2010-11-20 45 -73

Tue 18 May 2010 in 45,-73: 45.5970856, -73.8051989 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox

A pleasant ride, followed by a short walk using a crappy smartphone GPS. The part worth to mention about this Geo Hash was that we (Jucks & Cem) drove from Pennsylvania to Montreal to visit a friend a day before on Friday.

Location

Today's location was a 45min ride from where we started. It was pretty much in the middle of a farm, a couple hundred meters off a country road.

Planning

We planned on being there at 4pm, but ended up leaving home at that time. We bought beer and a frisbee for when we got there. The hash point was near a road, so we just drove there.

Participants

• Jucks - Who finally got to his first GeoHash after wanting to do it for so long.
• Ipek - A fellow xkcd reader and a hashing enthusiast. Her first hash also.
• Cem - A friend of Jucks who was curious about Geo Hashing. His first hash.

Expedition

The car GPS took us really close to our target point. After we found a place to leave the car, we continued on foot to the location, which was in the middle of a farm field. We threw a frisbee around a couple times and each drank our victory beers at the hash point.

Photos

• Ipek.jpg

  Freezing in Montreal

• Cem.jpg

  Sipping the beer of victory

• 45.jpg

  Proof of coordinates

• 45 73.jpg

  The date is hard to see, but it's there on the blackberry...

• Ilc.jpg

  The obligatory grin

Achievements

Jucks, Ipek earned the Drag-along achievement by dragging Cem to the (45, -73) geohash on 2010-11-20.

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Jucks, Ipek, Cem earned the Land geohash achievement by reaching the (45, -73) geohash on 2010-11-20.