2009-09-27 50 -1

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Location

Eastleigh, near the railway station, off Campbell Road. Dee has checked it out and reports that the hash point is easily accessible. The area is mainly grass and mossy concrete.

Participants

Plans

Archived to 2009-09-27 50 -1/Plans

Expedition

sermoa's trip

Fire at Colden Common

I had a transportation #fail by jumping on the first train i saw without checking if it stopped in Eastleigh. It didn't! Never mind, it was such a nice day and i had plenty of time, so i just walked the mile back from Southampton Airport Parkway. On the way i saw thick smoke and briefly wondered if it was coming from the hash point! I worried whether the hashpoint would be inaccessible due to fire brigade cordoning it off. I wondered whether the geohashers would get accused of starting the fire! (smoke signals gone wrong?!) But as i got closer i realised it was way beyond the geohash - in fact later on i learned that the fire was in Colden Common.

I caught up with Macronencer and together we walked over the bridge of Campbell Road. We saw JonRead drive past and then Dee. We all made our way to the geohash. We were a little bit worried about trespassing, but in fact it seems as if kids go in there all the time.

Locating the geohash

The land is nice and flat and big and open and great for geohashing ... except the geohash landed right at the edge in a bundle of brambles which were way more overgrown than either google or bing seemed to indicate! Still, we weren't going to let brambles hold us back so ignoring all threat of velociraptors, Mike charged right in and found the geohash. Followed shortly by the rest of us.

We left a poster for the world to see

Having marked the geohash, we set about the usual rituals ... hashscots, photos, videos, food. Davidc arrived and added Rabbitfox to the snuggling hashscots! We ate a few blackberries and did some geotrashing. We tried to attract some ants with honey to spell out XKCD, but only 2 ants were in the slightest bit interested! I played The Lying Down Game at the geohash ... and attracted more ants than the honey did!

Before we left, we put a poster on the nearest pole we could find. Some kids went over to look at it straight away, and it seems within 15 minutes they'd left a message on the talk page! Sermoa likes this! :D We then all went to the Crickters Arms in Eastleigh for food and drinks! yay!

Gallery

Additional photos (Macronencer)


Additional photos (davidc)

Achievements

Meetup.PNG
Sermoa, Macronencer, Dee, JonRead, Davidc earned the Meet-up achievement
by meeting each other at the (50, -1) geohash on 2009-09-27.
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(I will use the picture of all 5 of us when Dee uploads it!)

Geotrashribbon.png
Sermoa, Macronencer, Dee, JonRead, Davidc earned the GeoTrash Geohash Achievement
by cleaning up the (50, -1) geohash on 2009-09-27.
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Short links

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