2022-07-16 50 9

Sat 16 Jul 2022 in 50,9: 50.9917831, 9.2057052 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox

Location

Currently vacant meadow near the village of Waltersbrück, between Borken and Treysa.

Participants

• oxzi

Expedition

At four o'clock I arrived in Zimmersrode, a small town north of the location, with a train of the HLB - quite the opposite of a high-speed train.

From there I walked through beautiful fields to my very first Geohash, only being disturbed by the noise of the nearby Autobahn. Before arriving, I went through the small village of Waltersbrück, where cabbage was advertised several times, and at one point also Christmas trees - in July. Leaving the village, another cabbage sign pointed me down a small road to the Geohash.

And there I was already, next to a fenced off meadow. Since there were no animals to be seen and I didn't want to have walked all the way for nothing, I scrambled underneath the fence and searched for the exact position between dried-up cow piles. Now I was finally standing in the middle of the empty meadow, with a lovely view of a farm down the valley.

Eventually I completed my journey with a short hike to Treysa, where I was going to catch a somewhat faster train back south. Mission accomplished!

Photos

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  Advertisement for cabbage and Christmas trees.

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  View down from the Geohash.

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  Screenshot of OsmAnd, kind of proofing that I was there.

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  A stork on a roof top on my way back.

Achievements

oxzi earned the Land geohash achievement by reaching the (50, 9) geohash on 2022-07-16.

oxzi earned the Two to the N achievement

by attempting to reach 2⁰ hashpoints on 2022-07-16 50 9 and is promoted to Level 0 (Expeditions).