2009-03-15 51 -0

Sun 15 Mar 2009 in London West: 51.6810282, -0.4051872 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox

Location

Just inside some woodland in North Watford, next to a football training pitch, a school playing field and some houses.

Participants

• Richard (on Saturday, a day early)
• Benjw

Expeditions

Richard

Richard lives less than 3km from the hashpoint, and is a friend of Benjw. When the weekend's coordinates were announced, Ben was vaguely thinking of going, and sent the coordinates to Richard, asking if he thought the woodland would be publicly accessible.

Not only did Richard answer in the affirmative, but he took the trouble to visit the hashpoint on the Saturday morning (thus a day early) and took a couple of photos! (This would be classified as a "Retro expedition", even though it is future date.- Jim)

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  The house next to the hashpoint.

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  The railings at the edge of the woodland.

Benjw

After Richard's excellent effort on the Saturday, Ben was encouraged to visit the hash himself. Accordingly, he arranged to meet Richard in Watford on the Sunday evening, with the intention of visiting the hashpoint just beforehand. Unfortunately it was a bit later than planned by the time he got to the hashpoint -- the M1 motorway was closed because of an accident, which meant that traffic conditions in the area were generally awful -- so he never actually met up with Richard that evening.

The hashpoint was visited, but it was getting dark by that time, so not many photos were taken. Ben also met a young family at the point -- not hashing, but searching the woodland for their missing cat, which wasn't found this evening either, sadly.

When returning to the car, Ben was alarmed to find that this might be a Police Geohash, but luckily the officer in question was more interested in a nearby house than in taking any notice of wandering geohashers.

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  A mosque about 500m from the hashpoint.

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  Lovely sunset over the college buildings as I arrived.

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  Gate into the woodland. The hash is behind the first tree.

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  Tree growing at the hashpoint.

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  Proof of hash.

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  The local football club, who I think train on the field I crossed.

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  Immense traffic jam on the A41 south.

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  Traffic jam, from the footbridge.

Shiny ribbons earned

Benjw earned the Land geohash achievement by reaching the (51, -0) geohash on 2009-03-15.

Benjw achieved level 4 of the Minesweeper Geohash achievement by visiting coordinates in Cambridge, United Kingdom and 4 of the surrounding graticules.