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Latest revision as of 02:46, 6 August 2019
| Fri 11 Sep 2009 in Austin, Minnesota: 43.9105008, -92.9991580 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox |
Location
A few miles from Blooming Prairie, on a farm house driveway, right in the middle of their yard.
Participants
- Mark
- TheYouper
- DiveRider
Expedition
His feet steadied on the earth; one arm elevated, and holding a GPS; Captain Ahab stood erect, looking straight out upon the graticule’s ever-changing coordinates. There was an infinity of firmest fortitude, a determinate, unsurrenderable wilfulness, in the fixed and fearless, forward dedication of that glance. Not a word he spoke; nor did his friends say aught to him; though by all their minutest gestures and expressions, they plainly showed the uneasy, if not painful, consciousness of seeing a geohasher drawn to obsession.
Full report yet to come....
Achievements
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Mark earned the Drag-along achievement
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Photos
Thanks to DiveRider for taking some fantastic pictures.
A massive wind farm along the drive over.
Evening setting on the countryside.
Mark navigating the open road.
Trading waves with a farmer on his John Deere.
An amazing cloud-scene over the narrowest two-lane road Mark has ever driven.
There's the farm we are heading to.
Straight to the hash point.
Made it!
DiveRider and TheYouper waiting for Mark to establish contact at the hash point.
Remnants of a former road-side attraction near Owatonna, MN.
