Location
on an abandoned railway track near Laudenbach
Participants
GeorgDerReisende
Plans
I will hitchhike to that place to be there at 16:00 for a xkcd-meetup.
Expedition
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I started to hitchhike at Kaufungen-Papierfabrik at 12:30. After one minute a car stopped and I got a lift to Großalmerode. As many times I wanted to explain my quest to the driver. But soon as I used the word geohashing, the driver said he know about the game. As always I understood that the driver is thinking about geocashing and I wanted to correct him. But he stayed at his statement, that he knows about geohashing. And he told me, that he has a friend in Hamburg, who does sometimes geohashing. Then he told me, that his sons do geocashing and I understood, that he knew the difference. This driver brought me to Epterode to the former railway station, where I arrived and started to walk at 12:53.
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Then I walked through Epterode. The road itself was signed as a county road, but at the end of the village the county road ended too.
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![2014-04-05 51 9 GeorgDerReisende 7845.jpg](/images/thumb/1/17/2014-04-05_51_9_GeorgDerReisende_7845.jpg/300px-2014-04-05_51_9_GeorgDerReisende_7845.jpg) |
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Behind the hill I had a first look to Laudenbach. As I passed Laudenbach I had a first look to the railway (here on the bridge).
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Then I walked along the track and at least I was able to reach the hash by five meters. Look around:
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to the north |
to the east |
to the south
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![2014-04-05 51 9 GeorgDerReisende 7877.jpg](/images/thumb/8/89/2014-04-05_51_9_GeorgDerReisende_7877.jpg/300px-2014-04-05_51_9_GeorgDerReisende_7877.jpg) |
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But then I tried to go nearer to the hash, to go into the cut. And 40 meters away I found a small path crossing the railway track and from there I could walk along the track to the hash.
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proof!
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![2014-04-05 51 9 GeorgDerReisende 7885.jpg](/images/thumb/e/ef/2014-04-05_51_9_GeorgDerReisende_7885.jpg/300px-2014-04-05_51_9_GeorgDerReisende_7885.jpg) |
view to the east and to the south along the track
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A grinning geohasher. Behind my left shoulder you see the hashmark.
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Then I waited until 16:00 for some friends, but nobody arrived. Then I walked a bit around and here is another view of the hash.
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Achievements