2010-02-14 42 -88

Location

corn field

Participants

MrMoses
DLeininger
and a friend

Plans

Plan on going sometime in the early afternoon. There's a Sonic about 1 mile away, so we will probably grab a slushie to get the GeoSquishy award.

Expedition

On Google maps satellite view it looked like there was a path we could take out into the field, but it was a lie. We couldn't find that path from the road, so we went into a nearby neighborhood and pulled into the driveway that was closest.

We asked if we could park the car in the driveway while we adventured out into the field, and the man said it was no problem, but the guy who owns the field is pretty sensitive. So we drove to the house that we thought owned the field to ask for permission.

They were confused as to why there was a game that included their private property, and it took some time to explain that the destination is kind of randomly calculated. Eventually they gave us permission and we drove back into the neighborhood to park as close as we could.

We headed down a snowy hill, and eventually out into the field. The field had lots of ruts, so it seemed like every other step was deeper. Some spots had a layer of ice under the snow, but it was pretty thin and we kept breaking through going even deeper into the snow.

When we got to the hashpoint, we enjoyed our slushies for a bit and took some pictures. We drew a snowman in the snow, and I also dropped my camera into the snow. It got snow/water on the lens, so the rest of the pictures have some blurry spots.

Tracklog

Here is a screenshot of the tracklog near the hashpoint. Click the image to view the full track log.

Photos

stopped at Sonic to get some slushies
GPS at Sonic
going down the hill
path at the bottom of the hill
looking back down the path
some metal under the snow
more metal under the snow
enjoying slushie
heading out into the field
crossing the field
walking in tracks with bad snow shoes
rolled pant leg
wish we could taken this road
still got the slushie
cheap gps says we made it
i dropped my camera in the snow
we made snowman art
snowman with a hat!
plane flying overhead
power lines
more power lines
about to sneeze?
snow on my camera lens
sometimes we broke through a layer of ice
theres a creek over there
going back up the hill
still got snow on my lens
still got one pant leg rolled


Sun 14 Feb 2010 in 42,-88: 42.2715064, -88.8845079 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox