Difference between revisions of "2021-07-19 47 12"

Latest revision as of 16:31, 26 August 2021

Location

In a forest in Kiefersfelden, just across the Austrian-German border.

Participants

Dirimwar (talk)

Plans

Take the train to Kiefersfelden, hike up to the hash.

Expedition

I managed to convince my dad to come along for a nice mountain hike. Instead of going to Kiefersfelden by train as originally planned, we decided to only go to Kufstein and walk the rest of the way - a relaxed 1.5h walk throught the forest according to OsmAnd.

We met up at Innsbruck central station for the 14:40 Eurocity headed for Munich. After buying some snacks, I was quite annoyed to discover that the train was delayed by two whole hours. Our next best option was the 14:35 S-Bahn, but it would take us 1h15min instead of 45min. So, we promptly misread the platform on the departure list and hopped on the wrong train - while we noticed pretty quickly after it had started moving in the wrong direction, the correct train had long left when we got back to the station. Instead, we got on the 15:20 REX and finally arrived in Kufstein at 16:24.

We started walking along the Inn until we got to the freeway bridge. Through a tiny underpass, we crossed the train tracks and continued on to the federal highway where, a short distance later, a small forest path branches off to the left. We walked along the shady path for about 20 minutes, crossed a very picturesque meadow and then made our way up to the Buchberg cross. From there, the path degraded from a gravelled forest road into a small, muddy trail. A few minutes later, the GPS told us the hash was in the woods right abeam.

After an initial wall of shrubbery, we were greeted by a steep, but otherwise very navigable forest floor. The hash was about 40-50m out, so we started making our way downhill. About 10m from the hashpoint, still outside the awfully good GPS accuracy, we were stopped by the sudden appearance of a cliff! Not wanting to fall victim to mother nature this close to the hash, I scouted around a bit and found an outcropping that just barely put me close enough to the hash - I took proof and we quickly made our way back to safer ground.

A short snack break at the Buchberg cross later, we made our way back down to Kiefersfelden station to catch the 18:54 train back home. Avoiding any train wrecks this time, we arrived at Innsbruck station at 19:46, concluding a fun afternoon with at least 8 border crossings :)

Tracklog

Photos

A border stone, Austrian side
Same border stone, German side
A nice view down from the Buchberg cross with a glimpse of one of the highly elusive fuzzy blobs
Proof!

Achievements

Dirimwar earned the Border geohash achievement

by crossing the Austria-Germany border on 2021-07-19 to reach the (47, 12) geohash.

Dirimwar earned the Drag-along achievement

by dragging his dad to the (47, 12) geohash on 2021-07-19.

Dirimwar achieved level 2 of the Minesweeper Geohash achievement

by visiting coordinates in Innsbruck, Austria and 2 of the surrounding graticules.

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+[[Image:{{{image|2021-07-19 47 12 Slope.jpeg}}}|thumb|left]]
-[[Image:{{{image|IMAGE}}}|thumb|left]]
+{{meetup graticule
-Remove this section if you don't want an image at the top (left) of your report.   You should remove the "Image:" or "File:"
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-And DON'T FORGET to add your expedition and the best photo you took to the gallery on the Main Page! We'd love to read your report, but that means we first have to discover it! :)
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+}}
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 == Location ==
-<!-- where you've surveyed the hash to be -->
+In a forest in Kiefersfelden, just across the Austrian-German border.
 == Participants ==
-<!-- who attended: If you link to your wiki user name in this section, your expedition will be picked up by the various statistics generated for geohashing. You may use three tildes ~ as a shortcut to automatically insert the user signature of the account you are editing with.
+[[User:Dirimwar|Dirimwar]] ([[User talk:Dirimwar|talk]])
--->
 == Plans ==
-<!-- what were the original plans -->
+Take the train to Kiefersfelden, hike up to the hash.
 == Expedition ==
-<!-- how it all turned out. your narrative goes here. -->
+I managed to convince my dad to come along for a nice mountain hike. Instead of going to Kiefersfelden by train as originally planned, we decided to only go to Kufstein and walk the rest of the way - a relaxed 1.5h walk throught the forest according to [https://osmand.net/ OsmAnd].
+We met up at Innsbruck central station for the 14:40 Eurocity headed for Munich. After buying some snacks, I was quite annoyed to discover that the train was delayed by two whole hours. Our next best option was the 14:35 S-Bahn, but it would take us 1h15min instead of 45min. So, we promptly misread the platform on the departure list and hopped on the wrong train - while we noticed pretty quickly after it had started moving in the wrong direction, the correct train had long left when we got back to the station. Instead, we got on the 15:20 REX and ''finally'' arrived in Kufstein at 16:24.
+We started walking along the Inn until we got to the freeway bridge. Through a tiny underpass, we crossed the train tracks and continued on to the federal highway where, a short distance later, a small forest path branches off to the left. We walked along the shady path for about 20 minutes, crossed a very picturesque meadow and then made our way up to the Buchberg cross. From there, the path degraded from a gravelled forest road into a small, muddy trail. A few minutes later, the GPS told us the hash was in the woods right abeam.
+After an initial wall of shrubbery, we were greeted by a steep, but otherwise very navigable forest floor. The hash was about 40-50m out, so we started making our way downhill. About 10m from the hashpoint, still outside the awfully good GPS accuracy, we were stopped by the sudden appearance of a cliff! Not wanting to fall victim to mother nature ''this close'' to the hash, I scouted around a bit and found an outcropping that just barely put me close enough to the hash - I took proof and we quickly made our way back to safer ground.
+A short snack break at the Buchberg cross later, we made our way back down to Kiefersfelden station to catch the 18:54 train back home. Avoiding any [[Train_wreck_consolation_prize|train wrecks]] this time, we arrived at Innsbruck station at 19:46, concluding a fun afternoon with at least 8 border crossings :)
 == Tracklog ==
-<!-- if your GPS device keeps a log, you may use Template:Tracklog, post a link here, or both -->
+{{tracklog|2021-07-19 47 12 Dirimwar.gpx}}
 == Photos ==
 <!-- Insert pictures between the gallery tags using the following format:
 Image:2020-##-## ## ## Alpha.jpg | Witty Comment
 -->
 <gallery perrow="5">
+File:2021-07-19 47 12 border stone Austria.jpeg | A border stone, Austrian side
+File:2021-07-19 47 12 border stone Germany.jpeg | Same border stone, German side
+File:2021-07-19 47 12 blob spotting.jpeg | A nice view down from the Buchberg cross with a glimpse of one of the highly elusive [https://xkcd.com/2472/ fuzzy blobs]
+-07-19 47 12 proof.png | Proof!
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 == Achievements ==
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+{{Border geohash achievement
+| latitude = 47
+| longitude = 12
+| date = 2021-07-19
+| country1 = Austria
+| country2 = Germany
+| name = [[User:Dirimwar|Dirimwar]]
+}}
-<!-- Potential categories. Please include all the ones appropriate to your expedition -->
+{{drag-along
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+| longitude = 12
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+| date = 2021-07-19
+| partner = his dad
+| name = [[User:Dirimwar|Dirimwar]]
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+{{Minesweeper geohash
+| graticule = Innsbruck, Austria
+| ranknumber = 2
+| e = true
+| w = true
+| name = [[User:Dirimwar|Dirimwar]]
+}}
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