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Location

The hash is located on the Eibsee, a rather large mountain lake within of the Zugspitz mountain range, just below the highest peak in Germany.

Links:

Webcam (the one called "Zugspitzgipfel - Blickrichtung Norden zum Eibsee", which means "Zugspitze peak - Looking north to the Eibsee")
Eibsee - English wikipedia (basically no information)
German wikipedia (good information)
Eibsee leisure centre - owner of the lake
Boat rental

Plans

The planning phase for this great expedition gained a lot of momentum and deserves its on page: 2009-06-07 47 10/Plans

Do not fear, it's preserved in all of its greatness over at the other page. --Zb 18:40, 7 June 2009 (UTC)

Expedition report

... still in progress, still more pictures to come.

Before the party of 9 partied

From Würzburg to München (Danatar, Srs0, Thepiguy)

With difficulty Danatar got up at 4:30 after 2 hours of sleep, but he nonetheless managed to meet thepiguy who was already waiting at the train station at 5:15. On the train Danatar tried to get some sleep, but the train seats are very uncomfortable to lie on so he didn't succeed. After 2 hours they arrived at Treuchtlingen and changed into a double decker train. From the upper floor the sight is slightly better than in a normal train and they could watch the beautiful landscape. They even saw 2 deer. At 9:30 the train arrived at München main station where ekorren was waiting for them directly at their platform.

thepiguy says...

Possibly my favourite expedition yet! I hope the pictures from the underwater camera turn out...

The crew from Regensburg (dawidi, Hans, Tomcat)

... who also came from quite far away.

All the way from Tübingen: Ekorren

... who even came from another state (BaWü)

Two fellows from München (Baerenfell, zb)

... who almost appear to be couch potatoes, considering how far everyone else has traveled.

Baerenfell says...

Awesome Expedition with a lot of really nice and funny guys, nearly perfect weather and last, but not least a really cool spot. Also being one of the first to do an underwater geohash rules :) (proof to follow with full report).

And now I can put my hands on a huge lot of ribbons, YEEHAA!

Started the day with a final look at the planning page at about 9 am, packed my stuff and was on my way. The school I had to vote at, was just a few meters from home, so I stopped by and went did my civil duty (Claiming a "Democracy Geohash" for this). After that I cycled on to the Central Station to meet the others, which wasn't really complicated (everyone would recognize such a cool group | 2. Achievment today | Meet-up | all 8 ).

zb says...

First things first:

I know I sound like a hippie who has smoked his brains out when I say that this trip made me feel truly happy not only because the nature looked so nice, but -- even better -- because it was very fun to meet everyone else after having done a number of geohashes myself and even failed to meet dawidi once.

Koepfel, after today, your meetup graph will be in serious trouble if not completely FUBARed, but it's worth it because spending this great day with a group as nice and diverse was a big win. I mean it.

On to the report:

I left the house around 8:30am and took a small detour to a nearby school house because it was election day for the European Parliament and the school is where I go to vote. A ribbon has even been suggested for this. While the school house itself was just as ugly as any German school house built in the seventies, it featured a nice painting next to one of its doors that must have been an indication about what was bound to happen later this day. See gallery.

I stopped at a bakery in my neighborhood and rode my bike to the train station, where Srs0 had just arrived some minutes ago on his ICE train. We found another bakery and got him breakfast, including a Auszogne (meaning a one pulled apart) which is something like a Bavarian equivalent to a donut. Slightly later, everyone else showed up at the train station.

Some friends of mine were there, too, but they went on another train to another beautiful place in the mountains to celebrate a birthday. (Happy birthday, A.!)

From München to Eibsee

Some, like zb, were introduced to the hobby of geocaching by others, like Ekorren while we had time to kill until our train left. Shortly after, we went along the very scenic tracks near Starnberger See, changed onto a bus in Tutzing because the electric wires above the train tracks were in the progress of being repaired further down the railroad line, making regular train traffic impossible. We again got onto a train in Weilheim that took us to Garmisch-Partenkirchen.

In Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Ekorren was quick to negotiate our possibilities and fares for going up to Eibsee on the really cool train, the Zugspitzbahn. The reasons why the Zugspitzbahn is really cool are: (a) It has tracks narrower than regular trains and (b) some parts of the tracks are so steep that it needs racks in addition to the rails. Thus, it has all the technology necessary to (c) take you up to the very top of Germany's highest mountain, the name of which is proudly featured on the display on the side of the train. Cool, eh? The train also makes for a (d) really great backdrop for a group picture, as is evidenced in the gallery below.

While we went uphill to Eibsee, thepiguy got serious about his plans to swim in the Eibsee. Everyone could tell because he produced diving equipment from his backpack.

After having walked to the lake, we were offered a full choice of different vessels. This is the part where we left the solid ground and went to find the water geohash. This is also where we all thank thepiguy for paying for the three boats we took out onto the lake: Thank you, pi!

At/On/In the lake

...

From Eibsee to München

We were really, really lucking out with the weather. Thunder and rain didn't really start before we were in the bus and already on the way home.

Besides, it's always amazing how different the way back feels compared to the way to some place.

After the party of 9 parted

From München to Würzburg

When the train arrived at München, thepiguy and srs0 got out first and ran to catch an ICE train which left three minutes later. (...)

From München, Danatar had two trains to choose from to get home: One at 20:25 which would arrive at Würzburg at 0:06 and one at 21:09 which would arrive at 0:56. He had already decided earlier to visit his displaced origin hashpoint in this graticule and that would take all the time until the second option, so he said goodbye to everyone and went to buy a Döner. Then he went on his displaced origin expedition (read here).

Danatar returned from his displaced origin and boarded the train towards home. At Nürnberg he had to wait almost one hour to change his train. The big rock festival Rock im Park had taken place this weekend and Danatar could pass the time watching drunk and tired people moving around zombie-like in the station. When his train finally left the seats next to him were filled with people in a good temper, so Danatar couldn't even get some sleep. His train arrived in Würzburg a few minutes late, shortly after 1 am.

München, by bike, in the rain

Baerenfell: Left the others at the station in Munich to take the bike home (about 15 minutes). It started raining after a few meters and pouring after a few more. I didn't see much anymore and got totally drenched, but finally finished this great day with another look at the geohashing page.

Gallery

Note:

As I would generally prefer a gallery combining the best pictures of everyone to a continuous picture story, mostly chronologically, I'm starting such a gallery here and invite everyone to mix in own pictures. but just do what you like, of course ;
I uploaded only a few landscape impressions, others will probably bring us more of them and panorama pictures
No pictures of the activities at the hashpoint yet, will wait for others and maybe add some later.

--Ekorren

As I didn' take much pictures I just add the two worth uploading here

--Baerenfell 19:29, 8 June 2009 (UTC)

From Tübingen to München (ekorren)

Early start at Tübingen
Changing train at Ulm
The right one to Augsburg
Arriving at München - now looking for the group.

München, doing democracy before the hash (zb)

Vote here.
An ode to the seventies.
Mountains! Sunshine! Water! When you see something like this in the morning, on a building like the one in the previous picture, the day ought to be good.

From München to the lake

Some hashers on the replacement bus
Early glance on the Alps, ca. 11:18 near Oberhausen
Many clouds in the mountains that we were heading to, but the weather was constantly getting better.
Huge satellite dishes in Raisting, as seen from the SEV bus. In this type of scenery, they couldn't look more alien.
View from the train, somewhere between Weilheim and Murnau
Danatar struggles to explain where he is and what he's doing there
Another view from train, ca. 11:36 near Buchenried
Garmisch-Partenkirchen, BZB station
The group is amazed by technology from the late 1920s. This is also where the Olympic Winter Games of 1936 took place and were put into a crazy political context.
The railway's rack on display.
POSTED: This train really goes all the way up.
The picture on pi's camera has it all.
Station of Grainau from a train drivers view
dawidi and Hans.
thepiguy's backpack. We are not supposed to panic. He is from the internet and he does not fear. He fears cold water least.
Rack railway line
Rack railway line

