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| | I'm Robyn, also known on the internets as Qov. You may recognize me by another pseudonym from elsewhere, and I know I'm not doing a very good job of keeping quiet like this, but I can trust you not to blab, right? | | I'm Robyn, also known on the internets as Qov. You may recognize me by another pseudonym from elsewhere, and I know I'm not doing a very good job of keeping quiet like this, but I can trust you not to blab, right? |
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| − | I hash on foot, by [[Robyn/Incredibly Crappy Walmart Bicycle|bicycle]] and by transit, not by car, because burning fuel for pointless expeditions is dumb, but exercising for pointless expeditions is the win. I may stop off at a geohash in a car when I'm on my way elsewhere, though. When I'm at home in Vancouver I'll usually try for the nearest hash, in [[Vancouver, British Columbia|Vancouver]], in [[Surrey, British Columbia|Surrey]] or across the border to [[Bellingham, Washington|Bellingham]]. I may get over to [[Victoria, British Columbia|Victoria]] from time to time, too. I have good maps locally. I also travel all over North America for work, so you'll see me at strange graticules elsewhere. | + | I hash on foot, by [[Robyn/Incredibly Crappy Walmart Bicycle|bicycle]] and by transit, usually bringing my [[Hashscots|Hashscot]] T-Rex with me. I try to avoid going by car, because burning fuel for pointless expeditions is dumb, but exercising for pointless expeditions is the win. I am deeply [[:Category:Addicted to geohashing|addicted to geohashing]], however, so what began as sometimes stopping off at a geohash in a car while on my way elsewhere, has escalated to sometimes answering the call of distant geohashes too juicy for me to resist, but too far for me to bike before midnight. |
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| | + | When I'm at home in Vancouver, I'll usually try for the nearest hash in [[Vancouver, British Columbia|Vancouver]], in [[Surrey, British Columbia|Surrey]] or across the border to [[Bellingham, Washington|Bellingham]]. I get over to [[Victoria, British Columbia|Victoria]] from time to time, too. I have good maps locally. I also travel all over North America for work, so you'll see me at strange graticules elsewhere. I might just surprise you some day. |
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| | * Probably in Vancouver all month | | * Probably in Vancouver all month |
| | * Just bought [http://www.canadiantire.ca/browse/product_detail.jsp?PRODUCT%3C%3Eprd_id=845524443297042&FOLDER%3C%3Efolder_id=1408474396672334&bmUID=1238616113038&deptid=1408474396672192&ctgrid=1408474396672206&subctgrid=1408474396672334 an inflatable kayak] | | * Just bought [http://www.canadiantire.ca/browse/product_detail.jsp?PRODUCT%3C%3Eprd_id=845524443297042&FOLDER%3C%3Efolder_id=1408474396672334&bmUID=1238616113038&deptid=1408474396672192&ctgrid=1408474396672206&subctgrid=1408474396672334 an inflatable kayak] |
| − | *Staying home on Sunday. | + | * Staying home this Sunday. |
| | * Once I minesweep my home graticule I'm going to settle down and work on cherry-picking the really most amazingest locations I can find. But of course I won't stop doing the attainable urban ones, and anything I think anyone will go to, and whom am I kidding? Me settle down? | | * Once I minesweep my home graticule I'm going to settle down and work on cherry-picking the really most amazingest locations I can find. But of course I won't stop doing the attainable urban ones, and anything I think anyone will go to, and whom am I kidding? Me settle down? |
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Revision as of 06:40, 19 April 2009
I'm Robyn, also known on the internets as Qov. You may recognize me by another pseudonym from elsewhere, and I know I'm not doing a very good job of keeping quiet like this, but I can trust you not to blab, right?
I hash on foot, by bicycle and by transit, usually bringing my Hashscot T-Rex with me. I try to avoid going by car, because burning fuel for pointless expeditions is dumb, but exercising for pointless expeditions is the win. I am deeply addicted to geohashing, however, so what began as sometimes stopping off at a geohash in a car while on my way elsewhere, has escalated to sometimes answering the call of distant geohashes too juicy for me to resist, but too far for me to bike before midnight.
When I'm at home in Vancouver, I'll usually try for the nearest hash in Vancouver, in Surrey or across the border to Bellingham. I get over to Victoria from time to time, too. I have good maps locally. I also travel all over North America for work, so you'll see me at strange graticules elsewhere. I might just surprise you some day.
