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== Location == | == Location == | ||
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On a path near Waldprechtsweier | On a path near Waldprechtsweier | ||
== Participants == | == Participants == | ||
| − | [[User:DODO|DODO]] | + | |
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== Plans == | == Plans == | ||
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To start now (13:30) from home on bull and try to be there at 4pm. Coming home by train from Ettlingen or Karlsruhe. | To start now (13:30) from home on bull and try to be there at 4pm. Coming home by train from Ettlingen or Karlsruhe. | ||
== Expedition == | == Expedition == | ||
| − | OK, weather is great, | + | OK, weather is great, it's Saturday afternoon and I don't have to go rowing (although I planned to), because daylight-saving time starts this weekend and so I can do so in the evening during the week. |
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| − | The hill after the long ride afflicted | + | There are two possible hashpoints, one (48,8) with a 70 KM ride, the other (49,9) with a 80 KM ride (but a closer trainstation). Its already half past one and obviously to late to reach any of them by bike, but the [http://www.greenmover.de/product/e45-herren/ bull] is well fed and I want to try how far the battery will last. |
| + | I decided to go southwards, what came out as a good decision, as the wind came from the north. | ||
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| + | Shortly after I crossed the river Rhine I saw some storks that welcomed me with a adequate chatter. Then I had to leave the Rhine and ride through prosper landscape and villages, most of the time on well maintained cycle tracks. After a while I came along a forest which was completely covered with bear's garlic. Of course I couldn't resist and made rich pickings. | ||
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| + | After that I crossed Karlsruhe-Durlach with its old houses and towers and headed on to Ettlingen with its big castle. It was already quarter to four and so I had to hurry to reach the hash (half way) in time. And so I did. Supported by the wind and the bull I reached maximum speed over 48 KM/h. But at four o'clock I had just reached Malsch. From here it was still a little bit (in the end very steep) hill to the hash. Ten minutes later I reached some stairs, but the hash was just 100 m away, and so I decided to stake the bull and go the rest by foot. The hash itself was rather boring, a way crossing between some wood, a house with a garden and sports ground. Since little DODO died (as I must confess to myself) on 2014-03-16 I just left a mark on the ground and left (and even forgot to take a picture of myself). Well grief... | ||
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| + | The hill after the long ride afflicted the bull and he says, he had just 15 KM to go, but downhilling lightened up his mind a little. Nevertheless, the way back to Ettlingen leads against the wind now, and we both had to fight. So we allowed ourselves a pause and some food (at least for me), before we tackled the last 7 Kilometers to Karlsruhe main station. | ||
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| + | Lucky enough, 15 minutes later a train to Speyer took us home (the bull still could go 10 KM). And even more lucky, some football supporter (1. FC Kaiserslautern player 2:2 against Karlsruhe) shared the cabin with me and offered me some beer. | ||
== Tracklog == | == Tracklog == | ||
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== Photos == | == Photos == | ||
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Image:2014-03-29_48_8-1.jpg | Some fighting birds | Image:2014-03-29_48_8-1.jpg | Some fighting birds | ||
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Image:2014-03-29_48_8-2.jpg | pickings | Image:2014-03-29_48_8-2.jpg | pickings | ||
Image:2014-03-29_48_8-4.jpg | Karlsruhe-Durlach | Image:2014-03-29_48_8-4.jpg | Karlsruhe-Durlach | ||
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== Achievements == | == Achievements == | ||
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| latitude = 48 | | latitude = 48 | ||
| longitude = 8 | | longitude = 8 | ||
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{{xkcd centurion|count=1}} | {{xkcd centurion|count=1}} | ||
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[[Category:Expeditions]] | [[Category:Expeditions]] | ||
[[Category:Expeditions with photos]] | [[Category:Expeditions with photos]] | ||
[[Category:Coordinates reached]] | [[Category:Coordinates reached]] | ||
Revision as of 04:40, 31 March 2014
| Sat 29 Mar 2014 in 48,8: 48.8630715, 8.3375972 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox |
Location
On a path near Waldprechtsweier
Participants
Plans
To start now (13:30) from home on bull and try to be there at 4pm. Coming home by train from Ettlingen or Karlsruhe.
Expedition
OK, weather is great, it's Saturday afternoon and I don't have to go rowing (although I planned to), because daylight-saving time starts this weekend and so I can do so in the evening during the week.
There are two possible hashpoints, one (48,8) with a 70 KM ride, the other (49,9) with a 80 KM ride (but a closer trainstation). Its already half past one and obviously to late to reach any of them by bike, but the bull is well fed and I want to try how far the battery will last. I decided to go southwards, what came out as a good decision, as the wind came from the north.
Shortly after I crossed the river Rhine I saw some storks that welcomed me with a adequate chatter. Then I had to leave the Rhine and ride through prosper landscape and villages, most of the time on well maintained cycle tracks. After a while I came along a forest which was completely covered with bear's garlic. Of course I couldn't resist and made rich pickings.
After that I crossed Karlsruhe-Durlach with its old houses and towers and headed on to Ettlingen with its big castle. It was already quarter to four and so I had to hurry to reach the hash (half way) in time. And so I did. Supported by the wind and the bull I reached maximum speed over 48 KM/h. But at four o'clock I had just reached Malsch. From here it was still a little bit (in the end very steep) hill to the hash. Ten minutes later I reached some stairs, but the hash was just 100 m away, and so I decided to stake the bull and go the rest by foot. The hash itself was rather boring, a way crossing between some wood, a house with a garden and sports ground. Since little DODO died (as I must confess to myself) on 2014-03-16 I just left a mark on the ground and left (and even forgot to take a picture of myself). Well grief...
The hill after the long ride afflicted the bull and he says, he had just 15 KM to go, but downhilling lightened up his mind a little. Nevertheless, the way back to Ettlingen leads against the wind now, and we both had to fight. So we allowed ourselves a pause and some food (at least for me), before we tackled the last 7 Kilometers to Karlsruhe main station.
Lucky enough, 15 minutes later a train to Speyer took us home (the bull still could go 10 KM). And even more lucky, some football supporter (1. FC Kaiserslautern player 2:2 against Karlsruhe) shared the cabin with me and offered me some beer.
Tracklog
[track]
Photos
Some fighting birds
Forest covered in bear's garlic
pickings
Karlsruhe-Durlach
Ettlingen
I left a marker
View to the north...
...east...
...south...
...and west from the hash
Back in Ettlingen again
an even better view of Ettlingen
Achievements
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DODO earned the Land geohash achievement
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This user earned the xkcd Nullaturion achievement
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