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Just South of runway 8R/26R of München's airport. Very close to the little hill that is used by spotters to look at traffic on the runway and on some of the taxiways and parts of the terminal area.

Participants

zb. Anyone else?

Omega. It'll be my first geohash since I've read the comic yesterday evening. =P

Plans

zb will wear warm socks and will try to get there by bike from his home in München. ETA likely between 2:00 or 2:30 pm, but this is a rough guess. (Esitimated, likely, guess: how vague can it get?) --Zb 10:39, 26 December 2009 (UTC)

Omega will go by car, no unneeded risks on my first try. I was planning on being there by 4 p.m. but I'll pack my things and go within the next two hours (by 2 p.m.) and help Zb find the spot with some GPS. ^^

Expedition

No GPS, so I need to memorize this: On a field, W of the 13th tree along the street from the airport; 1/3 into the field. And off I go. --Zb 10:39, 26 December 2009 (UTC)

The no-batteries-just-landmarks approach would have worked, as was confirmed by Omega's GPS. He had put a marker into the spot just some minutes before I got there. -> Success! And even a meet-up! Yay.

Omega's way towards the location

... will follow here.

zb's way towards the location

I charged the camera batteries, made sure I really had put on warm socks, made two liters of tea and some sandwiches. I can't tell you how great it felt to finally take out my good bike again for a longer trip after having fixed it two weekends ago instead of going geohashing with dawidi, thepiguy and srs0. Seriously, it had been broken for almost a year now and after my other bike had failed as well recently, I had finally taken the effort to take apart the hub gear of my good bike that had suffered catastrophic failure, as wreckage investigators would probably say.

I left the City of Munich through its Eastern suburbs, crossed the Ismaning Reservoir and went further North through the Finsing Bog, past the large radio towers near Ismaning and on towards München's airport.

Just when I wanted to start counting the trees along the street to find the location, I saw that Omega was already there and had identified the field with his GPS. Yay! Success!

Omega's and zb's meet-up

zb hadn't expected to meet anyone during this expedition and therefore was even more surprised to find fellow geohasher Omega on his first adventure. Both geohashers went onto the semi-frozen and semi-muddy field to celebrate the success. Then, they tried to put the dirt away from their shoes and onto the street and went up the hill that was created for plane spotters. They did like everyone else on the hill, i.e. they spotted planes and took pictures of planes for a while -- but they felt just slightly under-equipped when they saw the huge cameras the real plane spotters were aiming at the traffic arriving and departing runway 8R. You could tell that the two geohashers clearly were not the pros among the plane-spotting crowd.

In between spotting planes, they re-checked every couple of minutes if other geohashers had arrived at the field that was easily visible from the hill, too. None were found, though.

Photos

... were taken and will be put here some time soon...