2008-09-21 49 -123

Sun 21 Sep 2008 in 49,-123: 49.2776262, -123.1564544 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox

Location

About 250m offshore of Kits Beach in Vancouver.

This is the first part of a bicycle multihash by Robyn and thepiguy. The second part is here.

Participants

• Robyn attended, with Успех (who will stay on the beach) and a rubber raft.
• thepiguy was there with Josephine, and his own rubber raft.
• Srs0 was there with his bike (that doesn't have a name), and shared thepiguy's raft.

srs0

Robyn and thepiguy were planning on (and are currently working on) a multihash today, so I went early with them. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to join them for the second part of their hash due to other commitments, but the one I did make it to was fantastic!

For me, the expedition began at 05:15, where brought my stuff out to the bike and discovered that something had happened to my back tire, again. As I prepared to change it, thepiguy rode up and I told him the problem. I quickly fixed the back wheel and, at around 05:30, we headed out. We made good time and reached the beach by the hashpoint at 06:01, while Robyn arrived around five minutes later. The boats were inflated by 06:30 and all three of us were out on the water and at the geohash for 07:00, just in time for a sunrise geohash (the sunrise for the day was officially 06:58, which was achieved)! Admittedly, the only way that we could see that it was the sunrise, thanks to dark clouds, was because it was getting a bit brighter.

There were quite a few "what the heck are we doing" moments, namely when we got into the little rafts in the water and paddled a quarter kilometre into the bay all in the dark. Thankfully, thepiguy had thought up a method to get us in the general area without having to constantly watch the GPS, namely by using his forward and rear bike lights lined up on the shore.

By the time we all got back to the shore, cleaned up, and deflated the boats, which took longer than it took to inflate them, it was 08:00. Robyn and thepiguy went on to continue their multihash while I took the big inflatable boat from thepiguy and brought it back with me so he didn't have to carry it for the rest of the way. Robyn was going to drop her boat off somewhere too.

Pictures, and commentary by the other two participants, to follow!