2023-12-17 42 -78

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Sun 17 Dec 2023 in 42,-78:
42.6131547, -78.9032940
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Location

In the Woods of Franklin Gulf County Park

(Non)Participants

Expedition

A confluence of things prevented me from getting to this hash, but I wanted to write it up so I could claim the Train Wreck consolation prize (one I have not yet acquired and hope to avoid in the future). We had gotten Covid the week before from J's office (over 5 people from her office reported being positive early this week and we didn't interact with anyone else). I didn't really have symptoms besides an almost but not quite fever and a scratchy throat, and I didn't test positive until Wed.

On Monday the 11th, I tried going downtown to play Broomball, but the car just made a rapid clicking noise and nothing else happened. Thinking about it, the car is about 5 years old now so I figured it was most likely the original battery was dying. Because it was in the (one car) garage, I would have to push it out and finagle with it to try to jump it from J's car and that would be a lot of work. Especially since we had a hand-held battery pack jump starter that also didn't work. I tried connecting that but it just gave me a warning indicator.

J was busy so I couldn't take her car (or get her to go with me) and because I was still in the Quarantine phase, I really didn't want to go to the auto store to get a new battery before Monday or Tuesday. So stuck at home, I was not able to get to Franklin Gulf for this hash. If I had a car, I could have avoided people on the trail and being outside, wouldn't have been a big deal otherwise so this was definitely a Transportation Failure.

Getting a new battery and replacing it a couple days later, the car started right up confirming it was a battery issue.

Photos

Due to knowing my car wouldn't start at this point, I didn't even attempt to start the car again for this hash (non)attempt and didn't take any pictures.

Ribbons

Trainwreck.png
Pedalpusher earned the Train wreck consolation prize
by failing to reach the (42, -78) geohash on 2023-12-17 due to a dead car battery.