2021-02-06 45 4

Sat 6 Feb 2021 in 45,4: 45.7667093, 4.8028228 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox

Location

On a strip of lawn, next to a community centre 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 Vieux Lyon (Old Lyon) district and I bid farewell to Vélo'v 42013.

Under the hill

Vieux Lyon and Gorge de Loup are connected by the Metro D line that goes straight (kinda) through the hill. Perfect for a Juggernaut achievement. After a short stop at home, I walked to the Metro station, took a train and arrived at Gorge de Loup a couple of minutes later. I walked the remaining 200 meters to the geohash, reached the coordinates at 14:59 and recorded proof (again), then promptly returned back home, just in time to watch France beat Italy 50-10 in the Six Nations Championship.

I tried to record a GPX tracklog, but as expected I had no signal during most of the journey. So I had to rely on OpenStreetMap and my knowledge of the layout of the Vieux Lyon Metro station to draw the track. According to my calculations, my deviation ratio was about 1:26.

Achievements

Baarde earned the Land geohash achievement by reaching the (46, 4) geohash on 2021-01-26.

Baarde earned the Bicycle geohash achievement by cycling 4 km to and from the (46, 4) geohash on 2021-01-26.

Baarde earned the Public transport geohash achievement by reaching the (46, 4) geohash on 2021-01-26 via Metro D line.

Baarde earned the Walk geohash Achievement by reaching the (46, 4) geohash on 2021-01-26 on foot, travelling a distance of 4.5 km.

Baarde earned the Two to the N achievement by attempting to reach 25 hashpoints on 2021-01-26 46 4 and is promoted to Level 5 (Expeditions).

Baarde earned the No Batteries Geohash Achievement by reaching the (46, 4) geohash on 2021-01-26.

Baarde earned the Juggernaut achievement by reaching a geohash in a straight line (with a deviation of barely 1:26) on 2021-01-26.