| Sun 10 May 2009 in Würzburg, Germany: 49.9003955, 9.8551485 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox |
Location
Today's location is on a slope in the forest near Retzstadt.
Country: Germany; state: Bayern (Bavaria, EU:DE:BY); administrative region: Unterfranken; district: Main-Spessart
Expedition
Danatar
story and pictures will follow
Thepiguy and Srs0
Once again brimming with ill-advised enthusiasm the two Canadian geohashers headed north out of Würzburg. Today they were able to find the correct bike path and make it all the way to Zellingen without so much as looking at a map. This is where their luck ended.
Thepiguy had looked up directions on google but got a little confused when some of the roads didn't have names. As he soon discovered, this was because they wern't so much roads as they were paths through the forest. Having already travelled 17km with only 1.5 to go, thepiguy got off of his very new and very road bike and walked along behind srs0 on his equally new but much less road bike.
They hiked/rode along increasingly narrower and more suspicious paths wondering how far back they had made a wrong turn. As it began to be apparent that they were no where near where they had planned, they began to talk about their respective stupidity distances. thepiguy stated his was 250m while srs0 quoted 500m. As it turns out, they were both wrong, because when their path came to a dead end 0.65km from the coordinates they locked their bikes to a tree and started walking.
Roads? Where we're going we don't need roads.
Their first obstacle was the rather large hill in front of them. They scrambled up the debris covered slope and easily wound their way between the large trees. At the top they were greeted by some very thick impassable bushes. Following srs0's guidance they walked around mass of foliage and emerged at the edge of a field. They shimmied around the crops, staying on the very edge as not to damage anything. Once on the other side of the field, the gps pointed them directly to their right through more bushes and down an even steeper hill that the one they had previously climbed. Once safely down the hill they emerged onto yet another farmers field. They again walked around the edge of the crops and into yet another large set of bushes.
At a distance of 50m, this is where the real fun began! Before them was an incredibly steep drop into a small ditch/ravine followed by a final climb up one last slope. As srs0 found a safe way across, thepiguy decided to take the rotten log bridge (which he managed to get across fine!) and march directly up the hill.
It was around here that we once again met Danatar, who was coming from the exact opposite (and much more sane) direction. We all stood around on the side of the hill, had a few nibs, took a picture and marveled at Danatars ability to write sideways on a tree with chalk.
The geohashers parted ways once again, each retracing their steps out of fear of being lost in the forest forever.
