2008-10-26 49 8

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Revision as of 13:30, 26 October 2008 by imported>Ilpadre
Sun 26 Oct 2008 in Mannheim:
49.3791181, 8.7210166
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Location

Today's hashpoint is located in the Odenwald, near Heidelberg, at an altitude of 462 m.

Expedition

ilpadre

Planning: Again, the hashpoint is reachable by foot, though it will be more difficult this time. A footpath through the woods is about 40 m away from the hashpoint. I don't own a GPS device, but I'm confident that I’ll find the spot.

Expedition: The hashpoint was about 1 km from the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics (where I've been several times) and also not far from one of my favorite running tracks. The weather was nice, so I put on my running gear and started. It was a fun run, but I had to take a minor detour from my planned route. I reached the footpath from where I had to go through the woods after about 50 minutes. Then I spent 20 minutes looking for the exact spot, using the configuration of trees and other landscape elements for orientation. I think I located the hashpoint with an accuracy of 5 m.

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ilpadre earned the Walk geohash Achievement
by reaching the (49, 8) geohash on 2008-10-26 on foot, travelling a distance of 11 km.