2023-01-13 41 2

Fri 13 Jan 2023 in Barcelona, Catalonia: 41.4917617, 2.0111245 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox

Location

Near the ruins of the chapel and castle of Sant Genís, Rubí, Catalonia.

Participants

SastRe.O

Plans

Bike there after lunch but before the sun sets. It's quite close and in an area a bit unknown to me. There should be this chapel (in ruins) that want to visit. Looking at the OSM and satellite imagery of google it seemed it would be a rather easy expedition but then I saw the topographic map and...

... oh boy, what are those 20+ meters walls? At this point I feared it wouldn't be so straightforward but I had to go anyway.

Expedition

Grabbed Frühlingskiefer after lunch, as planed, and went there directly.

It was a bit uphill but 30 minutes later I was already at the ruins of the old chapel. Only 2 walls still stand. Even less that the 3 I had seen on pictures... :( And with the ruins of the castle it's even more dramatic (from which I knew there were no standing walls)...

Then I tried to approach the hash. And... yes... it was difficult. There were indeed steep slopes and underneath a sea of thorns.. the pictures I took make no justice to the reality, it's not easy to get a good perspective.

On my first attempt, from the path, I got to 26m of the hash. Then I tried get further away but trying to find a way to get down easily. While doing so I scared of what probably was a big wild board. I only heard it flee but it made quite a fuss. Better for me if it runs in the opposite direction, not gonna lie. But this approach also ended up being unfruitful.

I then went back and just directly followed the line separating me from the hash. And... well I got close. I didn't have the most suitable shoes for this terrain but I ended up 11 meters close of the hash! However, it was like 15m underneath of me (so you get an idea of how steep it was). From there I had a good perspective and it was clear that an approach from any other direction would be futile since the area was covered in brambles and thorns.

Studying the terrain I got the feel that I could try getting even closer but it didn't feel safe. I also had the feeling that even getting closer I still wouldn't be reaching the hash, maybe 5 meters from it. Then I could had maybe claimed uncertainty of the GPSr, but it wouldn't have felt right. I got satisfied with the 11m the GPSr was showing me.

I then biked searching for a few geocaches on the area and at dusk got back home.

Achievements

SastRe.O earned the Cliffs of Despair consolation prize by being prevented from reaching the (41, 2) geohash on 2023-01-13 by cliff.

Other Geohashing Expeditions and Plans on This Day

Expeditions and Plans

2023-01-13
Geelong, Australia	Talex	Talex rode 24 kms from his place of stay to the hash on his Surly TCR bike....
Christchurch, New Zealand	Stevage	In a field in Darfield, outer-outskirts of Christchurch.
Salinas, California	Michael5000, Mrs.5000	A residential street in the Pebble Beach resort.
Seoul (East), South Korea	Didgogns	Few hundred meters from the Supreme Court of Korea, Korean Supreme Prosecut...
Barcelona, Spain	SastRe.O	Near the ruins of the chapel and castle of Sant Genís, Rubí, Catalonia.
Goslar, Germany	GeorgDerReisende	The hash lay on the state route 569 near Klein Lengden.
Braunschweig, Germany	Fippe	located on the side of a path in Otze.
Hamburg (East), Germany	π π π	in a private garden in Hamburg-Wilhelmsburg

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