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Location

on an abandoned railway track near Laudenbach

Participants

Plans

I will hitchhike to that place to be there at 16:00 for a xkcd-meetup.

Expedition


		I started to hitchhike at Kaufungen-Papierfabrik at 12:30. After one minute a car stopped and I got a lift to Großalmerode. As many times I wanted to explain my quest to the driver. But soon as I used the word geohashing, the driver said he know about the game. As always I understood that the driver is thinking about geocashing and I wanted to correct him. But he stayed at his statement, that he knows about geohashing. And he told me, that he has a friend in Hamburg, who does sometimes geohashing. Then he told me, that his sons do geocashing and I understood, that he knew the difference. This driver brought me to Epterode to the former railway station, where I arrived and started to walk at 12:53.
		Then I walked through Epterode. The road itself was signed as a county road, but at the end of the village the county road ended too.
		Behind the hill I had a first look to Laudenbach. As I passed Laudenbach I had a first look to the railway (here on the bridge).
		Then I walked along the track and at least I was able to reach the hash by five meters. Look around:
to the north	to the east	to the south
		But then I tried to go nearer to the hash, to go into the cut. And 40 meters away I found a small path crossing the railway track and from there I could walk along the track to the hash.
		proof!
		view to the east and to the south along the track
		A grinning geohasher. Behind my left shoulder you see the hashmark.
		Then I waited until 16:00 for some friends, but nobody arrived. Then I walked a bit around and here is another view of the hash.

Achievements

GeorgDerReisende earned the xkcd Decurion achievement

by attending 11 Saturday meetups.

GeorgDerReisende earned the Thumbs Up Geohash Achievement

by hitchhiking to the (51, 9) geohash on 2014-04-05, and withstanding the Vogon poetry of the driver.

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 == Expedition ==
-<!-- how it all turned out. your narrative goes here. -->
-== Tracklog ==
+{|
-<!-- if your GPS device keeps a log, you may post a link here -->
+|-
+! style="width:300px" | !! style="width:300px" | !! style="width:300px" |
+|-
+| [[Image:2014-04-05 50 9 GeorgDerReisende 7807.jpg|300px]] || || I started to hitchhike at Kaufungen-Papierfabrik at 12:30. After one minute a car stopped and I got a lift to Großalmerode. As many times I wanted to explain my quest to the driver. But soon as I used the word ''geohashing'', the driver said he know about the game. As always I understood that the driver is thinking about geocashing and I wanted to correct him. But he stayed at his statement, that he knows about geohashing. And he told me, that he has a friend in Hamburg, who does sometimes geohashing. Then he told me, that his sons do geocashing and I understood, that he knew the difference. This driver brought me to Epterode to the former railway station, where I arrived and started to walk at 12:53.
+|-
+| [[Image:2014-04-05 50 9 GeorgDerReisende 7823.jpg|300px]] || || Then I walked through Epterode. The road itself was signed as a county road, but at the end of the village the county road ended too.
+|-
+| [[Image:2014-04-05 50 9 GeorgDerReisende 7845.jpg|300px]] || [[Image:2014-04-05 50 9 GeorgDerReisende 7850.jpg|300px]] || Behind the hill I had a first look to Laudenbach. As I passed Laudenbach I had a first look to the railway (here on the bridge).
+|-
+| [[Image:2014-04-05 50 9 GeorgDerReisende 7872.jpg|300px]] || || Then I walked along the track and at least I was able to reach the hash by five meters.<br>Look around:
+|-
+| [[Image:2014-04-05 50 9 GeorgDerReisende 7874.jpg|300px]] to the north || [[Image:2014-04-05 50 9 GeorgDerReisende 7873.jpg|300px]] to the east || [[Image:2014-04-05 50 9 GeorgDerReisende 7875.jpg|300px]] to the south
+|-
+| [[Image:2014-04-05 50 9 GeorgDerReisende 7877.jpg|300px]] || [[Image:2014-04-05 50 9 GeorgDerReisende 7880.jpg|300px]] || But then I tried to go nearer to the hash, to go into the cut. And 40 meters away I found a small path crossing the railway track and from there I could walk along the track to the hash.
+|-
+| [[Image:2014-04-05 50 9 GeorgDerReisende 7883.jpg|300px]] || || proof!
+|-
+| [[Image:2014-04-05 50 9 GeorgDerReisende 7884.jpg|300px]] || [[Image:2014-04-05 50 9 GeorgDerReisende 7885.jpg|300px]] || view to the east and to the south along the track
+|-
+| [[Image:2014-04-05 50 9 GeorgDerReisende 7890.jpg|300px]] || || A grinning geohasher. Behind my left shoulder you see the hashmark.
+|-
+| [[Image:2014-04-05 50 9 GeorgDerReisende 7895.jpg|300px]] || || Then I waited until 16:00 for some friends, but nobody arrived. Then I walked a bit around and here is another view of the hash.
+|}
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