Zürich, Switzerland

Zürich, Switzerland is currently in a hashclash with München, Germany. The clash will be won by the graticule to report more successful expeditions during January 2013.
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The Zürich graticule is located at latitude 47, longitude 8. Zurich, the biggest city in Switzerland, lies more or less in the center of it. The graticule further contains the cities of Winterthur, Lucerne and Schaffhausen.

Around two third of its area are within Switzerland whereas the northern part belongs to Germany. Other geographical features are the origin of the Danube river near Donaueschingen, the river Rhine that cuts the area from east to west, and the beginning of the Alpine mountain range in the very south east of the graticule.

About

The graticule covers an area of 8375 km². The highest elevation is near the Ruchen mountain, and lies 2901 m (9500 ft) above sea level. The lowest point (289 m) is where the Rhine leaves the graticule westwards near the town of Sisseln.

According to Land usage, the chance for your hash to fall into one of the following areas is:

42.05%	Fields
24.31%	Forests
22.90%	Natural reserves
3.63%	Water
3.35%	Settlements
2.60%	Roads
1.14%	Highways

The chance that a hash falls into the city of Zürich is 1.09%.

Today's Location: Zurich, Switzerland

Active geohashers in this graticule

Inactive geohashers or status unknown

Achievements

The Zürich, Switzerland graticule (47 8) earned the Mostly Active Graticule achievement

for the month of 2012-06 in the category total expeditions by being the location of 6 expeditions.

Current plans

Check out the Current events page to see if any expeditions are planned here.

Expeditions

Most recent first.

2013

2013-01-30 Chris_47_8 - And one more. Zürich +1.
2013-01-28 Chris_47_8 - One for the competition. Zürich +1.
2013-01-26 Chris_47_8 went into Germany. Almost 500 meters.
2013-01-20 Chris_47_8 built a snowman and found a castle.
2013-01-19 Calamus and Chris_47_8 met in Oerlikon and found a bar - again!
2013-01-13 Calamus did a midnight hash right next to the lat day's hashpoint.
2013-01-06 Calamus went to a brookside near Ehrendingen.
2013-01-03 Calamus and Chris_47_8 found a pub and played some billiards!
2013-01-02 Chris_47_8 went to the lovely canton of Schwyz.

2012

2012-12-29 Calamus unsuccessfully tried to meet Foehammer.
2012-12-23 Calamus went to Glattfelden.
2012-12-01 Calamus made an international visit.
2012-11-26 Calamus wandered the Üetliberg.
2012-10-30 Foehammer - At the edge of a wood, only 900m away from Foehammers home.
2012-10-21 TheOneRing near Küssnacht am Rigi (Canton Schwyz).
2012-09-21 Calamus did part of a planet walk.
2012-09-10 Calamus failed at the Limmat.
2012-08-25 Calamus visited the German border.
2012-08-19 Calamus celebrated his hashversary.
2012-08-07 sarah, Foehammer - On a hill, right on a road near the village of Seon.
2012-08-03 Calamus captured the Munot fortress. Through the door.
2012-07-30 Calamus's tron was bedevilled by elevation differences.
2012-07-29 Calamus and Waldzitherclown visited Bülach city
2012-07-08 Calamus got pranked by the Argovian construction authority
2012-06-30 Calamus went paddling
2012-06-29 Calamus camped over night and got thunderstorm'd
2012-06-27 Calamus managed to be allowed onto a wealthy guy's grounds
2012-06-25 Calamus found somebody had been waiting for him at the hashpoint for five years
2012-06-24 Calamus had to run to reach this nigh-mid-city hashpoint in time
2012-06-05 Foehammer failed an ambassador achievement in an Argovian village, but introduced his girlfriend to Geohashing
2012-05-26 Frizzy and Hijackal hiked 20 km to the Mouseover hash in flip flops
2012-05-25 Frizzy and Hijackal celebrated Towel Day by juggling on the hashpoint
2012-05-04 Easy hash on a hill next to a grove and very close to Foehammers home
2012-03-08 Although this geohash lies around 3600km from Zürich, its conquer began here. Wolkenjaegers attempt even made it into the hall of amazingness!

2011

2011-10-30 TheOneRing — in a forest near Hunzenschwil (canton Aargau).
2011-10-08 Arches, Kei — located in the woods of Gelfingen, near the Castle of Heidegg
2011-08-20 A nice spot in the middle of Winterthur city
2011-08-19 Calamus felt like mountaineering
2011-08-16 in Böttstein, Switzerland
2011-06-18 Crox and Elisa were stopped by a construction site
2011-06-13 In the german exclave Büsingen, reached independently by Ekorren and TheOneRing
2011-05-07 Between Effretikon and Kempttal, not far away from the 2010-12-12-geohash
2011-02-15 Cheap one: directly on a street in the wood near Baden, Switzerland
2011-01-21 Wuestenschiff - On the border between the town of Winterthur and the village Elsau
2011-01-09 polyester, Crox, Ekorren, erin, Possibly Fergus, MykaDragonBlue - Multinational meetup near Schleitheim, Kanton Schaffhausen, Switzerland

older

2010-12-26 Danatar visited a snowy but sunlit forest near Schaffhausen and went to the Rhine Falls afterwards.
2010-12-12 In Bassersdorf
2009-10-14 The Swiss Army went geohashing!
2009-05-31 Ekorren was in Sumpfohren.
2009-01-21 reached by Enric and relet.
2009-01-04 A little new years trip. First time ever for all three participants.
2008-11-19 A group led by swiss radio seems to have reached the point. One photo was posted to the main page, otherwise it was only reported on the radio.
2008-05-24 Looks like someone got near, but the description is a bit on the short side. Participants were most probably stopped by a fence and did not reach the coordinates.

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