2014-01-23 43 -116

Thu 23 Jan 2014 in 43,-116: 43.6140269, -116.2015726 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox

Location

On 6th St, at the alley halfway between Main St. and Grove St.

Participants

• Eldin
• Ojones

Plans

Since this is conveniently located on a downtown street corner, I plan to stop by on my lunch break around noon. I also plan to try for a tron achievement. Anyone want to join me?

Expedition

Ojones arrived at 12:05 with a co-worker then waited a couple minutes and took a picture. Went over to JimmyJohns and grabbed a sandwich then came back and waited till about 12:20 before heading back to work.

Eldin:
I got a bit of a later start than expected and didn't arrive at the hashpoint until after 12:30. Reaching the hashpoint was fairly easy, though it proved to be a little further out into the road than I'd expected. After reaching the hash and taking a few pictures, I stopped at Jimmy John's to grab a sandwich to eat on my way back to work.

My attempted Tron Geohash was successful, but my phone rebooted at one point on my trip (apparently, geohash droid, recording a tracklog, and playing ingress all at once is a bit much for my current phone), so the tracklog is broken into 2 sections.

Temperatures were in the mid-to-high 20's (Fahrenheit) the whole time I was out, so this was a frozen geohash, even though I didn't get an actual temperature reading at the hashpoint.

The hash was 0.66km from my workplace. So this was an honorable mention for the Cubicle Geohash.

In the many years I've lived in Boise, I've driven/walked/bicycled through or very near this hashpoint on many occasions. I drive on 6th street at least once or twice a month. I don't have any actual proof of this. But I'm claiming the Deja Vu hash anyway.

I may visit this hash again after work, to grab the Pub Geohash achievement, since there are several pubs visible from the hashpoint.

Tracklog

• Eldin's tracklog

Photos

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  Accidental snap that came out better than any of my other self portraits today.

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  The actual hashpoint is about 2ft past the rear corner of that white car.

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  Historic Basque hotel which the hashpoint is in front of.

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  Of several pubs visible from the hash, this is the nearest, as well as the only one with the word 'Pub' on its sign.

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  6th and Main, near the hash. The brick building on the corner contains 2 more candidate bars for a Pub Geohash.

Achievements

Eldin earned the Walk geohash Achievement by reaching the (43, -116) geohash on 2014-01-23 on foot, travelling a distance of 1 mile.

Eldin earned the Frozen Geohash Achievement by reaching the (43, -116) geohash on 2014-01-23 while the temperature was below the freezing point of water.

Eldin earned the Déjà Vu Geohash Achievement by reaching the (43, -116) geohash on 2014-01-23, and previously on Many occasions over the last 20+ years.

Eldin earned the cubicle geohash honorable mention by working near the (43, -116) geohash on 2014-01-23.

Eldin earned the Tron achievement by reaching and returning from the (43, -116) geohash without crossing his own tracks on 2014-01-23.