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== Location ==
 
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Burley, New Forest, [[Southampton, United Kingdom]]
 
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== Plans ==
 
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=== Smeagol’s journey ===
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Sit, hobbits! Sit! We is going to tells you all abouts our quest for the Precious, oh yesss. First, we hitches a ride. We stows away, we does, on a cart. Gollum! And the cart stops at an old travelling place, very old, very ancient, and full of elveses eating horrid things like cakeses and bunses and cups of tea. Yuck! They wasn’t selling any juicy sweet fishies my dear, oh no my precious, no.
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We knows where the precious is hiding, hobbitses, oh yes we does. And we quickly goes up, up, up the path to find it. But it doesn’t look very nice, no it doesn’t. It looks all swampy and squidgy and full of orcses and maybe alligators too. And so we runs ahead quickly to see if we can find a way through. And we runs all around a big forest, all around the edge. And the other side looks all right, yes it does, it looks fine, all dry and easy. But it wasn’t, precious, oh no, no, no. Gollum! It was TRICKSY and WET. And we tried to cross it, we tried and tried, but it wasn’t like the Dead Marshes at all. We didn’t know the way. We forgot. And we tried to go another way round, by a little brook, even though there was a bridge and there could have been trollses hiding there, because trollses likes to hide under bridges. But we had to try, we had to! And the precious was still too far to reach, and we ran back around the woods, and there were people there. Elves and Men, and little hobbits riding on wheels and poking sticks into things. And Smeagol doesn’t like being poked, so he ran, he ran all the way out of the wood.
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And we still doesn’t have the precious! And tomorrow it will disappear and appear somewhere else, and Smeagol doesn’t know where! And all there was to eat was horrid taters and leekies and cockasoup. Gollum!
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=== Macronencer’s journey ===
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Oddly enough, my experience was very similar to Smeagol’s. I had no idea the rascal had been there before me, though obviously he’d long gone when I arrived… unless he was hiding, waiting to ambush me if I reached the Precious, that is.
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I parked at the [http://www.stationhouseholmsley.com/ Old Station Tea Rooms], which is a nice little place with a great menu and good service. And I set off in high spirits, expecting at least to get close to the hash point.
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[[Image:2020-03-11 50 -1 Macronencer 04 First Glimpse of Swamp.jpg|thumb|left|Uh oh!]]As soon as I looked to my left after crossing a small bridge, my heart sank. The place was a mangrove swamp! In the vain hope that parts of it might still be dry, I continued, trying to see how close I could get. It turned out that the answer was 77m. Bascially, this was the path of the railway that used to run through here (you can see the remains of the station platform), and I was on an embankment. Further down there was a track below me, leading to the left. I took it, hoping to circle round and find a drier way in. Some parts of the forest floor looked as if I could walk on them. I tried a few times, but each time I ended up almost surrounded by not just mud but an actual pond. As Smeagol said... just like the Dead Marshes.
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Eventually I found a stream that ran back towards where I’d started, and the banks on each side of it were quite high off the ground. Thinking I might be able to get closer that way, I started walking along the left one. The first obstacle was a fallen tree, and I’m proud to say I managed to climb over it. The second was another fallen tree, but this time there was swamp under it, and my boots were not up to the job. I really must get some waders...[[Image:2020-03-11 50 -1 Macronencer 11 You Could Breed Frogs Here.jpg|thumb|right]]
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Admiting defeat, I turned back, and spent half an hour wandering up the original track and back. I found a very interesting-looking house, and also an artificial flower lying on the ground &ndash; a buttonhole, I think. Perhaps from somebody’s formal attire geohash? I picked it up to take home and throw away.
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After rounding off the morning with a nice lunch of tomato soup and green tea (I recommend the Tea Rooms highly, very good!) I hit the road and returned home to write my report.
