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Along the side of the road, surrounded by nothing but some trees, fields, and a bunch of snow. | Along the side of the road, surrounded by nothing but some trees, fields, and a bunch of snow. | ||
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* [[User:Hempmage|Hempmage]] | * [[User:Hempmage|Hempmage]] | ||
| − | == | + | ==Plan== |
This being my first geohashing attempt, I was excited to get going. I grabbed my GPS and was almost out the door when I realized with great dismay that my GPS does not display coordinates with enough detail to really be useful. Out came Google Maps, and a crude hand-drawn map later, I was off. | This being my first geohashing attempt, I was excited to get going. I grabbed my GPS and was almost out the door when I realized with great dismay that my GPS does not display coordinates with enough detail to really be useful. Out came Google Maps, and a crude hand-drawn map later, I was off. | ||
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It was a quick and uneventful drive toward the hashpoint, stopping for a slushy at a gas station nearby. The spot itself was in the ditch of a county road surrounded by the frozen fields of Iowa. I parked on the side of the road, consulted my notebook-paper map and walked a few meters to where my map placed the hashpoint- using a tree and telephone poles as guides. Content with finding the hashpoint, I drank my slushy and attempted to make a snow android (snandroid?) which refused to stay together. A few trucks passed, wondering no doubt why there was a man with a slushy playing with snow in the ditch. Success! | It was a quick and uneventful drive toward the hashpoint, stopping for a slushy at a gas station nearby. The spot itself was in the ditch of a county road surrounded by the frozen fields of Iowa. I parked on the side of the road, consulted my notebook-paper map and walked a few meters to where my map placed the hashpoint- using a tree and telephone poles as guides. Content with finding the hashpoint, I drank my slushy and attempted to make a snow android (snandroid?) which refused to stay together. A few trucks passed, wondering no doubt why there was a man with a slushy playing with snow in the ditch. Success! | ||
==Achievements== | ==Achievements== | ||
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| + | Image:2013_03_06_41_-90_A.jpg|It wasn't as cold as it looks... | ||
| + | Image:2013_03_06_41_-90_B.jpg|...it was, however, very bright due to the snow. | ||
| + | </gallery> | ||
| + | [[Category:Expeditions with photos]] | ||
Revision as of 04:15, 7 March 2013
| Wed 6 Mar 2013 in Quad Cities: 41.5897992, -90.4811346 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox |
Location
Along the side of the road, surrounded by nothing but some trees, fields, and a bunch of snow.
Participants
Plan
This being my first geohashing attempt, I was excited to get going. I grabbed my GPS and was almost out the door when I realized with great dismay that my GPS does not display coordinates with enough detail to really be useful. Out came Google Maps, and a crude hand-drawn map later, I was off.
Expedition
It was a quick and uneventful drive toward the hashpoint, stopping for a slushy at a gas station nearby. The spot itself was in the ditch of a county road surrounded by the frozen fields of Iowa. I parked on the side of the road, consulted my notebook-paper map and walked a few meters to where my map placed the hashpoint- using a tree and telephone poles as guides. Content with finding the hashpoint, I drank my slushy and attempted to make a snow android (snandroid?) which refused to stay together. A few trucks passed, wondering no doubt why there was a man with a slushy playing with snow in the ditch. Success!
Achievements
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hempmage earned the Land geohash achievement
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hempmage earned the No Batteries Geohash Achievement
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hempmage earned the First Sip GeoSquishy Achievement
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Photos
It wasn't as cold as it looks...
...it was, however, very bright due to the snow.
