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Erfurt, Germany
...nd [[User:Reinhard|Reinhard]], living and working in Jena, having outposts in Erfurt and the Thuringian forest (50/10). ...emplate/geohash|win|2008-08-01 50 11|2008-08-01 50 11|Today's location was in Silberthal near Bürgel, not far away from the road and easy to find - this

16 KB (2,273 words) - 00:42, 8 May 2024
2008-07-27 50 11
...shettstedt isn't too big and there were power poles for better orientation in the field). This was my first geohash ever, and also the first documented Geohash in this graticule. I have no proof of the date - shame. Have I reached the [[V

2 KB (277 words) - 07:39, 20 March 2024
2008-08-03 51 11
I started by bike from Jena, taking my friend Basti with me, and we wanted to see some sights on our wa Image:Geo_20080803_51_11_4.JPG|Bikes and a lonesome field in the background.

2 KB (295 words) - 07:38, 20 March 2024
2008-09-26 51 11
...first got lost, but a nice granny saved me from going more than two miles in the wrong direction. The rest of the way was easy to find, only villages, o ...up to the beautiful starlit sky. Well. Every stupid action turns out nice in the end. There's just no lesson to be learned from this...

4 KB (650 words) - 12:59, 28 July 2019
2009-01-18 51 11
...ecided to build only very small snowmen (else they would have been covered in mud). As it was still warm, I wanted to go the way back by bike, too - on t ...dark, windy, but at least there was a squiggling skidmark as kind of a way in this lots of snow and ice.

4 KB (656 words) - 14:48, 2 April 2024
2009-04-14 51 12
...st one before and the second one after midnight, so we started at 11:01 pm in Leipzig which should give us enough time for the first one. ...also temperature was less than we hoped, but we did reach the destination in time and took some photos from our GPS devices, Dracho (green) and Wischi (

2 KB (391 words) - 02:49, 8 August 2019
2009-04-16 51 12
...ash I decided to visit Gollma in the early morning on my way to work (from Jena to Leipzig) although this meant that I would have to drive a detour of 25 k ...k to my car and discovered that I had forgotten to lock it up. Fortunately in this idyllic village with a lot of curios inhabitants nothing was stolen an

3 KB (570 words) - 02:51, 8 August 2019
2009-04-29 50 11
...and then I finally reached the point near the second of three power poles in the field. As you might notice on the pictures, it was not too nice, all fo Image:Geo_20090429_50_11_2.jpg|View from the point to the first houses of Jena, sheep and "Heiligenberg".

3 KB (438 words) - 03:07, 8 August 2019
2009-05-03 50 11
...go all the way around the area, so I tried to walk around - up to my knees in stinging nettles, I really got round the fence, but behind it (where I had Image:Geo_20090503_50_11_2.jpg|Up to my knees in stinging nettles. Luckily, that was the wrong way and I hadn't got to go an

3 KB (428 words) - 03:11, 8 August 2019
2009-05-07 50 11
...home. I have never been as happy as this time to see the first houses of Jena... hooray, new record set! ...king. Of course, it got dark for the last two hours on my way back home to Jena-Cospeda, but I'm quite used to that and enjoy the different atmosphere and

5 KB (797 words) - 03:13, 8 August 2019
2009-05-28 50 11
Today's geo hash was located in a forest near the road between Waldeck and Bobeck. ...my shoes and trousers became very dirty - not really adequate for working in an office and cleanroom...

8 KB (1,465 words) - 03:35, 8 August 2019
2009-06-04 50 12
...ner of the graticules, which gave me a good chance to get my first geohash in the graticule east of my home graticule. It was located not far from a road ...n't so much to see, so I went back to my bike and took another way back to Jena, this time through Weida, Hermsdorf and Bürgel, from where I rode on the n

2 KB (387 words) - 03:44, 8 August 2019
2009-06-12 51 12
...ough the fields. A field path led me near the hash point which was located in an easily accessible field of I-don't-know-what (see the photo). Soon I fou ...located in a field I could cross without damaging any plants... Zitzschen in the background.

1 KB (217 words) - 19:54, 16 May 2020
2009-06-17 51 11
...I ate some cake and got ready for the trip, which I started at 18:45 from Jena-Cospeda. Even on the shortest way, that I was going to take for my way ther ...wn quickly, back to the barrier and out of the military drill ground. Back in Seehausen, I checked my legs and arms for ticks and found two of them crawl

7 KB (1,194 words) - 03:59, 8 August 2019
2009-06-26 50 11
...I was surprisingly right again and even found the bike way from Bürgel to Jena for my way home. Maybe this was my last tour without GPS (and without a map ...ded our names to the note Juja had left in the afternoon and then left for Jena. A really easy and quick geohash.

