User:Stevage

Steve's rules of geohashing:

1. The bush bash is always longer than it looked on the map.
2. The bush bash always takes longer than you thought it would.
3. You will find a better way out of the bush bash than the way in. Unless you rely on this rule, in which case, the reverse applies.

Successful hashes

Ratings given are epicness: higher epic ratings given for effort, drama, difficulty, interesting location, interesting events en route.

Date/location	#	Summary	Epicness	Transport	Time of day
2008-06-21 -37 145	1	Bunyip State Park, in the mud and rain, with Felix.	8/10	Train/Bike	Dark
2009-05-28 -37 144	2	Cheetham Wetlands, on a peaceful weeknight, with Felix.	6.5/10	Car and foot	Dark
2009-07-24 -36 146	3	In a paddock near Wangarratta, with a few people (including Felix and tAlex). Daylight!	5/10	Car and foot	Late afternoon
2009-08-05 -37 145	4	In someone's front garden, Plenty, arriving solo by bike, meeting with Felix, tAlex and others.	3/10	Bike	Night
2009-12-16 -37 145	5	In someone's front garden, Claytonish, solo.	2/10	Car	Night
2010-06-07 -37 145	6	In a house under construction in Oakleigh, on the way home from work, solo.	3/10	Bike	Night
2010-07-11 -37 144	7	In the bush vaguely near Castlemaine, at dusk, solo.	8/10	Car/Bike	Dusk
2010-07-20 -37 144	8	In Altona Coastal Park with tAlex.	5/10	Car/foot.	Night
2010-07-21 -38 145	9	On an oval in Skye, in the foggy dark, with Ellen.	5/10	Car and foot	Night
2010-07-23 -37 145	10	On a rural property near Broadford, with Mitch and a couple of hiking buddies.	5/10	Car and foot	Night
2010-08-09 -37 144	11	In a spooky cemetery, Footscray. With Mitch and partners.	6/10	Car	Night
2010-11-05 28 77	12	Virgin graticule, New Delhi during Diwali! With Felix.	9/10	Public transport and foot	Night
2011-10-15 -37 145	13	Lame car hash on a busy road, solo.	1/10	Car	Night
2011-10-16 -37 145	14	Awesome mountain biking solo through Kinglake National Park. Music video and everything!	8/10	Bike	Afternoon
2011-10-22 -37 147	15	Virgin graticule on a road cycling trip home from Bairnsdale, with Felix and tAlex.	6/10	Bike	Midday
2011-10-29 -37 148	16	Virgin graticule en route to mountain biking adventure in Snowy River NP, with Felix and tAlex.	5/10	Car and foot	Morning
2011-10-30 -37 148	17	Same graticule next day, wet, muddy bush bashing, with Felix and tAlex.	6/10	Car and foot	Night
2011-10-31 -38 146	18	In a flat paddock near Yarram, with Felix and tAlex.	3/10	Car and foot	Morning
2011-10-31 -38 145	19	In a flat paddock near Inverloch, with port, Felix and tAlex.	4/10	Car and foot	Afternoon
2011-11-09 -37 144	20	In Wesley College, 400m from a conference I was attending, creates a surprising battle of wits with myself.	5.5/10	Foot	Afternoon
2011-12-08 -37 145	21	In Shepherd's Bush, on a path, on a warm summer's night.	3/10	Car and foot	Dusk
2011-12-21 -38 144	22	On a golf course in Geelong, cycled to the hash itself.	4/10	Bike	Evening
2012-03-16 -37 145	23	Between two lanes of Monash Freeway, skiving off work solo.	5/10	Car and foot	Afternoon
2012-03-18 -37 145	24	In Shepherd's Bush again, by bike with risky creek crossing and Felix.	5/10	Bike and foot	Afternoon
2012-06-10 -37 145	25	On a stunningly scenic hill in a paddock near Merton, during a cycle tour, with Felix, tAlex and Andrew.	7/10	Bike and foot	Midday
2012-06-17 -37 145	26	On a fence, near tAlex's house, with Felix.	3/10	Bike	Evening
2012-11-02 -36 145	27	In a paddock near Benalla, with horrifyingly scary cows, with Felix.	5/10	Bike	Night
2012-11-04 -36 145	28	In a paddock near Strathbogie, with Felix.	3/10	Car	Night
2012-12-12 -37 145	29	In someone's front garden, near my house in Camberwell, with Ellen, Alex, Emma, Naomi.	4/10	Foot	Night
2013-01-07 -37 145	30	In a cemetery in Springvale, scaring another expedition to death. Naomi, Felix, Cam, Lachlan, Tim B.	7/10	Car/foot	Almost midnight
2013-01-12 -37 145	31	Deep in the bush near the Eildon-Jamieson road, during an epic solo cycle tour.	7.5/10	Bike/foot	Midday
2013-05-24 -37 145	32	In a paddock in Ivanhoe, with tAlex, Lachie and a bunch of well dressed partygoers.	4/10	Bike	Evening
2015-12-28 -37 147	33	In the bush just north of Dinner Plain, after cycling up Mt Hotham, with Felix, Matt, Lachie and Rhonda.	6/10	Bike	Afternoon
2015-12-31 -36 146	34	In a paddock on the way to Wangaratta, with bonus dip in Ovens River, with Felix and Tom.	4/10	Bike	Morning
