2010-07-30 58 12

Fri 30 Jul 2010 in 58,12: 58.0236281, 12.1898671 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox

Location

Just east of Lödöse, in the woods.

Participants

• Klibbnisse

Plans

Get on the bike, walk into the forest and hopefully get the gps to act somewhat accurate and then get the first hash in this graticule!

Expedition

So after getting my old GPS back to life I got on my bike and went straight to the forest the where the hash was. Although instead of going around it I tried to maintain a straight line (in case I would be able to get the juggernaut achievement, which I might have gotten) and went straight into it, parking the bike and started walking, thinking that 350 meters ain't that much, turns out it was.

After just a couple of minutes I get to an open field located about 10 meters below me, then some minutes later, me and my somewhat hurting legs got to cross a small stream before climbing up another hill into another forest. By this time my shoes where full of water after walking in the high grass while it was raining. So after yet some time I arrived at the location completely soaked from my knees downwards. It goes without saying that I took the easy route back to the bike, went home, dropped the pants and stood there, half naked and quite proud of myself for taking this graticule's virginity.

Photos

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  My bike got some rest before entering the woods

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  Woho! I'm raising the graticule flag!

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  My path (I began my trip at the top of the "spike" next to the house icon).

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  Notice how nice and open this area was, the way to it wasn't.

Achievements

Klibbnisse earned the Land geohash achievement by reaching the (58, 12) geohash on 2010-07-30.

Klibbnisse earned the Bicycle geohash achievement by cycling 1.7km to the (58, 12) geohash on 2010-07-30.

Klibbnisse earned the Consecutive geohash achievement by reaching 2 consecutive hash points starting on 2010-07-30.

Klibbnisse earned the Drowned Rat Geohash Honourable Mention by reaching the (58, 12) geohash on 2010-07-30 despite being partially wet from walking through a field of tall grass while raining.