2009-09-08 49 8

Tue 8 Sep 2009 in 49,8: 49.4722325, 8.5345979 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox

Location

In a field east of Mannheim City Airport.

Participants

ilpadre

Expedition

Expedition total: 3.5 hours, walked 16 km

ilpadre earned the Blinded by Science Consolation Prize by failing to reach the (49, 8) geohash on 2009-09-08 because he blindly followed outdated satellite imagery.

In short: Wanted to run and walk to the hash and back, had to stop running after 1 hour and about 10 km because I suddenly experienced massive digestive problems (after having eaten too many onions and leeks the day before). Needed 1.5 hours for the remaining 5 km to the hashpoint. Went to a point south of a distinctive parking lot, just like the satellite imagery shows, and felt lucky that the field was already harvested. Walked to a nearby tram station to find out the ticket machine only accepts coins. Walked back to a supermarket to change my 5-Euro bill into coins. Returned just in time to catch the last reasonable tram. Back home, comparing my photos to the outdated satellite imagery, I realized that in the last years, an exact copy of the parking lot I used for orientation must have been built 130 m to the east, and the other one had been replaced by two office buildings. I walked to a Potemkin hash. Oh well.

Photos

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  German elections are coming up this month

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  Wild hop

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  Seckenheim Town Hall

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  She didn't let me touch her :(

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  Many airhashes today

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  You're grinning at the wrong place, stupid!

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  The construction site should have made me suspicious, but I was probably too dehydrated

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  Fun fact: I took this picture because I liked the architecture. Turned out it's a picture of the hashpoint.

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  This way home...

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  ...by tram

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  Back in Heidelberg