User:Ekorren

37 / m / 48,9

Introduction

Warning: May contain nuts.

Ekorren - that's the european brown squirrel, scientifically sciurus vulgaris. Jumps around, collects various stuff, hides things and never finds all of it again.

I'm mostly hashing by bike, so I'm somehow restricted to the nearer surroundings of my home coordinates which are roughly N 48°31' E 9°3', as well as weather-restricted. But I don't take both of it very serious. And the first geohash I visited was far away from home...

Plans (if any)

Planning means to substitute random with error.

Statistics

	#points	reached		Plan B*
		yes	no
Hashpoints scouted	98	82	16
- saturday 4 pm / centurion	18	18
- Stuttgart graticule (48,9)	40	31	9
- Pforzheim graticule (48,8)	38	32	5
- 15 other graticules	20	18	2
Graticules	17	17
- virgin graticules	4
Countries	5	4	1
- virgin countries	1
Expeditions by type of transport:
- foot	1	1
- bike only	58	47	11	1
- public transport	27	24	3
- public transport + bike	11	9	2
- public transport + human powered boat	1	1
Reasons for failure:
- No access	11		11	1
- Transportation failure				1
- 24px Mother nature	4		4

Plan B: Expedition failed in this category, but a second approach put it into another one (whether that succeeded or not)

