Difference between revisions of "2016-08-17 52 4"

Latest revision as of 01:15, 16 August 2019

Location

Koudenkerk aan den Rijn, in the middle of a field full of cows

Participants

Palmpje was up to this challenge

Plans

Walk through the field and hope that the hash is not occupied by a cow (or worse).

Expedition

We all know that 52, 4 is a horrible place to geohash. About 50% of the time the hash is in the North Sea and the other 50% of the time it lands in the middle of a cow pasture with no access. The other 10% (yes, I did the math correctly!) it lands too far away and on an inconvenient day. So when I did the routine check for the hash and saw it was in the middle of a field I just thought... mooh! But when I zoomed in on the map there was a footpath, right in that field. No way you get that lucky on a vacation day!

So plans were made and a trail of geocaches nearby was available for a nice walk. Of course when I entered the field there was a great herd of cows and I wondered whether they would let me pass. A great deal of mooh-ing was my deal and some looked a bit like they were going to charge. Especially when the young bulls in the next field started running. I did the old trick and spoke the magical words: "Hallo lief paardje" ("Hello nice horse") which will immediately confuse the cow so that it will just stand rooted to the ground. It worked!

To my great luck the hash was even located in a deserted piece of grassland. Yeah! The dance was uneventful and the hasher forgot to put a stupid grin on his face. There was a tower however!

Tracklog

Photos

Will follow

Achievements

This user earned the Land geohash achievement

by reaching the (52, 4) geohash on 2016-08-17.

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 == Location ==
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+Koudenkerk aan den Rijn, in the middle of a field full of cows
 == Participants ==
-<!-- who attended: If you link to your wiki user name in this section, your expedition will be picked up by the various statistics generated for geohashing. You may use three tildes ~ as a shortcut to automatically insert the user signature of the account you are editing with.
+[[User:Palmpje|Palmpje]] was up to this challenge
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 == Plans ==
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+Walk through the field and hope that the hash is not occupied by a cow (or worse).
 == Expedition ==
-<!-- how it all turned out. your narrative goes here. -->
+We all know that 52, 4 is a horrible place to geohash. About 50% of the time the hash is in the North Sea and the other 50% of the time it lands in the middle of a cow pasture with no access. The other 10% (yes, I did the math correctly!) it lands too far away and on an inconvenient day. So when I did the routine check for the hash and saw it was in the middle of a field I just thought... mooh! But when I zoomed in on the map there was a footpath, right in that field. No way you get that lucky on a vacation day!
+So plans were made and a trail of geocaches nearby was available for a nice walk. Of course when I entered the field there was a great herd of cows and I wondered whether they would let me pass. A great deal of mooh-ing was my deal and some looked a bit like they were going to charge. Especially when the young bulls in the next field started running. I did the old trick and spoke the magical words: "Hallo lief paardje" ("Hello nice horse") which will immediately confuse the cow so that it will just stand rooted to the ground. It worked!
+To my great luck the hash was even located in a deserted piece of grassland. Yeah! The dance was uneventful and the hasher forgot to put a stupid grin on his face. There was a tower however!
 == Tracklog ==
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+Will follow
 == Achievements ==
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+{{land geohash | latitude = 52 | longitude = 4 | date = 2016-08-17 | [[User:Palmpje|Palmpje]] }}
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-<!-- If all those plans are never acted upon, change [[Category:Expedition planning]] to [[Category:Not reached - Did not attempt]]. -->
-<!-- An actual expedition:
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-[[Category:Expedition without GPS]]
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-<!-- if you reached your coords:
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+{{location|NL|ZH}}
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-When there is a natural obstacle between you and the target:
-[[Category:Not reached - Mother Nature]]
-When there is a man-made obstacle between you and the target:
-[[Category:Not reached - No public access]]
-When you failed get your GPS, car, bike or such to work:
-[[Category:Not reached - Technology]]
-When you went to an alternate location instead of the actual geohash:
-[[Category:Not reached - Attended alternate location]]
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