2020-02-29 50 8

Sat 29 Feb 2020 in 50,8: 50.0713524, 8.6336988 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox

Location

[GeorgDerReisende]
The hash lies in the forest south of Frankfurt am Main. North of S-train station Frankfurt am Main-Stadion and at the eastern fence of a golf court.

Participants

GeorgDerReisende

Yakamoz, Rincewind and TheOffspring.

Plans

[GeorgDerReisende]
I will travel to Frankfurt in the morning and walk to the hash for hash o'clock.

[Rincewind]
I only checked the coordinates in the morning, considered them to be on the golf club properties (semi-reachable?) and called them. Due to the closeness to the greens, I assumed the first few trees next were still part of the club.

The lady at the reception, Mrs. T., was very friendly and while they are not generally open to the public, she understood the basic concept of our great game and was absolutely willing to help. She offered she would send a staff member escorting us, since there was a lot of traffic on one of the first sunny, warm days in a while.
Since I was in a bit of a hurry because of the football game of my home team starting at 1300hrs, I talked Yakamoz into dressing TheOffspring and herself for the expedition.
I have to admit I even thought about GeorgDerReisende for a second, but didn't have a means of contact anyway and time was tight... (We'll change that, Georg, right?) Still, I assumed, he would also try for the leap day achievement, and I was aware he was already active again.

Expedition

[Rincewind] We drove to the golf club by car, parked outside and went to the reception. Mrs T. was indeed very friendly, asking me about the exact whereabouts and requesting a staff member to drive us there (400m). So we could even be lazy, and staff member Nice Driver shuttled us towards the hash, giving TheOffspring her first golf cart ride. Mine too, I would guess- certainly on a golf course. The OffSpring is hard to impress, but learned the new word "golf" nevertheless.

When we were close, I asked the driver to stop at a gate and used the GPS handheld to close in- and almost immediately found the hash was ~15m outside the fence... No problem, since the driver had a key and let us pass. After doing the hash dance, I easily got a "0m" screenshot. Reading Georg went, I am sorry I didn't even put up a marker or something.

Nice Driver took our "stupid grin" photo and took us back. He also mentioned that from the outside it would be 45minutes to walk at least, so we were definitely lucky to be double-lazy by going the short way and on the cart.
After returning Yakamoz home so TheOffspring would get a much-needed meal and nap, this enabled me arriving at "my" football game just about kick-off. And it was the best game of the season, resulting in a 2:0 win. Double-Yay! :)

I have to explicitly mention the Frankfurter Golfclub for being understanding with us crazy internet people and very willingly helping us. They are a rather posh, elite institution and would absolutely not have needed to. Thank you, Mrs. T. and Nice Driver.

Photos

[Rincewind] Will follow tomorrow during daytime.

Achievements

Yakamoz, Rincewind and TheOffspring earned the Leap geohash achievement 2020

by leaping to the hash point on leap day of the year 2020.

Yakamoz, Rincewind and TheOffspring earned the Ambassador achievement by obtaining permission from Frankfurter Golfclub to access the (50, 8) geohash on 2020-02-29.

Also there were trees, indicating that

Yakamoz, Rincewind and TheOffspring earned the Land geohash achievement by reaching the (50, 8) geohash on 2020-02-29.