2016-09-10 -37 146	35	In bushland 5km north of Heyfield, during a cycle tour, with Tom, Miriam, Lachie and Ellen. We camped at the hash!	6/10	Bike	Evening
2020-06-15 -37 144	36	On the edge of a park in Port Melbourne with Rob, Felix, Lachie and Ruth.	3/10	Bike	Evening
2020-06-20 -37 144	37	On a steep street in Pascoe Vale with Lachie and Felix.	3/10	Bike	Evening
2020-06-30 -37 145	38	On the banks of Plenty River, Plenty Gorge Park, solo.	6/10	Bike	Afternoon
2020-07-25 -37 145	39	On an oval at Bulleen Park, solo.	4/10	Bike	Afternoon
2020-11-24 -37 145	40	In the middle of a quiet back street with Alex and Lachie.	3/10	Bike	Early evening.
2021-03-14 -37 144	41	In a derelict former high school, Fawkner, with Felix, Lachie, Cam, Rhonda and Matt.	4/10	Bike	Afternoon
2021-03-28 -37 145	42	On a bike path in Doncaster with Felix.	3/10	Bike	Morning
2021-04-06 -36_146	43	In bushland near Stanley/Beechworth, solo.	6/10	Car/foot	Midday
2021-04-06 -36_145	44	In a paddock nearish Dookie, solo.	2/10	Car	Afternoon
2021-05-27 -37 144	45	Outside a factory in Campbellfield, solo.	5/10	Bike	Afternoon
2021-06-11 -37 145	46	By a creek in a paddock, Doreen, solo.	5/10	Bike	Early evening
2021-07-11 -37 144	47	In the bush near Blackwood, with Felix and Ruth.	6/10	Car/foot	Midday
2021-07-13 -37 145	48	In a park in Box Hill with Felix, Alex, Lachlan and Laura.	6/10	Bike	Evening
2021-08-01 -37 145	49	In muddy rainforest off the Acheron Way, near Warburton, solo.	6/10	Bike/foot	Morning
2021-08-25 -37 145	50	High above Darebin Creek, during lockdown, while semi-crippled, with Alex.	3/10	Car/foot	Late afternoon
2021-08-26 -37 144	51	In Royal Park Golf Course, with Lachie.	2/10	Bike	Midday
2021-10-03 -37 145	52	By a billabong in Bulleen Flats, with Lachie and Laura.	3/10	Bike	Midday
2021-10-21 -37 144	53	Next to a school in Braybrook, with Lachie, Laura and Felix.	3/10	Bike	Early evening
2021-11-05 -37 144	54	In an undeveloped paddock in Keilor, with Lachie.	4/10	Bike	Afternoon
2022-01-14 -37 146	55	In bush near Mt Stirling, mostly with Ellen.	6/10	Car/foot	Midday
2022-02-09 -37 145	56	Beside a lacrosse field in Heidelberg, with Felix and John RW.	3.5/10	Bike	Afternoon
2022-02-11 -37 145	57	Almost on the banks of the Yarra, Yarra Bend Park, with Felix and John RW.	2	Bike	Afternoon
2022-02-12 -37 144	58	Beside a hotel in South Melbourne.	2	Bike	Early evening
2022-04-06 -37 145	59	In ambiguously delineated quasi-bushland in Hurstbridge.	4/10	Train/bike	Early evening
2022-04-11 -37 144	60	On a footpath in Coburg, with Lachie, Ed, Max, Laura M and Cam.	3.5/10	Bike	Evening
2022-04-14 -37 144	61	In a narrow, inaccessible laneway in the Melbourne CBD with Felix.	5/10	Bike/foot	Early evening
2022-04-18 -37 145	62	In Bundoora Park Public Golf Course, with Laura K.	3/10	Car/foot	Midday
2022-05-09 -37 145	63	Next to Dingley Bypass, with Felix, Lachie and Matt and a random couch.	4/10	Bike	Morning
2022-05-25 -37 144	64	In Fawkner Cemetery, with Felix, Lachie and John.	3/10	Bike	Early evening
2022-07-03 -37 145	65	In a driveway, Templestowe Lower, with Alex and John.	2/10	Bike	Afternoon
2022-07-11 -39 146	66	On the side of a cliff in Wilson's Promontory National Park with Matt and Rhonda. Virgin graticule!	6.5/10	Car/foot/abseil	Afternoon
2022-07-26 -37 144	67	Beside a public housing building in Fitzroy with Laura and KT.	2/10	Bike	Evening
2022-08-07 -37 144	68	In a paddock near Elaine and wind turbines with KT.	3/10	Car	Midday
2022-08-25 -36 145	69	Getting bogged in Reef Hills State Park with KT.	6/10	Car	All bloody night
2022-08-29 -37 144	70	In a Hadfield cul-de-sac with Cam.	2/10	Bike	Evening
2022-09-03 -37 144	71	Along the Federation Trail with Felix.	3/10	Bike	Afternoon
2022-10-08 -37 142	72	Deep in bush in Gariwerd (Grampians) NP with Lachie.	6/10	Bike/walk	Midday
2023-01-03 -41 173	73	Up a steep hill in pine forest near St Arnaud, NZ, solo.	7/10	Car/foot	Midday
2023-01-11 -43 171	74	High on a very hill near Arthurs Pass NZ, intense bush bashing, solo.	8/10	Car/foot	Midday
2023-01-22 -44 169	75	In a hilly paddock near Wannaka, with so much dead bracken, solo. Virgin graticule!	7/10	Car/foot	Midday
2023-02-18 -37 144	76	In a McDonalds carpark in Broadmeadows, solo.	3/10	Bike	Afternoon
2023-02-19 -38 142	77	Out the front of a dairy farm near Timboon, solo.	7/10	Bike	Midday
2023-02-20 -37 145	78	On Whitehorse Rd, Box Hill, solo.	2/10	Car	Evening

