2009-04-18 49 -123
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Location
At Friday dawn, we discover that this week's Saturday location is in an agricultural field less than ten kilometres from the Duke Point ferry terminal in Nanaimo. It's not in the water; it's not on a mountain; it's not at the military base; it's just in between Quennel Road and Yellow Point Road.
Planning
The reason the non-water, non-mountain aspects of this hashpoint are so important is that Robyn declared in advance that she would attend this geohash, even if it took two days to get there. Thepiguy also committed himself to the adventure. Robyn announced:
On Thursday I will prepare everything I could conceivably need for a Vancouver geohash. That means bike, kayak, wetsuit, hiking boots, ferry schedules, T-Rex, bear repellent, ambassador letter, compass, GPS and camera batteries and spares charged, games, chalk, tent, sleeping bag, stove, food, and somewhere I can rent snowshoes borrowed from thepiguy.
Then at 6:30 a.m. on Friday, I will check the coordinates. If they are in a remote area I will spend at least an hour planning and researching routes, before I set off in search of the geohash.
Vancouver must not defy me!
Before knowing the coordinates
I see two (rather large) problem areas: the middle of the Georgia Straight and the northern quarter of the graticule. Just wondering what our crazy-ridiculous plans for those two eventualities were? How much was it to rent a plane? Thepiguy 05:30, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
- for the Straight: My brother has a boat with a motor on it, which he has suggested in the past that I could borrow, and I have a boat licence which took much less training (and verifies far less skill) than a pilot licence does. I'm not sure how fast the boat goes, but I know I've motorboated in a smaller craft from the mouth of the Fraser to Langley and back in one day, so two days should be enough to get to anywhere in our graticule.
- for the northern quarter of the graticule: that's what the snowshoes, extra day and first aid equipment are for! -Robyn 05:40, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
This is one of those moments where I try to decide who is more insane: The person planning the ill-advised-possibly-fatal-adventure, or the person willing to follow the previous person on the ill-advised-possibly-fatal-adventure. Thepiguy 05:48, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
I asked Wade. He says "following". Isn't it unbelievable what can happen within 70 miles of downtown Vancouver? -Robyn 05:58, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
*opens mouth to protest* Meh, who cares. Let's have an adventure! Thepiguy 06:08, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
After knowing the coordinates
Robyn, and the people who hoped to geohash with her again in the future, are very relieved to have the coordinates be merely a two hour ferry ride away, with no spring mountaineering or 20 km kayak trips.
The plan (learning from thepiguy's adventure on Thursday)
- 09:45 - Bike down Knight Street to Bridgeport Road
- West on Bridgeport to No.5 Road
- South on No.5 to Rice Mill Road
- 11:00 - Take Translink Bicycle Shuttle through Massey Tunnel (next shuttle: 1 p.m.)
- 11:15 - Bike highway 17 to the Tsawwassen ferry terminal
- 12:45 - Take ferry to Duke Point (next ferry: 15:15 pm)
- 14:45 - Bike 8 km to general location of point
- Walk through field to point
- 16:00 - Celebrate Saturday Vancouver 4 p.m. Meetup
- 17:45 - Ferry to Tsawwassen
- 19:58 - 620 then 601 bus home
Back up plan if I can't get on the bus home: stay overnight with brother in Tsawwassen.
