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Image:2011-06-26 52 0 Sourcerer 18.jpg | This is an example of good evidence
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Image:Screenshot 2015-09-12-18-08-50.jpg | 400m to go and things are looking promising...
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Image:20150912 180651.jpg | The view from this point looks awesome. As far as I can tell the geohash is on the next ridge ahead, happy days!
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Image:20150912_181333.jpg | OH GOD THIS IS NOT PASSABLE
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Image: 20150912 181817.jpg | Dejected, turned for home, admiring the view and a great walk outside nevertheless.
 
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| latitude = 51
  | longitude = -17
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| longitude = -1
  | date = 2012-07-22
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  | name = Sourcerer
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[[Category:No trespassing consolation prize]]

Revision as of 22:43, 15 September 2015

Sat 12 Sep 2015 in 51,-1:
51.1193204, -1.7949829
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Location

A field in Wiltshire, just north of Salisbury and the ancient fortification of Old Sarum, just south of the even more ancient monument Stonehenge.

Participants

SpiritofMaurice

Plans

I drove up for an airshow nearby where I hoped to see XH558, the world's last flying Vulcan bomber, on her final flight ever down south. Noticing this was just a couple of kilometres away... "how hard could it be?"

Expedition

Followed Google Maps as close as I could to the lat/long point, where I noticed three things as the hashpoint zipped past on my left: a), nowhere to stop the car on a fast road; b), some pretty big hedges

Drove around to a small English country lane, eventually parked up and started walking along a public footpath. Across a pig farm!

Eventually lost track of the path, started following my nose (and GPS app) across two fields... (more to follow)

Photos

Achievements

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SpiritofMaurice earned the No trespassing consolation prize
by almost (180m) reaching the (51, -1) geohash on 2015-09-12.