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Sat 24 Jan 2009 in Madison: 43.3650009, -89.3806584 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox

Participants

Bill Minser, wife Beth, the Napping Toddler, and Abby the dog
World Travelling Sam
Frostbitten cellist Evan E

Expedition

The location was a snowy cornfield about 500m east of US 51 between Arlington and Poynette.

Bill had checked the weather forecast, and felt we had a good opportunity to break the Cold Geohash mark (then -18.9 °C). He assembled an unusually large crew, who were partly motivated by outrage that such an important achievement should rest in the hands of a Michigander. So we eschewed our usual 4 PM Saturday meetup, and waited for dark.

The whole Minser clan picked me up in the MinserVan at 8:30, and then we went equipment shopping; we needed a thermometer! We wandered haplessly through the aisles of Menards for some time. The help there all seemed to know where the thermometers were, but were less than articulate in describing how we should find them. We should have asked for GPS coordinates.

Anyhow, we eventually acquired a nice little indoor/outdoor digital thermometer, picked up Evan, and were on our way. I amused myself by hanging the temperature probe out the van window and watching the readout. I was a little concerned that it hovered around -14 °C (not cold enough), although the van's readout was claiming -4 to -9 °F (-20 to -23 °C).

We arrived at 43° 21'54" N without incident, and parked by the side of the highway. Beth, the baby, and the dog volunteered for the job of keeping the van (and each other) warm. Bill, Sam, and Evan, having evidently taken leave of their senses, bundled up and trudged off into the night.

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