2010-04-15 49 -123
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Location
About 20 meters off the shore in a widening of the Capilano River, 49.364178°, -123.105951°
Participants
Plans
Planning? That's a fairly strong term for this event.
During breakfast, Wade checked on the location of today's geohash. It seemed to be in the water, but surprisingly reachable for the Vancouver graticule. Unfortunately, Wade had to work today, so it wasn't likely to happen.
By an astounding coincidence, Xore happens to work in the same company as Wade. Around 6:30, Xore wandered past Wade's desk, and Wade asked him if he knew that today's hash is reachable and in his area of town.
Xore asked "Are you serious about going tonight?"
Wade wasn't. He was actually just suggesting that Xore might want to go. He didn't want to kayak or swim in a glacier-fed lake in May April. Wade's more into comfortable geohashes. But before vocalizing that, he realized it sounded kind of lame. So he replied, "Um, maybe. I thought you'd be interested."
Xore then commented that it was so close to shore that we could probably walk out into the water and reach the geohash. He got on the phone with Rhonda, and insisted on using the term "Wade to the geohash" as often as possible. Eventually Rhonda was convinced to participate in this event.
Before Wade quite knew what he had set in motion, the plans were made. Xore was going to catch Seabus home, and Wade was going to ride home, get ready, and head over meet Xore and Rhonda, where we'd all ride Rhonda's new and improved Hashmobile as close as possible to the point, and kayak or Wade to the point.
Expedition
Wade
Just after Xore headed off to catch the bus, Wade realized that he wasn't going to be able to ride home, change from "Wade at the office" clothes into "wade at a geohash" clothes, grab a towel and GPS, and meet Xore and Rhonda at the agreed-upon time. Oh well, the speed limit is a suggested minimum, right? Fortunately, it was a bit past rush hour, so the traffic wasn't too bad.
Wade spent 15 minutes on the ride home, 5 minutes at home to change and grab the GPS (and get a message on the answering machine to confirm the tickets for the show he's seeing on Sunday), 30 seconds to program the address in the GPS, 20 minutes to get to the meet-up point, and arrived only about 20 minutes late. Rhonda and Xore were patiently waiting.
Xore
Rhonda
As Rhonda was already at home when the decision was made, all she had to do was load kayaks and other typical Vancouver geohashing gear into the hashmobile, then wait for the others.
Everybody
Once the team was assembled, we set off. Xore drove, Rhonda attempted to program a GPS that had last been used in Europe, and Wade navigated from the back seat using his motorcycle GPS. Not that it was difficult: "follow the signs to Grouse Mountain" would have been adequate instruction for most of the route.