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Thankfully, I hadn’t encountered a single nazgul.
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Image:2020-03-11 50 -1 Macronencer 01 The Old Station Tea Rooms.jpg | Yes, it literally ''is'' an old station. Nice place.
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Image:2020-03-11 50 -1 Macronencer 02 Footpath Access.jpg | Here we go!
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Image:2020-03-11 50 -1 Macronencer 03 First Bridge.jpg | A footbridge marks the start of this trail.
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Image:2020-03-11 50 -1 Macronencer 04 First Glimpse of Swamp.jpg | Oh dear, that doesn't look dry.
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Image:2020-03-11 50 -1 Macronencer 05 Closest Approach.png | This was as close as I would ever get, sadly.
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Image:2020-03-11 50 -1 Macronencer 06 Panorama Showing Hash Location.jpg | The hash point is in there somewhere.
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Image:2020-03-11 50 -1 Macronencer 07 The Other Side.jpg | On the right hand side of the track, it was all open land!
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Image:2020-03-11 50 -1 Macronencer 08 Another Bridge.jpg | A typical railway bridge with iron railings.
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Image:2020-03-11 50 -1 Macronencer 09 Trying Other Routes.jpg | Trying to get in from the other side.
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Image:2020-03-11 50 -1 Macronencer 10 Still Swampy.jpg | It looks like mud, but it's deeper than you think!
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Image:2020-03-11 50 -1 Macronencer 11 You Could Breed Frogs Here.jpg | You could probably breed frogs in here. Or maybe some trout.
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Image:2020-03-11 50 -1 Macronencer 12 Awesome Tree.jpg | This magnificent tree.
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Image:2020-03-11 50 -1 Macronencer 13 Stream With Promising Bank.jpg | Could I maybe walk along that left bank and reach the hash?
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Image:2020-03-11 50 -1 Macronencer 14 First Obstacle.jpg | OK, so this is the sort of thing I can expect for the next 250m then. Astonishingly, I did actually get past this one...
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Image:2020-03-11 50 -1 Macronencer 15 Second Obstacle.jpg | ...only to fail to get past this one.
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Image:2020-03-11 50 -1 Macronencer 16 Buttonhole.jpg | Artificial buttonhole flower. Kind of an odd thing to find here!
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Image:2020-03-11 50 -1 Macronencer 17 Interesting House.jpg | I'd like to meet the architect of this place.
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Image:2020-03-11 50 -1 Macronencer 18 Rails.jpg | You can still see the old rails in the ground.
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Image:2020-03-11 50 -1 Macronencer 19 Cycle Route Leading West.jpg | When I'm fitter, I'll come back and cycle this route!
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Image:2020-03-11 50 -1 Macronencer 20 First Bridge Again.jpg | Bridge that might harbour trolls.
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Image:2020-03-11 50 -1 Macronencer 21 Old Platform.jpg | The raised part on the left seems to be the original station platform.
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Image:2020-03-11 50 -1 Macronencer 22 Sign.jpg | No parking sign. I spoke to the staff and they said it was fine. Probably because it's out of season - the New Forest is insanely busy in the Summer!
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Image:2020-03-11 50 -1 Macronencer 23 Tea Rooms.jpg | Tea Rooms.
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Image:2020-03-11 50 -1 Macronencer 24 Menu.jpg | Menu.
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Image:2020-03-11 50 -1 Macronencer 25 Tomato Soup.jpg | This tomato soup was really good!
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Image:2020-03-11 50 -1 Macronencer 26 Attempts.jpg | I think this shows admirable persistence.
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Image:2020-03-11 50 -1 Macronencer 27 Washing Dash.jpg | Giving Dash a much-needed wash. It's been a long time!
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Image:2020-03-11 50 -1 Macronencer 28 Charging Dash.jpg | This one's for all those people who ask "can you wash electric cars?" Hint: I'm not currently (haha) dead from electrocution.
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Image:2020-03-11 50 -1 Macronencer 29 Coffee.jpg | FINALLY! I needed this coffee.
 
