2011-08-28 51 11

Sun 28 Aug 2011 in 51,11: 51.2265003, 11.1970353 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox

Location

"Surprisingly" for Thuringia, on a soggy field near Schillingstedt.

Participants

• Rincewind and Salta

Plans

Mampfred told me about the coincidence of today's and tomorrow's geohash coordinates being only 8km apart on Friday. So he planned to do a double hash, the latter on midnight. Salta and me tried the same in our current graticule.

Expedition

Being glad to have rubber floor mats in the car, we entered the car upon returning from 2011-08-27_51_11 and drove on to August, 28th's coordinates.

This time, there was a usable field path near the hash coordinates where I could park off the main road. We crossed the main road, almost fell into a gurgling ditch and walked onto the harvested field. Looking at the watch and having two hundred meters, we decided to run a bit. Since the trusty Maglite was rather low on battery, this was a rather blind thing to do, but nobody got hurt and we were in the hash point's close vicinity at midnight, even though I needed another one or two minutes to get a "0m to coordinates"-shot, at last- it kept on saying "4m" for quite a lot of four metres. Did another torch lit hash grin photo and headed back to the car and home, at last. Double hash midnight success! :-)

When we arrived at the car, we sent a SMS to Mampfred and got a call immediately- they also were successful, four-and-a-half hashers doing the double hash night in 50 08. Look out for their report. :)

Photos

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  Coordinates reached.

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  Further proof, still...

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  While not a grin shot, this isn't too bad for the light of a terribly-low-on-battery torch...

Achievements

Rincewind and Salta earned the Land geohash achievement by reaching the (51, 11) geohash on 2011-08-28.

Rincewind and Salta earned the Midnight Geohash achievement by reaching the (51, 11) geohash on 2011-08-28 in the middle of the night.