2010-09-24 51 1

Fri 24 Sep 2010 in Canterbury, UK: 51.9829422, 1.0410459 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox

Location

1) About a mile east of the village of East Bergholt and just south of the A12. It was in a sheep field.

Participants

Sourcerer - Arrived at about 18:56

MagicIan - Arrived around 21:20 and did not meet Sourcerer.

Expedition

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Sourcerer (Neil) made a 300 mile journey and took in five hashpoints. This was the first. It was a straightforward circular country walk past fields, across a stream and through a wood.

MagicIan drove 46 miles and parked on Cutler's Lane before walking the last half a mile to reach the hashpoint. When he did this he was quite excited as he mistakenly thought he would be reaching a virgin graticule. The walk itself was fairly uneventful. Even though it was pretty dark the moon provided some assistance and he could also use the pylons nearby to aid his navigation once he was off the footpath and onto the field.

Tracklog

Sourcerer's track is logged here at Wikiloc.

MagicIan didn't have a GPS device at the time and instead took photos of the 'view' from the hashpoint - mostly fuzzy outlines of trees in darkness!

Achievements

Neil believes this is the first documented expedition in the Canterbury graticule. It seems odd to claim this by visiting a point in Suffolk.

Congratulations from MagicIan to Sourcerer on his achievements, even if he was a little bitter about it at the time :-)

Photo Gallery

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  Sheep Field at Dusk

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  Sheep Field at Dusk

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  Google Earth Image

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  Google Earth Walk Track

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  Driving down Cutler's Lane

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  Where MagicIan left his car

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  The moon was quite bright

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  Part of the footpath

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  Sign indicating where to go

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  A barn in the field on the way there

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  Looking across the field

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  One of the pylons used for navigation

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  Looking SSE from the hashpoint

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  Looking west from the hashpoint

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  MagicIan at the hashpoint

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  Marker left on the fencepost at the edge of the field nearest the hashpoint

Expeditions and Plans

2010-09-24
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Cleveland, Ohio	jSchleappi, Teh Lauren	East Cleveland
Portland, Oregon	Michael5000, Jim	Somebody's driveway, in Sellwood.
Montréal, Québec	Alana, Danielle, Wesley, David	located next to a building on Avenue Fielding in Montréal.
Landshut, Germany	dawidi	In the Danube river south of Sinzing, a few kilometers upstream from Regens...
Vancouver, British Columbia	user:thepiguy	In the forest north of Roberts Creek.
Nowy Sącz, Poland	Felinator	In small forest in Wieliczka.
Erfurt, Germany	Mampfred, Rincewind	Right in the middle of Erfurt next to the University of Applied Science. Pe...
London West, United Kingdom	Sourcerer	3) A few hundred metres west of the village of Buckland.
London East, United Kingdom	Sourcerer	2) A few hundred metres north of the village of Anstey.
Canterbury, United Kingdom	Sourcerer, MagicIan	1) About a mile east of the village of East Bergholt and just south of the ...
Northampton, United Kingdom	Sourcerer	4) Between the goal posts on a mini soccer field in a children's play area....
Cambridge, United Kingdom	Sourcerer	5) 90 seconds before midnight - a grassy area between two houses east of Bo...
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Sourcerer's Expedition Links

2010-09-20_52_1 - 2010-09-24_51_1 - 2010-09-24_51_0 - KML file download of Sourcerer's expeditions for use with Google Earth.