2013-08-31 50 11

Sat 31 Aug 2013 in 50,11: 50.9194046, 11.2660901 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox

Location

In a forest north of Bad Berka, near Hexenberg (?) hill.

Participants

• GeorgDerReisende
• Juja, her favorite Ninja and Woschi
• Rincewind
• Yakamoz

Plans

GeorgDerReisende: I will spend the night in a shelter near Erfurt, then I will hitchhike to Bad Berka and look for the hash. Maybe a place for satuday's meetup?

Juja: As always, this was a badly planned chaos expedition.

Rincewind&Yakamoz: no plan, spontaneously decided in the evening, at dusk.

Expedition: Juja

The last week at work wasn't so great, so it was really nice that there would be a Saturday Hash at a distance that would get me a bike ride of several hours to get happy again. My Ninja and I had a date in the afternoon and of course I also didn't check the wiki for other hashers' plans (assuming that Manu, Reinhard and Jens are the only active Geohashers in this area and I already knew their plans) - so I'm sorry for not getting there at official meetup time. Instead I started by bike right after breakfast together with my Ninja, we had a nice tour to Bad Berka but every bigger street was terribly full of cars (should have been no problem to find a ride for hitchhiking). So the Ninja's adventurous spirit was already used up when we left the street to go the last bit to the point, he waited with our bikes and let me climb the last bit of hill alone. Clever Ninja - what I found was a lot of beeches with thicket in between. I could get 8m near the point on something like a 'way', but then it was time for the machete again. I got back to the Ninja with scratched and bleeding legs and we cycled home - a little less relaxed because my back tyre still had problems to keep its air...

Photos: Juja

Welcome to the desert: new freeway near Schorba.   Way to the Geohash (1).   Way to the Geohash (2).   'Way' to the Geohash (3).   Finally there!   Lovely view from the Geohash.   Woschi enjoyed it all.

Expedition: GeorgDerReisende

After spending the night in Erfurt in a shelter and a short sightseeing tour I started for the hash. I started to hitchhike at the resthouse Haarberg, got a lift to the exit Bad Berka on the A4, from there I got a lift to the forest road, of which I have thought it would lead me to the hash. I have walked through the forest, at first I have found a place about 29 meters away, but no way through the forest, the young trees are standing there away from each other by a hand*s width. So I tried another way, maybe nearer to the hash.

There I have found a gap between two parts of the forest. It looked like, that there had somebody walked through the bushes and the trees, but I haven't seen a sign. So I struggled with the forest and have found the hash. Then I returned to the forest road and waited there until 16:00, but nobody showed up. At about 3 o'clock I have heard somebody talking and laughing, but I couldn't read the direction. So I looked around the field and looked for a possible way from the other side, but there was no path.

Afterwards I went to the road junction nearby and hitchhiked home, I needed four cars until the service station Kassel. Then I have taken the bus and I arrived home at about 22:00.

Photos: GeorgDerReisende

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  the shelter in Erfurt where I have spent the night

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  the forest road, where the search began

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  another forest road, which I have followed

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  view from the western forest road into the forest

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  the southern forest road

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  a track to the possible hash

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  proof1

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  here is the hash

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  the internet was here!

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  proof2

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  the internet was here!

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  grin?

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  the open field eastwards of the forest

Photos

GeorgDerReisende earned the Thumbs Up Geohash Achievement by hitchhiking to the (50, 11) geohash on 2013-08-31, and withstanding the Vogon poetry of the driver.

GeorgDerReisende earned the Consecutive geohash achievement by reaching 5 consecutive hash points starting on 2013-08-27.

GeorgDerReisende achieved level 2 of the Minesweeper Geohash achievement by visiting coordinates in Erfurt, Germany and 2 of the surrounding graticules.

GeorgDerReisende achieved level 5 of the Minesweeper Geohash achievement by visiting coordinates in Nordhausen, Germany and 5 of the surrounding graticules.

GeorgDerReisende achieved level 5 of the Minesweeper Geohash achievement by visiting coordinates in Schweinfurt, Germany and 5 of the surrounding graticules.

GeorgDerReisende earned the xkcd Nullaturion achievement by attending 3 Saturday meetups.

Yakamoz and Rincewind earned the Land geohash achievement by reaching the (50, 11) geohash on 2013-08-31.