2020-09-17 45 4

Location

Participants

Baarde

Expedition

Having some business to attend in Lyon, France, I decided to move the graticule back in the Active graticules category. But without my bicycle I have to resort to taking the train and walking. Fortunately, today's coordinates were quite close (about 5km) to a train station.

After taking the 15:31 train to Givors, I walked along a street that runs for a few kilometers between the railway on one side and the Gier river and the A47 motorway on the other. Then I crossed a bridge above the railway and ventured into the forest. The path climbed a little bit up the foothills of the Pilat massif, crossed a dried-up stream and went down towards Saint-Romain-en-Gier.

The access to the meadow containing the coordinates was blocked by an enclosed field, which I circumvented by walking through the woods.

On the geohash's location was a hay bale. Well, it might originally have been a little bit to the east, but I wasn't going to have my Stupid grin photo taken in front of a hay bale if I could have it taken on top of it. I managed to get a nice picture by sticking my phone on a nearby wooden fence post and using the 10-second self-timer (there also was a lot of running and jumping involved).

After putting everything back where it belonged, I noticed a path bellow the meadow, which continued towards Saint-Romain-en-Gier and would be flatter (though longer) than heading back on the route I had taken to come. I decided to follow it. That was a mistake. After a couple hundred meters I encountered a fence with no way around (I tried. Another mistake). Rather than retracing my steps, I took the path in the other direction (third mistake) which lead me through brambles to a dead-end. However, with the help of the All-Knowing Google and after a little bit of climbing, I finally managed to find my way back. It was during all that wandering that I was savagely attacked by Velociraptors.