User:Pedalpusher

Spring Expedition

Pedalpusher
42 / m / 42,-78
en This user is a native speaker of English.
Likes to get there by bike.

About Me

Late to the party but so far I've found Geohashing intriguing and a lot of fun. My home Graticule is Buffalo, NY which had been quiet for quite some time before I picked it up late in 2014. I have met a couple Geohashers and I'm hoping to meet more folks when I'm traveling. I have also found some great spots for hiking with the dogs in my adventures.

I love to get out on my bike for long road rides but I haven't gotten out as much as I'd like these past few years. I must say that geohashing has really changed my rides. I am one of those guys that has no problem doing the same course over and over because I know what to expect (hills, time, etc). I have a hard time deciding on a new course especially without being familiar with the area I'm going to as I don't want to get lost. That's not the case with Geohash rides and I get to see new things.

Sandbox

Adventures

Interactive map of expeditions.

Expedition Number	Date/Link	Graticule	Location	Notes
--	---	---	---	A Leap Second is scheduled for 2015-06-30 at 23:59:59 UAT time
2015 Expeditions
43	2015-06-21	Buffalo	Next to Big Lots in Yorkshire (West of Arcade)	Tale of Two Challenge; Success
42	2015-06-18	Buffalo	In the parking lot of Clarence Town Court	No Batteries; Success
41	2015-06-13	Dunkirk, NY	Hatch Creek State Forest	Hash collision; Official Sat meetup; Success
40	2015-06-07	Buffalo	Allegany State Park, Near Quaker Lake	Success
39	2015-06-03 Pt 2	Rochester, NY	Near Bergen, just East of Exit 2 for I-490	Multi-hash; Speed Racer; Geosquishy; Success
38	2015-06-03 Pt 1	Lockport, NY	On Liberty Rd by Ceres Electronics Corp.	Geotrash; Success
37	2015-05-31	Buffalo	Next to the on ramp for Rt 400 in W. Seneca	Bike Ride; Tron; Tale of Two Challenge; Success
36	2015-05-28	Buffalo	On a driveway in W. Seneca on Transit Rd	Bike Ride; Success
35	2015-05-23	Buffalo	In a field, East of Collins	Mouse Over Day; Success
34	2015-05-01	Dunkirk, NY	In the woods in Angola	Bike Ride; No Trespassing
33	2015-04-27	Buffalo	Orchard Park Veterinary Med. Center	Déjà vu; Success
32	2015-04-21	Buffalo	Crab Hollow State Forest	Success
31	2015-04-12	Buffalo	Allegany State Park, by Science Lake	Issued Tale of Two Challenge; Success
30	2015-03-26	Buffalo	In a field, next to the 219 in Orchard Park	Completed Tale of Two Hashes; Success
29	2015-03-22 Pt 2	Dunkirk, NY	In a field, West of Jamestown	Multi-Hash; Success
28	2015-03-22 Pt 1	Erie, PA	Corner of the Mill Creek Mall complex	Virgin Graticule; Issued Tale of Two challenge; Success
27	2015-03-15	Buffalo	Next to the St. Bonaventure cemetery office	Success
26	2015-03-05	Buffalo	Next to the Allegany Hills golf course	No Trespassing
25	2015-03-01	Buffalo	On the Sidewalk on Delaware Ave by the I-290	Issued Tale of Two Challenge; No Batteries; Success
24	2015-02-07	Buffalo	In the woods North of Ashford, NY	No Trespassing
23	2015-01-24	Buffalo	South of Cuba, NY	No Trespassing
22	2015-01-21	Buffalo	In the Boston Forest County Park	Issued Tale of Two Challenge; Success
21	2015-01-08	Buffalo	In the woods by the Braymiller Market	Thwarted by inability to park.
20	2015-01-05	Lockport, NY	Corner of Bowmiller and Dysinger Rds by Lockport	Issued Tale of Two Challenge; Success
2014 Expeditions - 19 Total Best month - 8 in September
19	2014-12-20	Buffalo	Portageville, in front of the Baptist Church	Issued Tale of Two Challenge; No Batteries; Success
18	2014-11-08	Buffalo	North of Colden, on Private Property	No Trespassing
17	2014-11-02	Corning, NY	In a field just West of Lima	Met Hic Sunt Laganum; Success
16	2014-10-19	Buffalo	Olean, next to train-tracks	Success
15	2014-10-18	Buffalo	Northwest of Alden	No Trespassing
14	2014-10-12	Buffalo	Just outside and North of Allegany State Park	Success
13	2014-09-27	Buffalo	Next to I-90 ramp in Hamburg	Bike ride; Tron Expedition; Success
12	2014-09-22	Buffalo	South of Hamburg	Bike ride; Success
11	2014-09-18	Buffalo	Franklinville cemetery	Success
10	2014-09-16	Buffalo	Springville, Off Rt 39 in the woods	Success
9	2014-09-12	Oil City, PA	Just off a pipeline, North of Warren, PA	Success
8	2014-09-11	Buffalo	Gowanda, NY	Bike ride; No Trespassing
7	2014-09-07	St. Mary's, PA	Allegheny National Forest	Virgin graticule; Success
6	2014-09-01	Buffalo	Allegany State Park	Success
5	2014-08-24	Dunkirk, NY	Just off Rt 5 by Angola	Bike ride; Success
4	2014-08-20	Toronto, ON	In front of the Lewiston Middle/High Schools by the road	Success
3	2014-08-17 Pt 2	Buffalo	North of Wellsville, NY	Multi-hash Pt. 2 - No Trespassing
2	2014-08-17 Pt 1	Dunkirk, NY	In the woods, North of Ellington, NY	Multi-hash Pt. 1 - Success
1	2014-08-08	Buffalo	In a field, South of Arcade	Inaugural expedition with 'No Batteries'; Success

