2015-09-22 52 9
| Tue 22 Sep 2015 in Hannover: 52.3146090, 9.7726424 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox |
Location
The Geohash is located in a forest between Laatzen and Hemmingen.
Participants
Plans
I wanted to have a nice 5km-walk from Laatzen to Hemmingen, and pick up the Geohash in the middle.
Expedition
I started to walk in Laatzen, and pretty soon got out of the city. I crossed the river Leine and some time after that, I came closer to the coordinates. I knew that the coordinates were in a forest, but I had hoped that it was a nice forest, like the one I have been to at 2015-02-25 52 9. It wasn't. I only made it two or three meters into the forest, the geohash still being about 45 meters away from me. There were stinging nettles everywhere and I really didn't want to go more inside that forest, so I retreated. Eventually, I made it to Hemmingen, but sadly, I didn't reach the coordinates.
Photos
Starting in Laatzen
The best picture ever.
Proof that I didn't make it.
And the reason why I didn't make it.
Directions at 52.319939,9.765236
A sign of civilization!
Aftermath
While writing this report, I had another look at Google Maps for the specific location. Previously, I had only looked at the simplified map of that area, which all showed the Geohash to be in the center of the forest. That turned out to be wrong. The following is a screenshot of geohashing.info. The orange house is my closest approach, the coordinates are marked blue:
According to this, the coordinates were not in the middle of the forest, but rather on a meadow or a field inside of the forest. It would have been way easier to take the way over the meadow, go through a thinner part of the forest (maybe over a proper way), arrive at the inner meadow and get the coordinates. I will try to get there in the future to at least arrive at the then-retro-coordinates.
