2021-07-02 40 -4

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Fri 2 Jul 2021 in 40,-4:
40.3169726, -4.1277432
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Location

In the wilderness, near the road between Villamanta and Villamantilla.

Participants

Wingman (talk)

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Expedition

It was a hot day, 35° in the late afternoon, not unusal for central Spain in this season. The geohash was just a few tens of meters from a road near my home base, a barely fifteen minutes motorcycle ride away.

I could not park the motorcycle — at least not the heavy old Goldwing — by the side of the road most closely to the geohash. The nearest parking option was a few hundred meters away. So I had to walk quite a bit in the heat.

Walking alongside the road, I noticed a fence which had not been visible in Google Street View because the terrain was sloping down. Fortunately, the fence kinked away perpendicular from the road well before it approached the geohash.

When I finally had to leave the road, the vegetation turned out to be quite dense, with bushes, thorns and little trees. For some time, I could follow kind of a pathway, but it was soft and deep sand, like on the beach, on such a hot day quite laborious to walk. For the last 20 meters, I had really to push my way through bushes and thorns.

I reached the geohash after about 20 minutes of walking and took proof. The way back was now up sloping, and I was sweaty with heat and exertion when I reached the road. Still I had to walk a few hundred meters alongside the road.

So I was back at the bike after a total of 40 minutes walking through the heat (did I mention that it was a hot day?) and barely 15 minutes riding so far — I took the long way home.

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