21]], and [[2009-03-07_35_-78|2009-03-07]]
 {{Speed Racer geohash | latitude = 35 | longitude = -78 | date = 2009-01-08 | name = NCBears | image = 2009_01_08_Fuzzy_Speedracer.jpg}}
 *Also [[2009-01-18 36 -78]]