2009-10-23 51 -1
| Fri 23 Oct 2009 in 51,-1: 51.0450971, -1.3009777 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox |
Location
Bar End, Winchester, quite near St Catherine's Hill
It seems to be up a hill, going by this bing birds eye view:
Participants
- Sermoa
- Richard (drag-along)
Plans
Looks like a work colleague is going to drive there with me at lunch time! Let's hope the nice weather holds out :)
I have been waiting for a geohash to land on St Catherine's Hill, which is my favourite hill. This is the closest i've seen so far - St Catherine's Hill is just the other side of the M3 from the geohash.
Expedition
Sermoa's trip
I managed to get Richard (a work colleague) to give me a lift to the location in our lunch break. We parked in a nearby siding and walked up the footpath, looking back to admire the amazing view. Pretty soon we realised we were the wrong side of a big chasm; we were going to go around it but then we just decided to run down it and up the other side!
The GPS on my phone was full of #fail today (accuracy really low) but we compared the shadows of trees from the google maps to estimate where we should be. I'm pretty sure we were in the right place. From the hash point we could see the whole of Winchester! It was lovely!
Only on the way down did i learn (from a phone call) that Macronencer had been up there at midnight and left a marker at the hash point. I feel really silly that we did not see it! If only i'd known i would have looked out for it! Either we were in the wrong place, or we didn't look very carefully, or somebody had already removed the marker. There was a farmer in the field the other side of the fence who might have already removed Mike's marker.
I can only hope that DavidMiller might be able to go later this afternoon and find both the markers and see if ours was actually in the right place. Otherwise, if there are no good weekend geohashes, i might go back and have a look for Mike's marker!
Gallery
coming soon ...
