Difference between revisions of "2024-05-08 34 -118"

Revision as of 17:26, 9 May 2024

Location

The hash is in a dirt area off the road near Magic Mountain and the new Valencia development. Google's Street View from 6 months ago shows some piles of dirt and a freestanding gate we can walk past. Behind the hash is a ditch with a dry culvert that we could also walk down. (Apple's satellite imagery is quite old, showing actual construction that no longer appears to be there.)

Participants

Jeremy and Ethan

Plans

This morning, I (Jeremy) got a notification from my geohash-calculating shortcut that the geohash was accessible. My best friend Ethan and I have been waiting for months for our first hash, so this is really exciting. Today happens to be a really good day, our schedules are clear and the weather is great. There are four geocaches nearby and the Iron Horse trailhead is close, so we will try to take our bikes down to the trailhead and bike around.

Expedition

We loaded up our bikes and drove down to the Iron Horse trailhead. We set out on our bikes (you can see the moment in the tracklog where I realised "hey, I should record") and crossed some busy intersections. Thankfully, the buttons for telling the speeding Teslas to stop worked. We didn't realize from the map how big the new development is, the field the geohash was in looked way smaller from the sky. ...

Tracklog

I never paused the tracking, so you get to see us wandering around at the geohash and geocaches.

Photos

(better pictures and videos will be uploaded later today (2024-05-09))

Arrival at the Iron Horse trailhead
We made it to the geohash!
Putting a poster on the no trespassing sign - "It isn't trespassing if you don't get caught" - Jeremy
We biked down Adventure Avenue - "That's so cliché. I love it" - Ethan

Achievements

Jeremy and Ethan earned the Land geohash achievement

by reaching the (34, -118) geohash on 2024-05-08.

Jeremy and Ethan earned the Bicycle geohash achievement

by cycling 7 miles to and from the (34, -118) geohash on 2024-05-08.

Jeremy and Ethan earned the Two to the N achievement

by attempting to reach 2⁰ hashpoints on 2024-05-08 and is promoted to Level 0 (Expeditions).

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 == Location ==
-The hash is in a dirt area off the road near Magic Mountain. Google's Street View from 6 months ago shows some piles of dirt and a freestanding gate we can walk past. Behind the hash is a ditch with a dry [https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:tunnel=culvert?uselang=en culvert] that we could also walk down. (Apple's satellite imagery is quite old, showing actual construction that no longer appears to be there.)
+The hash is in a dirt area off the road near Magic Mountain and the new Valencia development. Google's Street View from 6 months ago shows some piles of dirt and a freestanding gate we can walk past. Behind the hash is a ditch with a dry [https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:tunnel=culvert?uselang=en culvert] that we could also walk down. (Apple's satellite imagery is quite old, showing actual construction that no longer appears to be there.)
 == Participants ==
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 == Plans ==
-This morning, I ([[User:Jeremy|Jeremy]]) got a notification from my geohash-calculating [https://apps.apple.com/us/app/shortcuts/id915249334 shortcut] that the geohash was accessible. We (me and [[User:Lehonk|Ethan]]) have been waiting for months for our first hash, so this is really exciting. Today happens to be a really good day, our schedules are clear and the weather is great. There are four geocaches nearby and the [https://maps.app.goo.gl/R5n6f7vYWuRfZ43v6 Iron Horse Trailhead] is close, so we will try to take our bikes down to the trailhead and bike around.
+This morning, I ([[User:Jeremy|Jeremy]]) got a notification from my geohash-calculating [https://apps.apple.com/us/app/shortcuts/id915249334 shortcut] that the geohash was accessible. My best friend [[User:Lehonk|Ethan]] and I have been waiting for months for our first hash, so this is really exciting. Today happens to be a really good day, our schedules are clear and the weather is great. There are four geocaches nearby and the [https://maps.app.goo.gl/R5n6f7vYWuRfZ43v6 Iron Horse trailhead] is close, so we will try to take our bikes down to the trailhead and bike around.
 == Expedition ==
-<!-- how it all turned out. your narrative goes here. -->
+We loaded up our bikes and drove down to the Iron Horse trailhead. We set out on our bikes (you can see the moment in the tracklog where I realised "hey, I should record") and crossed some busy intersections. Thankfully, the buttons for telling the speeding Teslas to stop worked. We didn't realize from the map how big the new development is, the field the geohash was in looked way smaller from the sky. ...
 == Tracklog ==
-<!-- if your GPS device keeps a log, you may use Template:Tracklog, post a link here, or both -->
+I never paused the tracking, so you get to see us wandering around at the geohash and geocaches.
+{{tracklog|2024-05-08 34 -118 Jeremy's watch.gpx}}
 == Photos ==
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+Image:2024-05-08_34_-118_Jeremy_1715209856632.jpg|Arrival at the Iron Horse trailhead
-Image:2024-05-08_34_-118_Jeremy_1715209856632.jpg|We have arrived at the Iron Horse Trailhead! This is great! [https://openstreetmap.org/?mlat=34.42440100&mlon=-118.57636620&zoom=16 @34.4244,-118.5764]
+Image:2024-05-08_34_-118_Jeremy_1715211259379.jpg|We made it to the geohash!
+Image:2024-05-08_34_-118_Jeremy_1715211455258.jpg|Putting a [http://poster.geo.crox.net/poster/2024-05-08_34_-118 poster] on the no trespassing sign - "It isn't trespassing if you don't get caught" - Jeremy
-Image:2024-05-08_34_-118_Jeremy_1715211259379.jpg|We made it! Woohoo! [https://openstreetmap.org/?mlat=34.41304014&mlon=-118.59971617&zoom=16 @34.4130,-118.5997]
+Image:2024-05-08 34 -118 Adventure Avenue.jpg|We biked down Adventure Avenue - "That's so cliché. I love it" - Ethan
-Image:2024-05-08_34_-118_Jeremy_1715211455258.jpg|"It isn't trespassing if you don't get caught" - Jeremy [https://openstreetmap.org/?mlat=34.41293330&mlon=-118.60067830&zoom=16 @34.4129,-118.6007]
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 == Achievements ==
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-{{land geohash | latitude = 34 | longitude = -118 | date = 2024-05-08 | name = Jeremy and Ethan }}
+<!-- TODO: add images to achievements -->
+{{land geohash
+| latitude=34|longitude=-118|date=2024-05-08
+| name=[[User:Jeremy|Jeremy]] and [[User:Lehonk|Ethan]]
+}}
+{{bicycle geohash
+| latitude=34|longitude=-118|date=2024-05-08
+| name=[[User:Jeremy|Jeremy]] and [[User:Lehonk|Ethan]]
+| distance=7 miles
+| bothways=true
+}}
+{{Two to the N achievement
+| lat=34|lon=-118|date=2024-05-08
+| name=[[User:Jeremy|Jeremy]] and [[User:Lehonk|Ethan]]
+| count=0
+}}
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Wed 8 May 2024 in 34,-118: 34.4130363, -118.5996918 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox