Difference between revisions of "2023-10-12 38 -113"

Revision as of 04:54, 13 October 2023

Location

A remote area of Iron County. Seven or eight miles north of Lund, a village of three or four houses.

Participants

Expedition

From 2023-10-12 38 -113, I continued north to Cedar City on I-15, then took a local road called the "Lund Highway" northwest across the Escalante Desert. It is the kind of landscape where the hills look five miles away but are actually thirty miles away, and the kind of highway that is only paved for the first 10 miles or so. There was a golden sunset as I drove across the flats, which was beautiful but also a bit worrisome, as I find that it often gets really dark after the sun goes down.

Well. After passing through Lund, I successfully figured out which of the unsigned roads I ought to be following, and parked at the side of the road about 550 meters from the hashpoint. Grabbing a flashlight out of the little geohashing kit that Mrs.5000 give me for my last birthday, I turned on the vehicle's dome light and then jumped out and started across the sagebrush towards the hashpoint.

It turned out that the hashpoint was by a power pole, and that there was... well, not exactly a "road," but a pair of wheel ruts following the powerline route, so it was an easy route with good footing for most of the way. Still, I didn't linger too long at the hashpoint -- it was starting to get pretty cold, for one thing -- and I was glad to have the flashlight, especially in the last two or three minutes.

Photos

The plan of approach
Across the Escalante Desert at sundown
The hashpoint pole
The view west
The view east
An easy route back to the car

Achievements

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Michael5000 earned the Multihash Achievement

by reaching 2 hash points on 2023-10-12. It's a Double Hash.

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