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I saw that the New Year's Eve and New Year's Day hashpoints for this graticule were easy to get to and only a few miles, so I had to try for a [[Consecutive_geohash_achievement|Consecutive Geohash Achievement]]
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'''RocketMac''': I saw that the New Year's Eve and New Year's Day hashpoints for this graticule were easy to get to and only a few miles, so I had to try for a [[Consecutive_geohash_achievement|Consecutive Geohash Achievement]]
  
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'''RocketMac'''
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After the weekly visit to [http://alterracoffee.com Alterra] with the wife, I headed out for the hashpoint.
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I arrived amidst flakes of snow falling and cold, blowing wind. I had previously found a cache in this area, so I knew the layout. Oddly, the cache was gone, but there was another one nearby.
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I made my way to the hashpoint and snapped a few pictures. From there I wandered over to the [http://coord.info/GCYVQP cache] which was resting comfortably in a end-of-road barrier. Is it poetic irony that during a cold, snowy day, I find a cache at the hashpoint called "Imperial Probe Droid: Ice Planet Hoth" or what?
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My car was in desperate need of gas and I had another errand to run, so I stopped at a gas station. There they had a squishy machine! Since it wasn't technically within sight of the hashpoint, and I don't really care for squishes, I opted for a Pepsi instead. During the "Cola Wars" of the '80s, I was a solider on the side of Pepsi. Based on my consumption over the last couple of decades, I'm pretty sure I'm a Colonel by now.
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After my errands, I went home. Just in time for the snow to start really flaking out there.
  
 
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RocketMac's log is available in [http://coldshadow.com/geohashing/2012-01-01.gpx GPX] and [http://coldshadow.com/geohashing/2012-01-01.kmz KMZ] formats
  
 
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Image:2012-01-01_42_-87_01.jpg | Stupid Grin
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Image:2012-01-01_42_-87_02.jpg | Hashpoin nt with GPS on screen
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Image:2012-01-01_42_-87_03.jpg | Nearby cache
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Image:2012-01-01_42_-87_04.jpg | At the cache
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Image:2012-01-01_42_-87_05.jpg | The cache
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Image:2012-01-01_42_-87_06.jpg | Poetic Irony?
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Image:2012-01-01_42_-87_07.jpg | Squishy Substitute?
 
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| latitude = 42
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| description = finding [http://coord.info/GCYVQP Imperial Probe Droid: Ice Planet Hoth] at a snowy, freezing hashpoint
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Revision as of 20:36, 1 January 2012

Sun 1 Jan 2012 in 42,-87:
42.9703208, -87.9891393
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Location

A park near a geocache and only 4+/- miles from yesterday's cache.

Participants

Plans

RocketMac: I saw that the New Year's Eve and New Year's Day hashpoints for this graticule were easy to get to and only a few miles, so I had to try for a Consecutive Geohash Achievement

Expedition

RocketMac

After the weekly visit to Alterra with the wife, I headed out for the hashpoint.

I arrived amidst flakes of snow falling and cold, blowing wind. I had previously found a cache in this area, so I knew the layout. Oddly, the cache was gone, but there was another one nearby.

I made my way to the hashpoint and snapped a few pictures. From there I wandered over to the cache which was resting comfortably in a end-of-road barrier. Is it poetic irony that during a cold, snowy day, I find a cache at the hashpoint called "Imperial Probe Droid: Ice Planet Hoth" or what?

My car was in desperate need of gas and I had another errand to run, so I stopped at a gas station. There they had a squishy machine! Since it wasn't technically within sight of the hashpoint, and I don't really care for squishes, I opted for a Pepsi instead. During the "Cola Wars" of the '80s, I was a solider on the side of Pepsi. Based on my consumption over the last couple of decades, I'm pretty sure I'm a Colonel by now.

After my errands, I went home. Just in time for the snow to start really flaking out there.

RocketMac's log is available in GPX and KMZ formats

RocketMac

  • Stupid Grin

  • Hashpoin nt with GPS on screen

  • Nearby cache

  • At the cache

  • The cache

  • Poetic Irony?

  • Squishy Substitute?

Landgeohash.png
 RocketMac earned the Land geohash achievement
by reaching the (42, -87) geohash on 2012-01-01.
Consecutivegeohash.jpg
 RocketMac earned the Consecutive geohash achievement
by reaching 2 consecutive hash points starting on 2011-12-31.
IfJuliaStilesIsAHackerImJesusChrist.png
 RocketMac earned the Poetic Irony Award
by finding Imperial Probe Droid: Ice Planet Hoth at a snowy, freezing hashpoint (42, -87) geohash on 2012-01-01.


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