2019-12-26 48 9

Location

Today's location is at the edge of a field between Leinfelden and Echterdingen, south of Stuttgart

Country: Germany; state: Baden-Württemberg (EU:DE:BW); administrative region: Stuttgart; district: Esslingen

Expedition

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I was in Konstanz (47 9 graticule) for Christmas. The hashpoints over the holidays were cruelly taunting me (2019-12-25 was just across the lake by ferry, then walking 3.5 km, but it was raining; 2019-12-26 was not far either and next to a road I've been on multiple times, but the satellite image showed a solar park, i.e. no trespassing). On the 26th I had to return to Dresden and I had booked a flight from Stuttgart because the train connection is just too long for the whole trip, it's already 3 hours from Konstanz to Stuttgart. On my way to Stuttgart I checked the hashpoint for that graticule because the train connections unexpectedly didn't have any problems so I would be at the airpoint with time to spare. I noticed that the hashpoint would be quite near to the airport and not far from the S-Bahn train line. How could I not visit such an easy spot?

My expedition started at the Leinfelden train station (2 stops from the airport). I just walked down the next street which changed to a field track after the last houses (the main site of the Bosch Power Tools company). I passed some walkers and two tracks later I was at the hashpoint. The spot was at the edge of a harrowed field. As the ground was still wet and I didn't want to carry multiple kilograms of mud into the airport I decided that 3 meters was near enough. After taking some pictures I continued on the field track for the next 300 meters to the first buildings of Echterdingen. There I walked to the train station and took the next train for one more stop to the airport.

not far now
almost there
GPS
the hashpoint
Coordinates reached!
panorama

tracklog

will follow


Thu 26 Dec 2019 in Stuttgart: 48.6993710, 9.1595425 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox