2008-08-24 55 -114

Sun 24 Aug 2008 in 55,-114: 55.2739382, -114.5345287 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox

This geohash is 21 km outside of this graticule's namesake town, in fact only about 6 km further down the road that yielded the first successful Slave Lake conquest. It's accessible via a square site on the dead end of a dirt road, probably a utility substation of some sort. The actual point falls perhaps 70 m from the dirt, in what the satellite image shows as an irregularly-shaped black patch, a patch which I suspect is either swamp or open water. I could luck out and have it be an open excavation. That would be good because in the time since the picture was taken the excavation would have been backfilled, but thick vegetation would not yet have had time to regrow.

Planning

I have the day off tomorrow, so can start early in the morning, and I know how to get there, so the first 20.9 km it should be pretty straightforward. I'll have to decide whether to manufacture a raft in situ or bring something that can float, in case my suspicions about the black patch are founded.

And then what shall I do with the rest of the day? I'm thinking I'll head over to Utikuma Lake for a (first ever?) bicycle multihash!

Stupidly wild ambition never hurt anyone. The sun doesn't set until ten. And I have Monday off, too.