2013-02-20 42 -88
| Wed 20 Feb 2013 in 42,-88: 42.1853652, -88.0824426 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox |
Location
It appears to be a very reachable hash, on a sidewalk in a nice neighborhood in Lake Zurich.
Participants
Plans
StatMan22: Once I get home from work and pick up a camera, I will go right over! The hash is just over a mile driving distance from my house.
Swoop2: I may be able to drive over after work. It is a 3 mile detour from my normal route home.
Expedition
StatMan22: It was a real easy trip there after work. Parked pretty much right on the spot... It was freezing out though and the GPS was a bit jumpy, so it took a long time to get the exact coordinates. I walked around in a 5 foot circle for about 5 minutes, then my hands got too cold and I probably looked a bit odd to the cars driving past. Ended up actually getting the coordinates dead on when I got back in the car! I tried to carve an "XKCD" in the snow bank with my keys in case Swoop came by later, but it was pretty rock solid. I ended up throwing a slab of ice on top of it to signify human involvement... I assume he did not notice. Photos to come!
Swoop2: Well things fell apart at work today so I got out to late to go after work. But I did manage to drag my entire family along on this quest a few hours later. I arrived at 9:20PM so it was quite dark and bitterly cold. Two of my kids jumped up on the snowbank that StatMan22 mentioned (thanks for thinking of us). We got a few blurry, frozen pictured and jumped back into our warm minivan. StatMan22, great photos! Thanks for sharing.
Photos
It was cold... Close enough!
Proof of coldness.
Proof that I was there.
Got the coordinates on the dot in the car!!
Snowbank!
Three frozen questors
Kids on the snowbank!
Achievements
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StatMan22 earned the Couch Potato Geohash Honorable Mention
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Swoop2 earned the Frozen Geohash Achievement
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StatMan22 and Swoop2 earned the Tale of Two Hashes achievement
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