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Location

On a strip of lawn, next to a parking lot in Lyon.

Participants

Baarde

Plans

The location is 2 km from home. I will bicycle there in the afternoon.

And then go there by public transport.

And then ~~walk~~ run there.

Expedition

The geohash was located in Gorge de Loup, a district of Lyon, on the other side of the iconic Fourvière hill. There are 3 ways to go there. You can go around the hill, under the hill, or over the hill.

Around the hill

Cycling is my default mode of travel, so obviously I started with that. As I've been living in Lyon for 8 years and know the city relatively well, I decided to try the No Batteries Geohash achievement and turn my phone's location services off. To make sure that I wouldn't get lost, I wrote the turn-by-turn directions on a piece of paper with a sketch of the location.

I walked to the nearest Vélo'v station (I haven't replaced my stolen bicycle yet) and temporarily re-enabled the location services so the app would let me pick a bicycle. Then Vélo'v 42013 and I went north along the Saône river and around the hill, entered Gorge de Loup and reached the coordinates at 13:55, after a 4 km ride.

The geohash was located in the middle of a small strip of lawn, in front of a community centre (currently closed). After recording proof, we went back to the Old Lyon district and I bid farewell to Vélo'v 42013.