2022-02-19 52 -2

Sat 19 Feb 2022 in 52,-2: 52.1434851, -2.9612001 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox

Location

Just off footpath near Kinnersley, Herefordshire.

Participants

• Dan Q

Plans

I've a rare opportunity today to expand my Minesweeper grid by reaching a hashpoint in 52 -2. Also, to engage in my established tradition of "getting outside and exploring" on 19 February (in memory of my father, the most "get outside and explore" person I ever knew, who died ten years ago today while, you guessed it, getting outside and exploring).

I've booked some accommodation nearby with a view to seeing some of the Wye valley while I'm here.

Expedition

It's become traditional that I mark the anniversary of my father's death with an outdoors adventure: he was a huge fan of getting outside and exploring the world (and, indeed, died during a training exercise for a planned expedition to the North Pole). Sometimes (e.g. 2014-02-19 51 -0, 2021-02-19 51 -1) this coincides with a geohashing expedition; today was one of those days.

I'd originally hoped to spend a long weekend on this, the tenth anniversary of his death, trying to clear two or three of my three unfinished corners of the minesweeper grid centred on my home graticule. This would have involved a possible quick day trip to this graticule followed by a camping expedition along the South coast to try to pick up the remaining two. However, it was clearly not to be: for a start, all of the weekend's hashpoints on the South coast graticules turned out to be at sea! But even if that weren't the case, I was hardly likely to go camping on the coast during the "red warning" of Storm Eunice! So I revised my plans and changed my expedition to find this hashpoint (still gaining one more part of my grid!)

...writeup in progress... more to follow...

Successfully reached (despite a little mud) at 15:45. Details to follow. Moving on to the 2022-02-20 52 -1 point.