2009-05-28 50 11

Thu 28 May 2009 in 50,11: 50.9109198, 11.7966617 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox

Location

Today's geo hash was located in a forest near the road between Waldeck and Bobeck.

Expedition: Manu

As I spent the evening before in Jena I thought the geohash would be easy to reach on my way to work in Leipzig in the morning. So I stood up half an hour earlier and until I parked my car on the side of the road only about 30 metres away from the hash point I even worried that it would be too easy! But this should not be the case. Immediately after entering the tight underbrush I stood at a very steep slope, which my GPS device told me to climb down. It was wet and muddy, but I tried to find a way down. When I finally made it within five metres to the hash point it began to drift away on the display due to the bad reception in the forest. I hurried to follow the signal climbing up the slope again, whereas I nearly lay down in the mud, until I reached the street again. Disappointed I reentered the forest, took some photos of me in the underbrush (unfortunately I forgot to bring my camera so I could only use my mobile phone and therefore photo quality is low), while the spot on the display was still wandering around me. Nevertheless I claim "coordinates reached". The note I brought with me to leave it for Reinhard like a few weeks ago I took back again, because I wasn't sure that he would find it in the evening. Furthermore I wanted to leave the shrubs quickly as I am always afraid of ticks - later I constantly thought something was crawling on my leg or neck, although I haven't found one yet. Did I mention that my shoes and trousers became very dirty - not really adequate for working in an office and cleanroom...

---Manu

Expedition: Reinhard

In the afternoon, while I was still at work, there were two heavy showers, which made me afraid that this one's going to become a Drowned Rat Geohash. But the weather got better and when I started from work at 6 pm even the sun was shining and many roads were dry, yet. After 19.4 km I arrived near the hashpoint at 6:42 pm, slipped plastic bags over my bike shoes and went into the copse. Quickly I got to the hashpoint, took some photos and got back to the bike.

I planned to take a small detour via Hermsdorf on my way back, but when I discovered that incredibly beautiful paved bike path through the Mühltal, which started in Bad Klosterlausnitz and lead to Kursdorf, I had to ride this one till the end, where I discovered another nice bike path going towards Gera, parallel to the major road B7. So this ended up in Gera, where I chose a road back to Hermsdorf that I hadn't tracked, yet, as well. After 102 km I was back at my working place at 10 pm to get my rucksack and ride the last 7 km home.

---Reinhard

Expedition: Jens & Uli (non-geohashers)

When you do strange things like chasing random points on maps in about 50km distance, people start to take notice. So I recently tried to explain the whole geohashing concept to two of my colleagues. One of them owns a little GPS gadget himself, so he seemed to be interested and found a nice point to go on Wednesday. I was still licking my wounds from last Sunday, it was windy and cloudy and everything, so I declined the invitation for a bike tour to the point and let them go themselves (last but not least, they both had half a day off and I went to work meanwhile). I hear they made it and maybe one of them will write something, give me a photo or tell me what to write about it ;) Might be a Puppet Master Geohash for me, but I think I don't like that concept too much, so I won't claim it :) ---Paintedhell

• Photo Gallery
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  The way to the hash point.

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  Blurred photo of my note on a tree in the shrubs.

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  Hashfox sitting on the car.

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  A really stupid and unfavourable picture.

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  The road between Waldeck and Bobeck, near the hashpoint.

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  Manu recommended me to wear plastic bags around my shoes when doing the muddy expedition. Thank you! :)

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  At the hashpoint (GPS drifting).

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  Me with less than a stupid grin.

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  Looks like someone entered the wood before, just 10 m from where I did.  ;-)