Past Expeditions

	Date	Grat.	Transport	Fail		Comments
1	2008-10-28	49 6				On a meadow near Fentange, south of Luxembourg. Virgin graticule and virgin country.
2	2008-11-15	48 9				Near Kusterdingen, on a field. Saturday 4 pm, but didn't meet anyone as nick_mz was late and I didn't expect anyone to come.
3	2008-11-18	48 9				Reutlingen, on a cycle path between Ohmenhausen and the city centre. Déjà vu geohash and probably the only expedition worldwide on that date.
4	2008-11-19	48 9				Wannweil, at Gärtnerei Hespeler.
5	2008-11-22	48 9				Tübingen, Rammert forest, near Hofgut Eck. A XKCD'ish snowman (no eyes!) was built and I met nick_mz.
6	2008-11-26	48 8				Pforzheim, in front of the slaughterhouse. Met Danatar.
7	2008-11-29	48 9			30px	Sonnenbühl-Genkingen, Öschenbachtal. Ice and slope is a bad combination.
8	2008-12-12	48 9			30px	St. Johann-Würtingen, with a lot of snow getting in my way.
9	2008-12-15	48 9				Hattenhofen, failed due to fenced area, and there was noone I could ask to be let in.
10	2008-12-17	48 9				Reutlingen, and once more too much ice and snow
11	2008-12-27	48 9				Dettenhausen, in the Schönbuch forest
	2009-01-02	49 10				Satteldorf-Gröningen, in a strange tree plantation
13	2009-01-03	48 8				Rottenburg am Neckar
	2009-01-04	48 8				Rottenburg-Ergenzingen
15	2009-01-07	48 9				Pliezhausen-Rübgarten, in the Schönbuch forest
	2009-01-10	48 8				Muggensturm
17	2009-01-12	48 8				Lauterbourg (France), a long walk with Ilpadre
	2009-01-26	48 9				Metzingen, another forest
19	2009-01-28	48 8				Rottenburg-Bieringen
	2009-02-13	48 8				Horb-Hohenberg, approach by bike failed because of torn tyre
						second approach by train and bus succeeded
21	2009-02-22	51 10				Otterstedt, near a minor road between some unexpected water. Met Danatar, Dawidi, Hans, Thomcat and Tomcat.
	2009-03-01	48 8				Hechingen-Weilheim, not an easy approach
23	2009-03-08	48 8		30px		Schönbuch near Ammerbuch-Breitenholz, game reserve area and the wrong kind of snow.
	2009-03-14	48 9				Tübingen-Pfrondorf, walked all the way and back
25	2009-03-19	48 9				Sonnenbühl-Erpfingen, got stuck in snow again and had problems to get back.
	2009-03-22	48 8				Deckenpfronn, in a forest. No snow!
	2009-03-24	48 9				Dettenhausen
	2009-03-26	48 9				Mössingen-Bästenhardt
29	2009-03-29	48 9				Donzdorf, failed due to fenced area
	2009-04-04	48 8				Hechingen-Stetten, near Castle Hohenzollern
31	2009-04-13	49 9				Obersontheim-Herlebach, a "quick" morning detour...
	2009-04-16	48 9				Reutlingen-Degerschlacht, a boring backyard
33	2009-04-21	47 9				Mörschwil near Sankt Gallen, a great trip but the meadow was fenced.
	2009-04-25	48 8			30px	In the Black Forest far above Baiersbronn. Met Koepfel.
35	2009-04-27	48 9				Tübingen-Lustnau, in the forest. Double expedition: Met Nick_mz on first approach, second expedition for tron achievement.
	2009-05-01	48 8				At Bodelshausen
37	2009-05-04	48 8				Rottenburg-Ergenzingen, 32 m into a field I didn't want to step on. Could also be counted as "reached" by some conventions.
	2009-05-07	48 8				Deckenpfronn again
39	2009-05-09	48 9				Between tennis courts at Böblingen
	2009-05-14	47 9				Wangen im Allgäu. You wouldn't expect that meadow to be fenced.
41	2009-05-16	48 8				Haigerloch-Weildorf
42	2009-05-20	48 9				On a main road in Tübingen. Met nick_mz.
43	2009-05-21	48 9				On a meadow outside Münsingen-Magolsheim. Geohashing Day.
	2009-05-27	48 8				Herrenberg
45	2009-05-31	47 8				Hüfingen-Sumpfohren. Part 1 of a double hash
	2009-05-31	47 7				Fessenheim. Part 2 of a double hash
47	2009-06-04	48 9				In a forest between Böblingen and Stuttgart
	2009-06-07	48 9				On the main railway line Stuttgart-Ulm, which I was to take that day anyway.
	2009-06-07	47 10				On the Eibsee lake, just below the Zugspitze. Met dawidi, srs0, Danatar, thepiguy, zb, Hans, Tomcat and Baerenfell.
50	2009-06-10	48 8				Herrenberg, again
	2009-06-18	48 8				Nufringen, another piece of forest
	2009-06-27	52 13				Baruth/Mark-Klasdorf, a piece of sandy forest. Met relet.
53	2009-07-19	48 9				just outside of Mössingen-Öschingen, on the Roßberg slope.
	2009-07-27	47 9				Bad Saulgau-Bogenweiler, a corn field.
55	2009-08-02	48 9				Reutlingen-Sickenhausen, at a residential road
	2009-08-06	48 8				Bondorf, a field between Bondorf and Hailfingen
57	2009-08-08	48 8				In the Black Forest, in the upper Nagold valley between Erzgrube and Besenfeld.
	2009-08-09	48 9				Tübingen-Weilheim, private property
	2009-08-15	48 9				Neckartailfingen, a forest margin near Altdorf
60	2009-08-22	48 8				In the Black Forest, near the Silbersee lake in the valley of the Kleine Kinzig.
	2009-08-26	48 9		30px		Dettingen (Erms), the steep slope was too steep.
	2009-08-28	52 12				Brieselang-Zeestow, in a field
	2009-08-29	52 13				The big Berlin meetup. Met davidc, dawidi, Danatar, Jerrome, JUB, lyx, pari, relet, Srs0 and thepiguy
64	2009-09-08	48 8				Near Dornstetten in the Black Forest
	2009-09-12	48 9				Near Hayingen on the Schwäbische Alb.
	2009-09-15	48 9		30px		Mössingen-Öschingen, the forest was too dense and the steep slope was too steep.
67	2009-09-22	48 8				In a private house in Tübingen-Hirschau
	2009-09-24	48 8				The westernmost part of the Rammert forest, near Hirrlingen.
	2009-09-28	48 9				Reutlingen, in a forest south of town. Part 1 of bike multihash.
	2009-09-28	48 10				Langenau, on a meadow close to the bavarian border. Part 2 of a bike multihash.
71	2009-10-02	48 8				In the Schönbuch forest, close to the Saurücken area near Ammerbuch-Entringen
	2009-10-07	48 9				Sonnenbühl-Genkingen, not far from the Nebelhöhle cave.
73	2009-10-09	48 8				Near Ammerbuch-Entringen again, this time at the forest margin.
	2009-10-28	49 8				A beet field at Rohrbach (Pfalz)
75	2009-11-07	48 7				A forest near Teningen in the surroundings of the Kaiserstuhl hills. Met Koepfel.
	2009-11-08	48 8				A field in the Calw municipality, between Stammheim and Holzbronn. Met Koepfel and Thepiguy.
77	2009-11-13	52 10				A wet piece of the Elm. It's a forest.
	2009-11-23	48 9				Metzingen-Glems, a muddy place at the Albtrauf
79	2009-11-29	48 8				A frontyard at Herrenberg
	2009-12-22	48 9				A tree at Auenwald-Mittelbrüden
81	2009-12-28	48 9				Walddorfhäslach, a very muddy field close to the B27.
	2009-01-09	49 8				At the snowy shore of the Elsenz river. Met Koepfel.
83	2010-02-01	48 8				A white spot on white fields, near Neustetten-Wolfenhausen
	2010-02-06	48 8				Deep into the Schönbuch forest on the area of Altdorf, with all too much wet snow and ice.
	2010-02-15	48 9		30px		Close to Waldenbuch, with water in both fluid and semi solid form.
	2010-02-25	48 8				Ammerbuch-Altingen, just another field.
87	2010-03-05	48 9				Above Mössingen-Talheim, not far from the Mössingen landslip.
	2010-03-13	48 8				Another snowy field at Pforzheim-Büchenbronn. Met Koepfel.
	2010-03-13	49 8				Newspaper hash at Darmstadt. Met Koepfel, Ilpadre, Euterkuh, fivetonsofflax and a RNZ reporter.
	2010-03-18	48 8				Wiernsheim-Iptingen
	2010-03-19	48 9				Probably private property was closed at midnight at Kornwestheim
	2010-03-22	48 9				An UFO has landed on a little small mountain at Neckartailfingen.
	2010-03-29	48 16				Wien 22nd district, at the outernmost limits of the city.
	2010-04-03	48 9				In the upper parts of Besigheim
	2010-04-04	48 8				A wet meadow between waters at Ammerbuch-Altingen
	2010-05-22	48 8				Mouse over day between fields at Eutingen im Gäu - Rohrdorf. There might have been mice.
	2010-05-24	48 8				Cow potatoe geohash at Balingen
	2010-05-27	48 8				Just another forest at Leonberg-Gebersheim

