2020-10-30 46 7

Fri 30 Oct 2020 in 46,7: 46.6087602, 7.2128648 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox

Location

In a forest in the valle Osseyres under the peak Laubspitz, Canton Friburg, Swizerland, Earth.

Participants

• Tungmar (talk)

Plans

Take a bus as close as possibel, walk up, go down to the hash. After walk to the end of the valley and see if there is a exit.

Expedition

I planed to go to a hill in Neuenburg. In the morning I saw this hash which looked relatively easy to access in the hils here. So I changed my plans.

I took the bus to Charmey, Les Fornys and started walking up the good but steep concrete road. At the junction to the path leading to the hillslope with the hash I thought for some seconds that there is a no trespass sign at the wide open gate. Bringing all my little French knowledge together, I figured that it was just a unfriendly "close the door after you" sign. I left it open as I found it. Later on I miserably failed again at an other gate with the same sign: I closed the gate before I went through, walked around it through the non existing fence and opened it again... It was a bit pointless.

The path went on, got steeper, muddier and slipperier. Looking at the hill slope in the direction of the hash I just wished I brought a rope with me. Of course I didn't think about that before.

About 100m before the hash I was luky and a easier way to go to the hash than straight down from the nearest point on the path opened bevore me. So I jumped the electric wire which was now there. I had to climb some fallen tree and a small stream. I cam closer and the GPS started to play pong with the coordinates. With each jump I had to follow into more steep, moore muddy and more slippery dird. Finally I catched a reading of under 5m for the second time at one position. I quickly defined it as the hashpoint. It was at the most steep slope in a 50m radius. Well done.

While I tried to stand and not slip all the way down I took some pictures and bearly managed to type and send a "Reached, details follow when I'm out of here :-)" just to say I was here.

Then I climbed up againd. At that point I realized that I still carried my big backpack with clothes and stuff for a week with me and didn't drop it near the path. It must have been exciting!

Photos

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  I reached the hash with the promised OSM sticker.@46.6088,7.2130

Achievements

Tungmar achieved level 1 of the Minesweeper Geohash achievement by visiting coordinates in Zürich, Switzerland and 1 of the surrounding graticules.