4 KB (599 words) - 12:53, 19 February 2020
2009-06-28 50 11
...decided to go back another route using some ways that were unknown to me - in fact, the direct way from Oettern to Kiliansroda through the forest was eve ...ll country roads - and in doing so we even saved 25 kilometres! We arrived in Hetschburg after 10 pm, so it was dawning and only fireflies and the half m

3 KB (486 words) - 04:14, 8 August 2019
2009-06-30 50 11
I intended to visit Manu in Leipzig today and had to use the motorways A4 and A9 anyway, which would ma ...ures was a bit tricky, but I think I was successful. After parking the car in Plothen I made a short but nice bike trip of 38 km which helped collecting

3 KB (474 words) - 04:15, 8 August 2019
2009-07-06 50 12
...ar Kirchheim, south of Erfurt, which would be about the same distance from Jena, but he decided to take the Gera hashpoint, because he could produce new GP He started with his bike from work around 17:50 and arrived in Ernsee, where he had to leave paved roads less than two hours later. When h

2 KB (343 words) - 12:06, 25 October 2020
2009-07-13 50 11
Today's geo hash lies on a meadow in Kunitz. It can be easily reached and the weather is great. Manu stood up early and had the plan to visit the hash on her way to work in Leipzig...

4 KB (603 words) - 04:30, 8 August 2019
2009-07-14 51 11
...resenting the GPS device). Then they went back the way they came, drove to Jena and Manu did not miss the movie. Image:20090714-51N11E_03.jpg‎|Grinning hashers in a field.

1 KB (254 words) - 04:31, 8 August 2019
2009-07-16 51 11
...do in the evening after work, so he started his expedition around 6 pm in Jena. After 35 km he got near the hash on a field path, but saw that he would ha [[Category:Expeditions]]

1 KB (208 words) - 10:01, 25 April 2022
2009-07-20 51 12
...ig to this hashpoint in 51 12 together with [[user:Manu|Manu]]. He decided in favor of Manu and drove to Leipzig after work, where both were starting the ...the end of a rainbow?). In Lübschütz Reinhard had a look at the topo map in his Garmin and saw that a forest path was going for 700 m directly to the h

2 KB (317 words) - 18:58, 18 January 2022
2009-07-22 50 11
...re he parked the car and switched onto the bike. The hashpoint was located in the forest near the tiny village of Stanau. The electronic topographic map ...k to Tröbnitz (47 km altogether), from where he enjoyed the drive back to Jena, while it was already getting dark.

2 KB (349 words) - 04:43, 8 August 2019
2009-07-30 50 11
...de bike trip planner]. So, Reinhard went most of the way by car and parked in Bad Lobenstein, from where he started his very hilly bike trip. Landscape w ...50N11E 1.jpg|Kriko and Dracho wished good luck to me, but prefered to stay in the car.

3 KB (557 words) - 04:51, 8 August 2019
2009-08-01 50 11
...uld walk, so they happily reached the hashpoint on their 1st hashiversary (in the same graticule!). [[Category:Expeditions]]

2 KB (373 words) - 04:54, 8 August 2019
2009-08-11 50 11
...a, from where he had to climb the 200 m (vertical height) back to his home in Cospeda, which he reached still before 8 pm after 33 km. ...can see the roadworks for the new motorway (Autobahn A4) tunnel near Jena in the background.

2 KB (256 words) - 05:08, 8 August 2019
2009-08-17 50 11
...na. So he just ate a banana and rode back, arriving at his home at 10 p.m. in the dark after 107 km. [[Category:Expeditions]]

2 KB (361 words) - 05:14, 8 August 2019
2009-08-27 50 11
...ith 1080 m total ascent? Well ... and for an other successful geohash in [[Jena, Erfurt, Saalfeld, Germany|(50 11)]]. ...before with the help of Google maps and my City Navigator map proved to be in a good paved condition, so that I could enjoy the whole ride. The haspoint

2 KB (314 words) - 05:24, 8 August 2019
2009-08-31 50 11
...August 31. Of course, Reinhard didn't knew, whether there were expeditions in Atlanta after August 27 that hadn't been described, yet, but to maintain th ...ike trip after only 25 km in Schwarza, from where he quickly drove back to Jena.

4 KB (636 words) - 05:31, 8 August 2019
2009-10-12 50 11
...and my body had enough to do with keeping warm itself. The steep road from Jena to Cosepda, where I live, was quite exhausting, and I was happy to arrive h [[Category:Expeditions]]

2 KB (420 words) - 06:18, 8 August 2019
2009-10-22 50 11
Today was a good day for geohashers from Jena since the hashpoint was just about 12 km from the city. Today was also a da ...ard left his home in Jena-Cospeda at 20:00, probably being the only person in a significant circumference riding a bike at that time. But he had good rea

3 KB (539 words) - 06:28, 8 August 2019
2009-10-23 51 12
...tly located: It was not far from the direct way, it seemed to be on a road in the town of Meuselwitz and it offered Reinhard the possibility to explore a ...stopped by a flat tire he got at his rear wheel, when he hit a sharp edge in the pavement. He thought about calling Manu to fetch him with her car, but

2 KB (399 words) - 06:29, 8 August 2019
2009-11-07 51 11
[[User:Reinhard|Reinhard]] planned to cycle from Jena to Leipzig on Saturday morning, using the route via Naumburg and Merseburg. ...09:33 after 33 km. As expected the hashpoint was 190 m away from the road in a muddy field. It wouldn't have been impossible to go there, but Reinhard t