How I use the symbols in this table

Achievements

Regional achievements

All regional achievements I can think of. Selected Minesweepers.

Ekorren earned the Regional geohashing achievement by reaching a hash point in all 2 graticules belonging to Landkreis Tübingen.	48 8 48 9
Ekorren earned the Regional geohashing achievement by reaching a hash point in all 2 graticules belonging to Landkreis Böblingen.	48 8 48 9
Ekorren earned the Reverse regional achievement by reaching hash points in all 2 regions of the Pforzheim, Germany (48, 8) graticule.	Germany France
Ekorren completed the Minesweeper Geohash achievement by visiting coordinates in Stuttgart, Germany and all of the surrounding graticules.	49 8 49 9 49 10 48 8 48 9 48 10 47 8 47 9 47 10
Ekorren achieved level 7 of the Minesweeper Geohash achievement by visiting coordinates in Pforzheim, Germany and 7 of the surrounding graticules.	49 7 49 8 49 9 48 7 48 8 48 9 47 7 47 8 47 9
Ekorren achieved level 1 of the Minesweeper Geohash achievement by visiting coordinates in Berlin, Germany and 1 of the surrounding graticules.	53 12 53 13 53 14 53 12 52 13 52 14 51 12 51 13 51 14
Ekorren achieved level 1 of the Minesweeper Geohash achievement by visiting coordinates in Goslar, Germany and 1 of the surrounding graticules.	52 9 52 10 52 11 51 9 51 10 51 11 50 9 50 10 50 11

Progress on regional hash for Baden-Württemberg: (9 of 11)

	49 8	49 9	49 10
48 7	48 8	48 9	48 10
47 7	47 8	47 9	47 10

Location achievements

Only the first one of a kind, except of Déjà vu geohashes. See icons in list for more.

