2023-10-09 37 -117

Mon 9 Oct 2023 in 37,-117: 37.8196925, -117.8616929 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox

Location

Off of Cave Spring Road, 12 miles west of Silver Peak.

Participants

Michael5000

Expedition

Since I started the day in Hawthorne, Nevada, this hashpoint offered me an opportunity for an adventure that wouldn't add much distance to the trip to Las Vegas. It would add plenty of time, but not much distance.

From where I left pavement near the intersection of US 6 and Nevada 773 to the hashpoint, and then continuing on to the mining camp at Silver Peak, was around 38 miles of unsigned dirt road. During that drive, I saw four other vehicles, so it wasn't the most remote area on Earth by any stretch. Still, I was glad to have redundant GPS, plus a pretty good little hand-drawn map I sketched on the way in, not to mention an extra few liters of water.

The hashpoint was about a quarter mile off the road and high enough up that getting to it felt like exercise, but it wasn't an incredibly difficult climb. The views, both from the hashpoint and all along the drive, were very striking -- it felt like some kind of live-action Minecraft scenario, with longer days and fewer monsters.

Photos

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  Turning left onto Nevada 773...

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  ...and then immediately onto the dirt road to the left.

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  Driving across flats

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  Driving up into hills

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  Looking up where I'm going to climb

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  Looking back down towards the vehicle

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  View down from the hashpoint

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  View up from the hashpoint

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  My GPS, at the hashpoint

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  Me, at the hashpoint

Achievements

Michael5000 earned the Graticule Unlocked Achievement by being the first to reach any hashpoint in the (37, -117) graticule, here, on 2023-10-09.