This hashpoint was just 15 km from Reinhard's home. It was very close to a field path which connects wind turbines. Sounds like an easy hash!
Well, at the beginning it really looked like it would be quite easy. Reinhard started from home shortly after 19:30 with his bike. He was a bit afraid of the road conditions of an agrarian and bike road, where there would be no winter services. His concerns turned out to be justified. The road wasn't clear of snow at all, but using an other road would have meant a detour of about 7 km, so Reinhard decided to struggle through the snow. No way to ride the road bike on that path, so he had to walk the bike to the hashpoint, which was still almost 2 km to go. The scenery was really interesting with a large quantity of snowbanks of different heights up to about 1 m. It felt like walking through a desert, when walking up and down the snow dunes. Unfortunately it wasn't only interesting, but also extremely exhausting walking or sometimes carrying the bike, while sinking deeply into the snow over and over again. Thus, it took quite a while until Reinhard finally arrived at the hashpoint in the middle of a wind park, which was old enough to be visible in the Google Earth satellite views. Reinhard tried to take some nice pictures of the windmills and went on to the closest road, which was still about 1 km crossing the snow-covered field. The rest was easy again: Just cycling the 17 km back home and arriving there 2 hours and 15 minutes after leaving it - a quite ridiculous time for only 33 km of travelling (30 km cycling, 3 km walking and carrying the bike).
| More of that - looking more impressive in reality than on that picture.
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| Bike lamp illuminated wind engines.
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