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Location

On the edge of N Genesee St, very close to the NY State Border in the NW corner of the Graticule.

Participants

Pedalpusher

Expedition

I went back and forth on this expedition for a long time and throughout the day: It was so far away, but it was Friday. I would be tired, but this is accessible and will complete my Minesweeper ribbon. Might not be motivated enough, but if I complete it now, I won't have to worry about it any longer. And then Especially at the end of my work day, I ended up having to stay late to help finish up a big report that was due and I was now worried about running out of daylight. It's going to be close to a 2 hour drive and now I have to deal with worse rush hour traffic than I would normally. But being Friday, the traffic was somewhat lighter and I was able to get home only slightly later than normal.

With the 'Pros' outweighing the 'Cons' I wrote down directions, fed the dogs and jumped in the car. The drive down to Pennsylvania wasn't bad although I did get stuck behind a few people that were driving a little slow. Despite that, I made it to Wellsville without too much delay and knew I was getting close. I didn't really look to see exactly how far into PA the hash was, but I did examine the street-view and I'm glad I did. Almost immediately after passing the Welcome to PA sign, I recognized the view and realized the hash was RIGHT THERE. I had enough time that I could slow down and park off the road next to the guard rail a short distance away. It was 19:30 and I had about a half hour before the sun set; plenty of time to spare.

Walking back to the hillside, I easily closed in on the hash and didn't even have to do much of a GPS dance(not that I could have since the hill was extremely steep) to locate the position. Pictures taken, my Buffalo Minesweeper is complete! It only took 3 years, haha.

The drive back was dusk to dark and I had to be careful. I saw a lot of deer out in the fields, including some very young ones. Fortunately, I didn't see any near the roads and made it back safely.

I haven't done one of these in a while so I'm issuing a Tale of Two Hashes Challenge for Genesee since this was on Genesee St and in the Town of Genesee.

Photos

Made it!
Accuracy.
Very happy to complete the Minesweeper and add a new Graticule to my list.
The view North, you can just barely see the back of the Welcome to PA sign.
The view South from the hash.
Walking up a little further, a picture of the County Sign. Apparently God lives here.
Crossing the road to walk back, a view of the hash.
On the way back to the car, I saw some deer in the field.
Across from the car, I noticed what looks like Hops being grown.

Ribbons

This user earned the Land geohash achievement

by reaching the (41, -77) geohash on 2017-08-25.

Pedalpusher earned the Tale of Two Hashes achievement

by having their challenge met by himself in Genesee on 2017-08-25.

Pedalpusher completed the Minesweeper Geohash achievement

by visiting coordinates in Buffalo, New York and all of the surrounding graticules.

Pedalpusher completed the Minesweeper Geohash achievement

by visiting coordinates in St. Marys, Pennsylvania and all of the surrounding graticules.

Dunkirk, NY

Buffalo, NY

Corning, NY