2020-02-23 53 -2
| Sun 23 Feb 2020 in Manchester, UK: 53.3868933, -2.0434446 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox |
Contents
Location
The hashpoint for today is in the wood near a golf course by Marple. I believe it's within the borders of the Roman Lakes Leisure Park. No admission fee, so no Admit One achievement. There are streams in the area, but there seems to be a bit of the path on the right side of the streams to reach the hashpoint.
Participants
Plans
KarMann is going to catch a bus to get there around 13:50, but the last couple of hundred metres may be treacherous.
Photos & Video
Not an auspicious start. I forgot to bring the SD card for my camera. It and the tripod are now just dead weight I'm going to have to lug around with me.
But this does look rather nice. This just might be a lovely walk in the woods today.
Oh my. That stream does look rather swollen and rough, doesn't it?
Are you sure there isn't a 'my kingdom for a horse' consolation prize? Not even anything about battery staples?
Uh oh. They have
geesedinosaurs guarding the hashpoint.
OK, I guess I won't be reaching the hashpoint that way. Still, there are plenty of other ways around to it, right?
So this is as close as I'm getting this way. And, as it would turn out, any way.
So that stream is right between me and the hashpoint. And the path to the left is also blocked off. But there must be some way over or around it, right?
Perhaps this is a conveniently located portal to the hashpoint?
No, that's definitely a dead end.
There's only one way back and out from here. I'll see where I can go from there.
I'm not exactly getting closer, am I?
At last! A way over this bit of the stream!
Which brings me to this. Oh, joy.
There might be gaiters! I may not have been prepared for the worst, but at least I was prepared for the worse.
And after working my way through that mud, and up a muddy hill, I found this fence still between myself and the hashpoint, and with mud on the other side of it. Did I mention there was mud?
Still farther away than the last two.
That doesn't look like the requisite goofy grin, does it?
And now I get to go through this all over again. Oh, that might explain the lack of a goofy grin, mightn't it?
At least there are some interesting features around here. This viaduct carries the trains over the Goyt Valley here. I think it's still in service, although I didn't see any today.
Somewhere up that hill, amongst those trees, lies a hashpoint that I just couldn't reach.
On the exitpedition, I noticed these little stalactites hanging in an archway built into the viaduct. It feels almost like getting an underground hash!
Oh goody. On the way out, I get to go up a hillside to get back to the road where the bus stop is, and then up some stairs. (I'm recovering from tearing my ACL, so stairs are not my friend.)
And then, just to add insult to injury, rather literally…
