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Revision as of 12:15, 30 March 2025

Location

Participants

Plans

RE8 to Neustadt (Dosse), about an hour the other side of Berlin Hbf. Return train 1h13 later. It's a bit far to walk especially in that time, but it should be easy to bring my bike (which I haven't done since December).

Expedition

I delay in the interest of visiting at official meetup time, though as I do a partial solar eclipse happens above the clouds and I miss a chance for an Eclipse achievement. The Brompton and I board the 2pm-ish RE8 and watch the city pass by and fade away.

It's a fun and fast ride south from the station. I pass a church but don't recognize it from Wikipedia, so no Sightseeing achievement. Brick bike paths, a smooth road, then a path I wasn't counting on - it's newly mapped in OSM, absent from 2023 Street View and Bing imagery. I check out the other end of the path at the next junction, and when I turn around I become aware of a strong north wind that's been helping me along.

The "track" into the woods is blocked and forbids public motor vehicle access; in the distance there's a large pile of logs and a tractor moving around. Riding on the silty surface is difficult. Garmin's OSM-based routing turns me left before the tractor reaches me. At the closest OSM-navigable point I'm still 200 meters away and I can see heavy machinery between me and the point. Google data suggests there's a clear area ahead and another track heading southeast from there. This is accurate, though this track soon turns to deep silt and then ends. I head south on foot, skirt piles of freshly cut logs, and locate the point on top of a small hill at 15:52. Then I wait for 16:00 (or the loggers to come back and kick me out?) and chase a wandering GPS signal.

Back the same way, managing to ride the dirt roads a bit better. Then into the wind and up an incline I also hadn't noticed on the ride out. I nearly stop in the grocery store for a snack, but decide instead to eat the energy bar I should have eaten on Wednesday. I traverse stairs first mistakenly to the same platform I arrived on, then back again to the actual southbound platform. As the return train heads to Berlin, multiple Berlin-Hamburg ICE trains in each direction whiz past. There's a nice sunset to end my journey.

Tracklog

with bike

without bike

Photos

A nice road @52.8455,12.4477
A smooth new bike path! @52.8413,12.4449
An active logging road... @52.8331,12.4494
Bike stops here @52.8337,12.4551
Geohasher @52.8326,12.4551
Opposite view @52.8326,12.4551
4pm screenshot

Achievements

coyotebush earned the xkcd Nullaturion achievement

by attending 6 Saturday meetups.

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+A forest near [[wikipedia:Neustadt (Dosse)|Neustadt (Dosse)]].
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 == Plans ==
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+RE8 to ''Neustadt (Dosse)'', about an hour the other side of Berlin Hbf. Return train 1h13 later. It's a bit far to walk especially in that time, but it should be easy to bring my bike (which I haven't done since [[2024-12-30 52 13|December]]).
 == Expedition ==
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+I delay in the interest of visiting at official meetup time, though as I do a [https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/in/germany/berlin?iso=20250329 partial solar eclipse] happens above the clouds and I miss a chance for an [[Eclipse achievement]]. The Brompton and I board the 2pm-ish RE8 and watch the city pass by and fade away.
+It's a fun and fast ride south from the station. I pass a church but don't recognize it from Wikipedia, so no Sightseeing achievement. Brick bike paths, a smooth road, then a path I wasn't counting on - it's [https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/1340565573 newly mapped in OSM], absent from 2023 Street View and Bing imagery. I check out the other end of the path at the next junction, and when I turn around I become aware of a strong north wind that's been helping me along.
+The "track" into the woods is blocked and forbids public motor vehicle access; in the distance there's a large pile of logs and a tractor moving around. Riding on the silty surface is difficult. Garmin's OSM-based routing turns me left before the tractor reaches me. At the closest OSM-navigable point I'm still 200 meters away and I can see heavy machinery between me and the point. Google data suggests there's a clear area ahead and another track heading southeast from there. This is accurate, though this track soon turns to deep silt and then ends. I head south on foot, skirt piles of freshly cut logs, and locate the point on top of a small hill at 15:52. Then I wait for 16:00 (or the loggers to come back and kick me out?) and chase a wandering GPS signal.
+Back the same way, managing to ride the dirt roads a bit better. Then into the wind and up an incline I also hadn't noticed on the ride out. I nearly stop in the grocery store for a snack, but decide instead to eat the energy bar I should have eaten on [[2025-03-26 53 13|Wednesday]]. I traverse stairs first mistakenly to the same platform I arrived on, then back again to the actual southbound platform. As the return train heads to Berlin, multiple Berlin-Hamburg ICE trains in each direction whiz past. There's a nice sunset to end my journey.
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