User:Ekorren

36 / m / 48,9

Introduction

Ekorren - that's the european brown squirrel, scientifically sciurus vulgaris. Jumps around, collects various stuff, hides things and never finds all of it again.

I found the link to geohashing on some geocaching forum. Ok, I thought, so there's something even more crazy, so let's try it ;) Then I read all of the past XKCD comics and suddenly felt at home. Given that my list of regularily read webcomics is all but short there's really no excuse that I didn't find XKCD earlier.

For a spontanous expedition bicycle will be the only reasonable mode of transport for me, so I'm somehow restricted to the nearer surroundings of my home coordinates which are roughly N 48°31' E 9°3', as well as weather-restricted. Though, the first geohash I visited was far away from home...

Warning: May contain nuts.

Statistics

	successful	failed
Expeditions total	7	-
- saturday 4 pm	2
Graticules	3
- virgin graticules	2
Countries	2
- virgin countries	1
Expeditions by type of transport:
- foot	-
- bike	5
- public transport	2

Past Expeditions

Date	Grat.	Transport			Comments
2008-10-28	49 6				On a meadow near Fentange, south of Luxembourg. Virgin graticule and virgin country.
2008-11-15	48 9				Near Kusterdingen, on a field. Saturday 4 pm, but didn't meet anyone as nick_mz was late and I didn't expect anyone to come.
2008-11-18	48 9			(L)	Reutlingen, on a cycle path between Ohmenhausen and the city centre. Déjà vu geohash and probably the only expedition worldwide on that date.
2008-11-19	48 9				Wannweil, at Gärtnerei Hespeler.
2008-11-22	48 9				Tübingen, Rammert forest, near Hofgut Eck. A XKCD'ish snowman (no eyes!) was built and I met nick_mz.
2008-11-26	48 8				Pforzheim, in front of the slaughterhouse. Met Danatar.
2008-11-29	48 9				Sonnenbühl-Genkingen, Öschenbachtal. Ice and slope doesn't really match.

How I use the symbols in this table

Achievements

Ekorren earned the Public transport geohash achievement by reaching the (49, 6) geohash on 2008-10-28 via rail and bus.

Ekorren earned the Land geohash achievement by reaching the (49, 6) geohash on 2008-10-28.

Ekorren earned the Bicycle geohash achievement by cycling to the (48, 9) geohash on 2008-11-15.

Ekorren earned the Consecutive geohash achievement by reaching 2 consecutive hash points starting on 2008-11-18.

Ekorren and Nick_mz earned the Snowman Geohash Achievement by building a snowman at the (48, 9) geohash on 2008-11-22.

Ekorren almost earned the Meet-up achievement by meeting Nick_mz, but without photographic proof, at the (48, 9) geohash on 2008-11-22.

Ekorren earned the Meet-up achievement by meeting Danatar at the (48, 8) geohash on 2008-11-26.

Ekorren achieved level 1 of the Minesweeper Geohash achievement by visiting coordinates in Stuttgart, Germany and 1 of the surrounding graticules.

Ekorren earned the xkcd Nullaturion achievement by attending 2 Saturday meetups.

Ekorren earned a hash collision honorable mention by finding geocache GC11ZMH
near to the 2008-10-28 49 6 hash (and other caches near later hashes).

Ekorren probably earned the Last Man Standing achievement by being the only one
to visit a geohash on 2008-11-18.

For the following achievements the rules had to be stretched a bit, usually because of insufficient proof. I put the ribbons here anyway but don't insist on counting them, and will definitely try to replace them.

Ekorren would have gone there anyway and thus not really earned the Border geohash achievement by crossing the Germany-Luxembourg border on 2008-10-28 to reach the (49, 6) geohash.

Ekorren knows he earned the Déjà Vu Geohash Achievement by reaching the (48, 9) geohash on 2008-11-18, and previously on several occasions, but the proof is a bit weak.

Ekorren thought he earned the Frozen Geohash Achievement

by reaching the (48, 9) geohash on 2008-11-22 while the temperature was down and it was snowing, but found later that he should have brought a thermometer. One week later it was a bit warmer and a heavily inaccurate thermometer showed exactly zero.