2013-03-06 41 -90

Wed 6 Mar 2013 in Quad Cities: 41.5897992, -90.4811346 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox

The Location

Along the side of the road, surrounded by nothing but some trees, fields, and a bunch of snow.

The Participants

• Hempmage

The Plan

This being my first geohashing attempt, I was excited to get going. I grabbed my GPS and was almost out the door when I realized with great dismay that my GPS does not display coordinates with enough detail to really be useful. Out came Google Maps, and a crude hand-drawn map later, I was off.

The Expedition

It was a quick and uneventful drive toward the hashpoint, stopping for a slushy at a gas station nearby. The spot itself was in the ditch of a county road surrounded by the frozen fields of Iowa. I parked on the side of the road, consulted my notebook-paper map and walked a few meters to where my map placed the hashpoint- using a tree and telephone poles as guides. Content with finding the hashpoint, I drank my slushy and attempted to make a snow android (snandroid?) which refused to stay together. A few trucks passed, wondering no doubt why there was a man with a slushy playing with snow in the ditch. Success!

Achievements

hempmage earned the Land geohash achievement by reaching the (41, -90) geohash on 2013-03-06.

hempmage earned the No Batteries Geohash Achievement by reaching the (41, -90) geohash on 2013-03-06.

hempmage earned the First Sip GeoSquishy Achievement by enjoying a slushy carbonated beverage at the (41, -90) geohash on 2013-03-06.