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'''2010-10-08:''' 41.83289°, -72.93655° Coordinates located in the roadway of Village Lane in front of the second to the last home on this road, in Canton, CT. This is a dead end road, south of US Route 202 and west of Powder Mill Road. (Here's an opportunity for earning the SPEED RACER Achievement.)
 
'''2010-10-08:''' 41.83289°, -72.93655° Coordinates located in the roadway of Village Lane in front of the second to the last home on this road, in Canton, CT. This is a dead end road, south of US Route 202 and west of Powder Mill Road. (Here's an opportunity for earning the SPEED RACER Achievement.)
  
'''2010-10-09:''' 41.64274°, -72.83596° Coordinates located within Sunset Rock State Park, approx 400' WNW of a well-worn track which proceeds north from N Shuttle St/Reservior Rd. This is also accessible from the north from adjacent to the rock quarry visible from the I-84/State Route 72 interchange. (This is a perfect weekend for a meetup at this location.)
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'''2010-10-09:''' 41.64274°, -72.83596° Coordinates located within Sunset Rock State Park, approx 400' WNW of a well-worn track which proceeds north from N Shuttle St/Reservior Rd. This is also accessible from the north from adjacent to the rock quarry visible from the I-84/State Route 72 interchange. '''(This is a perfect weekend for a meetup at this location. While you are going, be sure to stop at Rogers Orchard for apple cider - YUM!!)'''
  
 
'''2010-10-10:''' 41.94518°, -72.8512° Coordinates located in a stand of evergreen trees, almost 500' south of Weed Hill Road in West Granby, Connecticut. There appears to be a well-worn track (maybe an old dirt road) a stone's throw from the left-hand turn on Weed Hill Road which is about 500' west of the geohash point. (Another good meet point for Sunday, if you are so inclined.)
 
'''2010-10-10:''' 41.94518°, -72.8512° Coordinates located in a stand of evergreen trees, almost 500' south of Weed Hill Road in West Granby, Connecticut. There appears to be a well-worn track (maybe an old dirt road) a stone's throw from the left-hand turn on Weed Hill Road which is about 500' west of the geohash point. (Another good meet point for Sunday, if you are so inclined.)

Revision as of 18:23, 8 October 2010

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The Hartford, CT graticule is at latitude 41, longitude -72. In Connecticut the graticule includes all of Middlesex County and portions of Hartford County, New London County, Tolland County, and New Haven County. The graticule includes a large portion of Long Island Sound which may result in 'unattainable' spots, as well as portions of Long Island, NY.

Today's Location: [Hartford, CT]

Notable Dates

(Enter dates that have visits with links to the visit page here.)

2010-10-04: Coordinates located in the parking lot behind United Food and Commercial Workers Union 919 building, entry on Hyde Road, in Farmington, CT, just off of US Route 6. Posted "NO TRESPASSING". (One visit by Seth)

2010-09-29: Coordinates located across the street from the driveway of the Visiting Nurses Association, adjacent to St. Paul's Catholic High School, in Bristol, CT. (One visit by Seth)

2010-03-17: Coordinates located in a mowed lot near the airport in Windsor, CT (Sara and her son visited)

2010-03-07: Coordinates located in the trees near a road in Lebanon, CT (Sara and her son visited)

2009-11-03: Coordinates located in the trees at the edge of a field in East Windsor, CT (Sara was foiled by No Tresspassing sign)

2009-10-10: Coordinates located off the side of a road in East Haddam, CT. Most people at a hash in this grat so far - four people (Sara, her two kids, and Aunt Ruthie)

2008-05-26: 41.673128°, -72.607309° Coordinates located in South Glastonbury near CT River (One visit.)

2008-06-28 41.6581110°, -72.3656342° Coordinates located on Route 66 about 50 yards east of the intersection of Routes 85 & 66. (One visit by Pixel as part of a Four hash in one day 400 mile roadtrip)

2008-07-07 41.481984°, -72.357908° Coordinates located in backyard off Tater Hill Rd. in Millington CT near the Devils Hopyard State Park (One visit by Pixel)

Daily Locations

2008-06-14: 41.806746°, -72.038887° Coordinates located in Pomfret, CT, in the middle of the woods near Route 97. (No visits.) An alternate location was suggested at 41.794864°,-72.594910°, an empty lot in East Hartford, CT. (Two visits.)

2008-06-16: 41.401592°, -72.189481° Coordinates located beside someone's pool in Waterford, CT. (No visits. Unknown if the homeowner went swimming that day.)

2008-06-21: 41.979317°, -72.613963° Coordinates located in someone's front yard at 118? East Street, Suffield, CT. (No visits, though chances are that the lawn was mowed, as it is a Saturday.)

