User:Werther
30 / m / 46,11I am a 18 years old guy living in the small city of Trento, northern Italy. I pride myself in being the most active Italian geohasher, but that's not a great accomplishment- I don't have any regular competition.
I got to know geohashing on the 12th of August, 2012, and it was instant love. Trentino is not the easiest place to get around- it's all mountains around here, and some places can be quite hard to reach. On the other hand, though, Trento is on the bottom left corner of a graticule- this means I have three other graticules nearby should the location in mine be unreachable. I mostly hash via public transport, as I don't have a driver's license yet.
At the end of 2012 I released a report on all the expeditions I did during the year, which you can read here. Thanks for visiting my userpage, and feel free to leave a message for anything- even if you just want to chat.
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My expeditions
| No. | Date/link | Graticule | Municipality | Actual location | Outcome | Means of transportation | Notes ! |
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| 01 | 2012-08-13 | Trento | Trento | A swampy meadow in Viote, Mt.Bondone | Reached | Intercity bus (202) | First geohash! |
| 02 | 2012-08-24 | Outside a house in the Laste neighborhood | Reached | None (walked) | |||
| 03 | 2012-08-26 | In a porphiry quarry near Gazzadina | Reached | City bus (3) | First expedition with GPS. One of my favorites | ||
| 04 | 2012-08-27 | Egna (BZ) | In a parking lot in Egna | Failed | Intercity bus (104) | Forgot to save the coordinates on the GPS, asked my sister to text them to me, she mispelled them. | |
| 05 | 2012-09-02 | Verona | Dro | On the side of a country road north of Dro | Reached | Intercity bus (204) | |
| 06 | 2012-09-20 | Padova | Vallarsa | In the small village of Albaredo | Reached | Intercity bus (301 and 310) | Deflowered Padova graticule |
| 07 | 2012-12-29 | Trento | Sanzeno | In an apple field north of Banco | Reached | Train (FTM) and intercity bus (627) | Personal favourite |
| 08 | 2013-01-02 | Cinte Tesino | Inside a house in Cinte Tesino | Failed | Intercity bus (401 and 405) | No trespassing geohash. Also first expedition in a snowstorm | |
| 09 | 2013-02-17 | Padova | Isera | Outside a group of houses in Cornalé | Reached | Train (FS) and Rovereto city bus (2) | |
| 10 | 2013-03-30 | Trento | Taio | In an apple field west of Segno | Reached | Train (FTM) | Drowning rat geohash |
| 11 | 2013-04-01 | Trento | In the woods between Sopramonte and Baselga, on the foothills of Mt.Bondone | Reached | City bus (6) | ||
| 12 | 2013-04-05 | Civezzano | On the northbound lane of SP71, just east of Civezzano | Reached | Intercity bus (103) | ||
| 13 | 2013-05-05 | Pergine Valsugana | In a meadow of unknown purposes, next to a major highway in Pergine | Reached | Intercity bus (401 and 403) | ||
| 14 | 2013-05-13 | Padova | Pomarolo | A field in the Servis plateau, east of Sevignano | Failed | Intercity bus (301 and 302), Rovereto city bus (1, 3, 5 and 6) | GPS not working properly |
| 15 | 2013-07-19 | Trento | Terlago | A field west of Monte Terlago | Reached | Intercity bus (206 and 236) and Trento city bus (6) | Reached without GPS |
| 16 | 2013-08-05 | S.Michele all'Adige | Woods east of the Agricultural Institute | Failed | Intercity bus (104 and 611) | Went geohashing without knowing the actual coordinates. | |
| 17 | 2014-01-18 | Cles | Apple fields west of Cles | Reached | Train (FTM) | ||
| 18 | 2014-08-21 | Albiano | A grassy field on Mt. Calisio | Reached | Intercity bus (401 and 116) and City bus (10) | ||
| 19 | 2014-09-28 | A parking lot in Albiano | Reached | Intercity bus (103) |
Planned but not attempted expeditions (hopefully future retros)
2012-12-14: Snowstorm struck in the morning causing transport delays, my timetable wouldn't allow me to go on an adventure.
2012-01-21: Bad weather, had a cold, and it was too difficult (also implied lots of time)
Achievements
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Werther earned the Land geohash achievement
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Werther earned the Public transport geohash achievement
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Werther earned the Graticule Unlocked Achievement
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Werther achieved level 2 of the Minesweeper Geohash achievement
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Werther earned the Drowned Rat Geohash Achievement
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Werther earned the Blinded by Science Consolation Prize
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- Side note/shameless bragging: I could have claimed both land geohash and Public Transport geohash on my first expedition, but I lacked proof for those two.
Hidden goals
These are my ultimate achievements- they will take something like five years to accomplish but well, I like challenges.
1) Successfully hashing once in every of the 217 Trentino municipalities (so far: 9)
2) Using at least once every Trentino city/intercity bus line.
- Trento city bus: 3/22
- Rovereto city bus: 5/8
- Intercity bus: 14 + FTM
3) Using at least once every Trentino Trasporti bus.
- Trento city bus: 15 buses
- Rovereto city bus: 4 buses + 1 private shuttle
- Intercity bus: 20 + 1 private shuttle
- FTM: 4 trainsets
