User:Werther

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I am a 18 years old guy living in the small city of Trento, northern Italy. I pride myself in being the most active Italian geohasher, but that's not a great accomplishment- I don't have any regular competition.

I got to know geohashing on the 12th of August, 2012, and it was instant love. Trentino is not the easiest place to get around- it's all mountains around here, and some places can be quite hard to reach. On the other hand, though, Trento is on the bottom left corner of a graticule- this means I have three other graticules nearby should the location in mine be unreachable. I mostly hash via public transport, as I don't have a driver's license yet.

At the end of 2012 I released a report on all the expeditions I did during the year, which you can read here. Thanks for visiting my userpage, and feel free to leave a message for anything- even if you just want to chat.

My expeditions

Planned but not attempted expeditions (hopefully future retros)

2012-12-14: Snowstorm struck in the morning causing transport delays, my timetable wouldn't allow me to go on an adventure.

2012-01-21: Bad weather, had a cold, and it was too difficult (also implied lots of time)

Achievements

No. Date/link Graticule Municipality Actual location Outcome Means of transportation Notes !
01 2012-08-13 Trento Trento A swampy meadow in Viote, Mt.Bondone Reached Intercity bus (202) First geohash!
02 2012-08-24 Outside a house in the Laste neighborhood Reached None (walked)
03 2012-08-26 In a porphiry quarry near Gazzadina Reached City bus (3) First expedition with GPS. One of my favorites
04 2012-08-27 Egna (BZ) In a parking lot in Egna Failed Intercity bus (104) Forgot to save the coordinates on the GPS, asked my sister to text them to me, she mispelled them.
05 2012-09-02 Verona Dro On the side of a country road north of Dro Reached Intercity bus (204)
06 2012-09-20 Padova Vallarsa In the small village of Albaredo Reached Intercity bus (301 and 310) Deflowered Padova graticule
07 2012-12-29 Trento Sanzeno In an apple field north of Banco Reached Train (FTM) and intercity bus (627) Personal favourite
08 2013-01-02 Cinte Tesino Inside a house in Cinte Tesino Failed Intercity bus (401 and 405) No trespassing geohash. Also first expedition in a snowstorm
09 2013-02-17 Padova Isera Outside a group of houses in Cornalé Reached Train (FS) and Rovereto city bus (2)
10 2013-03-30 Trento Taio In an apple field west of Segno Reached Train (FTM) Drowning rat geohash
11 2013-04-01 Trento In the woods between Sopramonte and Baselga, on the foothills of Mt.Bondone Reached City bus (6)
12 2013-04-05 Civezzano On the northbound lane of SP71, just east of Civezzano Reached Intercity bus (103)
13 2013-05-05 Pergine Valsugana In a meadow of unknown purposes, next to a major highway in Pergine Reached Intercity bus (401 and 403)
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Werther earned the Land geohash achievement
by reaching the (46, 11) geohash on 2012-08-26.
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Werther earned the Public transport geohash achievement
by reaching the (46, 11) geohash on 2012-08-26 via Trentino Trasporti network.

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Werther achieved level 2 of the Minesweeper Geohash achievement
by visiting coordinates in Trento, Italy and 2 of the surrounding graticules.
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Werther earned the Drowned Rat Geohash Honourable Mention
by reaching the (46, 11) geohash on 2013-03-30 despite being partially wet from heavy rain an umbrella could only partially cover.
  • Side note/shameless bragging: I could have claimed both land geohash and Public Transport geohash on my first expedition, but I lacked proof for those two.

Hidden goals

These are my ultimate achievements- they will take something like five years to accomplish but well, I like challenges.

1) Hashing once in every of the 217 Trentino municipalities (so far: 9)

2) Using at least once every Trentino city/intercity bus line, which are quite a lot (I don't know the exact number!) (so far: 3x Trento city network, 7x intercity network, FTM railway included)

3) Using at least once every Trentino Trasporti bus (according to their website, there are 714 of them, just sayin': 16 so far, train included)