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Expedition

After all that planning, we left Nick's loft around 4:05. Minor traffic heading out of downtown and some idiot drivers slowed us down, but we were out of our graticule and approaching the hash by 5:15. We approximated the spot on the road to pull over as best we could, and were looking into some woods with 0.33 miles yet to go. We left the car and struck out on foot with our GPS and camera. Thankfully there was a trail that led in the general direction that the GPS was pointing us, so we figured we could go ahead and jog out to the point. For some reason, maybe the

Nick jogging.

geohashing Gods smiling down, the trail seemed to have all the right twists and turns, as if specially prepared for us to reach the hash. A third of a mile into the woods and that trail took us to within about 50 feet. The last bit was easy, and Chris did some stumbling around to finally find the point.

Success! We took our pictures and took extra care in photographing the GPS. This time the distance remaining and current location can be read clearly. We jogged back to the car with a little more bounce in our step, but that bounce was about cancelled out by the energy it took to jog out to the point, so we were actually still jogging at the same speed. But it felt faster. We finally made it back to the car and headed back to town. Virgin Graticule, level one Minesweeper, and land achievements were already in the bag. But for the multihash, midnight speed-racer we still needed to get back to town and to the Atlanta coordinates.