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Location

In a mowed track under some power lines in Leesburg, VA. Some faint dirt tracks for cars are visible as well as a small river.

Participants

OfficeLinebacker (talk) Allison

Plans

We are planning on going at around 4pm Eastern US time, and may try to live stream the expedition via TinyChat again, if there are any interested viewers.

Expedition

This was by far the best geohash expedition I've been on, due to a combination of factors:

The weather was perfect. Very sunny and about 68 degrees.
The location was easy to get to by car (45 minutes away, mostly highway)
There were dirt tracks that led right there that I could drive my 4WD car on
The terrain was very lush and green and hilly and enjoyable to experience
We got to stream the expedition live to a few friends/strangers on the internet

So I mapped out the area the morning of, and talked about it a little bit in the IRC channel. We had live streamed an expedition the previous day and when it came time to try it, a few geohashers of European domicile decided to tag along and I am very flattered that they wanted to join. I tried to be a good host, explaining things about the culture and unique aspects of my town and the route, which took us on some of the major highways near Washington, DC. When we neared the spot that Google Maps took us to, even though we knew there was a river between us and the hash, we got out to explore. It was fun reading and responding to users' comments on tinychat while exploring.

When we got out of the car, we heard a crazy buzzing noise, it was some kind of interference from the power lines. Even the watchers of the stream could hear it. We walked down to the river, or "moat" as we were calling it also. We saw a couple of ducks which waddled away from us, uninterested. We went down to the other end of the mowed area and saw some rocks that maybe would have allowed us to cross, but only with signifcant risk of getting wet, so we went with our original plan which was to circle around to the other side by driving back on normal roads.

We trekked back to the car and drove around a quarry/stone plant, a FedEx truck repair plant, a golf course, and other related stuff. OfficeLinebacker (talk)

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