Difference between revisions of "2013-10-27 42 -86"

Revision as of 02:41, 28 October 2013

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Location

driveway near the Hope College campus, Holland, MI, USA

Participants

Mcbaneg (talk) (George)
Rebekah
Sylvia
Nick

Expedition

We were headed over toward Lake Michigan today to give visitors Sylvia and Nick a tour. Checked hashpoints before leaving, and there's an easy target, in an apparently virgin graticule no less, on the way. So Rebekah and I explained Geohashing to the unwitting participants as we drove. Navigation was easy and we found the spot, at the corner of a parking lot across from Hope College, with no problem.

I checked http://wiki.xkcd.com/geohashing/Michigan and it shows that the Holland graticule is virgin, and the graticule page shows no successful expeditions, so I'm claiming the Virgin Graticule achievement. If someone knows of an earlier documented successful expedition, please let me know and I'll retract the claim! This seemed unreasonably easy, given that it's five years since the game started and there's a highly regarded college campus, but I'm not looking this gift horse in the mouth.

Photos

2013-10-27 42 -86 dummy.jpg

Photo
2013-10-27 42 -86 dummy.jpg

Navigational aids.
2013-10-27 42 -86 rebekah-sylvia-george.jpg

Rebekah, Sylvia, George.
2013-10-27 42 -86 nick-sylvia-george.jpg

Nick, Sylvia, George.

Achievements

George, Rebekah, Nick, and Sylvia earned the Land geohash achievement

by reaching the (42, -86) geohash on 2013-10-27.

George, Rebekah, Nick, and Sylvia earned the No Batteries Geohash Achievement

by reaching the (42, -85) geohash on 2013-10-24.

Sylvia and Nick earned the Drag-along achievement

by dragging Mcbaneg to the (42, -86) geohash on 2013-10-27.

{Virgin graticule | latitude = 42 | longitude = -86 | date = 2013-10-27 | name = George, Rebekah, Nick, and Sylvia }}

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 And DON'T FORGET to add your expedition and the best photo you took to the gallery on the Main Page! We'd love to read your report, but that means we first have to discover it! :)
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 We were headed over toward Lake Michigan today to give visitors Sylvia and Nick a tour.
-Checked hashpoints before leaving, and there's an easy target, in a virgin graticule no less, on the way. So Rebekah and I explained Geohashing to the unwitting participants as we drove.  Navigation was easy and we
+Checked hashpoints before leaving, and there's an easy target, in an apparently virgin graticule no less, on the way. So Rebekah and I explained Geohashing to the unwitting participants as we drove.  Navigation was easy and we
 found the spot, at the corner of a parking lot across from Hope College, with no problem.
+I checked
+http://wiki.xkcd.com/geohashing/Michigan
+and it shows that the Holland graticule is virgin, and the graticule page shows no
+successful expeditions, so I'm claiming the Virgin Graticule achievement.  If someone knows
+of an earlier documented successful expedition, please let me know and I'll retract the claim!
+This seemed unreasonably easy, given that it's five years since the game started and there's a
+highly regarded college campus, but I'm not looking this gift horse in the mouth.
 == Photos ==


Sun 27 Oct 2013 in 42,-86: 42.7883884, -86.0978016 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox