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We found the house without difficulty, set just a little back from the road. There was a flag flying. We walked onto the | We found the house without difficulty, set just a little back from the road. There was a flag flying. We walked onto the | ||
| − | porch (past a No Solicitors) | + | porch (past a No Solicitors sign), and a small dog in the house started barking. A lady opened the door before we knocked |
| − | and looked quizzically at us: 51-year-old man and 14-year-old, and it's not Girl Scout Cookie season. I said we needed to ask her permission to walk through her backyard, and explained | + | and looked quizzically at us: 51-year-old man and 14-year-old girl, and it's not Girl Scout Cookie season. I said we needed to ask her permission to walk through her backyard, and explained |
that we were playing a game where we tried to get to particular spots on the earth, and today's spot for our region was | that we were playing a game where we tried to get to particular spots on the earth, and today's spot for our region was | ||
at the back of her property near the sandpit. We showed her the Google map and pointed out her house and driveway, and she | at the back of her property near the sandpit. We showed her the Google map and pointed out her house and driveway, and she | ||
| − | then pointed near the hashpoint and said "and there's the pond". | + | then pointed near the hashpoint and said "and there's the pond". We chatted a little more and she somewhat reluctantly smiled and said "well, okay" and we thanked her and headed back there. There was in fact a tiny pond, and we |
| − | skirted around it and found the | + | skirted around it and found the hashpoint just west of the sandpile. Notice the compass picture showing that the south end of the sandpile is properly at 80 degrees from the hashpoint. In honor of Pastori please note that it's a Finnish compass. |
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== Photos == | == Photos == | ||
Revision as of 00:51, 11 November 2013
| Sat 9 Nov 2013 in 43,-86: 43.1787627, -86.0892742 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox |
Location
rural property in Fruitport, MI, USA
Participants
Expedition
We were headed northwest to visit friends on the lakeshore (that is, the Lake Michigan shore) overnight, and today's hashpoint was in the southeast corner of a graticule that is (1) mostly water, (2) virgin, and (3) part of the set we need for a Minesweeper achievement. It looked easily accessible, but on private land a good ways behind an associated house, so it seemed likely we would need to ask permission.
We found the house without difficulty, set just a little back from the road. There was a flag flying. We walked onto the porch (past a No Solicitors sign), and a small dog in the house started barking. A lady opened the door before we knocked and looked quizzically at us: 51-year-old man and 14-year-old girl, and it's not Girl Scout Cookie season. I said we needed to ask her permission to walk through her backyard, and explained that we were playing a game where we tried to get to particular spots on the earth, and today's spot for our region was at the back of her property near the sandpit. We showed her the Google map and pointed out her house and driveway, and she then pointed near the hashpoint and said "and there's the pond". We chatted a little more and she somewhat reluctantly smiled and said "well, okay" and we thanked her and headed back there. There was in fact a tiny pond, and we skirted around it and found the hashpoint just west of the sandpile. Notice the compass picture showing that the south end of the sandpile is properly at 80 degrees from the hashpoint. In honor of Pastori please note that it's a Finnish compass.
Photos
Navigational aids.
Rebekah, Sylvia, George.
Nick, Sylvia, George.
Achievements
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George, Rebekah, Nick, and Sylvia earned the Land geohash achievement
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George, Rebekah, Nick, and Sylvia earned the No Batteries Geohash Achievement
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George and Rebekah earned the Drag-along achievement
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