2012-01-19 50 11

Thu 19 Jan 2012 in 50,11: 50.9492864, 11.5292310 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox

Location

In the forest near "Carl August" between Jena and Isserstedt and, of course, on top of the hill.

Participants

• Juja and Hans

Expedition

After I discovered that today's hash would be at only 6 kms distance from my home and "practically on my way to work" (according to Manu), one of my first thoughts was 'Why not try a Sunrise geohash?' Well, there's one good point against this plan: I am an incredible sleepyhead. But it's almost the middle of winter, so chances were that sunrise would occur at a quite reasonable time even for my standards. I looked it up: 8:04. Ok, that's still early, but could be possible.

Anyway the weather forecast predicted lots of rain and I decided not to get up early for the hash if it would be too wet in the morning. In fact, I really hoped for some heavy rain that would grant me another hour of sleep. Fail! The morning night was nice, so I got ready for geohashing.

I had cycled about 5 minutes (I will not label them "quiet", because obviously all the world is driving through town at this absurd time of day) before it started to rain - yeah of course, with every geohash there's another proof of Murphy's Law... but since this might have been my one and only chance to ever get this achievement, I decided to ride on anyway.

The almost direct way I had picked on OSM was easy to find (even in darkness/dawn) but impossible to ride with my bike, so I pushed it over the lots of wet wood until I reached a better way and got to the geohash point almost 10 minutes before sunrise. Since it was raining a lot and the sky was full of black clouds the sun could not really be seen, but let's just imagine it was there.

After I had marked the spot, taken some photos and waited the necessary 8 mins for sunrise, I got back on my bike and cycled to work on a better way I just found. I arrived quite wet but astonishingly happy and - wide awake! Successful sunrise hash, yaaay!

Photos

Proof of location - I was there...   ...right on time - 8 minutes to sunrise!   The exciting surroundings of the Geohash. Hmm.   Hans sitting in the wet underwoods.   Marked the way near the Geohash point.   On my way home: this might well become the ugliest day of January.