2013-12-14 50 11

Sat 14 Dec 2013 in 50,11: 50.9651180, 11.6461650 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox

Location

The hash is on the county road between Jena-Kunitz and Golmsdorf.

Participants

GeorgDerReisende

Plans

I will hitchhike to that place, arriving there at 4 pm, and want to wait there for friends.

Also Jens, Juja and her favorite Ninja might make it to the Saturday meetup - by bike, of course...

Expedition Juja, Jens and Georg (partially)

Still one and a half week until Xmas. Actually the hashpoint books were closed for this year. I (Jens) had more expeditions than ever before and Juja had reached her personal goal of bike kilometers for this year just yesterday. So it was a good time to sit on a couch, eat Xmas cakes and wait for a couch potato to come (or not).

But then today’s point was that near and easy to reach, that it was impossible not to go there. And as special bonus, we had the option to meet GeorgDerReisende, who had advertised his attendance for today. So we started half past 3 to on our bikes to go to the point. The way was well known to us and the point lay directly beside the street. No mud path was required to get there. Half way between Kunitz and our target we saw a lone hiker on the street. It was Georg. Perfect timing. So we continued the last some hundred meters in a group of 4 (including Juja’s Ninja).

Now we still had to pass the only complication that was part of today’s expedition. There must be a complication, otherwise it’s no hashpoint expedition. It was the construction site on the street, 200 meters before the point. It’s a remnant from the heavy rain in spring. The street has been closed since then, at least for cars and cyclists that do not ignore traffic signs. But some weeks ago the difficulty level had been increased by construction workers that liked to dig holes. But not difficult enough for mud proved geohashers. We left our bikes at entrance of the construction site and went on to the point. There a surprise was waiting for us. A note left from another expedition, that has been here before. We still do not know who left it there, but the internet will tell it to us soon, I think. We took some photos, Georg left another mark, made of chalk instead of paper and plastic. Then we left the place, Juja, her Ninja and I for the Xmas cakes mentioned above while Georg continued traveling …