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This is a gallery of amazing geohashing achievements, hilariously described catastrophes or otherwise cool adventures that demonstrate the spirit and practice of geohashing. They aren't all events like the first one-legged unicycle ascent of Mount Everest. Many are things anyone could do, but these people did. Add to the gallery if you know of a story that you think deserves a wider audience. Choose an appropriate category and place it in date order, most recent at the top.

Lucky Locations

2010-01-12 global - The first globalhash was reached by LuxMundi, NWoodruff and some drag-alongs in Augusta, Georgia.
2009-08-30 51 -1 - Cubicle geohash for Sermoa - cause for an office party attended by Mapaholic, DavidMiller and Macronencer.
2009-07-16 57 16 - Really lucky geohash requiring only a small walk in order to get a well documented déjà vu achievement in an area we've hardly no documented visits in.
2009-01-01 36 -75 - Amazingly amazing lucky geohash for the New Year.

Conquering Nature, Technology and Bodily Weakness

2009-04-11 36 -84 - Rappelling over cliffs in search of a river canyon geohash.
2008-12-13 41 -74 - A double-midnight-police-frozen-virgin-no-batteries-minesweeper geohash.
2008-10-31 -32 138 - Solo geohasher battles the untamed Australian wilderness.
2008-10-31 59 11 - Reaching the (then) coldest Geohash after wading through (even colder) waist deep water.
2008-09-21 49 -123 - Navigating on rubber rafts in the dark. Includes a deflating boat, a lost paddle and a broken oar.
2008-09-01 49 -124 - 282km via bike, kayak, and ferry, more than 22 hours total travel time.
2008-08-31 60 24 - Reaching the (then) coldest Geohash wading through waist deep water.
2008-08-07 52 12 - A rubber boat is carried over fifty km by bicycle to reach a water hash.
2008-07-12 47 -122 - Three people reached a water hash on board a catamaran.
2008-06-01 -35 148 - Logging trails, improvised bridges, thorny ditches, and a picnic.

Setting New Records

Dedicated geohashers make the ultimate sacrifice on 2009-04-12 to provide the first confirmed Sex Geohash.
Geohashers travel through time to reach both 2009-03-08 33 -85 and 2009-03-08 33 -84 at exactly 12:39 p.m.
2008-08-16 52 12 - Geohasher reaches Saturday geohashes in eight different graticules in one day.
2008-06-11 31 -84 - Commercial pilot diverts flight for first aerial geohash.

Art and Aesthetics

2008-12-27 51 8 - Re-enacting the Oslo coat of arms.
2008-10-31 41 -96 - Someone goes geohashing dressed up as a banana.
Talk Like A Pirate Day 2008 - Eleven out of seventeen remaining pirates on Earth visited geohashes.

In the Media

2009-06-02 49 10 - Three ambulances, a police motorcycle, a police car and a helicopter are summoned to the site of a geohashing accident. German media report the accident.
2008-11-19 47 8 - Three reporters from DRS-3 Digital (Switzerland) try to advertise geohashing.
2008-09-29 52 12 - Geohashing on TV.

Weird and Notable

2009-09-20 19 -98 - Two geohashers obtain a private tour from a security officer of a secured district.
2009-07-11 49 -123 - A sailboat, a hand-built raft, a rubber boat, two kayaks, a pirate dinghy and two coast guard boats aim for a waterhash.
2009-06-07 47 10 - Seven German and two Canadian hashers on (and in) a lake at the base of Germany's highest mountain
2008-10-22 49 8 - Stealth hasher smuggles hashmarks into another hasher's photo.
2008-09-20 52 -0 - Pre-emptive hot air balloon geohash on previous day.
2008-08-09 43 -77 - Most (invertebrate) geohashers simultaneously at the hashmark.
2008-06-08 60 24 - Encounter with ghosts at an ancient burial ground.
2008-05-26 27 -80 - Geohashers transport an actual couch to the hash, where they get stuck in a swamp.
2008-05-24 -43 172 - Lost geohasher rescued by police via text messages.
2008-05-24 53 -113 - Agents assure bystander "don't worry, we're from the Internet".

Tributes

2008 - A video/slideshow of one geohashing year.
The amazing ICWB - A geohasher's beloved bicycle, full of surprises. A tribute.

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 == Lucky Locations ==
+* [[2010-01-12 global]] - The first globalhash was reached by [[User:LuxMundi|LuxMundi]], [[User:NWoodruff|NWoodruff]] and some drag-alongs in [[Augusta, Georgia]].
 * [[2009-08-30 51 -1]] - Cubicle geohash for [[User:Sermoa|Sermoa]] - cause for an office party attended by [[User:Mapaholic|Mapaholic]], [[User:DavidMiller|DavidMiller]] and [[User:Macronencer|Macronencer]].
 * [[2009-07-16 57 16]] - ''Really'' lucky geohash requiring only a small walk in order to get a well documented déjà vu achievement in an area we've hardly no documented visits in.