2009-10-30 33 -106

Fri 30 Oct 2009 in 33,-106: 33.7317265, -106.0612421 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox

Location

Near a dirt road about 10 miles west of Carrizozo, New Mexico--but more importantly NOT on White Sands Missile Range.

Participants

• Redaragorn and family

Plans

So I'd been looking at hashes on Thursday and Friday since I had off work, and was kind of disappointed when the Thursday Tularosa hash was north of the missile range because I didn't get a chance to get down there and catch it. Well, Friday turned out to be even better. Not only was it not on the missile range, it was also a lot closer to a paved road than the Thursday hash would have been. SO, I figured we'd make the long trip down to catch it--and maybe stop by and catch the double virgin graticule by nabbing the Magdalena hash on the way home.

Expedition

It is a long drive to nowhere to get to this graticule from the Albuquerque area. We piled the kids and supplies in the car and headed south. We stopped in Socorro for some lunch and a break from the car, then got back in and turned off the interstate another 10 miles south.

Track

Check out the GPS track here.

Pictures

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  GPS and XKCD memorial.

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  Goofy grinning family.