2014-10-13 50 5

Mon 13 Oct 2014 in 50,5: 50.5805367, 5.7471652 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox

Location

On a wooden hill near the village of Nessonvaux, Belgium.

Participants

Thalweg

Expedition

I don't have any car, and in my graticule public transports are, at best, scarce. That limit the radius to where I could go. When I saw that's today's hash was less than 10 km away from home, I took my bike and tried to find it.

First step was to go to the bottom of a valley to cross the river Vesdre (while less than efficient brakes) then find the little road on the right which lead me to another, albeit smaller valley. The hash was on the surrounding hill to the north. I pulled out my phone/GPS, to take the direct path, across the low trees. Bad idea. After I found some apples and a lot of thorns, I tried to make another attempt, with a less direct approach, a hundred meter to the east. -

Attempt number two lead me in a somehow small ancient quarry. I got around climbing one of the side, and again tried the direct route. Again, thorns. I tried to get to the top of the hill, to find some kind of slope with a flat ground on the top. Using an massive oak, I managed to get on that flat ground. GPS then told me the hash was in the same direction than the path on the ground, so I followed that path for a hundred meters, to find the wood were the hash was.