2013-01-23 42 -90

Wed 23 Jan 2013 in 42,-90: 42.7620325, -90.5331793 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox

Location

2266 Pine Grove Road, Town of Platteville, Wisconsin.

Participants

SwensonJ

Plans

I'm hoping to run out after classes today, and get there sometime between 4:00-5:00 p.m. Right now (11:30 a.m.), we're getting just enough snow to make things look nice, so I'm looking forward to getting out.

Expedition

This trip was a record-setter! Of all the hashes I've attempted, this one was the closest to my home -- about 3.16 miles, according to this calculator. I left home about 4:10 p.m., and was at the spot in ten minutes.

The hashpoint is on the embankment of Pine Grove Road, where the roadbed was built up, which was the only slight difficulty: there wasn't a flat place to stand. It wasn't hard to move around, either, though, and I got the requisite GPS photo without any trouble. The spot is a pleasant one, behind the shed at a house with an interesting roofline that must have been designed to optimize solar panel output, and just west of a frozen stream.

It wasn't tremendously cold or windy, but it wasn't warm enough to make it fun to hang around, either, so I took a few pictures and got back on the road: I was home by 4:45. It was fun to see a bit of the countryside around our town that I hadn't visited before.

Photos

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  The requisite GPS photo

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  The view from the hash: a shed

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  address sign

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  My roadside parking spot, as seen from the hashpoint

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  A better view of the house with the interesting roofline

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  A frozen stream, just east of the hash

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  The hilly road home

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  It was a Frozen Geohash, too.

Achievements

Swensonj earned the Land geohash achievement by reaching the (42, -90) geohash on 2013-01-23.

Swensonj earned the Frozen Geohash Achievement by reaching the (42, -90) geohash on 2013-01-23 while the temperature was 21 °F.