Ekorren earned the Land geohash achievement by reaching the (49, 6) geohash on 2008-10-28.

Ekorren earned the Hash collision honorable mention by discovering the geocache GC11ZMH ca. 600 m from the (49, 6) geohash on 2008-10-28.

Ekorren earned the Water geohash achievement by reaching the (47, 10) geohash on 2009-06-07 by rowing boat.

Ekorren knows he earned the Déjà Vu Geohash Achievement by reaching the (48, 9) geohash on 2008-11-18, and previously on several occasions, but the proof is a bit weak.

Ekorren and Nick_mz earned the Déjà Vu Geohash Achievement by reaching the (48, 9) geohash on 2009-05-20, and previously on countless trips, among them 2009-04-27_48_9 and 2008-12-27 48 9.

Ekorren earned the Déjà Vu Geohash Achievement by reaching the (48, 9) geohash on 2009-06-07, and previously on 2009-04-21, 2009-05-14 and countless other occasions.

Getting there

Only the first one of a kind.

Ekorren earned the Public transport geohash achievement by reaching the (49, 6) geohash on 2008-10-28 via rail and bus.

Ekorren earned the Bicycle geohash achievement by cycling to the (48, 9) geohash on 2008-11-15.

Ekorren earned the Walk geohash Achievement by reaching the (48, 9) geohash on 2009-03-14 on foot, travelling a distance of 16 km.

Ekorren earned the No Batteries Geohash Achievement by reaching the (48, 8) geohash on 2009-01-03.

Ekorren earned the Border geohash achievement by crossing the Germany-France border on 2009-01-12 to reach the (48, 8) geohash.

Ekorren earned the Tron achievement by reaching and returning from the (48, 9) geohash without crossing his own tracks on 2009-04-27.

Ekorren earned the XKCD-100 Achievement by voyaging ca. 850 km to reach the (52, 13) geohash on 2009-08-29.

About the MNIMB: During winter neither snow nor ice or a terrain that provides generally no easy trails could hold me from doing expeditions by bike. The one in the ribbon is just one of several snow-obstacled frozen mountain hashes. After careful examination I came to the conclusion that some of them definitely beat a number of the existing MNIMB hashes but are themselves still beaten by quite a number of others which leave me humble and in awe. I take the ribbon not for a single one but as kind of a lifetime achievement.

Timing achievements

Interesting repetitions may be relisted.

Ekorren earned the Last Man standing achievement by being the the only hasher world-wide to go on a geohashing expedition on 2008-11-18.

Nick_mz and Ekorren earned the Midnight Geohash achievement by reaching the (48, 9) geohash on 2009-05-20 in the middle of the night.

Ekorren earned the 2009 Geohashing Day achievement by just being there in the (48, 9) graticule on May 21st 2009.

Ekorren earned the Birthday Geohash Achievement by reaching the (48, 9) geohash on his birthday, 2009-08-15.

Ekorren earned the Sunrise Geohash Achievement by reaching the (48, 8) geohash on 2009-10-09 to smile at the first rays of sun to cross the horizon.

Ekorren earned the 1st Hashiversary achievement by attempting a hash point exactly on the 1st anniversary of his inaugural geohashing expedition.

Ekorren earned the 2010 Mouse Over Day achievement by ending a long dry spell of unvisited hashes in the (48, 8) graticule on the Saturday following May 21st 2010.

Ekorren earned the xkcd Decurion achievement by attending 18 Saturday meetups.

Multiples

Longest consecutive runs at that time, and all multihashes.

Ekorren earned the Consecutive geohash achievement by reaching 2 consecutive hash points starting on 2008-11-18.