Stats

Expeditions - 43 Successful - 34 Unsuccessful - 9 Posted Achievement - 8/100 Unique graticules visited - 9 Virgin graticules - 2 Longest Distances to reach a single hash by bike - 22.76 miles (45.68 miles round trip) by car - 79.7 Miles Multi-hash expedition - 151.8 Miles

Geohashers Met - 2 Hic Sunt Laganum made up by: Angel Food Cake and Red Velvet Cake

New York Graticules visited - 21% -79 -78 -77 -76 -75 -74 -73 -72 -71 45 44 43 42 41 40

Achievements

Goals

- Move the Buffalo Graticule up the list of active areas into the top 50.
- Win the most active graticule for the month for the Buffalo Graticule.
- Minesweeper - Ah, the nostalgia of playing on Win 3.1
- Virgin Graticule - Might pick up one or two if I'm successful on the Minesweeper or am traveling. 2014-09-07
- The Hobbit - I love walking around bare-foot and who doesn't love a picnic. Will have to pick this one carefully though. A good opportunity could be when the hash lands in Allegany State Park.
- Border hash - shouldn't be too hard since Canada is so close.
- Issue(2014-12-20) and complete(2015-03-26) a Tail of Two Hashes Challenge.
- Reverse Regional Achievement - Buffalo Grat by county and Country.

Multiple Expedition Ribbon Page

Links to the expeditions for my Multi-Expedition Ribbons that I have completed and ones am currently working on can be found at this link.

Ribbons

Basics

Pedalpusher earned the Land geohash achievement by reaching the (42, -78) geohash on 2014-08-08.

Pedalpusher earned the No trespassing consolation prize by almost reaching the (42, -78) geohash on 2014-08-17.

Pedalpusher earned the Frozen Geohash Achievement

by reaching the (42, -78) geohash on 2014-12-20 while the temperature was below the freezing point of water.

Pedalpusher earned the xkcd Nullaturion achievement by attending 1 Saturday meetup.

Getting There

Pedalpusher earned the Admit One Achievement

by paying $7 to access the (42, -78) geohash at Allegany State Park on 2014-09-01.

Pedalpusher earned the Tron achievement by reaching and returning from the (42, -78) geohash without crossing his own tracks on 2014-09-27.

Pedalpusher earned the Tron achievement by reaching and returning from the (42, -78) geohash without crossing his own tracks on 2015-05-31.

