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Revision as of 22:16, 13 August 2009

Location

Behind a Bohle building in an industrial site on Kienhorststraße.

Right next by is the Museum Staatliche Münze. Opens Mo - Fr 10.00 - 16.00 Uhr.

Participants

Plans

If we are to visit the museum (free entry), I would suggest to meet in the morning, 9-10am. It will be difficult for me to get there before 4pm otherwise.
If not, 7pm sounds like a plan. :)-- relet 13:38, 12 August 2009 (UTC)

I approve 7pm. Museum would be nice, too. But I don't have time before 1pm.
Do you go by bike, too? Where do you want to meet? --pari 15:11, 12 August 2009 (UTC)

I would. Probably starting at Goslarer Platz directly, via Westhafen. -- relet 16:58, 12 August 2009 (UTC)

ETA Goslarer Platz: 18:40! -- relet 13:15, 13 August 2009 (UTC)

Probable hash collision! http://coord.info/GCY864 --Davidc

I am going to walk! (5.9km from my home) ETA 19:15, hope to see you! lyxi-büxi (not-logged-in lyx)

Expedition

live from the expedition

davidc found the cache with the first grab. -- relet 17:24, 13 August 2009 (UTC)

picture selection seems to fail. have to check if it's user fail or script fail. -- relet 18:18, 13 August 2009 (UTC)

davidc

I arrived around 18:50 after having tried (and failed) to find a few geocaches on the way. I would therefore claim earliest geohasher, except I think that only applies for Saturday meetings. lyx arrived just after 7 and, with no sign of the others, we headed over to look for the nearby geocache aroung 19:15, meeting relet and pari on the way.

lyx

pari

Phoenix

relet and pari

Relet had been hacking on his android phone for two days now, hoping to get live messaging and wiki picture upload up and running. It worked. Almost. Somehow. The picture indexes were a little off, but most of this has been fixed now - both on this page and the code.

Anyway. The hash lay conveniently close on yet another industrial/commercial plot in the north of Berlin. Having made good experiences with these [cf. recent expedition with davidc], he was positive that it was good to go. Soon, the wiki page filled with enthusiastic participants and a planning.

Relet and pari met at relet's (and Phoenix') office at 6:40pm - pari that is. He proceeded cycling in circles around the place, until relet eventually managed to shake off a talkative colleague and turn up with his bike. They both set off at some time before 7pm.

They cycled through the Rehberge parks roughly north, on the direct way to the geohash. The museum was reached. They shortly considered whether to wait here for the others, or a little closer to the hash. Deciding for the latter, they stumbled on lyx and davidc who had met at the hash earlier. Davidc is going to claim the earliest geohasher, I believe.

davidc, lyx, pari and relet

Phoenix had announced that he would be coming by car, having to do some shopping. The group therefore decided to wait for him before attempting to get closer to the hash, and to search for the nearby geocache along the way. davidc, who had trained his caching skills during the last weeks, identified the correct location on first sight, and had a successful hand.

We signed the cache, and davidc introduced his new hashcot. The cache was not within line of sight of the hash, failing the hash collision criterion, but qualifying us for (yet another, for some) honorable mention.

Walking back to the hash, we were overtaken by Phoenix' car, who parked close to the hash. Introductions were made were necessary.

all together

the aftermath

Statistics

Geocaches found: GCY864 (hash collision), GC1HA8Z, GCTK25 and GC1404F.

davidc's approximate route: google maps (24km)
lyx's approximate route: google maps (6km (one way))

Google maps is unable to display relet's and pari's route accurately, as it does not know the correct footpaths we took.

Photos

This picture tells you that relet is ready to rumble. He just spent two days coding image upload and live messaging for the geohashdroid.
ready to go (picture thumbnail still does not update for me)
the museum
met lyx and davidc. yay!
Huggy Bear and Lost visit the State Mint Museum
hash collision honorable mention. wasn't the criterion "line of sight"?
Phoenix came by car
bohle company was hosting today's hash.
12 meters - a fence!
First silly grin shot, 12m from the hashpoint. phoenix, pari, lyx, relet, davidc, rabbitfox
left our cards at 12m.
The hashpoint was behind a fence, we thought this was as close as we could get.
someone at the gate! ambassador and coordinates reached!
relet runs over to play ambassador
Map Screenshot
GPS Screenshot
relet strikes towards the hashpoint
It did say three-something just before I triggered the release.
What a silly grin group shot looks when three people pull out their cameras at the same time.
Silly grin "group" shot, 2nd POV
The hashpoint from behind
orderly retreat
this is how we train for Vancouver.
hammocks!
More caching on the way back
A nice hiding spot for a cache - ekorren will recognize it.

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 === davidc ===
+I arrived around 18:50 after having tried (and failed) to find a few geocaches on the way. I would therefore claim earliest geohasher, except I think that only applies for Saturday meetings. lyx arrived just after 7 and, with no sign of the others, we headed over to look for the nearby geocache aroung 19:15, meeting relet and pari on the way.
 === lyx ===


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