2018-05-19 51 6

Sat 19 May 2018 in 51,6: 51.0687664, 6.8761435 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox

Location

On a field with high grass near the Rhine river in Worringen (see disclaimer).

Participants

• pah (prev|next)

Expedition

On a nice sunny day, I took the S11 train to Cologne Worringen, which brought my until circa four km close to the hash. It took a walk of about 50 minutes to reach, passing through forests and fields until reaching the river shore. In the forest part, I noticed several "Mirkwood trees" which were completely covered with cobwebs. Fortunately, no giant spiders showed up.

When reaching the hash almost exactly at hash o'clock, it took only a short hashdance to find the spot and take screenshots as proof. With the river shore nearby, I found a stone and some driftwood to create a marker. Afterwards, I took some rest in the sun at the river, waiting for about half an hour for other geohashers to show up. I took some more pictures and then went back by foot through the Worringen village. I reached Düsseldorf at around half past six after a nice day outside.

Photos

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  View from the S11 in Dormagen

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  A nice path through a forest

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  Mirkwood tree?

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  Wandering through fields

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  Small pond near the river

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  Proof #1

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  Proof #2

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  Hash marker

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  Stupid grin™

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  Relaxing at the river near the hash

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  View towards the hash (marker) #1

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  View towards the hash (marker) #2

Achievements

pah earned the xkcd Nullaturion achievement by attending 2 Saturday meetups.

pah earned the Public transport geohash achievement by reaching the (51, 6) geohash on 2018-05-19 via S11.

Disclaimer

There is a mismatch between the coordinates I aimed for (51.06876635 N, 6.87614349 E, c.f. geohashing.info) and the destination ones displayed here in the wiki (51.4591310 N, 6.8416041 E), see the following discussion. As Crox nicely answered there, my coordinates seemed to be correct. Yay! \o/