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Location

On a landfill site next to a golf course in Wannsee.

This is what it is: [1] [2]

Participants

davidc
Hiro with drag-alongs Romano und Malena

Plans

S-bahn to Wannsee (zone B) or Griebnitzsee (zone C) and a 5 or 3km walk respectively.

Name a time if you're going!

Just decided to meet at S Wannsee at 4pm :) Anyone else joining? -HiroProtagonist 11:34, 15 September 2009 (UTC)

Expedition

The coordinates looked reachable and interesting, so we set off on our mission. From the satellite image it was hard to tell what the location would be: it was near a golf course but not on it, and had too many strange paths across it to be a normal park or heath.

We had resolved to meet at Wannsee S-bahn at 16:00 but as usual, the S-bahn system had other plans. The service was entirely cancelled along a large stretch, so davidc didn't arrive by train until 16:40. Cycling towards the hash, Romano and Malena called from a car and we met them halfway, programmed the coordinates into Romano's iPhone and then met them a while later by the forest.

The first suspicions arose when reaching what should have been the edge of a large field. A gate invited us to kindly close it behind us to keep wild boar out, but the gate itself was padlocked, so we walked around the edge hoping to find a way through the fence without climbing. Further suspicions came with the abundance of electrical junction boxes and gas vents in the middle of the forest.

Joining a small unmarked road, we found a crudely constructed stile over the fence. A sign on the gate said something along the lines of "please don't go in", but didn't actually forbid it. So over we went, assaulted a bluff, checked the GPS, and went back down the bluff. The ground was quite treacherous and filled with potholes. At this point we still didn't know what the area was, and the potholed ground, a seemingly pointless sewarage system, lifeguard-style observation chair, and an absolutely enormous satellite dish led davidc to confidently declare that it was a secret underground military installation.

Photos

Entrance to the forest
Forest path
The first hurdle. "Please shut this gate behind you"... but a padlock.
"I can feel the hash!"
The adjacent golf course
behind a fence.
About the area and plantation.
A convenient stile grants access.
The sign reads something like "Please don't come in". Not forbidden, just asking nicely.
Up the bluff to the hashpoint?
Why exactly does a golf course needs such a huge satellite dish?
Back down the bluff to the hashpoint?
Hash "field"
Slowpokes
Coordinates reached!
Two fresh silly grin recruits.
Hash sapling.
The reverse geotrash begins.
An office portacabin by the entrance.
Contents: Book, coffee cup, first aid kit, gas pipe, and a calendar dated 1990.
The mysterious bunker.
Reverse geotrash completed!