2015-04-06 48 9

Mon 6 Apr 2015 in 48,9: 48.9859730, 9.9993458 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox

Location

In a little forest next to the golf resort Grafenhof.

Participants

DODO

Expedition

Number three in this years bicycle hash tour (to number two and four).

Todays hashpoint should bring me in the extreme north eastern corner of the 48_8-graticule again (and this time I couldn't sleep so close to the hash and had to leave the graticule again for a hotel).

I left in the morning with cloudy and cold but dry weather. First I had almost to return to yesterdays hashpoint again, where I could cross the Autobahn. Now I followed the valley of Weinsberg for a while until it abruptly ended in Löwenstein. Here I had to climb 250 m up, but it was still early in the morning and so I managed this although my legs were still sour from the day before yesterday. From here the landscape changed totally. The dulcet valley with its vineyards changed to a sparse plateau.But after a while with moderate ups and downs I reached the rivulet Rot and therefor the next valley. In the middle of the forest I found the remaining of a former roman castle and learned that the limes (UNESCO World Heritage) courses here through the valley of the Rot. I followed the Rot and the Kocher for the next 30 kilometers before I had to climb the plateau again.

20 kilometers later I came near the hash. It was situated next to a small road so I didn't expect any difficulties, but it hided in a dense copse and gps reception was bad, so I entered the thicket several times but never got a satisfying result. Nevertheless there was no severe obstacle around and so I'm sure, I reached the exact points once at least.

Funny enough there was a hotel next to the hashpoint again for the third time, but this time it was kind of a holiday and golf resort and these are usually not prepared for guests that stay only one night. So I continued the ride to the next little town, called Ellwangen an der Jagst. It has an old church, a chateau and a pilgrimage church but I was to tired to see much of the town.

Tracklog

90 KM by bicicle

Photos

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  the remaining of castle Löwenstein

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  and a remaining to the younger german history

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  its easter

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  bike near the hash

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  best the gps device got

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  this time hashdroid is nearer

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  view to the road

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  view to the valley

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  view to the grinning hasher

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  just 10 m from the road was this path so I tried to access the hash from both sides

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  Ellwangen (pilgrimage church) at the horizon

Achievements

DODO earned the Land geohash achievement by reaching the (48, 9) geohash on 2015-04-06.

DODO earned the Bicycle geohash achievement by cycling 90 KM to the (48, 9) geohash on 2015-04-06.

DODO earned the Consecutive geohash achievement by reaching 3 consecutive hash points starting on 2015-04-04.