User:Zhukant

I found out about geohashing from the XKCD blog talking about the Antarctica global hash. I've actually done a couple of Geocaches in the past, and I found out about those through my high school Latin IV teacher, who made it our final project to hide a series of Geocaches that somehow lead you through something Classics-related. But even though I've known about those since 2007, I never heard of geohashing until November 2012.

My Graticules

I was born in 1990 in Moscow, in the Moscow graticule in Russia, and grew up right next door in Obninsk, but sadly, I doubt I will ever be doing any hashing there, so unless Russia's relationship with expatriates changes, I might never get the Origin geohash achievement.
When I moved to America in 1999, I lived mostly in Santa Clara County, near San Francisco, which is apparently mostly water - sad to hear.
I went to college at UC Davis, near Sac which is where I found out about geohashing!
Lived in Chicago for the first half of 2013
Now living in my dream town, Portland, hopefully forever!

Fellow Geohashers

People I dragged into Geohashing.

lrbrink90
Jeremizzle, my best friend. He lives in San Diego.

Geohashing Activity

My first attempt to geohash never actually got off the ground. It was the second day that I had known about it, November 15th in Sacramento, and it turned out that on this day the hash fell on a really cool spot, in the Fremont Weir State Wildlife Area on something that looked easy to hike to. But alas, I didn't have the preparation skills, woke up too late in the morning, and had class almost all the way until sunset. Better luck next time!
2012-11-16 38 -121
2013-02-16 41 -87 - my first successful Geohash!
2014-02-20 45 -122