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Location

In a hilly mixture of acres and wilderness near Bargas

Participants

Plans

Expedition

My first geohash… attempt — failed.

On the map it had looked like I could get pretty close to the geohash on the road, albeit unpaved the last few kilometers. When I got to the unpaved part after a nice one hour ride over small country roads with few traffic, it turned out that the conditions might have been fine for a handy motocross machine, but not for a 400 kg Goldwing. Moreover, the path got narrow and showed pronounced ruts, so that I could not have turned around. Should one go on under such conditions? Of course not, stupid!

In retrospective, I suspect that I had a serious attack of get-there-itis, a well known phenomenon among pilots. I stubbornly rode on, and it got really bad. After about a kilometer, I reached a crossroad embedded in a flat, level area where I could turn around and park the bike, soaked in fear sweat.

The GPS showed the geohash still three kilometers away. I took a foot path leading roughly in the right direction, but after about 100 meters, it turned and I would have had to walk cross country. The terrain was a mixture of acres and wilderness, and if I avoided the acres, it would have taken quite some time, more than I had planned to spend, to reach the geohash, so I decided to give up at that point. That might also have been motivated by the fact that I was afraid of the ride back over the barely passable path and I wanted to get it over with.

This part of the ride did indeed give me a few moments of shock, but in the end I reached the paved road for a relaxing one hour cruise back home.

Tracklog

Photos

As far as I could get on the bike.
Looking in the direction of the (not reached) geohash, about three kilometers away.

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