2012-04-08 55 37

Sun 8 Apr 2012 in 55,37: 55.8165933, 37.6631982 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox

Location

Near the intersection of Rizhskiy Proyezd (Riga Driveway) and road #5467 (yes, it's really called that). Generally, it's just a little west of Sokolniki Park, and some way east of the VDNKh metro station; basically, very easy to get to, if rather far from the Metro.

Participants

January First-of-May 09:39, 8 April 2012 (EDT) and his dragged-along mother.

Plans

January First-of-May, who had only heard of geohashing for several days before the expedition, was a little surprized to learn that the Moscow graticule was still inactive (one of the last eight-digit-population graticules to be so); as such, he decided to claim the Virgin title to that very significant graticule for himself. This hash was only the second since his discovery to fall within city limits (the first being Friday two days ago, which never got much beyond the looking-at-the-map stage).

Actual plans: either take the train on the way to the hashpoint and the tram on the way back, or vice versa (both, unlike the Metro, come within a few hundred meters).

Oh, almost forgot: we own neither a car nor a GPS receiver. So that's two achievements right off the bat. :-)