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− | Image: | + | Image:Screenshot 2015-09-12-18-08-50.jpg | 400m to go and things are looking promising... |
+ | 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! | ||
+ | Image:20150912_181333.jpg | OH GOD THIS IS NOT PASSABLE | ||
+ | Image: 20150912 181817.jpg | Dejected, turned for home, admiring the view and a great walk outside nevertheless. | ||
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− | + | | latitude = 51 | |
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+ | {{No trespassing | ||
+ | | latitude = 51 | ||
+ | | longitude = -1 | ||
+ | | date = 2015-09-12 | ||
+ | | name = SpiritofMaurice | ||
+ | | distance = 180m | ||
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[[Category:Not reached - Mother Nature]] | [[Category:Not reached - Mother Nature]] | ||
+ | [[Category:No trespassing consolation prize]] |
Revision as of 22:43, 15 September 2015
Sat 12 Sep 2015 in 51,-1: 51.1193204, -1.7949829 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox |
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
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
SpiritofMaurice earned the No trespassing consolation prize
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