2009-03-05 49 -123

Thu 5 Mar 2009 in 49,-123: 49.2491802, -123.1917834 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox

This may be the best Vancouver geohash location to date. It's in a park, not the five thousand acres on the side of a mountain full of bears and avalanches sort of park, but the half a city block with swings and softball fields and parents with kids in strollers sort of park. Plus it's right near UBC, a prime source of geohashers.

Participants

• Robyn with T-Rex and Успех
• thepiguy
• Galaxstar
• Miles (whose pseudonym I don't remember, but Miles is a good geohashing name)

Expedition

Robyn

Robyn followed the Ridgeway bike route until it dead-ended at the UBC endowment lands then just followed her GPS the remaining 900 metres to the clump of trees in the middle of the park, just as shown on Google Maps. The map didn't show the park bench seven metres from the geohash, but it was there. Robyn laid out the picnic blanket, Twister game, dinosaur, picnic dinner, and GPS, and waited for more geohashers to arrive. It was a little bit cold, but Robyn had brought a toque and a scarf.

I was expecting thepiguy to arrive at five, with some dragalongs in tow, but he still wasn't there at five-thirty. I wasn't too worried, though. It can take a while to explain to people why they should come to a park with you instead of doing their homework. I also knew that there was no way that thepiguy would miss an easy Vancouver geohash, that he hadn't been here yet, so I had

thepiguy

making a section for him so that I can go back to editing without us having edit conflicts.