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“	"I've washed off the dried blood, emptied my pockets of twigs and pine park fragments and showered the resinous detritus out of my hair."		”
find some more great geohashing quotations here.		—Sourcerer in Wales

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 |0={{quoteMore|center|As it was my very first expedition, I was very excited about it. I wasn't expecting grand adventure, as the destination was just an hour walk from the city, but I was positively surprised, when I found a medieval tower on my way, that I had no idea was there.|[[2009-02-23_52_-7|JRK]]}}
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 |29={{quoteMore|center|"Have faith in my blind navigational skills!"|[[User:Higgs|Higgs]], refusing to look at a GPS during the [[2013-10-21 44 -123]] expedition.}}
 |30={{quoteMore|center|Why do I search invisible coordinates while it's wet and dark and uncomfortable outside, knowing that I'll probably end up dirty all over? I can't tell|[[User:Paintedhell|Juja]], [[2013-11-22 50 11]]}}
-|31={{quoteMore|center|Cake is also highly recommended, especially if you succeed in transporting it to the geohash intact. Sharing cake with strangers at the geohash is a good way to tell people about geohashing. People willing to accept cake from strangers in party hats are probably the sort of people who would consider geohashing. |[http://wiki.xkcd.com/wgh/index.php?title=Geohashing_Day&diff=111696&oldid=111684 Robyn]}}
+|31={{quoteMore|center|Cake is also highly recommended, especially if you succeed in transporting it to the geohash intact. Sharing cake with strangers at the geohash is a good way to tell people about geohashing. People willing to accept cake from strangers in party hats are probably the sort of people who would consider geohashing.|[http://wiki.xkcd.com/wgh/index.php?title=Geohashing_Day&diff=111696&oldid=111684 Robyn]}}
 |32={{quoteMore|center|I was astonished to find that it was only a block away from my cousin's house, which I'd probably been to four or five times! How could I have missed a giant glacial erratic boulder in such proximity? I had to investigate, so I began to take my leave.|[[User:OtherJack|OtherJack]], commenting on [[2014-03-12 47 -122]]}}
 |33={{quoteMore|center|As I was heading back to the truck, I encountered every urban geohasher's worst nightmare: an aggressive, charging, off-leash dog. Fortunately, it was only about the size of a large burrito.|[[User:Michael5000]] on [[2014-03-26_45_-122]]}}
+|34={{quoteMore|center|A few seconds later I realized that normal people can cross their own tracks.|[[User:RecentlyChanged|RecentlyChanged]] on [[2014-06-18 49 8]]}}
+|35={{quoteMore|center|It had never occurred to me that the first 141km would be easier than those last 50 meters. First of all, there is a distinct lack of landmarks in the middle of the water (and only now, as I type that sentence, does the sheer irony hit me. I guess there's a reason they're called ''land''marks).|[[User:Thepiguy|Thepiguy]] on [[2008-09-01 49 -124]]}}
+|36={{quoteMore|center|This should be easy to squeeze through. !*&#@! **@~!! it was a live electric fence.}}
+|37={{quoteMore|center|So I failed to reach the [[2015-07-13 52 1|hashpoint]]. I wet my trouser legs by wading through the damp barley. I got covered in clay mud. And I got two lifetime firsts, wildlife spotting. Result!}}
+|38={{quoteMore|center|"As long as you won't kill me and bury me in the woods..."|[[User:ZettS|ZettS]]' drag-along on [[2016-02-03 53 10]]}}
+|39={{quoteMore|center|"I've washed off the dried blood, emptied my pockets of twigs and pine park fragments and showered the resinous detritus out of my hair."|[[2016-05-31_52_-3|Sourcerer in Wales]]}}
+|40={{quoteMore|center|"To be swallowed by a peat crevasse followed by a wet land collapse would be an interesting way to meet ones doom. You'd be found three thousand years later, well preserved, with a [[User:Crox/Poster|Crox poster]]!"|[[2016-05-31_52_-3|Sourcerer in Wales]]}}
+|41={{quoteMore|center|It'd be a betrayal of everything I held dear to not do it|[[User:Felix_Dance|Felix]], about a [[2016-08-06 -13 131|hash]]}}
+|42={{quoteMore|center|You see, it's only one sentence away from my home.|[[User:Jens|Jens]], about a particularly easy [[2018-02-19 50 11|hash]]}}
+|43={{quoteMore|center|Try to contain your squeeks of excitement as the distance falls followed by the satisfied "Yes" if it drops below 310 metres.|[[User:Sourcerer|Sourcerer]]: [[Air geohash achievement]] at the [[2018-01-31_43_19|hash]]}}
+|44={{quoteMore|center|It ultimately took me almost two hours to travel the 1.4 km and to reach the hashpoint. Sometimes I got more stable ground under my feet, sometimes –– I sank to metre-deep snow and could barely climb up. But I consider Mother Nature my bitch and would let nothing stop me.|[[User:Kripakko|Kripakko]] on [[2019-04-14 62 30]]}}
+|45={{quoteMore|center|I left the bicycle at the roadside 400 metres from the point and continued on foot. I quickly noticed that I was walking into a swarm of about a million mosquitoes. –– [After reaching the geohash] I took another, slightly more accessible route back to the bicycle and began to cycle back towards the major road. The swarm of mosquitoes still followed me for half a kilometre until I could reach level road and accelerate away from them.|[[User:Kripakko|Kripakko]] on [[2019-06-07 63 29]]}}
+|46={{quoteMore|center|How barbed is the wire?|[[User:Felix Dance|Felix Dance]] to [[User:Stevage|Stevage]] on [[2009-09-19 -37 145]]}}
+|47={{quoteMore|center|"I ain't jokin', babe, I've got to ramble
+Oh yeah
+Baby, baby, I be leavin'
+We really got to ramble
+I can hear it callin' me the way it used to do."|Led Zeppelin, on geohashing, in "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You" (1969).}}
+|48={{quoteMore|center|I said: “You can turn off the headlights, but do not—I say again—do not turn off the car. Just to clarify, do not turn off the car. And in case you didn’t hear me the first time, do not turn off the car.”|[[User:Pwc|Pwc]] on [[2024-04-26_-37_145]]}}
+|49={{quoteMore|center|The plan was as follows: we'd send in Other Katie to impress the gate staff using the skills she'd learned in her Beginner Level Poi class.<br>Meanwhile, Tony and I would dress The Yaris as a shrub and quietly push it past on the right.|[[User:Kt|KT]] on [[2022-04-17 -38_143]]}}
+|50={{quoteMore|center|"Hey Steve"<br>"Yeah?"<br>"What are those birds sitting on?"<br>"Um, they're floating on the water"<br>"Oh yeah, that makes sense."<br>"They're sitting on water".|[[User:Stevage|Stevage]] and [[User:Kt|KT]] on [[2023-08-12_-37_144]]}}
+|51={{quoteMore|center|Here I felt very calm, while leaning backwards over a big drop, with absolutely no way to catch myself if something happened to the rope.|[[User:Stevage|Stevage]] on [[2022-07-11_-39_146]]}}
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-|34={{quoteMore|center|A few seconds later I realized that normal people can cross their own tracks.|[[User:RecentlyChanged|RecentlyChanged]] on [[2014-06-18 49 8]]}}