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Latest revision as of 06:06, 20 March 2024

2010-08-24 46 -71 kids.jpg
Tue 24 Aug 2010 in 46,-71:
46.2207186, -71.6431756
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Location

In a field near a road in Saint-Pierre-Baptiste, Québec.

Participants

Sara with her daughter and her son.


Expedition

On the last day of our vacation, we were fortunate enough to get a hashpoint that the kids could get to that was fairly near our route from Québec City to Springfield, MA. My husband drove, but chose to remain in the car instead of walking the last 100 or 200 meters to the hashpoint.

In the photo of the piggyback ride, it looks as if there was a house nearby, but I didn't see that house at the time, so maybe the house is not really that close. I didn't see anyone to ask for permission, so we simply walked through the mowed fields to the hashpoint and back. Lucky for us, the (drainage?) ditch through which we had to climb had very little water in it, because it has been a very dry summer in Québec.

Really dumb question from a suburbanite: Were the fields mowed or did they look mowed because they were used for grazing? Why would people mow the fields if they aren't going to plant anything in them? To reduce the chance of a fire? To keep the fields in good condition for a future year's planting?

We didn't linger at the hashpoint, because we had a long drive home ahead of us.

After we left the hashpoint and got to a point where the ipad could get Internet access, Google maps suggested that instead of going back to the major highway (Rte. 20) we take a secondary road (Rte. 116) almost all the way back to the U.S. border. This worked out very well for the children, because we were playing a car game where they got points every time they saw a group of animals or a dépanneur (convenience store), and there were plenty of both on the secondary road.

This was a great way to end our vacation.

Photos

Achievements

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Sara, her son, and her daughter earned the Graticule Unlocked Achievement
by being the first to reach any hashpoint in the (46, -71) graticule, here, on 2010-08-24.
2010-08-24 46 -71 ditch.jpg