2019-06-02 54 13

Location

Forest area near Griebenow, MV, Germany.

Participants

SastRe.O and 1000 mosquitoes.

Plans

Get some sandwiches to go, grab Winterbuche, and bike after today's hash. It looks like I will have to walk into some "unpathed" forest area, but I expect it to be similar to 2019-02-27.

Expedition

Well, it started everything as usual. After breakfast and making the sandwiches, I had everything prepared to grab Winterbuche and bike together towards today's hash. The idea is to go firstly there, and after that search for some caches. I checked yesterday over the map and a Juggernaut achievement is not feasible, so no pressure. Still at home, I checked if I had sunscreen. Today is going to be sunny. Nope, none left (SPOILER Guess who arrived home red as a tomato).

Once after Levenshagen I was just the field over the forest area where the hash is, but from this side, there is no path towards there, so I had to go from the other side. No problem, that was according to plan.

Once in the other side, I take the path I checked from home, and at the end of this path, where the fields start, there I had to park Winterbuche. From here I had to do the last approach by feet. This little forest area has no paths, so I expected this expedition to be similar to a previous I had (2019-02-27)... Oh boy was I wrong!

And that is because Mother Nature can be a serious Bi**ch sometimes ;) The underforest war really dense and I had to follow some deer-made paths. Narrow ones. And now in June, the forest are freaking full of mosquitoes. And the soil is full of knee-high nettles, and I was wearing shorts. (Well, I always consider nettle stings are a state of mind, you must just get past that and not think about it). But the mosquitoes... I cannot stand them!

So, as I said first attempt following one of this deer-made paths and it has a big risk, and that is that suddenly I find a medium-width canal, easy enough to jump for a deer but... newsflash! I am not a deer. So, no crossing this side. 70 meters to go. New attempt, trying it west. Wow, that was a bad idea. More mosquitoes and nettles.. no apparent paths and then I had to add to these handicaps a fence. No crossing this way either. And... oh no! Velociraptor attack! Run! Sh**t, it's going after me, it has caught me! Mayday! But here in the forest there is no one to hear me. It caught my arms and legs, but I managed to escape. I couldn't capture it on my camera, damn it!

Well, here started that recurrent thought: "What the hell am I doing here?". Let's try east. Less trees but the narrow deer-paths goes through the nettles. As said, state of mind, just think of the hash. Here I fins the canal again, but I think I can jump it here. 5 minutes positioning myself, ok, it seems ok. JUMP! And... yes, left foot on the mud ^^ I had to. I mean, it was bound to happen. But, hey, I am on the other side, I don't know how I am to go back, but I am in the other side! And here new deer-path, and GPS starts saying, 70, 60, 40, 30, and that stupid grin appears. Yes, now I am going to reach it. Now I know what the hell I am doing here ;)

Once there I celebrated with 1000 mosquitoes reaching the hash. We were all ecstatic. We were all enjoying it together with hugs and high-fives. Lot's of high-fives, on my legs and neck, with their stings. Curious way mosquitoes high-five :/ (well, I was high-fiving them with the palm of my hand, against my leg or neck ;P) I mean, the mosquitoes were also trying to reach the hash, weren't they? So, let me hear it Mother Nature, who is whose bi**ch now, he??

Now.. how do I go back? (good question). Obviously I didn't take the same path, main reason, there were no real paths. So I let myself think I was following my GPS back, and I found a spot where I can cross the canal easily. Well now it's a bit late! My left food thanks you mother nature! hehe Naturally I took all of these with humour, it wouldn't be fun otherwise.

So, I scared some deer on the way back (they scared me equally with they sudden moves coming from nowhere) and back to Winterbuche! And it was warm, oh god. I mean, in the forest I was in the shade, but surrounded by mosquitoes. Here on the field, which had a surprising good smell, the sun was burning me. It's a tough decision, but my hate towards mosquitoes, say I preferred to suffer some sun, and continue with my bike.

This hash exhausted me mentally, I mean. After that, I couldn't. And I still managed to go after some caches, have a late lunch at Griebenow. Find an open Café there, and enjoyed some needed coffee (although they had no ice nor ice cubes; however I was lucky enough to find an open café a Sunday at 16:30). And... back home! 70km. Who could have said. Now I understand why I was so tired ;) My legs are burning, I am going to take a shower... but it was a nice expedition! :D

By the way, I hate mosquitoes, did I say that?

Tracklog

Tracklog
Closeup

Photos

Going there, everything fine by now.
Beautiful day.
Parking Winterbuche.
One of the obstacles I found.
Proof with GPS.
Altitude: 7m, 2m to destination.
Hash. Some trees. And nettles. And mosquitoes.
Velociraptor claws.
Also on my arm.
Right arm was not that bad.

Achievements

SastRe.O earned the Land geohash achievement

by reaching the (54, 13) geohash on 2019-06-02.

SastRe.O with Winterbuche earned the Bicycle geohash achievement

by cycling 71km to and from the (54, 13) geohash on 2019-06-02.

SastRe.O earned the OpenStreetMap achievement

by contributing to OpenStreetMap based on their expedition to the (54, 13) geohash on 2019-06-02.

SastRe.O earned the Velociraptor Geohash Achievement

by reaching the (54, 13) geohash for 2019-06-02 with highly visible raptor claw marks.

It's not a glamorous 3000m ascension, but I feel like I earned it...

SastRe.O with 1000 mosquitoes earned the One with Nature Geohash Achievement

by reaching the (54, 13) geohash on 2019-06-02.

SastRe.O earned the Do not disturb achievement

by unwillingly disturbing local fauna at the (54, 13) geohash on 2019-06-02.

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