2009-06-28 40 -74
| Sun 28 Jun 2009 in 40,-74: 40.9102060, -74.3062207 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox |
Location
40.910206°, -74.306221°... otherwise known as somewhere in the woods in Lincoln Park, NJ.
Participants
- Knitting Duck and xkcd-unaware friend
- Flashbullzeye and xkcd-aware friend
Plans
There's been some chat on the graticule's Facebook group about a meet. Any takers?
Knitting Duck is now the proud owner of a Garmin eTrex Legend H and a printout of the Google Maps view of the hash. There look to be several options for points at which to enter the woods and reach the hash without crossing the Passaic River on the way. According to a Lincoln Park native, those woods ought to be open to public access. The weather reports are good. Cross your fingers!
I'll try to stick around at or near the hash until after 4:30, later if it takes a while to get there in the first place. I'm going to try parking at the southernmost tip of Chapel Hill Road and then walking westward into the woods. If that doesn't work I'll head further west along Pine Brook Road and look for another access point to the woods between there and the Deer Run Golf Club.
Flashbullzeye, assuming he can get out of work today, plans on travelling south-ward through the woods from what appears to be a small shopping mall building shaped like an X (very piratey, too bad I don't have any clothes for a Buccaneer Geohash :/ ). Currently lacking the handiness of a GPS unit, I will also be attempting a no-batteries geohash by travelling due South through approximately 1,270 feet of woods using a compass and a tape measure (although it appears that the geohash point is at the point where the woods turn into a nice, little clearing, so it may not be necessary). Alternatively still, and much faster than a tape measure, my friend and I can use our twelve years of combined marching band experience and quickly figure out how many paces it will take to travel 1,270 feet at 15 feet per 8 paces. Looks like fun to me.
Expedition
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