User:Koepfel

Hi there

36 / m / 49,8

I live in Karlsruhe, Germany, so I'm most active in 49,8 and 48,8.

I was an occasional xkcd-reader for a while now, but never bothered to read it from the beginning. In January 2009 I did, however, discovering Geohashing. The fact that I just got a phone with built-in GPS came in handy as well. On the following weekend, I saw that the Sunday Geohash was only 2 kilometers away from my place, so I decided to go there.

my Expeditions

(most recent first)		Achievements	Distance travelled / km	Duration
2009-04-24 49 8 to Insheim, missed Fivetonsofflax and Euterkuh by a couple of minutes	Pictures		75.7 total, 70.9 by tram/train, 4,8 by foot	3h 45min
Double Hash on 2009-04-18	Pictures		206.3 total, 169.0 by tram/train, 37.3 by bike	8h 40min
2009-04-18 49 8 to Kürnbach			87.8 total, 78.7 by tram/train, 9.1 by bike	3h 10min
2009-04-18 49 7 to Niederschlettenbach			118.5 total, 90.3 by tram/train, 28.2 by bike	5h 30min
2009-04-07 49 8 to Rußheim	Pictures		83.3 total, 75.3 by tram/train/bus, 8.0 by foot	4h 05min
2009-04-05 48 8 to Karlsruhe-Grünwettersbach, met Fluxkompensator	Pictures		27.0 by bike	4h 50min
2009-03-30 48 8 to Lauterbourg, France, met Fluxkompensator	Pictures		55.3 total, 46.8 by tram/train, 8.5 by foot	5h 05min
2009-03-16 49 8 to Oberhausen-Rheinhausen	Pictures		61.1	3h 05min
2009-03-04 48 8 to Baden-Baden	Pictures		89.0 total, 82.3 by tram/train/bus, 6.7 by foot	4h 50min
2009-03-02 49 8 to Flehingen - fail due to unexpectedly rescheduled exam			n/a	n/a
2009-02-14 48 8 to Iffezheim	Pictures		83.2	4h 15min
2009-01-31 48 8 to Neuburg am Rhein	Pictures		49.0 total, 43.3 by tram/train, 5.7 by foot	3h 20min
2009-01-25 49 8 to Karlsruhe-Waldstadt, met Fluxkompensator	Pictures		8.4 total, 6.7 by tram/bus, 1.7 by foot	1h 10min
		total>	740.3	42h 05min

Most distances of older expeditions were measured by retracing the route as I remembered it in Google Earth, the first two expeditions to Waldstadt and Neuburg were even retraced weeks after the expeditions took place, so these might not always be accurate.

Achievements

Koepfel earned the Multihash Achievement by reaching the 2009-04-18 49 7 and 2009-04-18 49 8 geohashes on 2009-04-18.

Koepfel earned the Drowned Rat Geohash Achievement by reaching the (49, 7) geohash on 2009-04-18 despite being thoroughly wet from biking about 30 kilometers through pouring rain. He was still soaked on the following 2009-04-18 49 8 expedition.

Koepfel earned the Bicycle geohash achievement by cycling to the (48, 8) geohash on 2009-04-05.

Koepfel earned the Reverse regional achievement by reaching hash points in all 3 regions of the Pforzheim, Germany (48, 8) graticule.

Koepfel earned the Border geohash achievement by crossing the French-German border on 2009-03-30 to reach the (48, 8) geohash.

and crossed the same border again on one other expedition

Koepfel earned the GeoTrash Geohash Achievement by cleaning up the (49, 8) geohash on 2009-03-16.

Koepfel earned the It's a kitty consolation prize by being so distracted by a unexpectedly rescheduled exam as to forget to go to the (49, 8) geohash on 2009-03-02.

Koepfel earned the Snowman Geohash Achievement by building a snowman at the (48, 8) geohash on 2009-02-14.

Koepfel earned the Déjà Vu Geohash Achievement by reaching the (49, 8) geohash on 2009-01-25, and previously on 2008-09-05.

Koepfel earned the Meet-up achievement by meeting Fluxkompensator at the (49, 8) geohash on 2009-01-25.

and met him on 2 other expeditions

Koepfel earned the Land geohash achievement by reaching the (49, 8) geohash on 2009-01-25.

and has reached 9 other Hashpoints on Land

Koepfel earned the Public transport geohash achievement by reaching the (49, 8) geohash on 2009-01-25 via Karlsruhe Tram Line 4.

and has reached 6 other Hashpoints by public transport