At/On/In and around the lake

Pedal boats. Pedal boats with slides. Row boats (not in this picture). What more does a waterhasher's desperate soul want?
Two of our boats as seen from the third
We are being watched!
Danatar rocks the first underwater geohash!
Baerenfell and thepiguy weren't farbehind!
Landscape impression from the boat
Clouds over the lake
Dark island
Light island
Small island
Dawidi and the DNF
Neighbouring Frillensee lake
View from the shore
Walking along the shore

Back

Bus back to Garmisch-Partenkirchen
Garmisch-Partenkirchen station - now the rain finally found us
Double rainbow as seen from the train
In Munich the rain really found me

Gratuitous comments

... started coming in while the expedition was still in the planning phase and may now be found at the talk page.

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 == Location ==
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 ... still in progress, still more pictures to come.
-===Before the party of 9 met===
+===Before the party of 9 partied===
-====from Würzburg to München ([[User:Danatar|Danatar]], [[User:Srs0|Srs0]], [[User:Thepiguy|Thepiguy]])====
+====From Würzburg to München ([[User:Danatar|Danatar]], [[User:Srs0|Srs0]], [[User:Thepiguy|Thepiguy]])====
 With difficulty Danatar got up at 4:30 after 2 hours of sleep, but he nonetheless managed to meet thepiguy who was already waiting at the train station at 5:15. On the train Danatar tried to get some sleep, but the train seats are very uncomfortable to lie on so he didn't succeed. After 2 hours they arrived at Treuchtlingen and changed into a double decker train. From the upper floor the sight is slightly better than in a normal train and they could watch the beautiful landscape. They even saw 2 deer. At 9:30 the train arrived at München main station where ekorren was waiting for them directly at their platform.
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 Started the day with a final look at the planning page at about 9 am, packed my stuff and was on my way. The school I had to vote at, was just a few meters from home, so I stopped by and went did my civil duty (Claiming a "Democracy Geohash" for this). After that I cycled on to the Central Station to meet the others, which wasn't really complicated (everyone would recognize such a cool group | 2. Achievment today | Meet-up | all 8 ).
 =====[[User:Zb|zb]] says...=====
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 ''On to the report:''
-I left the house around 8:30am and took a small detour to a nearby school house because it was election day for the European Parliament and the school is where I go to vote. A [http://wiki.xkcd.com/geohashing/Talk:2009-06-07_47_10#Yay_Democracy.21 ribbon] has even been suggested for this. While the school house itself was just as ugly as any German school house built in the seventies, it featured a nice painting next to one of its doors that must have been an indication about what was bound to happen later this day:
+I left the house around 8:30am and took a small detour to a nearby school house because it was election day for the European Parliament and the school is where I go to vote. A [http://wiki.xkcd.com/geohashing/Talk:2009-06-07_47_10#Yay_Democracy.21 ribbon] has even been suggested for this. While the school house itself was just as ugly as any German school house built in the seventies, it featured a nice painting next to one of its doors that must have been an indication about what was bound to happen later this day. See gallery.
-<gallery>
-Image:2009-06-07 47 10 0003.jpg|Vote here.
-Image:2009-06-07 47 10 0002.jpg|An ode to the seventies.
-Image:2009-06-07 47 10 0001.jpg|Mountains! Sunshine! Water! When you see something like this in the morning, on a building like the one in the previous picture, the day ought to be good.
-</gallery>
 I stopped at a bakery in my neighborhood and rode my bike to the train station, where [[User:Srs0|Srs0]] had just arrived some minutes ago on his ICE train. We found another bakery and got him breakfast, including a ''Auszogne'' (meaning ''a one pulled apart'') which is something like a Bavarian equivalent to a donut. Slightly later, everyone else showed up at the train station.
