User:Tongs

The Tongs is a name for a group of friends who go geohashing in the Cambridge (UK) graticule, but who might stray into the Northampton graticule sometimes. We usually aim to visit hashpoints nearish us at 4pm local time, if it looks like there's something interesting in the area or if people want to meet up (we monitor our talk page, so leave us a message if you do).

We announce all our expeditions (and sometimes other fun) on the Twitter account 52n0e

Expeditions

#	Date	Who	Graticule	Where	Result
1	Sunday, 17th August 2014	FTB (3 people)	52,0	A ploughed field just south of the A14.	Success
2a	Saturday, 23rd August 2014	FMTB (4 people)	52,0	A field on a hillside near the village of Shaftenhoe End.	Success
2b	Saturday, 23rd August 2014	FMTB (4 people)	52,-0	Just off a track by the side of a field near Therfield.	Success
3	Sunday, 28th September 2014	FMTB (4 people)	52,0	In a field near Vestey Wood, near the Gog Magog Hills.	Success

• Different graticules: 2.
• Total hashpoints bagged: 4.
• Saturday meetups: 1.

Notes and plans

• The tongs are just over six years late to this particular party, and often hope to meet someone at a hashpoint. Often we have a good adventure anyway.
• We'd like to try to do a hash with only a map and compass, not even using a car GPS to get us there. We later found out that this is called no batteries geohash.
• M suggested a birthday expedition and doing a geohash on holiday.
• We'd like Cambridge to be the UK's most active graticule.
• To remember to wear long trousers (and maybe wellies) when we go hashing. We'd like to have some kind of recognisable tshirt or something so T doesn't need to ask strangers 'Are you geohashing?'.
• To remember to mark the GPS coordinates of the car when we leave it.
• We carry an Emergency Fun Box.

Other geofun

• We once let off a helium balloon with a message on it and it was found 85 miles away. We couldn't contain our excitement when we got that email. We're likely to do it again with the left-over helium. We found out since buying the helium that it's not good for the environment (and nor are the balloons for that matter).
• F suggested we could do decihashing, where we just shift the decimal point across one place to give us a set of possible points within roughly a five mile square around Cambridge. We thought it might be just as fun.
• We're sort of interested in orienteering and Ingress too, but haven't done much about it.

Achievements unlocked

This user earned the Land geohash achievement by reaching the (52, 0) geohash on 2014-08-23.

This user earned the Multihash Achievement by reaching the 2014-08-23 52 0 and 2014-08-23 52 -0 geohashes on 2014-08-23.