User:Mystrsyko

36 / m / 39,-89

Geohashing Highlights
Abandoned racetrack - Carpentersville, IL
Steak & Shake party - Bolingbrook, IL
36 mile bike hash - Buffalo Hart, IL
Whitetail deer swarm - Ashland, IL

About

I was born and raised in the Aurora, Illinois graticule, where I discovered geohashing while browsing through the XKCD blog. After some periodic expeditions, I ended up moving down to Springfield, Illinois. Living in a new area, I find geohashing to be the perfect way to explore my new home. I don't own a car anymore, but I never liked burning gas just to go to a point and go home again, so it's not really that different. It also gives me a great opportunity to build towards my fitness goals when I bike to hash points. So far, the two longest rides I've ever done were in pursuit of geohashes, and I see more and longer ones in my future.

Other things about me:
Bowling
Photography
xkcd inspired webcomic

I am also the user responsible for updating the Most active users page. If it's more than two months out of date, or you find or add expeditions after I update, please let me know so I can recount.

Geohashing Goals

- Get the Springfield, Illinois graticule into the top 3 most active in a month

- Make Springfield the most active graticule in Illinois

- Go geohashing at least once each month

- Earn a Virgin Graticule achievement. Done 2015-01-19

- Bike to a hash outside my home graticule

- Bike more than 100 miles during an expedition.

- Complete the Most active users statistics database

- Complete a full Minesweeper Geohash and Bingo geohash achievement

- Geohash in all 27 graticules for Illinois

Illinois map progress: 5 / 27 - 18.5%

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Expeditions

1. 2013-09-27 42 -88 Near the Fox River in Carpentersville, Illinois.
2. 2013-11-08 41 -88 A small prairie near Aurora, Illinois.
3. 2013-11-24 41 -88 With DolphinTreasure & 6 friends at Steak & Shake in Bolingbrook, Illinois
4. 2014-05-23 41 -88 Near a school baseball field in Romeoville, Illinois
5. 2014-07-05 41 -87 With Haberdasher outside a mall in North Riverside, Illinois
6. 2014-10-07 39 -89 With DolphinTreasure in a harvested corn field in Buffalo Hart, Illinois.
7. 2014-10-24 39 -89 With DolphinTreasure at Hobby Lobby in Springfield, IL
8. 2015-01-19 39 -90 Encountered whitetail deer with Dolphintreasure in a harvested corn field north of Ashland, IL.
9. 2015-04-16 39 -89 A hurried expedition to a farm field near Tallula, IL
10. 2015-04-27 39 -89 Thwarted by a privacy fence that appeared from nowhere in Springfield, IL

Achievements

x7 Land geohash achievement
x3 Bicycle geohash achievement
x2 No trespassing consolation prize
x1 Prize Poultry consolation prize
x1 Mother Nature's Bitch consolation prize
x1 Midnight Geohash
x1 Drag-along achievement
x1 Meet-up achievement
x1 Holy hash honorable mention
x1 Virgin Graticule achievement

Mystrsyko achieved level 2 of the Minesweeper Geohash achievement by visiting coordinates in Aurora, Illinois and 2 of the surrounding graticules.

Mystrsyko achieved level 1 of the Minesweeper Geohash achievement by visiting coordinates in Springfield, Illinois and 1 of the surrounding graticules.