Future Plans
- Eager to get a globalhash
- Probably in Vancouver all month
- Just bought an inflatable kayak
- Staying home this Sunday.
- Once I minesweep my home graticule I'm going to settle down and work on cherry-picking the really most amazingest locations I can find. But of course I won't stop doing the attainable urban ones, and anything I think anyone will go to, and whom am I kidding? Me settle down?
Statistics
Graticules
- Hashes Attempted: 77 in 30 different graticules
- Hashes Achieved: 49 in 24 different graticules (+2 more without proof)
- Centurion-eligible Saturday Meetups: 6 in 4 different graticules
- Geohashers met: 17 in 3 different graticules
- Continents geohashed: 1
Things that have thwarted me
- No trespassing sign: 9
- Being chicken: 1
- Body of water: 1
- Transportation failure: 2
- Mis-setting the GPS: 1
- Time constraints: 4
- Terrain/weather too nasty to continue safely: 6
- Inability to use a camera: 1
- No one attended an alternate:2
Never turn down a chance to geohash.
All Geohashes Attempted
Most recent are listed first. Single horizontal lines every ten missions, and double lines every fifty, to facilitate counting. Bold numbers are the success count and bold words indicate an award or consolation prize taken for that attempt. I've removed my former one ribbon per geohash limitation. I've decided to count a geohash "successful" if I:
- (a) get to within the accuracy figure of the coordinates as shown by my GPS,
- (b) have the GPS show a distance remaining of zero,
- (c) get to where it is obvious I could reach the geohash, but refrain from trampling crops,
- (d) for airhashes, take a readable photo within 10 seconds of each latitude and longitude, or
- (e) get really close and meet other geohashers who didn't travel with me, while trying to reach the geohash.
I haven't yet had to use options (c) and (e): the one time I thought I would have to invoke (c), the geohash came to me.
- 2009-04-05 48 -122 (Bellingham, WA): Bicycle border hash in Lynden, WA. Success #44.
- 2009-03-29 49 -124 (Port Alberni, BC): Glorious day with kites and kayaks and birthday cake, without reaching the coordinates.
- 2009-03-28 49 -122 (Surrey, BC): Bramble scramble in Kanaka Creek Regional Park for #43.
- 2009-03-27 49 -122 (Surrey, BC): Easy parking lot geohash in the rain for #42.
- 2009-03-23 47 -122 (Seattle, WA): Birthday speedhash in Port Ludlum, WA. Success #41.
- 2009-03-23 48 -122 (Bellingham, WA): No trespassing 274 m from geohash in Custer, WA.
- 2009-03-21 49 -123 (Vancouver, BC): Unsuccessfully tried to establish an alternate at my birthday party.
- 2009-03-17 49 -122 (Surrey, BC): No Trespassing stopped me 330 m short, but I got to drive over a dam.
- 2009-03-13 48 -122 (Bellingham, WA): Border geohash for success #40.
- 2009-03-09 49 -123 (Vancouver, BC): Frozen snowman bicycle geohash in the CIBC parking lot for success #39.
- 2009-03-05 49 -123 (Vancouver, BC): Twister picnic hash collision in a park: success #38.
- 2009-03-02 32 -96 (Dallas, Texas): Stopped 716 m short. Thwarted by a field of cows and the desperate need to not miss my plane.
- 2009-03-02 32 -95 (Tyler, TX): Stopped 1.44 km short. Thwarted by a fence and the need to catch an airplane.
- 2009-02-27 30 -93 (Lake Charles, LA): Walked for five hours but failed to find the correct road.
- 2009-02-24 30 -93 (Lake Charles, LA): Bushwhacked in, took trail out for success #37.
- 2009-02-20 30 -94 (Beaumont, TX): Failed on the ground, succeeded in the air. Success #36.
- 2009-02-14 32 -94 (Longview, TX): Airhash over Smithville. Success #35.
- 2009-02-09 32 -94 (Longview, TX): Easy drive-in geohash on a quiet road in the woods. Success #34.
- 2009-01-25 49 -122 (Surrey, BC): Failed to reach a spot in a dark, frozen swamp in Abbotsford.
