2018-06-25 42 -85

Mon 25 Jun 2018 in 42,-85: 42.9571021, -85.6797634 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox

Location

Railroad bridge approach, Grand Rapids, MI

Participants

• Mcbaneg (talk) (George)

Expedition

This looked like an easy on-the-way-home target, alongside a railroad track just as it approached a bridge over the Grand River in downtown Grand Rapids. The track ran alongside a building used by city utilities to store traffic signals and the like. The hashpoint was about 200 feet from one of my principal routes home from work, and I occasionally have to stop on Front Ave. and wait for a train as it comes off the bridge on the west side of the river.

As I parked a train went by, lending authenticity.

Unfortunately (and predictably), I was stopped by a railroad No Trespassing sign about 50 meters from the hashpoint.

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  Closest approach.

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  View toward hashpoint from closest approach. The hashpoint is alongside the fence visible on the left.

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  Disappointed geohasher.

Achievements

George earned the No trespassing consolation prize by almost (50 m) reaching the (42, -85) geohash on 2018-06-25.