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Location

In Talviaiskangas, Ilomantsi. The point lies in a forest.

Participants

Pastori
The Wife

Expedition

Editor's note: I'm not sure what Pastori is trying to tell us in sign language, but he sure looks eager.

Pastori had in the morning eagerly sprinted up into debarking the larch logs in his home yard with his new sharp debarking equipment. It was sprinkling, and when rain and sweat was running down Pastori's forehead, The Wife came to tempt Pastori into going for a geohashing trip. Her persuasion succeeded once again. Never before visited and even unnamed graticule was enough of a temptation.

The expedition was so long that they had to eat even before reaching the hashpoint.

We packed some picnic lunch and started the 200 km journey towards southeast. The road was at its closest only 5 km from the Russian border. In Hattuvaara we stopped, there was some pea soup and thick pancake available in the back house flea market of the local store. They tasted good for Pastori and The Wife. The expedition continued along a small gravel road to the hashpoint, which was found easily on a dry pine moor. We thus christen the graticule Hattuvaara!

The graticule is officially conquered! Pastori is overwhelmed.

[Editor's note: Pastori, I'm sorry. I hadn't noticed that in December 2013, someone had named this graticule 'Petkeljärvi' and so hadn't updated your personal tracking map accordingly. However, I believe that you can actually rename this graticule for at least three reasons: 1) you are the first one to visit a hashpoint there, 2) you thought this was an unnamed graticule, which was a major reason to actually make the whole trip and 3) you so ceremonially declared the name when reaching the hashpoint. I also personally am in favour of the name Hattuvaara, since it's the biggest settlement in the graticule. Let's watch for a while if there are any other opinions, and then we can make the change.]

Our trip continued to the next hashpoint.