- 2009-01-24 49 -123 (Vancouver, BC): Bus, ferry and walk to be the first geohasher at a meetup on a llama farm, and success #33.
- 2009-01-22 47 -122 (Seattle, WA): Second half of a multihash for success #32 and 5 geosquishy points.
- 2009-01-22 48 -122 (Bellingham, WA): A déjà vu geohash for success #31.
- 2009-01-02 49 -122 (Surrey, BC): Snowman geohash by public transit for success #30.
- 2008-12-19 32 -94 (Longview, TX): Walked through an urban forest when I didn't have to. Success #29.
- 2008-12-02 47 -73 (Montréal, QC): Tried to take a non-existent bus in the snow.
- 2008-11-29 47 -122 (Seattle, WA): Took along three first-timers but private property stopped us.
- 2008-11-20 48 -121 (North Cascades, WA): Third unsuccessful try in this graticule. Private property.
- 2008-11-08 49 -123 (Vancouver, BC): Industrial park in Richmond, success #28.
- 2008-11-01 49 -123 (Vancouver, BC): A fine time at an unadopted Saturday alternate at the Bloedel Conservatory.
- 2008-10-16 59 -122 (Snake River, BC): Airhash, success #27.
- 2008-10-12 55 -119 (Beaverlodge, AB): Airhash, success #26.
- 2008-10-12 56 -120 (Fort St. John, BC): Airhash, success #25.
- 2008-10-12 57 -121 (Gutah, BC): Airhash not counted because of a bad proof of location photo.
- 2008-10-07 55 -120 (Dawson Creek, BC): Airhash in snow and rain for success #24.
- 2008-10-07 54 -119 (Nose Creek, AB): Airhash over patchy clearing in the foothills. Success #23.
- 2008-09-27 48 -122 (Bellingham, WA): I guess I'll finally claim land with success #22.
- 2008-09-25 49 -123 (Vancouver, BC): Public transit in the rain for success #21.
- 2008-09-21 49 -124 (Port Alberni, BC: Part two of a multihash, a speedhash, and success #20.
- 2008-09-21 49 -123 (Vancouver, BC): Rubber raft sunrise and water geohash for success #19.
- 2008-09-19 49 -122 (Surrey, BC): Success #18 was a midnight and pirate geohash.
- 2008-09-13 48 -121 (North Cascades, WA): Second try in this graticule. Access road too nasty to ride on my (road) bike, especially after 75 km of riding just to get there.
- 2008-09-11 49 -123 (Vancouver, BC): I walked to #17, which was my first success in my home graticule.
- 2008-08-31 53 -113 (Edmonton, AB): A restricted area at an airport. I will count it as a failed attempt even though I failed a day early.
- 2008-08-30 53 -113 (Edmonton, AB): A Saturday meetup where I met no one, but they missed a fine spot. Success #16.
- 2008-08-30 54 -114 (Barrhead, AB): Success #15 was a drive-in geohash at a housing development in a virgin graticule.
- 2008-08-29 55 -114 (Slave Lake, AB): I was asked to fly to a point one minute and thirty seconds past today's geohash. I did as I was told for success #14.
- 2008-08-28 55 -115 (Utikuma Lake, AB): Success #13 is the first ever in the graticule. Beavers did not thwart me.
- 2008-08-26 55 -114 (Slave Lake, AB): Planned for a water geohash, but it was cold and windy and I had to work -- at the geohash! Success #12
- 2008-08-24 55 -114 (Slave Lake, AB): I don't remember the raptor attack, but I have significant claw marks on my legs. Success #11.
- 2008-08-21 55 -114 (Slave Lake, AB): First ever hash here, for success #10 and coldest documented.
- 2008-08-17 55 -115 (Utikuma Lake, AB): Mother Nature makes me her bitch in deep tangled forest.
- 2008-08-16 55 -114 (Slave Lake, AB): Stopped by deep swamp filled with metaphorical alligators a mere 0.2 nm from the geohash.
- 2008-08-15 55 -114 (Slave Lake, AB): Uphill dirt road took me too close to bedtime.
- 2008-08-14 55 -115 (Utikuma Lake, AB): Ran out of time cycling around the lake.
- 2008-07-28 48 -123 (Victoria, BC): Border geohash at Point Roberts. Success #9.
- 2008-07-21 49 -123 (Vancouver, BC): Second attempt at a hash in my home graticule. Blinded by Science entering coordinates.
