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== Expedition ==
 
== Expedition ==
Success at 19:00. Details to follow.
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When I saw this hashpoint appear I thought to myself: that's eminently achievable! I hoped I might be able to slip away from work for a lunchtime cycle to claim it.
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But the gods of technology didn't approve of my plan and turned my workday into a catastrophe of the kind that only a computer can, and the chance of taking a long lunch evaporated quickly. But fortune dealt me a second hand when the weather held off into the evening, and I instead opted for a post-dinner huckle in the dark out to this hashpoint.
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I set out around 18:30, South through Stanton Harcourt then North up the adorably-named Ducklington Road. It took some time to sight the somewhat-concealed bridleway around the hill of Cokethorpe School. And then, another challenge - navigating by OpenStreetMap I missed my turning and went straight through a farmyard, and had to carry my bike over a fence at the other end. Turns out the map is wrong and I later found a sign indicating the true course of the bridleway; I'll get that corrected.
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I abandoned my bike for the final 50 metres, trekking through the thick grass of an unmown meadow to the hashpoint and arriving around 19:00. No panoramic photo today it's too dark - but you get a silly grin.
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Plessed with this fast expedition, I diverted on my route home to the Harcourt Arms pub for a pint of their surprisingly-delicious seasonal guest ale, Fairytale of Brew York, which genuinely tastes like stollen. There, I wrote up this expedition report, but I'll have to get home before I can extract my GPSr's tracklog.
  
 
== Tracklog ==
 
== Tracklog ==
To follow.  
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{{ Tracklog | Track_2022-12-05 HASHING.gpx }}
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Download: [[:File:Track_2022-12-05 HASHING.gpx]]
  
 
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== Achievements ==
 
== Achievements ==
 
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{{OpenStreetMap achievement
 
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    | latitude = 51
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    | longitude = -1
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    | date = 2022-12-05
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    | OSMlink = https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/129776592
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    | name = Dan Q
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Latest revision as of 10:32, 6 December 2022

Mon 5 Dec 2022 in 51,-1:
51.7547325, -1.4717293
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Location

Bridleway behind Cokethorpe School, West Oxfordshire, UK.

Participants

Expedition

When I saw this hashpoint appear I thought to myself: that's eminently achievable! I hoped I might be able to slip away from work for a lunchtime cycle to claim it.

But the gods of technology didn't approve of my plan and turned my workday into a catastrophe of the kind that only a computer can, and the chance of taking a long lunch evaporated quickly. But fortune dealt me a second hand when the weather held off into the evening, and I instead opted for a post-dinner huckle in the dark out to this hashpoint.

I set out around 18:30, South through Stanton Harcourt then North up the adorably-named Ducklington Road. It took some time to sight the somewhat-concealed bridleway around the hill of Cokethorpe School. And then, another challenge - navigating by OpenStreetMap I missed my turning and went straight through a farmyard, and had to carry my bike over a fence at the other end. Turns out the map is wrong and I later found a sign indicating the true course of the bridleway; I'll get that corrected.

I abandoned my bike for the final 50 metres, trekking through the thick grass of an unmown meadow to the hashpoint and arriving around 19:00. No panoramic photo today it's too dark - but you get a silly grin.

Plessed with this fast expedition, I diverted on my route home to the Harcourt Arms pub for a pint of their surprisingly-delicious seasonal guest ale, Fairytale of Brew York, which genuinely tastes like stollen. There, I wrote up this expedition report, but I'll have to get home before I can extract my GPSr's tracklog.

Tracklog


Download: File:Track_2022-12-05 HASHING.gpx

Photos

Achievements

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Dan Q earned the OpenStreetMap achievement
by contributing to OpenStreetMap based on their expedition to the (51, -1) geohash on 2022-12-05.