2017-01-05 49 8

Thu 5 Jan 2017 in 49,8: 49.4931695, 8.5743895 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox

Location

80 meters in a field between Wallstadt, Ilvesheim and Ladenburg.

Participants

DODO

Plans

Go there by bull in the morning and gaining a birthday achievement.

Expedition

I took a day of today because of my 50th birthday. My family wants to come at 1 pm, so I had to go early, but I still had to do some cleaning before I could leave. The lady had to work, so I came out of bed early and had some time. That's why I decided to take the bull and use a train to come back home. It was cold and the road was very slippery in some parts so I couldn't ride as fast as I wanted, but after 75 minutes I reached the hashfield. It was freshly ploughed and frozen. So it was very uneven and hard to walk but at least it wasn't muddy. I took the usual pictures and hurried on to Mannheim Main station, where I took a train to Speyer 20 minutes later.

I even reached a tron achievement. I didn't cross the rail tracks, I took - I usually never do that - the wrong side to cross the bridge in Speyer so I hadn't to cross my own track there, although the track shows something different, I didn't randomly walk around in the Mannheim main station, nor in Ludwigshafen Main station (I lost bps-reception there and the track is really obscure there, but I promise I just sat in the train.

I'm pretty sure that it was far below 0°C but I have no proof of that.

Tracklog

44 KM by bull and 21 by train

Photos

tbd

Achievements

DODO earned the Land geohash achievement by reaching the (49, 8) geohash on 2017-01-05.

DODO earned the Tron achievement by reaching and returning from the (49, 8) geohash without crossing his own tracks on 2017-01-05.

DODO earned the Birthday Geohash Achievement by reaching the (49, 8) geohash on his 50 birthday, 2017-01-05.