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Location

Located in a field near Ossingen (ZH), Switzerland.

Participants

Plans

In the evening I want to achieve a geohash by bike for the first time. And this like a Tron! That would give me 2 new achievements. All in all, that's about 15km to ride. I'll get there around 6:45pm.

Planned route...

Expedition

And so it was. Exactly as I had planned, I cycled this route. On the way I fished a geocache and took a few photos from time to time. For the whole loop (15.0km) I needed 1h 17min. Since I only use the bike a few times and don't have a pro bike anyway, I'm glad I was able to cover the distance reasonably well.

I recorded the route using the ramblr app. But I still don't know how to include this data here... We'll see...

So I drove off from the small village of Niederwil. The trickiest thing was getting across the river without crossing paths, which would take away my chance at the TRON achievement. So I decided on the car bridge near Gütighausen on the way there and the well-known railway bridge on the way back.

From Wiki: The principal civil engineering structure on the line is the Thurbrücke Ossingen, a 332 metres (1,089 ft) long and 42 metres (138 ft) high five-span truss bridge over the River Thur. A 63 metres (207 ft) long two-span prestressed concrete bridge carries the line over the A1 motorway, built in 1967.

Photos

First bridge is the road bridge in Gütighausen
bridge view east
bridge view west
view from above the wineyards towards the mountain Säntis
on the way
sign from the village Ossingen (for the first time)

then leaving Ossingen towards hashpoint (located somewhere at the horizon behind the sign)
The Geohash
The view from the Geohash to west
The Proof
Another Proof
these are memorial stones nearby from a local family