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== Location ==
 
== Location ==
  
The hash lies at the southern edge of a former quarry in the village Nieder-Ramstadt, county Darmstadt-Dieburg.
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The hash lies directly at the fence at the southern edge of a former quarry in the village Nieder-Ramstadt, county Darmstadt-Dieburg.
  
 
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===[[User:GeorgDerReisende|GeorgDerReisende]]===
 
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Sorry, I failed again. I started at home at 10am, and went to the Wilhelmshöhe junction of the A44 and waited there for two hours, but nobody stopped. Then I wanted to try it at the Auestadion. On the way to there, I have seen a lot of wild geese. At Auestadion I waited for another hour, but again nobody stopped. Then I gave up and went home.
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Sorry, I failed again. I started at home at 10am, and went to the Wilhelmshöhe junction of the A44 and waited there for two hours, but nobody stopped. Then I wanted to try it at the Auestadion. On the way to there, I have seen a lot of cranes. At Auestadion I waited for another hour, but again nobody stopped. Then I gave up and went home.
  
 
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Image:2013-10-19 49 8 GeorgDerReisende 1859.jpg | junction Wilhelmhöhe at the A44
 
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Image:2013-10-19 49 8 GeorgDerReisende 1864.jpg | two hours later: grrrr
 
Image:2013-10-19 49 8 GeorgDerReisende 1864.jpg | two hours later: grrrr
Image:2013-10-19 49 8 GeorgDerReisende 1871.jpg | wild geese
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The result is: since the closing of the service station Kassel southbound there is no possibility at all to hitchhike to the south from Kassel. Maybe via Marburg. Everybody and I has to go from the Dresdener Straße north to the service station Göttingen and has to change there the direction, this detour will need two hours of travel time.
 
The result is: since the closing of the service station Kassel southbound there is no possibility at all to hitchhike to the south from Kassel. Maybe via Marburg. Everybody and I has to go from the Dresdener Straße north to the service station Göttingen and has to change there the direction, this detour will need two hours of travel time.
  
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I had planned to visit my parents and the hashpoint was more or less on the way. Lunch with a friend took a little longer than planned, so I started at 14:30 instead of 14:00. There was much traffic on the Autobahn, but luckily no traffic jams, just enough traffic that I couldn't go quite as fast as I wanted. After passing Aschaffenburg, I left the Autobahn and followed various federal roads. Those dragged on longer than I expected and 4 p.m. came nearer and nearer. After Groß-Zimmern I went along smaller streets and through towns, finally arriving at Nieder-Ramstadt at 16:10. Finding a convenient place to park the car and walking along a small track took another few minutes and I knew I was too late for meetup time.
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I reached the area near the hashpoint and discovered a fence, with a "No trespassing, mortal danger!" sign. I already knew that the lake from the satellite image was in an abandoned quarry, but I didn't expect it to be fenced, and certainly not that the hashpoint would be inside the fence. I had expected there to be the lake with a track around it and without anything blocking my way. I walked along the fence in both directions, but the fence remained there. Behind the fence I could see the almost vertical slope going down into the quarry, so I really couldn't blame anyone for building that fence. Just before giving up, I took a look at my GPS receiver. Until then, I had navigated by a satellite image printout and without really thinking about it I had taken that one line on the map for the fence, when in reality it indicated the track running along the fence. But on the GPS unit I saw that I was already further north than the hashpoint by 0.00001 degrees, while only a few metres east of it. And apparently the satellite map's accuracy was not top notch here. Instead of being 10 m inside the quarry, the hashpoint turned out to be at the corner where the fence turned from running northwest-southeast to west-east. With a little patience and walking left and right I finally caught a moment when the GPS unit showed the exact coordinates while still being on my side of the fence. So I had reached the spot after all, hooray!
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While taking pictures I heard loud squeaking from the other side of the fence, indicating wild boars. After holding still for a while and listening for the rustling of leaves, I saw a shadow walking past in the underbrush, but couldn't recognize anything. I carefully followed the squeaking along the fence, when suddenly I saw one wild boar squeeze itself through a hole in the fence and running across the track, disappearing in the bushes on my side of the fence. Unfortunately I wasn't fast enough to take a picture. I waited for a while, but nothing happened, so I walked back to my car and drove on.
  
  
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Location

The hash lies directly at the fence at the southern edge of a former quarry in the village Nieder-Ramstadt, county Darmstadt-Dieburg.

Participants

Plans

GeorgDerReisende wants to try hitchhiking to this place from Kassel, but this time starting at Wilhelmshöhe. He will be there at 16:00 for the xkcd-meetup.

Danatar will make a detour on the way to his parents and also plans to be there at meetup time.

Expedition

GeorgDerReisende

Sorry, I failed again. I started at home at 10am, and went to the Wilhelmshöhe junction of the A44 and waited there for two hours, but nobody stopped. Then I wanted to try it at the Auestadion. On the way to there, I have seen a lot of cranes. At Auestadion I waited for another hour, but again nobody stopped. Then I gave up and went home.

The result is: since the closing of the service station Kassel southbound there is no possibility at all to hitchhike to the south from Kassel. Maybe via Marburg. Everybody and I has to go from the Dresdener Straße north to the service station Göttingen and has to change there the direction, this detour will need two hours of travel time.


Danatar

I had planned to visit my parents and the hashpoint was more or less on the way. Lunch with a friend took a little longer than planned, so I started at 14:30 instead of 14:00. There was much traffic on the Autobahn, but luckily no traffic jams, just enough traffic that I couldn't go quite as fast as I wanted. After passing Aschaffenburg, I left the Autobahn and followed various federal roads. Those dragged on longer than I expected and 4 p.m. came nearer and nearer. After Groß-Zimmern I went along smaller streets and through towns, finally arriving at Nieder-Ramstadt at 16:10. Finding a convenient place to park the car and walking along a small track took another few minutes and I knew I was too late for meetup time.

I reached the area near the hashpoint and discovered a fence, with a "No trespassing, mortal danger!" sign. I already knew that the lake from the satellite image was in an abandoned quarry, but I didn't expect it to be fenced, and certainly not that the hashpoint would be inside the fence. I had expected there to be the lake with a track around it and without anything blocking my way. I walked along the fence in both directions, but the fence remained there. Behind the fence I could see the almost vertical slope going down into the quarry, so I really couldn't blame anyone for building that fence. Just before giving up, I took a look at my GPS receiver. Until then, I had navigated by a satellite image printout and without really thinking about it I had taken that one line on the map for the fence, when in reality it indicated the track running along the fence. But on the GPS unit I saw that I was already further north than the hashpoint by 0.00001 degrees, while only a few metres east of it. And apparently the satellite map's accuracy was not top notch here. Instead of being 10 m inside the quarry, the hashpoint turned out to be at the corner where the fence turned from running northwest-southeast to west-east. With a little patience and walking left and right I finally caught a moment when the GPS unit showed the exact coordinates while still being on my side of the fence. So I had reached the spot after all, hooray!

While taking pictures I heard loud squeaking from the other side of the fence, indicating wild boars. After holding still for a while and listening for the rustling of leaves, I saw a shadow walking past in the underbrush, but couldn't recognize anything. I carefully followed the squeaking along the fence, when suddenly I saw one wild boar squeeze itself through a hole in the fence and running across the track, disappearing in the bushes on my side of the fence. Unfortunately I wasn't fast enough to take a picture. I waited for a while, but nothing happened, so I walked back to my car and drove on.


Tracklog

I forgot to save the track, so it was overwritten :-(