2014-06-06 50 11

Location

On a field near Oßmaritz. Also apparently near business providing "stylish obituaries" <- Whaaaat?

Participants

Anna

Plans

This is quite close to where I work, so I plan to leave work at 3, get to the point at 4 or so? Looks like I'll take mostly hiking paths, though I'll have my bike with me, so that'll slow me down. ScepticAnna (talk)

Maybe I will come there too, but later. Can't leave work at 3 pm. Jens

--- Yeah, I usually work 6 to 3, so I buy my early afternoons with early mornings ;-) I'll try to remember and leave a sign this time for you to find later. ScepticAnna (talk)

I'll probably compete with Jens for Latest Geohasher of today. -Juja

Expedition

Anna

After leaving work half an hour later than planned, I left via Göschwitz. While the hiking path between Göschwitz and Oßmaritz is quite broad and as good for biking as a hiking path gets, I pushed my bike part of the way because the climb was too steep for my lungs. On top of the hill, I took a nice grassy path to a small farm. My GPS wanted me to go through the farm, but I didn't want to trespass and the map showed a small path that would get me there. I went looking for that path and at first didn't find it. Finally I spoke with a woman who was searching for a different path and she pointed it out to me: it was quite overgrown. The woman's path turned out to be hiding behind a tall stack of wood.

I followed the overgrown path to 12 meters away from the point and realized that I would have to break through some bushes to reach the point. After braving stinging nettles and thorny wild plums, I finally reached the point at the edge of a field of tall grass. The path I took through the bushes looked like someone had gone there before - some other geohashers, or just a sheep trail, who knows?

I'm sad to say that again I forgot to leave a sign. (I have an excuse: I was distracted by the many insects that were landing on me, making me itch and just want to leave)

On the way back to Jena, I took a path through Kleinertal valley, because someone had told me that there are lady's-slipper orchids there. I didn't see any, probably wasn't in the right place.

In Winzerla I think I met Juja, but I can't be sure because it was in a dark tunnel, she was wearing dark sunglasses and we passed each other very quickly, so who knows?

All in all it was a nice, sunny expedition,even though now the skin of my legs is itching from being hit by grass so much.