2009-09-18 41 -70

Fri 18 Sep 2009 in 41,-70: 41.5926445, -70.4863695 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox

After the nice international meetup the day before Manu and Reinhard traveled to Cape Cod. There they spent the night at a motel and rent road bikes to explore the Cape. When Juja sent the coordinates by SMS, the two drove their first kilometers on the Cape Cod Rail Trail to the north - thus into the completely wrong direction. Nevertheless they did not turn around, but drove until Provincetown, sat at the fine sand beach and enjoyed the area (with its many unexpected ascents). Only against 5 pm they returned to the bike shop. The car was waiting and they decided to do a small detour on their way back to Boston. Unfortunately there were a lot of traffic jams, but after a while they arrived in Mashpee. Unfortunately the way near the geohash was only built of sand. First Reinhard tried to drive there, but soon he saw that this was senseless and drove instead carefully backwards back towards the main street. Geohash expeditions like this one must be the reason for the fact that so many Americans drive pickup trucks! So Manu and Reinhard had to walk about half a mile, before they entered the brushwood. Around them they heard scary noises and the branches scratched their skin, but finally they made it to the hash. Quickly some photos were taken and the hashers hurried back to the car, where Wischi already waited for them as he did not want to come along earlier. Together they got back to Boston in the evening and left the US the next day. It was a great time with great geo hashes.

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  Tourists on Cape Cod Rail Trail ...

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  ... and on the fine sand beaches ...

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  ... at the Atlantic coast.

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  Where the sandy hash way begins.

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  It's not easy to move forward ...

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  ... without a pickup truck.

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  Kind of mark where the brushwood had to be entered.

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  Reinhard (look for his sunglasses!) at the exact geo hash.

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  Geohash only 1 m away - coordinates reached.

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  Cool grinning geo hashers at the end of their vacation.

Achievements

Manu and Reinhard achieved level 3 of the Minesweeper Geohash achievement by visiting coordinates in Lynn, Massachusetts and 3 of the surrounding graticules.

Manu and Reinhard earned the Consecutive geohash achievement by reaching 2 consecutive hash points starting on 2009-09-17.

Manu and Reinhard earned the Globetrotter achievement by visiting hashpoints on 2 continents.