2010-09-24: 41.462504°, -72.647579° Coordinates located west of Higganum Road in Durham, CT in Miller's Pond State Park. Google Maps arial photo indicates that it is a stone's throw south from a dirt track which crosses Higganum Road.

2010-09-25: 41.14739°, -72.602228° Coordinates located approximately 9 miles south of Madison Center, CT, in the middle of Long Island Sound, south of the New York State border. (Anyone have a large boat?)

2010-09-26: 41.238791°, -72.419204° Coordinates located south of Salt Works Bay, near Westbrook Center and Saybrook Manor, CT, approx 2.6 miles out to sea. (TWO days in a row in Long Island Sound!?)

2010-09-27: 41.98771°, -72.44524° Coordinates located in Somers, CT, northeast of CT routes 83 and 190, in a field. (This looks to be just about the most northern Geohash in our graticule.)

2010-09-28: 41.76539°, -72.35183° Coordinates located in Nathan Hale State Forest, north of the red blazed trail running west of the Nathan Hale homestead, and south of South Street. (Rats! I wish I was off from work, today.)

2010-09-29: 41.70099°, -72.91356° Coordinates located on Maltby Street, across from the driveway to the Visiting Nurse Association, adjacent to St. Paul's Catholic High School, in Bristol, CT. (There is now a "The internet was here!" poster hanging from a vine in the bushes.)

2010-09-30: 41.65815°, -72.33515° Coordinates located in a wooded area in Columbia, CT, south of State Route 66 and east of State Route 85. (appears to be accessible from SR 85 by going past the end of Kinney Road, and along what seems to be likely a dirt road extension of Kinney Road)

2010-10-01: 41.9964°, -72.61091° Coordinates located in a field south of Thompsonville Road in Suffield, CT, north and east of CT Route 190.

2010-10-02: 41.34213°, -72.23755° Coordinates located north of West Society Road in East Lyme, CT behind what appears to be private property behind a McMansion. (Suggest that we consider the sidewalk, adjacent to the rock wall, be the meet point.)

2010-10-03: 41.83627°, -72.69149° Coordiantes located on E Wintonbury Ave in Bloomfield, CT, in the stand of woods between two homes, about 90 feet NNW of the road and about 180 feet ESE of Parents Way. (The approach from E Wintonbury Ave is less likely to disturb area residents.)

2010-10-04: 41.70334°, -72.85405° Coordinates located in the parking lot behind United Food and Commercial Workers Union 919 building, entry on Hyde Road, in Farmington, CT, just off of US Route 6. Posted "NO TRESPASSING".

2010-10-05: 41.01606°, -72.52995° Coordinates located among a group of boats, in a vineyard apparently owned by Sherwood House Vineyards, SE of Oregon Rd, off of Elijahs Ln, in Mattatuck, NY, on the North Fork of Long Island. (Either you take a long drive around Long Island Sound, or take the ferry from New London, CT to Orient Point, LI, NY.)

2010-10-06: 41.73399°, -72.2197° Coordinates located approximately 420' west of the track, lacrosse, and field hockey field at Eastern Connecticut State University, off of Mansfield City Road and north of US 6, in Mansfield Center, Connecticut. (If there where more geeks and nerds on this campus, we could have had a record-setting day in our graticule, today.)

2010-10-07: 41.55174°, -72.65019° Coordinates located adjacent to 2-98 Glynn Ave, in Middletown, Connecticut, in the area south of Wesleyan University and Middlesex Hospital, just west of Connecticut State Route 17.

2010-10-08: 41.83289°, -72.93655° Coordinates located in the roadway of Village Lane in front of the second to the last home on this road, in Canton, CT. This is a dead end road, south of US Route 202 and west of Powder Mill Road. (Here's an opportunity for earning the SPEED RACER Achievement.)

2010-10-09: 41.64274°, -72.83596° Coordinates located within Sunset Rock State Park, approx 400' WNW of a well-worn track which proceeds north from N Shuttle St/Reservior Rd. This is also accessible from the north from adjacent to the rock quarry visible from the I-84/State Route 72 interchange. (This is a perfect weekend for a meetup at this location. While you are going, be sure to stop at Rogers Orchard for apple cider - YUM!!)

2010-10-10: 41.94518°, -72.8512° Coordinates located in a stand of evergreen trees, almost 500' south of Weed Hill Road in West Granby, Connecticut. There appears to be a well-worn track (maybe an old dirt road) a stone's throw from the left-hand turn on Weed Hill Road which is about 500' west of the geohash point. (Another good meet point for Sunday, if you are so inclined.)

Active Geohashers in Graticule

Records

Consecutive Arrivals - 0
Consecutive Saturdays - 0
Most People - 4
Geohashers with most arrivals - Pixel, Sara, and Sara's Son have all been to three hashpoints in this graticule.