- 2008-07-19 48 -121 (North Cascades, WA): Thwarted by No Trespassing sign.
- 2008-07-18 47 -122 (Seattle, WA): Ambassador achievement, on a boat dock. Success #8.
- 2008-07-14 39 -121 (Chico, CA): Suspense-filled adventure. No raptors. Success #7.
- 2008-07-13 42 -123 (Grants Pass, OR): My first speed hash. Virgin graticule. Success #6.
- 2008-07-10 44 -123 (Eugene, OR): Unsuccessful because the motorcyclist refused the road.
- 2008-07-06 47 -121 (Snoqualmie, WA): A drag-along hash, where the draggee brought me, on a motorcycle. Success #5.
- 2008-07-05 49 -122 (Surrey, BC): My first repeat hash in the same graticule, and 4th successful geohash. Logged bicycle.
- 2008-06-25 41 -111 (Ogden, UT): Airhash success but no proof, so not counted.
- 2008-06-14 40 -112 (Tooele, UT): Unsuccessful, thwarted by a ditch in the way.
- 2008-06-14 32 -93 (Shreveport, LA): Another aerial hash, my 3rd successful one. Just missed getting the Master Pilot Award.
- 2008-06-11 31 -84 (Albany, GA): My 2nd successful geohash. First ever aerial hash reported by anyone.
- 2008-06-07 49 -123 (Vancouver, BC): Thwarted by the watershed. And wolves.
- 2008-06-04 49 -122 (Surrey, BC): just south of King George Skytrain station - My 1st successful.
- 2008-06-03 48 -122 (Bellingham, WA): east of Limestone Junction - unsuccessful, because I chickened out at the border.
- See my blog for details on my early geohashing adventures, before I had properly figured out wiki-ing.
Geohashers Met
Alphabetical by username. Date is first meeting.
Achievements
I love the idea of Achievements, I want them *all*. Just for fun, I'm trying to make an achievement at every geohash, and only taking each award once, but I've given up my earlier restriction of one award per geohash. It would also be funny to see how many achievements I could get at once. Also I take Virgin Graticule every time it is applicable. In each section, the most recent new achievement is last.
Once Is Enough Ribbons
I only take a ribbon for the first time I do one of these, even if I have achieved the feat more than once.
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Upgradeable Ribbons
These ribbons change as I accomplish more.
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Virgin Graticules
If you are the first to reach ground-based coordinates in a graticule I airhashed, I will cede the ribbon and the glory to you.
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Consolation Prizes
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Gratuitous Ribbons
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Robyn earned the Badger Mushroom Snake Ribbon
- by acting out the Badger Badger Badger song, on Badger Road, en route to (48, -122) geohash on 2009-04-05.
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Robyn earned the Redefined Success Ribbon
- by not being eaten by bears while getting to within a kilometre of the (49, -123) geohash on 2009-04-06.
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Checklist of achievements to get
time traveller, endurance, no batteries, geoflashing, underground, underwater, golf, pub, freeway, birthday, sex, phonebooth, hopper, restricted, MacGyver, proxy, circus, and most everything else that has been made up.
Progress Towards Multihash Achievements
Wiki Stuff
- I've made it my goal to complete the needed pages to fix red links on the Achievements page. People keep making new achievements (which I love) but every one needs a page describing the achievement, a ribbon template, and a ribbon image.
- I like making ribbons and it makes me happy when people put them on their pages. If you have drawing or photoshopping talents please help make new or better ribbon images.
- I obsess about every page belonging to its proper categories, and every category belonging to a category, all the way up to the root.
- Placing the same page in two categories, one of which is a subcategory of the other, defeats the purpose of categories. I removed the category Europe from a couple of hundred European graticules that were classed in Europe in addition to their country categories.
- I came to this wiki knowing nothing about wiki, so I sympathize with others and am working on the Help page.
- My C-key doesn't work all that well, so some of my categories are ategories.
- In progress: Geohash on Private Property.
- Started pages Transportation to the Geohash and Games We Play. Keeping an eye out for additions.
- Making expedition pages and Userpages for Ninja geohashers.
- This might be a joke, but I'm tracking Vancouver geohashes for a month to show how gnarly they are.
- Maintaining Template:New on the wiki for Main Page announcements.
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