Near misses

1. 2009-05-25 -37 144 - South Melbourne, passed within 25m, but didn't bother to leave public transport for the occasion. 0/10
2. 2009-07-17 -36 146 - in a paddock nearish Bright, saw the hashpoint, but didn't get out of the car. 0/10
3. 2010-08-08 -37 144 - Wading into Port Philip Bay, out of time. 5/10
4. 2012-06-01 -36 146 - Livestock fail near Glenrowan. 0/10
5. 2020-05-03 -37 144 - Inside someone's front garden, Coburg.

Unsuccessful hashes

1. 2009-05-30 -37 145 - a house next to a park in suburbia, by car, solo. Private property. 2/10
2. 2009-06-08 -37 144 - blinded by science (Felix!), in a paddock near Macedon, with Matt, by bicycle in the dark. 5/10
3. 2009-09-19 -37 145 - failed due to unexpected water. Solo bike quest through forbidden water catchment in Yarra Ranges, eventually descending steep gully and turning back due to existential crisis, inadequate lighting and waterfall within a couple of hundred metres of the point. 9/10
4. 2012-06-01 -36 146 - in a paddock near Winton, northern Victoria. It turns out I have a morbid fear of cows.
5. 2018-12-30 -36 147 - deep in the bush near Mt Hotham. Tried three different ways to get there, foiled at every turn.
6. 2020-05-03 -37 144 - in someone's front garden, in Melbourne. Unsuccessful? Meh, I'd call it.
7. 2020-06-21 -37 145 - rode halfway to Kangaroo Ground. Forgot to bring snacks. It was getting late. Sooooo hungry.
8. 2022-03-06 -37 143 - too deep inside a property near Beaufort
9. 2022-03-14 -37 145 - thwarted by planned burn in Lysterfield Park
10. 2022-09-04 -37 144 - too muddy, and still recovering from being bogged a week earlier
11. 2023-01-01 -41 172 - not in this car. Oh, and the sign said not to. (~Tapawera NZ)
12. 2023-01-21 -44 169 - let's not wander too far onto private property (~Wanaka NZ)
13. 2023-01-13 -43 172 - let's not trample the crops (~Christchurch NZ)

Results

Stevage achieved level 7 of the Minesweeper Geohash achievement by visiting coordinates in Melbourne East and 7 of the surrounding graticules.

Graticule map (thanks Michael5000!)

This area represents the whole of Victoria. The two blue graticules are totally water. Dark lightgrey are New South Wales or ACT. Only proper expeditions are counted below; half-hearted attempts or expected failures aren't counted.

N\E	141	142	143	144	145	146	147	148	149
-34	Wentworth	Mildura	Balranald
-35	Underbool	Ouyen	Swan Hill	Deniliquin	Cobram	Corowa	Wagga Wagga	Tumut
-36	Nhill	Horsham	St Arnaud	Bendigo	Shepparton 2/2	Albury Wodonga 2/3	Corryong	Jindabyne
-37	Casterton	Hamilton	Ballarat	Melbourne West 10	Melbourne East 22	Mansfield 2	Bairnsdale 2 Virgin graticule!	Orbost 2 Virgin graticule!	Mallacoota
-38	Portland	Warrnambool 1 Virgin graticule!	Colac	Geelong 1/1	Pakenham 2/2	Traralgon 1/1	Sale
-38						Tidal River 1/1 Virgin graticule!

For up to date version, see geohashing.win.