@@ Line 75: / Line 68: @@
 Some friends of mine were there, too, but they went on another train to another beautiful place in the mountains to celebrate a birthday. (Happy birthday, A.!)
-===from München to Eibsee===
+===From München to Eibsee===
 Some, like [[User:Zb|zb]], were introduced to the hobby of geocaching by others, like [[User:Ekorren|Ekorren]] while we had time to kill until our train left. Shortly after, we went along the very scenic tracks near Starnberger See, changed onto a bus in Tutzing because the electric wires above the train tracks were in the progress of being repaired further down the railroad line, making regular train traffic impossible. We again got onto a train in Weilheim that took us to Garmisch-Partenkirchen.
-<gallery>
+In Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Ekorren was quick to negotiate our possibilities and fares for going up to Eibsee on the really cool train, the Zugspitzbahn. The reasons why the Zugspitzbahn is really cool are: (a) It has tracks narrower than regular trains and (b) some parts of the tracks are so steep that it needs racks in addition to the rails. Thus, it has all the technology necessary to (c) take you up to the very top of Germany's highest mountain, the name of which is proudly featured on the display on the side of the train. Cool, eh? The train also makes for a (d) really great backdrop for a group picture, as is evidenced in the gallery below.
-Image:2009-06-07 47 10 0008.jpg|Many clouds in the mountains that we were heading to, but the weather was constantly getting better.
-Image:2009-06-07 47 10 0011.jpg|Huge satellite dishes in Raisting, as seen from the SEV bus. In this type of scenery, they couldn't look more alien.
-</gallery>
-In Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Ekorren was quick to negotiate our possibilities and fares for going up to Eibsee on the really cool train, the Zugspitzbahn. The reasons why the Zugspitzbahn is really cool are: (a) It has tracks narrower than regular trains and (b) some parts of the tracks are so steep that it needs racks in addition to the rails. Thus, it has all the technology necessary to (c) take you up to the very top of Germany's highest mountain, the name of which is proudly featured on the display on the side of the train. Cool, eh?
-<gallery>
-Image:2009-06-07 47 10 0017.jpg|The group is amazed by technology from the late 1920s. This is also where the Olympic Winter Games of 1936 took place and were put into a crazy political context.
-Image:2009-06-07 47 10 0013.jpg|The railway's rack on display.
-Image:2009-06-07 47 10 0016.jpg|POSTED: This train really goes all the way up.
-</gallery>
-The train also makes for a (d) really great backdrop for a group picture, but this is on [[user:thepiguy|thepiguy]]'s camera. I only have this to offer:
-<gallery>
-Image:2009-06-07 47 10 0018.jpg|The picture on pi's camera has it all.
-</gallery>
-While we went uphill to Eibsee, [[user:thepiguy|thepiguy]] got serious about his plans to swim in the Eibsee, as you can see by looking at his backpack. When we got there, we were offered a full choice of different vessels:
-<gallery>
-Image:2009-06-07 47 10 0020.jpg|[[user:dawidi|dawidi]] and Hans.
-Image:2009-06-07 47 10 0021.jpg|[[user:thepiguy|thepiguy]]'s backpack. We are not supposed to panic. He is from the internet ''and he does not fear''.
-Image:2009-06-07 47 10 0022.jpg|Pedal boats. Pedal boats with slides. Row boats (not in this picture).
-</gallery>
-This is the part where we left the solid ground and went to find the water geohash.
+While we went uphill to Eibsee, [[user:thepiguy|thepiguy]] got serious about his plans to swim in the Eibsee. Everyone could tell because he produced diving equipment from his backpack.
+After having walked to the lake, we were offered a full choice of different vessels. This is the part where we left the solid ground and went to find the water geohash. This is also where we all thank [[user:thepiguy|thepiguy]] for paying for the three boats we took out onto the lake: ''Thank you, pi!''
 ===At/On/In the lake===
-<gallery>
+...
