User:Wijnland

Wiebe Nijland started geohashing end 2011 and is based in the Vancouver graticule, but will also visit as many other graticules as possible. I try to geohash as much as possible by bike, but will also drive out with my van especially if I can combine reaching the coordinates with some awesome camping trip or other activities.

Geohashing Equipment

• Focus Mares Disk 2010, my beloved road/cyclocross Bike (2*10 speed, 105 Compact)
• Teal VW eurovan '92, rides seven and/or sleeps two.
• Garmin etrex Legend H GPS
• Recta+ DS50 Compass
• Camera Gear (lots of it..., o.a. 5DmkII and Infrared converted 550D (T2i) )
• My trusted Dutch Clogs (wooden shoes), I don't bring them always but consider them my hashcot.

Graticules

the graticules I geohashed and the number of expeditions in each of them.

• Vancouver, British Columbia: 6 - My current Home Graticule
• Surrey, British Columbia: 1
• Victoria, British Columbia: 1
• Whistler, British Columbia: 3 - Virgin
• Lake Cowichan, British Columbia: 1 - Virgin
• Cache Creek, British Columbia: 1
• Kamloops, British Columbia: 1

• Utrecht, Netherlands: 1 - Old home graticule (Puppethash) and now Borderhash

Goals

• Attend a true XKCD Saturday Meetup
• Complete the Vancouver, BC minesweeper (now 4/8)
• Water Geohash
• Underwater scuba Geohash !!
• Globalhash
• Camping geohash
• MNB geohash
• No batteries geohash

there are many more, once some of my wishes get fulfilled I will add new ones. Finally I would sure like to hash all graticules of the World, but that may be a little ambitious.

Expeditions

• 2012-07-01 50 -121 (Cache Creek, BC): Speedracer on the 99hwy #15.
• 2012-06-29 50 -120 (Kamloops, BC): In a hayfield close to Merrit #14.
• 2012-06-14 49 -123 (Vancouver, BC): TRON to the middle of intersection knight and 36th #13.
• 2012-05-24 52 5 ( Utrecht, Netherlands): Borderhash in my former home graticule #12.
• 2012-05-21 49 -123 (Vancouver, BC): Geohashing day drowned rat, in the forests on the sunshine coast near Sechelt #11.
• 2012-04-29 50 -122 (Whistler, BC): 500m in the forest off the blowdown trail #10.
• 2012-04-28 50 -122 (Whistler, BC): 100m off the road near Duffey lake #9.
• 2012-04-28 49 -123 (Vancouver, BC): 500m in the water off Kelvin Grove. Fail
• 2012-04-08 48 -124 (Lake Cowichan, BC): Virgin hash at the north side of Nitinat Lake #8
• 2012-04-03 49 -123 (Vancouver, BC): In the snow at Cypress Mountain #7
• 2012-03-07 49 -123 (Vancouver, BC): Bike geohash #6.
• 2012-03-03 50 -122 (Whistler, BC): Virgin near Pemberton #5.
• 2012-02-29 49 -123 (Vancouver, BC): Official alternate leaping with swords at Academie Duello.
• 2012-02-05 52 5 ( Utrecht): Lunetten, Simplompbaan. Puppet master Hash

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• 2011-12-04 49 -123 ( Vancouver BC): Richmond (3 of 3) #4
• 2011-12-03 49 -123 ( Vancouver BC): Horseshoe Bay (2 of 3) #3
• 2011-12-02 49 -122 (Surrey BC): Kitchener St, Burnaby (1 of 3) #2
• 2011-11-27 48 -123 (Victoria BC): On Saltspring island, one of the Gulf islands, my first and epic geohash.#1

Achievements

This user earned the Land geohash achievement by reaching the (48, -123) geohash on 2011-11-27.

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This user earned the Bicycle geohash achievement by cycling 57.5 km to the (49, -123) geohash on 2011-12-03.

This user earned the Public transport geohash achievement by reaching the (49, -123) geohash on 2011-12-04 via Skytrain Canadaline.

This user earned the Admit One Achievement by paying $10+tax to access the (49, -123) geohash at Cypress mountain nordic area on 2012-04-03.

This user earned the Border geohash achievement by crossing the Canada-Netherlands border on 2012-05-24 to reach the (52, 5) geohash.

This user earned the Speed racer achievement by passing through the (50, -121) geohash on 2012-07-01 at 100km/h.

This user earned the Tron achievement by reaching and returning from the (49, -123) geohash without crossing his [{{{tracklog}}} own tracks] on 2012-06-14.

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This user earned the 2012 Geohashing Day achievement by Reaching the coordinates in his home graticule Vancouver and defending the nations Honour in the (49, -123) graticule on May 21st 2012.

This user earned the Drowned Rat Geohash Achievement by reaching the (49, -123) geohash on 2011-05-21 despite being thoroughly wet from biking 120k in rain and bushwhacking through a swamp.

This user earned the Consecutive geohash achievement by reaching 3 consecutive hash points starting on 2011-12-02.

This user earned the Puppet Master Geohash achievement by manipulating his brother Reindert to reach the (52, 5) geohash on 2012-02-05.

This user earned the Drag-along achievement by reaching the (50, -122) geohash on 2012-03-03.

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This user achieved level 4 of the Minesweeper Geohash achievement by visiting coordinates in Vancouver, British Columbia and 4 of the surrounding graticules.

This user achieved level 3 of the Minesweeper Geohash achievement by visiting coordinates in Cache Creek, British Columbia and 3 of the surrounding graticules.

This user earned the Globetrotter achievement by visiting hashpoints on 2 continents.

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This user earned the 5 modes of transportation Achievement by Using 5 or more modes of transportation, in this case Bike, Bus, Ferry, Skytrain(subway), and foot. (48, -123) geohash on 2011-11-27.