2009-09-13 50 -1

Sun 13 Sep 2009 in 50,-1: 50.8275947, -1.0597134 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox

Location

Very close to Hilsea train station in Portsmouth. Looks like a field of a recreation centre.

This is an easily accessible geohash in a public place, ideal for a first-time geohash! (hint, hint!)

It's not immediately obvious, but after studying the satellite view for a while, i have determined that this is probably the easiest route to take from the train station to the geohash.

Walking route from Hilsea train station to the geohash.

Thank you to gmap-pedometer.

Participants

• Sermoa - confirmed
• Macronencer - confirmed
• Maoi-taoi - confirmed

Plans

Sermoa will take the train and be at the geohash for 4pm, with my google pin in the ground and wearing an xkcd tshirt. I'll bring food, drink, playing cards, juggling balls, astrojax (if i can find them!), ukelele and xaphoon. I will tweet my progress by text on the hashtag #geohashingN50W1 and i encourage others to do the same. I've never stopped in Hilsea before so i'm quite looking forward to having a little look around either before or after the geohash.

Can anyone think of a good way to leave a non-permanent marker of the event? carefully arranged sticks might work ...

• Could we borrow one of those things that paints the white lines? It would be like that bit in the Vision On titles... oops, showing my age :| Seriously, sticks would work, but you might want to gather them beforehand. I can't really think of anything else that would stay in place without damaging anything (except very small stones). --macronencer 23:03, 11 September 2009 (UTC)

Macronencer I'll be arriving between 3pm and 4pm by train. I'm bringing supplies to try an idea for an unusual marker - let's hope the ground is soft!

Maoi-taoi I live in Southsea so i'm going to leave at about 3pm and walk up there. Not sure how long it will take but i'm aiming to get there about 4pm. This is my first geohash (i wanted to do it a couple of months ago but it was an unlucky day and i didn't feel like swimming the channel), i'm looking forward to it =P

Expedition

Macronencer

I'll be posting a report later, plus a video I hope. My thanks to Sermoa, and also to Maoi-taoi for being the first unexpected person to show up and say hello at one of my geohashes. That's what it's about, folks! :)

Photos

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  A friendly train driver

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  Hilsea Station

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  Hash point seen from the railway bridge, with Spinnaker Tower in the distance

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  A nice walk down the path towards the recreation centre

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  Game in progress. Luckily they finished just as Sermoa arrived

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  Co-ordinates reached

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  Verifying the position of the google pin

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  Monica taking in the bigness of the field

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  Monica and Chuck at the hash point

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  The sign that explains why we're there

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  Some sticks we put in the ground...

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  Now they make more sense :)

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  Everyone photographs The Sticks

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  Yay!

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  Macronencer in goal (such a fake, I can't play footie at all)

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  CAKE!

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  picnic! :)

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  Mmm...

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  Nom nom nom

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  Maoi-taoi goes for his Circus Geohash achievement!

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  Infinite goalposts

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  Sermoa and Maoi-taoi wave to Macronencer as he gets an earlier train

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  Maoi-taoi spins fire ...

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  ... and attracts a small audience!

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  Oh look, someone's noticed the sticks!

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  Everyone comes to have a look from the right angle

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  We took the sticks out before we left, and laid them on the ground like this

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  One last look at the geohash field, seen from Hilsea station

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  As i went through Hedge End on my way home i remembered another geohash that i did there when i first met Mike!

Achievements

Maoi-taoi earned the Circus Geohash Achievement by spinning a fire staff and attracting an audience at the (50, -1) geohash on 2009-09-13.