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== Location ==
 
== Location ==
  
Adjacent to a baseball diamond in Coquitlam.
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Adjacent to a baseball diamond in Coquitlam. In Google satellite view there was construction next door so it was a but of an adventure, however Juventas had correctly deduced that the construction was a park expansion, meaning that it was a spot almost literally made for geohashing.
In Google satellite view there's construction next door so who knows what's there now...
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== Participants ==
 
== Participants ==
*[[user:Robyn|Robyn]] plans to go, probably with Wade and a dragalong, by car from Vancouver, one more seat available.
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* four more people whose chosen internet names I don't know
*[[user:Rhonda|Rhonda]] will be there, probably also in a car, and with Xore
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*[[User:Osmie|Osmie]]
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*[[user:Rhonda|Rhonda]]
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*[[user:Xore|Xore]]
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*[[user:Robyn|Robyn]]  
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*[[user:Wade|Wade]]
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* Dagny - Wade & Robyn's dragalong
  
 
== Plans ==
 
== Plans ==
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The geohash was so gloriously simple, in a real public park on a sunny day that the only plan posted was ...
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4PM, of course!
 
4PM, of course!
  
 
== Expedition ==
 
== Expedition ==
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===Robyn, Wade & Dagny===
 
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We have little to report beyond a pleasant Easter drive along the Barnett Highway to the park. We knew Rhonda and Xore would be there, so we looked for them as we walked along a park path towards the site. Eighteen metres away, a child sprang out and informed us that "if you're looking for something that's in the bushes, it's up there," pointing up a slope beside the path. We looked and then in the next pace we came face to face with a stranger who asked us if we were geohashing. It turned out to be no stranger to geohashing, but rather Osmie, who created many of the original graticule pages for our province, but this is the first geohash she has managed to reach. As soon as that introduction was complete, we found the rest of the group.
== Tracklog ==
 
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===Together===
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There were all together ten people, including two children, plus three hashcots, two chocolate cakes, three or four picnic blankets, a Twister set and lots of happy chatter. That, my friends, is how geohashing was meant to be.
 
== Photos ==  
 
== Photos ==  
 
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Location

Adjacent to a baseball diamond in Coquitlam. In Google satellite view there was construction next door so it was a but of an adventure, however Juventas had correctly deduced that the construction was a park expansion, meaning that it was a spot almost literally made for geohashing.


Participants

Plans

The geohash was so gloriously simple, in a real public park on a sunny day that the only plan posted was ...

4PM, of course!

Expedition

Robyn, Wade & Dagny

We have little to report beyond a pleasant Easter drive along the Barnett Highway to the park. We knew Rhonda and Xore would be there, so we looked for them as we walked along a park path towards the site. Eighteen metres away, a child sprang out and informed us that "if you're looking for something that's in the bushes, it's up there," pointing up a slope beside the path. We looked and then in the next pace we came face to face with a stranger who asked us if we were geohashing. It turned out to be no stranger to geohashing, but rather Osmie, who created many of the original graticule pages for our province, but this is the first geohash she has managed to reach. As soon as that introduction was complete, we found the rest of the group.

Together

There were all together ten people, including two children, plus three hashcots, two chocolate cakes, three or four picnic blankets, a Twister set and lots of happy chatter. That, my friends, is how geohashing was meant to be.

Photos

Achievements