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

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  proof

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  view to the east

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  the south (and the bull)

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  northwest

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  the hasher

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  another view to the bull. Snowy and slippery road

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.