Pedalpusher earned the No Batteries Geohash Achievement by reaching the (42, -78) geohash on 2014-08-08. Also earned on:
2014-12-20	2015-03-01	2015-05-31	2015-06-18

Pedalpusher earned the Bicycle geohash achievement by cycling to the (42, -79) geohash on 2014-08-24. Also earned on:
2014-09-11	2014-09-22	2014-09-27	2015-05-01
2015-05-28		2015-05-31

Is it true that Pedalpusher earned the Train wreck consolation prize? In principle, yes. But the car got stuck in the ditch AT the hashpoint (2015-01-24 42 -78).

Pedalpusher earned the Drowned Rat Geohash Achievement by reaching the (42, -78) geohash on 2015-05-31 despite being thoroughly wet from from the rain.

Pedalpusher earned the Speed racer achievement

by passing through the (43, -77) geohash on 2015-06-03 at 62MPH.

Pedalpusher earned the Velociraptor Geohash Achievement by reaching the (42, -78) geohash for 2015-06-07 with highly visible raptor claw marks.

Minesweepers

Pedalpusher achieved level 7 of the Minesweeper Geohash achievement by visiting coordinates in Buffalo, New York and 7 of the surrounding graticules.

Virgin Graticule

Fortuitous

Pedalpusher earned the Tale of Two Hashes achievement

by having their challenge met by Pedalpusher in Erie on 2015-03-22.

Pedalpusher earned the Tale of Two Hashes achievement

by meeting the challenge by Pedalpusher to geohash in Erie going to the (42, -78) geohash on 2015-03-26.

Pedalpusher earned the Last man standing achievement by being the the only hasher world-wide to go on a geohashing expedition on 2015-03-26.

Pedalpusher earned the Déjà Vu Geohash Achievement by reaching the (42, -78) geohash on 2015-04-27, and previously on 2013-07-14.

Pedalpusher earned the Hash collision honorable mention by discovering the geocache GC2BYWR 0.47 Miles (756 Meters) from the (42, -79) geohash on 2015-06-13.

Interactive

Pedalpusher earned the Drag-along achievement by dragging his wife within 0.13 miles to the (42, -78) geohash on 2014-09-01.

Pedalpusher earned the Meet-up achievement by meeting a complete stranger at the (42, -77) geohash on 2014-11-02.

Pedalpusher earned the Pie Geohash Achievement by baking apple-crisp for other people to degustate at the (42, -77) geohash on 2014-11-02.

Pedalpusher earned the GeoTrash Geohash Achievement by cleaning up the (43, -78) geohash on 2015-06-03.

Miscellaneous

Pedalpusher earned the Holy hash achievement by reaching the sacred (42, -78) location, which is Mt. Prospect Cemetery, on 2014-09-18.
Also earned on:
2014-12-20	2015-03-15

Pedalpusher certifies that Margaret J Stearns almost earned the Coffin Potato Achievement

by occupying a coffin at the (42, -78) geohash on 2014-09-18.

Pedalpusher earned the Regional geohashing achievement by reaching a hash point in all 2 graticules belonging to Niagara county.

Pedalpusher earned the Multihash Achievement by reaching the 2015-03-22 42 -80 and 2015-03-22 42 -79 geohashes on 2015-03-22.

Pedalpusher earned the Multihash Achievement by reaching the 2015-06-03 43 -78 and 2015-06-03 43 -77 geohashes on 2015-06-03.

Pedalpusher earned the 2015 Mouse Over Day achievement by celebrating in the (42, -78) graticule on the Saturday following May 21st 2015.

Pedalpusher earned the First Sip GeoSquishy Achievement by enjoying a slushy carbonated beverage at the (43, -77) geohash on 2015-06-03.

Pedalpusher earned the 5 Star GeoSquishy Achievement by earning 5 stars all at the (43, -77) geohash on 2015-06-03.

Pedalpusher earned the Late-night GeoSquishy Achievement by bringing a slushy carbonated beverage to the (43, -77) geohash between 10 p.m. and midnight on 2015-06-03.