User:Tongs

The Tongs is a name for a group of friends who go geohashing in the Cambridge (UK) graticule, but who might stray into the Northampton graticule sometimes. We usually aim to visit hashpoints nearish us at 4pm local time. We monitor our talk page so if any other local people want to join us, please let us know. We don't yet have a hashcot.

Expeditions

#	Date	Who	Graticule	Where	Result
1	Sunday, 17th August 2014	F T B (3 people)	52,0	A ploughed field just south of the A14.	Success
2a	Saturday, 23rd August 2014	F M T B (4 people)	52,0	A field on a hillside near the village of Shaftenhoe End.	Success
2b	Saturday, 23rd August 2014	F M T B (4 people)	52,-0	Just off a track by the side of a field near Therfield.	Success

Different graticules: 2.
Total hashpoints: 3.
Saturday meetups: 1.

Notes and plans

The tongs are just over six years late to this particular party, but they don't care.
We'd like to try to do a hash with only a map and compass, not even using a car GPS to get us there. We later found out that this is called no batteries geohash.
We'd like to meet someone at a hashpoint one day.
M suggested a birthday expedition and doing a geohash on holiday.
We'd like Cambridge to be the UK's most active graticule.
To remember to wear long trousers (and maybe wellies) when we go hashing.
To remember to mark the GPS coordinates of the car when we leave it.
We carry an Emergency Fun Box.

Other geofun

We once let off a helium balloon with a message on it and it was found 85 miles away. We couldn't contain our excitement when we got that email. We're likely to do it again with the left-over helium. We found out since buying the helium that it's not good for the environment (and nor are the balloons for that matter).
F suggested we could do decihashing, where we just shift the decimal point across one place to give us a set of possible points within roughly a five mile square around Cambridge. We thought it might be just as fun.