2024-04-20 41 -78

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Sat 20 Apr 2024 in 41,-78:
41.9822948, -78.9163268
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Location

Alleghany National Recreation Area, off the North Country Trail

Participants

Expedition

I'm writing this report up very late, so I don't remember why we didn't aim for an Official Sat Meetup here, but it's always a good time when you can get into the woods for a hike and a Geohash.

A little fuzzy on the details, but I recall a long drive down after lunch (or maybe we had lunch on the way), but getting to the parking area, we saw lots of fisherman around as there are trout streams in the area as well. Once in the woods, we did see a couple walking out, but otherwise had the woods to ourselves. Once we got as close as we could on the trail, we headed toward the hash. Going up the first hill, we came across a decent sized garter snake that probably recently came out of hibernation. There wasn't any leaves on the trees/shrubs yet so getting through the woods to the hash wasn't too difficult.

I had a short GPS dance to get a good reading and got some pics of the area before we headed back to the trail. We still had some time so we walked a little further into the woods on the trail for maybe 15 minutes. When my alarm went off to turn around, we weren't really at any good spots so we walked a tiny bit longer until we came across a large rotted out stump and we thought this was a good marker to turn around at. We might have just been relaxing for a moment, or maybe having a snack, but looking into the stump, we saw a container. I pulled it out and found we stumbled upon a GeoCache. I fired up the GPS again and found we were within the Honorable Mention radius for a Hash Collision event!

After signing the log and putting it back, we headed out and for home to do whatever we had planned for the evening.

Photos

Ribbons

Landgeohash.png
This user earned the Land geohash achievement
by reaching the (41, -78) geohash on 2024-04-20.
Hashcollision.png
Pedalpusher and J earned the Hash collision honorable mention
by discovering the geocache GC2B3ZW 0.35 Miles/563 Meters from the (41, -78) geohash on 2024-04-20.