2008-11-15 48 9
| Sat 15 Nov 2008 in Stuttgart, Germany: 48.5220956, 9.1288515 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox |
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On a field just outside of Kusterdingen near Tübingen.
Expedition: Ekorren
Finally - my own graticule.
The trip was rather uneventful. I started early around 2 pm to take a small detour and try a multi cache near to the hash. I hadn't brought a map nor looked up the way in advance, neither took the direct one (thought it would be clever to go around the hill instead of over it), but I was quite sure there was a way from Lustnau to the stage 1 of the cache. Maybe I was right, but if so, it wasn't the one I took as when I reached the end of the slope I was almost exactly where I had been if I had taken the short way - three kilometres from my destination and don't mention elevation. I found the starting point of the cache around 2:40 and set off. Made it on non-direct ways (and don't mention elevation) until stage 5 (of 7), where there was definitely nothing which looked like what was asked for in the description, so I guess I had made an error. It was almost half past three now, so I decided to drop it and find the hash point instead.
Reached the hash point at around 3:40 - almost. It turned out that there was new seed on that field which I didn't want to trample on. So I stayed on the way but still got near until appr. 12 metres, so I count it as a success. There were quite many people around, walking, jogging, some on tractors, even a hot-air balloon seemed to try to reach the coordinates (successlessly, anyway), but noone stopped - so I guess they all didn't know where they really had been and thus, by sheer ignorance, denied the possibility to attend the first saturday 4 pm meetup in this graticule. Well, you can't force them. I waited until 4:00 pm, then I left my sign, took another photo as a proof and left the place. 4:04 pm: Noone here, search failed.
Back home, my computer decided that it doesn't want to talk with the camera any more, so I'm sorry, I can't upload the pictures I took. If I ever happen to get that fixed, I'll add pictures, but the sensible solution actually would be to throw the camera out of the window.
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Ekorren earned the Bicycle geohash achievement
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Expedition: nick_mz
nick_mz was a bit late. I arrived at 16:24 and found a little sign...