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Location

Burley, New Forest, Southampton, United Kingdom

Participants

Macronencer (talk)

Plans

Macronencer (talk) plans to go, probably mid-morning as the weather looks best then.

Expedition

Smeagol’s journey

Sit, hobbits! Sit! We is going to tells you all abouts our quest for the Precious, oh yesss. First, we hitches a ride. We stows away, we does, on a cart. Gollum! And the cart stops at an old travelling place, very old, very ancient, and full of elveses eating horrid things like cakeses and bunses and cups of tea. Yuck! They wasn’t selling any juicy sweet fishies my dear, oh no my precious, no.

We knows where the precious is hiding, hobbitses, oh yes we does. And we quickly goes up, up, up the path to find it. But it doesn’t look very nice, no it doesn’t. It looks all swampy and squidgy and full of orcses and maybe alligators too. And so we runs ahead quickly to see if we can find a way through. And we runs all around a big forest, all around the edge. And the other side looks all right, yes it does, it looks fine, all dry and easy. But it wasn’t, precious, oh no, no, no. Gollum! It was TRICKSY and WET. And we tried to cross it, we tried and tried, but it wasn’t like the Dead Marshes at all. We didn’t know the way. We forgot. And we tried to go another way round, by a little brook, even though there was a bridge and there could have been trollses hiding there, because trollses likes to hide under bridges. But we had to try, we had to! And the precious was still too far to reach, and we ran back around the woods, and there were people there. Elves and Men, and little hobbits riding on wheels and poking sticks into things. And Smeagol doesn’t like being poked, so he ran, he ran all the way out of the wood.

And we still doesn’t have the precious! And tomorrow it will disappear and appear somewhere else, and Smeagol doesn’t know where! And all there was to eat was horrid taters and leekies and cockasoup. Gollum!

Macronencer’s journey

Oddly enough, my experience was very similar to Smeagol’s. I had no idea the rascal had been there before me, though obviously he’d long gone when I arrived… unless he was hiding, waiting to ambush me if I reached the Precious, that is.

I parked at the Old Station Tea Rooms, which is a nice little place with a great menu and good service. And I set off in high spirits, expecting at least to get close to the hash point.

Uh oh!

As soon as I looked to my left after crossing a small bridge, my heart sank. The place was a mangrove swamp! In the vain hope that parts of it might still be dry, I continued, trying to see how close I could get. It turned out that the answer was 77m. Bascially, this was the path of the railway that used to run through here (you can see the remains of the station platform), and I was on an embankment. Further down there was a track below me, leading to the left. I took it, hoping to circle round and find a drier way in. Some parts of the forest floor looked as if I could walk on them. I tried a few times, but each time I ended up almost surrounded by not just mud but an actual pond. As Smeagol said... just like the Dead Marshes. Eventually I found a stream that ran back towards where I’d started, and the banks on each side of it were quite high off the ground. Thinking I might be able to get closer that way, I started walking along the left one. The first obstacle was a fallen tree, and I’m proud to say I managed to climb over it. The second was another fallen tree, but this time there was swamp under it, and my boots were not up to the job. I really must get some waders...

2020-03-11 50 -1 Macronencer 11 You Could Breed Frogs Here.jpg

Admiting defeat, I turned back, and spent half an hour wandering up the original track and back. I found a very interesting-looking house, and also an artificial flower lying on the ground – a buttonhole, I think. Perhaps from somebody’s formal attire geohash? I picked it up to take home and throw away.

After rounding off the morning with a nice lunch of tomato soup and green tea (I recommend the Tea Rooms highly, very good!) I hit the road and returned home to write my report.

Thankfully, I hadn’t encountered a single nazgul.




Tracklog


Photos

  • Yes, it literally is an old station. Nice place.

  • Here we go!

  • A footbridge marks the start of this trail.

  • Oh dear, that doesn't look dry.

  • This was as close as I would ever get, sadly.

  • The hash point is in there somewhere.

  • On the right hand side of the track, it was all open land!

  • A typical railway bridge with iron railings.

  • Trying to get in from the other side.

  • It looks like mud, but it's deeper than you think!

  • You could probably breed frogs in here. Or maybe some trout.

  • This magnificent tree.

  • Could I maybe walk along that left bank and reach the hash?

  • OK, so this is the sort of thing I can expect for the next 250m then. Astonishingly, I did actually get past this one...

  • ...only to fail to get past this one.

  • Artificial buttonhole flower. Kind of an odd thing to find here!

  • I'd like to meet the architect of this place.

  • You can still see the old rails in the ground.

  • When I'm fitter, I'll come back and cycle this route!

  • Bridge that might harbour trolls.

  • The raised part on the left seems to be the original station platform.

  • No parking sign. I spoke to the staff and they said it was fine. Probably because it's out of season - the New Forest is insanely busy in the Summer!

  • Tea Rooms.

  • Menu.

  • This tomato soup was really good!

  • I think this shows admirable persistence.

  • Giving Dash a much-needed wash. It's been a long time!

  • This one's for all those people who ask "can you wash electric cars?" Hint: I'm not currently (haha) dead from electrocution.

  • FINALLY! I needed this coffee.

Achievements

Alligator.png
 Macronencer earned the There might be alligators! consolation prize
by being prevented from reaching the (50, -1) geohash on 2020-03-11 by an impassable and unforeseen near-perfect simulacrum of Tolkien's Dead Marshes (and probably lurking alligators).
2020-03-11 50 -1 Macronencer 09 Trying Other Routes.jpg
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