Hall of amazingness

This is a gallery of amazing geohashing achievements, hilariously described catastrophes or otherwise cool adventures that demonstrate the spirit and practice of geohashing. They aren't all events like the first one-legged unicycle ascent of Mount Everest. Many are things anyone could do, but these people did. Add to the gallery if you know of a story that you think deserves a wider audience. Choose an appropriate category and place it in date order, most recent at the top.

Lucky Locations

• 2009-01-01 36 -75 - Amazingly amazing lucky geohash for the New Year.

Conquering Nature, Technology and Bodily Weakness

• 2009-04-11 36 -84 - Rappelling over cliffs in search of a river canyon geohash.
• 2008-12-13 41 -74 - A double-midnight-police-frozen-virgin-no-batteries-minesweeper geohash.
• 2008-10-31 -32 138 - Solo geohasher battles the untamed Australian wilderness.
• 2008-10-31 59 11 - Reaching the (then) coldest Geohash after wading through (even colder) waist deep water.
• 2008-09-21 49 -123 - Navigating on rubber rafts in the dark. Includes a deflating boat, a lost paddle and a broken oar.
• 2008-09-01 49 -124 - 282km via bike, kayak, and ferry, more than 22 hours total travel time.
• 2008-08-31 60 24 - Reaching the (then) coldest Geohash wading through waist deep water.
• 2008-08-07 52 12 - A rubber boat is carried over fifty km by bicycle to reach a water hash.
• 2008-07-12 47 -122 - Three people reached a water hash on board a catamaran.
• 2008-06-01 -35 148 - Logging trails, improvised bridges, thorny ditches, and a picnic.

Setting New Records

• Dedicated geohashers make the ultimate sacrifice on 2009-04-12 to provide the first confirmed Sex Geohash.
• Geohashers travel through time to reach both 2009-03-08 33 -85 and 2009-03-08 33 -84 at exactly 12:39 p.m.
• 2008-08-16 52 12 - Geohasher reaches Saturday geohashes in eight different graticules in one day.
• 2008-06-11 31 -84 - Commercial pilot diverts flight for first aerial geohash.

Art and Aesthetics

• 2008-12-27 51 8 - Re-enacting the Oslo coat of arms.
• 2008-10-31 41 -96 - Someone goes geohashing dressed up as a banana.
• Talk Like A Pirate Day 2008 - Eleven out of seventeen remaining pirates on Earth visited geohashes.

In the Media

• 2008-11-19 47 8 - Three reporters from DRS-3 Digital (Switzerland) try to advertise geohashing.
• 2008-09-29 52 12 - Geohashing on TV.

Weird and Notable

• 2008-10-22 49 8 - Stealth hasher smuggles its hashmarks into other hashers photo.
• 2008-09-20 52 -0 - Pre-emptive hot air balloon geohash on previous day.
• 2008-08-09 43 -77 - Most (invertebrate) geohashers simultaneously at the hashmark.
• 2008-06-08 60 24 - Encounter with ghosts at an ancient burial ground.
• 2008-05-26 27 -80 - Geohashers transport an actual couch to the hash, where they get stuck in a swamp.
• 2008-05-24 -43 172 - Lost geohasher rescued by police via text messages.
• 2008-05-24 53 -113 - Agents assure bystander "don't worry, we're from the Internet".

Tributes

• 2008 - A video/slideshow of one geohashing year.
• The amazing ICWB - A geohasher's beloved bicycle, full of surprises. A tribute.