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I found out about geohashing from the XKCD blog talking about the Antarctica global hash. I've actually done a couple of Geocaches in the past, and I found out about those through my high school Latin IV teacher, who made it our final project to hide a series of Geocaches that somehow lead you through something Classics-related. But even though I've known about those since 2007, I never heard of geohashing until November 2012.

I was born in 1990 in Moscow, in the Moscow graticule in Russia, and grew up right next door in Obninsk, but sadly, I doubt I will ever be doing any hashing there, so unless Russia's relationship with expatriates changes, I might never get the Origin geohash achievement.
When I moved to America in 1999, I lived mostly in Santa Clara County, near San Francisco, which is apparently mostly water - sad to hear.
I went to college at UC Davis, near Sac which is where I found out about geohashing!
Lived in Chicago for the first half of 2013
Now living in my dream town, Portland, hopefully forever!

Fellow Geohashers

People I dragged into Geohashing.

lrbrink90 lives in Washington, D.C.
Jeremizzle, my best friend. He lives in San Diego.
TachiTaylor, my roommate in Portland.

Geohashing Activity

06. 2014-02-23 45 -122

Success #5
Had three independent expeditions

05. 2014-02-22 45 -122

Success #4
Had four independent expeditions.

04. 2014-02-20 45 -122

Success #3

zhukant earned the Drag-along achievement

by dragging TachiTaylor to the (45, -122) geohash on 2014-02-20.

03. 2013-06-10 45 -122

Success #2

zhukant earned the Public transport geohash achievement

by reaching the (45, -122) geohash on 2013-06-10 via MAX Blue Line.

zhukant earned the Meet-up achievement

by meeting Jim at the (45, -122) geohash on 2013-06-10.

02. 2013-02-16 41 -87

My first successful Geohash!
My first Saturday Meetup!
Dragged my friend along
On a sidewalk.

zhukant earned the Drag-along achievement

by dragging lrbrink90 to the (41, -87) geohash on 2013-02-16.

zhukant earned the Land geohash achievement

by reaching the (41, -87) geohash on 2013-02-16.

01. 2012-11-16 38 -121

Thwarted: Mother Nature.
Did not have the equipment and clothes to slog through flooded farmland.

zhukant earned the My kingdom for a boat consolation prize

by being prevented from reaching the (38, -121) geohash on 2012-11-16 by an impassable and unforeseen flooded farm.

00. 2012-11-15 38 -121

My first attempt to geohash never actually got off the ground.
It was the second day that I had known about it, November 15th in Sacramento, and it turned out that on this day the hash fell on a really cool spot, in the Fremont Weir State Wildlife Area on something that looked easy to hike to.
But alas, I didn't have the preparation skills, woke up too late in the morning, and had class almost all the way until sunset.

Notes

These would be the approximate (W30) coordinates for a couch potato globalhash for me:

(x * 180) -  90 =  +45 | x * 180 = 135 | x = .75
(y * 360) - 180 = -122 | y * 360 =  58 | y = .161

If the W30 coordinates are close to these numbers, I should check the globalhash.

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 ==Geohashing Activity==
-* My first attempt to geohash never actually got off the ground. It was the second day that I had known about it, November 15th in Sacramento, and it turned out that on this day the hash fell on a really cool spot, in the [http://www.yolohiker.org/trails/fremont/index.html Fremont Weir State Wildlife Area] on something that looked easy to hike to. But alas, I didn't have the preparation skills, woke up too late in the morning, and had class almost all the way until sunset. Better luck next time!
+'''06. [[Image:Arrow2.png|12px]] [[2014-02-23 45 -122]]'''
-*[[2012-11-16 38 -121]]
+* Success #5
-*'''[[2013-02-16 41 -87]] - my first successful Geohash!'''
+* Had three independent expeditions
-*[[2013-06-10 45 -122]]
-*[[2014-02-20 45 -122]]
+'''05. [[Image:Arrow2.png|12px]] [[2014-02-22 45 -122]]'''
-*'''[[2014-02-22 45 -122]]'''
+* Success #4
-*[[2014-02-23 45 -122]]
+* Had '''four''' independent expeditions.
+'''04. [[Image:Arrow2.png|12px]] [[2014-02-20 45 -122]]'''
+* Success #3
+{{drag-along
+| latitude = 45
+| longitude = -122
+| date = 2014-02-20
+| partner = TachiTaylor
+| name = [[User:Zhukant|zhukant]]
+| image = 2012-02-20 45 -122 DragAlong.jpeg
+}}
+'''03. [[Image:Arrow2.png|12px]] [[2013-06-10 45 -122]]'''
+* Success #2
+{{Public transport geohash
+| latitude = 45
+| longitude = -122
+| date = 2013-06-10
+| busline = MAX Blue Line
+| name = zhukant
+}}
+{{Meet-up
+| latitude = 45
+| longitude = -122
+| date = 2013-06-10
+| name = zhukant
+| other = [[User:Jiml|Jim]]
+}}
+'''02. [[Image:Arrow2.png|12px]] [[2013-02-16 41 -87]]'''
+* My first successful Geohash!
+* My first Saturday Meetup!
+* Dragged my friend along
+* On a sidewalk.
+{{drag-along
+| latitude = 41
+| longitude = -87
+| date = 2013-02-16
+| partner = [[User:lrbrink90|lrbrink90]]
+| name = zhukant
+}}
+{{land geohash
+| latitude = 41
+| longitude = -87
+| date = 2013-02-16
+| name = zhukant
+}}
+'''01. [[Image:Arrow4.png|12px]] [[2012-11-16 38 -121]]'''
+* Thwarted: Mother Nature.
+* Did not have the equipment and clothes to slog through flooded farmland.
+{{My kingdom for a boat
+| latitude = 38
+| longitude = -121
+| date = 2012-11-16
+| name = zhukant
+| waterhazard = flooded farm
+}}
+'''00. [[Image:Arrow1.png|12px]] 2012-11-15 38 -121'''
+*My first attempt to geohash never actually got off the ground.
+*It was the second day that I had known about it, November 15th in Sacramento, and it turned out that on this day the hash fell on a really cool spot, in the [http://www.yolohiker.org/trails/fremont/index.html Fremont Weir State Wildlife Area] on something that looked easy to hike to.
+*But alas, I didn't have the preparation skills, woke up too late in the morning, and had class almost all the way until sunset.
 ==Notes==

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Contents

My Graticules

Fellow Geohashers

Geohashing Activity

Notes