2020-05-14 53 9

Thu 14 May 2020 in 53,9: 53.6592341, 9.9035826 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox

Location

in a big hedge by the parking area of an indoor amusement park and a bar in Bönningstedt, Schleswig-Holstein

Participants

• π π π (talk)

Expedition

I hadn't done any hashes with public transport since February because of the pandemic, but the situation had calmed down a little and I felt ready to do that again. This hash lay only a kilometre from the A1 station Bönningstedt, so I decided to leave my bike at my home station and walk there. It was my first time wearing a mask in the train, but I managed to keep the required 1.5 m distance to others at all times. The hashpoint was located at an interesting location 1.5 m inside a huge hedge next to an indoor amusement park (which was closed, of course, as was the adjacent bar). I walked through residential streets, listening to a podcast, and easily found the spot at the edge of a parking space when I got there.

I had hoped I might be able to get 1.5 m into the hedge, but it was so dense and thorny that I had no chance. I took photos and reached as far into it as I could, which was about a metre. I got some scratches from a Velociraptor I encountered and even bled a little, but fortunately it didn't hurt me badly. Also, I heard some rumbles from the bar 20 m away (though I didn't see anyone in the vicinity the whole time) and wanted to catch the next train, so I hurried back and had to jog for a few minutes, but made it in time. 30 minutes later, I arrived home.

Photos

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  proof 1 (within uncertainty)

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  proof 2

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  as near to the hash as possible

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  π π π in the hedge

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  other direction

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  pano

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  impenetrable hedge monster

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  parking space and bar

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  indoor amusement park

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  raptor wound – 'tis but a scratch!

Achievements

Land geohash, Public transport geohash

π π π earned the Velociraptor Geohash Achievement by reaching the (53, 9) geohash for 2020-05-14 with highly visible raptor claw marks.