Difference between revisions of "2015-05-29 41 -88"

Revision as of 21:40, 5 June 2015

Location

Just off Big Woods Road in Aurora, IL

Participants

Expedition

My geohashing brother had visited the day before and with the thought fresh in my mind, I dug out the trusty hand-me-down gps. A quick check of the site told me that the point wasn't too far away. As I have the sense of direction of a baked potato, I texted my closest evil minion to assist me in getting to the hashpoint and not one in Bangkok. We hopped in her car and drove down to the point. It was located in a small subdivision, but there was ample room to park so we hopped out and began doing the hash dance. Unfortunately I had only used the gps for geocacheing and it does not have a way to input coordinates correctly, so I had to guess that I was close enough. With bored housewives staring at us, we set up for a few quick photos before hightailing it out of there for noms.

Photos

The group assembles
Us at the point
Proof

Achievements

Rookiek13 earned the Land geohash achievement

by reaching the (41, -88) geohash on 2015-05-29.

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+My geohashing brother had visited the day before and with the thought fresh in my mind, I dug out the trusty hand-me-down gps. A quick check of the site told me that the point wasn't too far away. As I have the sense of direction of a baked potato, I texted my closest evil minion to assist me in getting to the hashpoint and not one in Bangkok. We hopped in her car and drove down to the point. It was located in a small subdivision, but there was ample room to park so we hopped out and began doing the hash dance. Unfortunately I had only used the gps for geocacheing and it does not have a way to input coordinates correctly, so I had to guess that I was close enough. With bored housewives staring at us, we set up for a few quick photos before hightailing it out of there for noms.
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+Image:2015-05-29 41 -88 hashscots.JPG|The group assembles
+Image:2015-05-29 41 -88 grins.JPG|Us at the point
+Image:2015-05-29 41 -88 screenshot.png|Proof
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+    | name = Rookiek13
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Fri 29 May 2015 in 41,-88: 41.8078270, -88.2518924 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox