2016-01-03 41 -73
| Sun 3 Jan 2016 in 41,-73: 41.0336429, -73.8717493 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox |
Location
By a school in Irvington near the Old Croton Aqueduct Trail
Participants
Plans
Wake up at 7am and hike all the way there, ~17 miles (27 km) north along the Old Croton Aqueduct route, most of it atop the actual old aqueduct in the Bronx and Westchester (including the newly opened High Bridge.) ETA 4pm. Eat dinner in Irvington and finally take Metro-North home. I live a literal stone's throw from one of the original gatehouses in Manhattan, and the hash is nearly as close to the aqueduct proper in Westchester, so a Walk geohash is basically required. OpenStreetMap alerted me to this idea and made for a very useful guide to the route, especially from Van Cortlandt Park to Yonkers (thanks Eupeodes for making it the default at geohashing.info!)
I'm inspired by the crazy hashers of my old graticule at 2015-11-15 47 -122 and also greatly reassured by all the earlier examples atop the table on the Walk geohash page. If I succeed I'll snag a respectable spot there, but I won't come anywhere close to topping Vswe's effort of 2010-11-18 59 17 or several others. (I was a bit disappointed to find this out, but then walking 46km in one day really is madness as far as I can tell.) I've also been catching up with Paul Salopek's walk around the world lately, which makes this extra cool.
I just realized I'll cross my route to 2015-03-01 40 -73 on the way up, passing very close to the point - so I may even take a quick detour to re-document it without all the snow (this winter has been very mild unlike last.) And my train home could carry me back over 2015-09-20 40 -73 if I wish, though more likely I'll get off at Marble Hill and take the subway home.
Things that could go wrong:
-the point could actually be about 15 feet (>1 GPS error radius) *inside* the school... the satellite picture is a little unclear
-parts of the trail through Van Cortlandt Park may not exist anymore... OSM has them but not Google maps
Wish me luck!
-- OtherJack (talk) 22:48, 2 January 2016 (EST)
