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==Location==
 
==Location==
It's reachable! Thank god, we're saved!
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In what appears to be a farmers field in Nanaimo on Vancouver Island.
  
 
==Planning==
 
==Planning==
Robyn has declared in advance that she will attend this geohash, even if it takes two days to get there.
 
 
:thepiguy has also committed himself to the adventure and will begin preparing shortly.
 
 
On Thursday I will prepare everything I could conceivably need for a Vancouver geohash. That means bike, kayak, wetsuit, hiking boots, ferry schedules, T-Rex, bear repellent, ambassador letter, compass, GPS and camera batteries and spares charged, games, chalk, tent, sleeping bag, stove, food, and <strike>somewhere I can rent</strike> snowshoes borrowed from thepiguy.
 
 
Then at 6:30 a.m. on Friday, I will check the coordinates. If they are in a remote area I will spend at least an hour planning and researching routes, before I set off in search of the geohash.
 
 
Vancouver must not defy me!
 
 
==Actual Planning==
 
I see two (rather large) problem areas: the middle of the Georgia Straight and the northern quarter of the graticule. Just wondering what our crazy-ridiculous plans for those two eventualities were? How much was it to rent a plane? [[User:Thepiguy|Thepiguy]] 05:30, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
 
 
*for the Straight: My brother has a boat with a motor on it, which he has suggested in the past that I could borrow, and I have a boat licence which took much less training (and verifies far less skill) than a pilot licence does. I'm not sure how fast the boat goes, but I know I've motorboated in a smaller craft from the mouth of the Fraser to Langley and back in one day, so two days should be enough to get to anywhere in our graticule.
 
*for the northern quarter of the graticule: that's what the snowshoes, extra day and first aid equipment are for! -[[User:Robyn|Robyn]] 05:40, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
 
 
This is one of those moments where I try to decide who is more insane: The person planning the ill-advised-possibly-fatal-adventure, or the person willing to follow the previous person on the ill-advised-possibly-fatal-adventure. [[User:Thepiguy|Thepiguy]] 05:48, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
 
 
I asked Wade. He says "following". Isn't it unbelievable what can happen within 70 miles of downtown Vancouver? -[[User:Robyn|Robyn]] 05:58, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
 
 
<nowiki>*opens mouth to protest*</nowiki> Meh, who cares. Let's have an adventure! [[User:Thepiguy|Thepiguy]] 06:08, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
 
  
 
==Participants==
 
==Participants==
*[[User:Robyn|Robyn]] started this.
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*[[User:Robyn|Robyn]] who started [Talk:2009-04-18 49 -123|this.]]
*[[User:thepiguy|thepiguy]] said he would come, and bring has access to the following equipment:
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*[[User:thepiguy|thepiguy]] who was very relieved that he wouldn't have to hike half way to Whistler.
:*First Aid supplies (and the training to use them)
 
:*Snow shoes (two pairs)
 
:*Bear spray and bear bells (no being eaten)
 
:*Excessive amounts of camping equipment (a shipping container full in-fact)
 
[[Category:Expedition planning]]
 

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Location

In what appears to be a farmers field in Nanaimo on Vancouver Island.

Planning

Participants

  • Robyn who started [Talk:2009-04-18 49 -123|this.]]
  • thepiguy who was very relieved that he wouldn't have to hike half way to Whistler.