1 KB (210 words) - 06:43, 8 August 2019
2009-12-16 50 12
...e time for the geohash in 50 12 graticule, which was partly on my way from Jena to Leipzig (with a detour of 26 km). It was snowing several times that day ...with the little Foxi, I got back to the bike and continued the short ride in order to defrost my hands. (I took off my gloves for taking the photo.) So

2 KB (414 words) - 00:11, 9 August 2019
2010-01-06 50 11
...e on having fun with this kind of winter rallye - though he wasn't sitting in a rallye car. ...re were no further measurements. Thus, we just took some more photos of us in the hash forest and walked back to the car to warm ourselves up and drive h

2 KB (412 words) - 00:24, 9 August 2019
2010-01-18 50 11
...eft Reinhard's house in Cospeda rather late and rode in a autocade down to Jena just over the hashpoint. Therefore she certainly was not the first geo hash ...ons. So, Reinhard had to hurry a bit. While Simon and Kriko wanted to stay in the car, Reinhard was accompanied by Wischi and Procter. They quickly ran u

6 KB (1,029 words) - 00:32, 9 August 2019
2010-01-21 50 11
...obahn without driving any noteworthy detour. He parked near The McDonald's in an industrial area and started the short bike trip. Passing a huge time-and [[Category:Expeditions]]

2 KB (284 words) - 00:34, 9 August 2019
2010-01-27 50 11
Today's geohash is somewhere that's green, between Jena Lichtenhain and Ammerbach. Too near to miss, isn't it? ...struggle with Uli and Jens whether it would be worth going or not, keeping in mind that the evening before we had about -15°C and I half froze to death

5 KB (832 words) - 00:37, 9 August 2019
2010-02-05 51 12
...Thirty Years' War.) and drove on with Reinhard's bike in the car's back to Jena. ....jpg|That's where Reinhard ended his cycling trip from Jena and found Manu in her car waiting for him.

2 KB (395 words) - 20:00, 16 May 2020
2010-02-10 51 12
...e photos outside (freezing her fingers) and quickly returned to her way to Jena again. [[Category:Expeditions]]

935 bytes (148 words) - 00:49, 9 August 2019
2010-02-11 50 11
...s around -4°C, which felt very cold in the humid air. I handled my issues in the city ... ...st clicked the back button of my computer mouse (not having more than this in the cache), so don't be surprised, if the rest of this story is reading wor

4 KB (731 words) - 20:00, 16 May 2020
2010-02-12 50 11
...least the position, which the GPS device told them was the exact position in that moment (behind the snow at the wayside) and took some pictures. That's ...n, Stiebritz, Nerkewitz, Lehesten, Rödigen and from there on went back to Jena. I still had to pass the whole city (and go back, of course), and I already

3 KB (470 words) - 00:51, 9 August 2019
2010-02-18 50 11
...ip and finished it at the car after 27 km, almost falling due to sleekness in the very last bend. |Image:20100218-50N11E-04.jpg|Me at the hashpoint with the bike in the back.

2 KB (340 words) - 00:56, 9 August 2019
2010-02-22 51 11
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6 KB (956 words) - 00:58, 9 August 2019
2010-02-25 50 11
...2-04_51_11|once again]]. That happens, when you are not using public roads in winter. He got back to the car after 41.5 km cycling and was at home shortl [[Category:Expeditions]]

2 KB (289 words) - 00:59, 9 August 2019
2010-03-11 50 11
...he hashpoint on the correct day and went back to the car and drove home to Jena where I got at 0:42. Later that day, I went on an [[2010-03-11_50_12|expedition in the neighbor graticule]], thus doing a successful double geohash.

2 KB (253 words) - 01:09, 9 August 2019
2010-03-12 50 11
<!-- If you did not specify these parameters in the template, please substitute appropriate things for IMAGE, LAT, LON, and ...nberg. There's no speed limit, if you're going north. Taking the left lane in any direction, you should practically drive through the geohash.

3 KB (412 words) - 01:11, 9 August 2019
2010-03-11 50 12
...rt (for other people it's ok, because it keeps the roads free for me), but in that case it was a good solution, especially because I still had to earn th So, I started from work at 18:00 and rode 5 km to train station Jena-West. I successfully bought a ticket there at a teller (long time since I d

4 KB (632 words) - 01:09, 9 August 2019
2010-03-19 50 11
...riday's hashpoint was nearly on his way, not far from B87 near Kranichfeld in a forest. That was also a good chance to test the new marvelous bike that R In Kranichfeld, Reinhard left the B87 and took the small road to Zieglersgrund

3 KB (546 words) - 01:15, 9 August 2019
2010-03-23 50 11
...found another way out of the forest and also took a different way back to Jena. He got home shortly after 22:00 after cycling 44 km – with his old b |Image:20100323-50N11E-05.jpg|Jena at night. The bright spot on the right is the ''Lobdeburg''.

2 KB (251 words) - 01:18, 9 August 2019