2010-07-01 49 -123
It's Canada Day and Vancouver has an accessible geohash!
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Location
Collingwood, at the alley between 37th & 38th.
Participants
Plans
I was going to summarize the back-and-forth below and move it all to the discussion page, but it is a simple and complete description of what passes for planning in the Vancouver graticule. Such a trivial geohash on such an auspicious day, what else could we do?
I intend to paint maple leaves on my face, go to the geohash around noonish, and decamp to a picnic area. Does anyone know of a nearby park with somewhat weather-resistant picnic facilities? None of Malkin, Memorial and Balaclava appears to have picnic tables, but Malkin looks the most picnic-friendly. I have tarps. -Robyn 16:19, 1 July 2010 (UTC)
- [comments redacted --- I have been informed that 40 blocks (up and over a rather tall hill) does not meet any reasonable definition "near". And, oddly enough, we are going against Geohashing tradition by using a reasonable definition of "near".] --Wade 17:06, 1 July 2010 (UTC)
I'm thinking of biking it. I have lots of transit-bike hashes, but the only one I biked to 100% was a no trespassing hash. It takes me 30 minutes to get downtown, and about 1:15 to get to UBC, so it should only be an hour's ride or so. I doubt more than an hour and a half. -- Rhonda 16:35, 1 July 2010 (UTC)
I'm biking it too. It's right on the bike route by our house. Also, it's Canada Day. Any bookable picnic will be booked. -Robyn 16:57, 1 July 2010 (UTC)
Ok. I'm planning on leaving home at 11, so I should be there 12:15 or 12:30, roughly. -- Rhonda 17:43, 1 July 2010 (UTC)
It's a Canada miracle! See you all at Collingwood and 37.5st at noon! -- [[user:thepiguy]] 16:58, 1 July 2010 (UTC)
I have plans for the day, but I hopefully should be there later in the afternoon. - Elbie 17:39, 1 July 2010 (UTC) My plans should end around 1ish, so, being bikeless and UPassless, I'll do this one as a walkhash. I'll probably be there at 2 unless I postpone the walk to coordinate some company for the trek. - Elbie 18:18, 1 July 2010 (UTC)
Aiming to be there around 13:00 to 13:30. -Srs0 18:44, 1 July 2010 (UTC)
Expedition
Wade and Robyn
We planned to leave at 11:30 to be there at noon. Around quarter to eleven, Robyn went off to purchase picnic supplies, and Wade added an appropriate amount of air to the bicycle tires, and packed (most of) the stuff we'd need. Eventually Robyn returned, and started with the "did you pack the ...?" questions, which prompted mostly "Yes", and the occasional "not yet" reply. We messed about for a few minutes packing all the stuff Wade forgot to pack while there was lots of time, then left at around 11:40.
It's a nice simple ride along the Ridgeway bicycle route from home to the geohash. We met a nice couple cycling along our route, one of whom scolded Robyn for not riding in a perfectly straight line, and then blew through a stop sign without so much as slowing down. Gotta love considerate cycling rules!
We turned left from 37th to Ridgeway, and immediately noticed thepiguy on the side of the road, on the NW corner of the intersection of 37.5 Ave and Collingwood. As we pulled over to join him, we noticed Xore and Rhonda's Hashmobile parked on the SW corner of the same intersection. Xore, tpg and Wade were just getting through their "Hello"s when we saw a car with Washington plates arrive.
Everyone
Because it was a bit sunnier on the NW corner, we set up our picnic there, in clear sight of the hashpoint, which was on the SE corner. Every once in a while someone would wander over from the picnic area to the hashpoint to mark it with chalk or photograph their GPS or otherwise indicate they made it.
We took pictures, which hopefully will be put up soon.
We had cheese, bean sprout and tofu-based sandwiches. We ate some very nice cake. We had nice raspberry flavoured beverage.
