2024-11-05 44 -93

Carlson Towers as seen from hash site.

Tue 5 Nov 2024 in Minneapolis SW: 44.9728811, -93.4665445 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox

Location

Outside the Carlson Towers in Minnetonka, MN.

Participants

Kyrkazakh (talk) 21:59, 5 November 2024 (UTC)

Plans

Happy(edit: no.) Election Day everyone. Kyrkazakh is planning to head over to the hash in the midday or later evening if traffic isn't too bad.

Expedition

I had time to kill after work but before my next class, so across the Twin Cities I went. Destination: Carlson Towers, part of a complex of buildings created (I think) for the company that owns Radisson and a couple other hotel chains. Interstate 94 was clogged up on both the way there and the way back, RIP. Honestly pretty straightforward, I would label 'easy' if it didn't require ~1h10m total travel time for me to visit. Gray spitting rainy day in Minnesota today, and the rain continued when I pulled up into the parking lot. Made the last little trek to the (honestly quite nice and well-maintained) front park-ish area where the hash was, all in the rain, so I got a little bit wet. Honorable mention for Drowned Rat, I suppose! Exact hash site was no more than a couple feet off the polished stone walkway. I went up towards the Towers, snapped some photos including one of the confusing statue of Pegasus bucking a rider, and saw a man in a suit talking into a phone very business-like. Alas, I couldn't tarry because I had aforementioned class — I hurried back through traffic to my college and arrived only two minutes late. Huzzah! My first urban hash.

Photos

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  Although it has a polished corporate aesthetic, the architecture ain't too bad. I've seen much worse.

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  Approaching hash site from the west, looking north. Very few of the offices/tower complexes around here have a genuinely decent green space like this.

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  Through the trees.

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  Through the trees from the exact hash site.

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  Obligatory. Statistically speaking, someone in the buildings or nearby parking garage likely saw me doing this and must've been very confused.

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  Look Ma, I made it!

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  Didn't see any plaque so I'm calling this statue "Formula One Pegasus Racing".

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  At least they have the new MN flag.

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  Damp. Time to head home.

Achievements

Kyrkazakh earned the Two to the N achievement by reaching 21 hashpoints on 2024-11-05 44 -93 and is promoted to Level 1 (Coordinates reached).

Kyrkazakh earned the OpenStreetMap achievement by contributing to OpenStreetMap based on their expedition to the (44, -93) geohash on 2024-11-05.

Kyrkazakh earned the Drowned Rat Geohash Honourable Mention by reaching the (44, -93) geohash on 2024-11-05 despite being partially wet from puddle-hopping and a rain shower.

Kyrkazakh earned the Last American standing achievement by being the the only hasher world-wide to go on a geohashing expedition on 2024-11-05.