-Image:2009-06-07 47 10 danatar.jpg|Danatar rocks the first underwater geohash!
-Image:2009-06-07 47 10 others.jpg|Baerenfell and thepiguy weren't farbehind!
-</gallery>
-===from Eibsee to München===
+===From Eibsee to München===
 We were really, really lucking out with the weather. Thunder and rain didn't really start before we were in the bus and already on the way home.
@@ Line 121: / Line 87: @@
 ===After the party of 9 parted===
-====from München to Würzburg====
+====From München to Würzburg====
 When the train arrived at München, thepiguy and srs0 got out first and ran to catch an ICE train which left three minutes later. (...)
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 ====München, by bike, in the rain====
 '''Baerenfell:''' Left the others at the station in Munich to take the bike home (about 15 minutes). It started raining after a few meters and pouring after a few more. I didn't see much anymore and got totally drenched, but finally finished this great day with another look at the geohashing page.
 == Gallery ==
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 Image:2009-06-07_47_10_e_Ulm_450+425.jpg|The right one to Augsburg
 Image:2009-06-07_47_10_e_Muenchen_arrival_930.jpg|Arriving at München - now looking for the group.
+</gallery>
+=== München, doing democracy before the hash (zb) ===
+<gallery>
+Image:2009-06-07 47 10 0003.jpg|Vote here.
+Image:2009-06-07 47 10 0002.jpg|An ode to the seventies.
+Image:2009-06-07 47 10 0001.jpg|Mountains! Sunshine! Water! When you see something like this in the morning, on a building like the one in the previous picture, the day ought to be good.
 </gallery>
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 Image:2009-06-07_47_10_e_SEV_group_in_bus.jpg|Some hashers on the replacement bus
 Image:2009-06-07_47_10_e_Oberhausen_1118.jpg|Early glance on the Alps, ca. 11:18 near Oberhausen
+Image:2009-06-07 47 10 0008.jpg|Many clouds in the mountains that we were heading to, but the weather was constantly getting better.
+Image:2009-06-07 47 10 0011.jpg|Huge satellite dishes in Raisting, as seen from the SEV bus. In this type of scenery, they couldn't look more alien.
 Image:2009-06-07_47_10_bavaria.jpg|View from the train, somewhere between Weilheim and Murnau
 Image:2009-06-07_47_10_e_Danatar_Telephone.jpg|Danatar struggles to explain where he is and what he's doing there
 Image:2009-06-07_47_10_e_Buchenried_1136.jpg|Another view from train, ca. 11:36 near Buchenried
 Image:2009-06-07_47_10_e_Garmisch_Mirroring.jpg|Garmisch-Partenkirchen, BZB station
+Image:2009-06-07 47 10 0017.jpg|The group is amazed by technology from the late 1920s. This is also where the Olympic Winter Games of 1936 took place and were put into a crazy political context.
+Image:2009-06-07 47 10 0013.jpg|The railway's rack on display.
+Image:2009-06-07 47 10 0016.jpg|POSTED: This train really goes all the way up.
+Image:2009-06-07 47 10 0018.jpg|The picture on pi's camera has it all.
 Image:2009-06-07_47_10_e_Grainau_Bf.jpg|Station of Grainau from a train drivers view
+Image:2009-06-07 47 10 0020.jpg|[[user:dawidi|dawidi]] and Hans.
+Image:2009-06-07 47 10 0021.jpg|[[user:thepiguy|thepiguy]]'s backpack. We are not supposed to panic. He is from the internet ''and he does not fear''. He fears cold water ''least''.
 Image:2009-06-07_47_10_e_racktrack_1240.jpg|Rack railway line
 Image:2009-06-07_47_10_e_racktrack_1241.jpg|Rack railway line
 </gallery>
-=== On and around the lake ===
+=== At/On/In and around the lake ===
 <gallery>
+Image:2009-06-07 47 10 0022.jpg|Pedal boats. Pedal boats with slides. Row boats (not in this picture). What more does a waterhasher's desperate soul want?
 Image:2009-06-07_47_10_e_1322_Boats.jpg|Two of our boats as seen from the third
 Image:2009-06-07_47_10_e_1337_Reserl.jpg|We are being watched!
+Image:2009-06-07 47 10 danatar.jpg|Danatar rocks the first underwater geohash!
+Image:2009-06-07 47 10 others.jpg|Baerenfell and thepiguy weren't farbehind!
 Image:2009-06-07_47_10_e_Eibsee_1.jpg|Landscape impression from the boat
 Image:2009-06-07_47_10_e_Eibsee_Clouds.jpg|Clouds over the lake


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