| Sun 7 Jun 2009 in Kempten, Germany: 47.4552086, 10.9767424 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox |
Location
The hash is located on the Eibsee, a rather large mountain lake within of the Zugspitz mountain range, just below the highest peak in Germany.
Links:
- Webcam (the one called "Zugspitzgipfel - Blickrichtung Norden zum Eibsee", which means "Zugspitze peak - Looking north to the Eibsee")
- Eibsee - English wikipedia (basically no information)
- German wikipedia (good information)
- Eibsee leisure centre - owner of the lake
- Boat rental
Plans
The planning phase for this great expedition gained a lot of momentum and deserves its on page: 2009-06-07 47 10/Plans
Do not fear, it's preserved in all of its greatness over at the other page. --Zb 18:40, 7 June 2009 (UTC)
Expedition reports
... will follow here, along with tons of pictures. --Zb 18:49, 7 June 2009 (UTC)
The crew from Würzburg (Danatar, Srs0, Thepiguy)
... who got up very, very early.
The crew from Regensburg (dawidi, Hans, Tomcat)
... who also came from quite far away.
All the way from Tübingen: Ekorren
... who even came from another state (BaWü)
Two fellows from München (Baerenfell, zb)
... who almost appear to be couch potatoes, considering how far everyone else has traveled.
Baerenfell says:
Awesome Expedition with a lot of really nice and funny guys, nearly perfect weather and last, but not least a really cool spot. Also being one of the first to do an underwater geohash rules :) (proof to follow with full report) And now I can put my hands on a f***ing lot of ribbons, YEEHAA!
zb says:
First things first:
I know I sound like a hippie who has smoked his brains out when I say that this trip made me feel truly happy not only because the nature looked so nice, but -- even better -- because it was very fun to meet everyone else after having done a number of geohashes myself and even failed to meet dawidi once.
Koepfel, after today, your meetup graph will be in serious trouble if not completely FUBARed, but it's worth it because spending this great day with a group as nice and diverse was a big win. I mean it.
On to the report:
I left the house around 8:30am and took a small detour to a nearby school house because it was election day for the European Parliament and this is where I go to vote. A [1] has even been suggested for this. While the school house itself was just as ugly as any German school house built in the seventies, it featured a nice painting next to one of its doors that must have been an indication about what was bound to happen later this day:
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Vote here.
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An ode to the seventies.
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Mountains! Sunshine! Water! When you see something like this in the morning, on a building like the one on the previous picture, the day ought to be good.
... More will still follow here. May take some hours or even days until it's ready...
thepiguy says:
Possibly my favourite expedition yet! I hope the pictures from the underwater camera turn out...
Gratuitous comments
... started coming in while the expedition was still in the planning phase and may now be found at the talk page.
