2014-01-10 40 -84

ModernMagi's First GeoHash

Fri 10 Jan 2014 in 40,-84: 40.6947367, -84.5601178 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox

Location

Located in the middle of someone's driveway, about 15 minutes from home.

Participants

ModernMagi

Plans

Since this was close to home I decided to try to get there today, in spite of the snow. The fact that it was a drive way gave me hope that they might have it plowed, which would make it a little easier to access than the past few days, which were in the middle of a field.

Expedition

I drove almost straight to the location, to find a driveway cleared enough for me to drive on it. I drove up the drive only to find that it was only partially plowed. The plowing stopped at the house, while the point was further back, behind a barn. I got out of the car, to be greeted by a friendly chocolate German Pinscher (too bad there isn't a Hashdog achievement instead of the Hashcat achievement!) I decided before tramping through their yard, to knock on the door and see if anyone was home. No one answered and I almost chickened out, but decided to go for it and hope they didn't come home while I was wandering around. I discovered an old, yellow school bus. When I got to the point, I took some pictures, then got out of there as quickly as I could before someone saw me!

On my way home, I placed a Geocache and grabbed another cache that I had tried before, but didn't get because the coordinates were off.

Photos

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  A Snowy Driveway

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  The goofy HashDog

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  Random school bus in the yard

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  I was in knee deep snow!

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  Does eating snow count as a GeoSquishy?

Achievements

ModernMagi earned the Land geohash achievement by reaching the (40, -84) geohash on 2014-01-10.

ModernMagi earned the Graticule Unlocked Achievement by being the first to reach any hashpoint in the (40, -84) graticule, here, on 2014-01-10.

ModernMagi earned the Last One standing achievement by being the the only hasher world-wide to go on a geohashing expedition on 2014-01-10.