Ekorren earned the Consecutive geohash achievement by reaching 3 consecutive hash points starting on 2009-01-02.

Ekorren earned the Multihash Achievement by reaching the 2009-05-31 47 8 and 2009-05-31 47 7 geohashes on 2009-05-31.

Ekorren earned the Multihash Achievement by reaching the 2009-06-07 48 9 and 2009-06-07 47 10 geohashes on 2009-06-07.

Ekorren earned the Multihash Achievement by reaching the 2009-09-28 48 9 and 2009-09-28 48 10 geohashes on 2009-09-28.

Ekorren earned the Multihash Achievement by reaching the 2010-03-13 48 8 and 2010-03-13 49 8 geohashes on 2010-03-13.

Miscellaneous achievements

Usually one of a kind. Interesting repetitions may be relisted. See icons in list for more.

Ekorren and Nick_mz earned the Snowman Geohash Achievement by building a snowman at the (48, 9) geohash on 2008-11-22.

Ekorren almost earned the Meet-up achievement by meeting Nick_mz, but without photographic proof, at the (48, 9) geohash on 2008-11-22.

Ekorren earned the Meet-up achievement by meeting Danatar at the (48, 8) geohash on 2008-11-26.

Ekorren earned the Frozen Geohash Achievement by reaching the (48, 9) geohash on 2008-12-12 while the temperature was around -3. This was the third sub zero hash where he couldn't bring an accurate thermometre, but this time it didn't get above zero the whole day anywhere in the area...

Koepfel and Ekorren earned the Drag-along achievement by dragging some stranger in the forest to the (48, 8) geohash on 2009-04-25.

Ekorren has visited an Easy Geohash by reaching the (48, 9) geohash on 2009-06-07 without really trying.

Nine people earned the Phonebooth stuffing achievement by helping stuff a phonebooth near the (47, 10) geohash on 2009-06-07.

Ekorren earned the Speed racer achievement by passing through the (48, 9) geohash on 2009-06-07 at almost 140 km/h.

Ekorren earned the Speed racer achievement by passing through the (48, 9) geohash on 2009-08-02 at 30 km/h.

Ekorren earned the Picnic achievement by eating breakfast at the (48, 8) geohash on 2009-10-09.

Hashcards

Please add confirmations here.

ekorren earned the Hashcard achievement by sending a postcard of the hashpoint area to UnwiseOwl on the (49, 10) expedition on 2009-01-02.

Ekorren earned the Hashcard achievement by sending a postcard of the hashpoint area to joannac on the (48, 8) expedition on 2009-01-12.

ekorren earned the Hashcard achievement by sending a postcard of the hashpoint area to dawidi on the (47, 9) expedition on 2009-05-14.

All participants earned the Hashcard achievement by sending a postcard of the hashpoint area to various people on the (47, 10) expedition on 2009-06-07.

Ekorren earned the Hashcard achievement by sending a postcard of the hashpoint area to srs0 on the (48, 8) expedition on 2009-06-10.

Ekorren earned the Hashcard achievement by sending a postcard of the hashpoint area to Reinhard on the (48, 9) expedition on 2009-07-19.

... and one more (in february) that hasn't been confirmed

... and you never know what may be on the way!

Consolation prizes

Only one of a kind. See icons for more.

Ekorren earned the No trespassing consolation prize by almost reaching the (48, 9) geohash on 2008-12-15.

Never give up on the first real problem. Otherwise I'd have a train wreck and trail of blood ribbon as well.

Gratuitous ribbons

Ekorren earned the Easter Bunny Ribbon by photographing the Easter Bunny on Easter Monday, en route to the (49, 9) geohash on 2009-04-13.

Ekorren earned the Biked on Mount Everest Ribbon by climbing more than 8848 m on bike expeditions until reaching the (48, 8) geohash on 2009-05-01.

Ekorren earned the Unavoidable Geohash by being unable to reroute a train around the (48, 9) geohash on 2009-06-07.

Tools

I run another of those online hashing tools, built to contain everything important on a glance and work on virtually every device not entirely uncapable of browsing, or providing a convenient overview for a region. See here.