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Ratings given are epicness: higher epic ratings given for effort, drama, difficulty, interesting location, interesting events en route.

Successful hashes

Date/location                   # Summary Epicness Transport Time of day
2008-06-21 -37 145 1 Bunyip State Park, in the mud and rain, with Felix. 8/10 Bike Dark
2009-05-28 -37 144 2 Cheetham Wetlands, on a peaceful weeknight, with Felix. 6.5/10 Car and foot Dark
2009-07-24 -36 146 3 In a paddock near Wangarratta, with a few people (including Felix and tAlex). Daylight! 5/10 Car and foot Late afternoon
2009-08-05 -37 145 4 In someone's front garden, Plenty, arriving solo by bike, meeting with Felix, tAlex and others. 3/10 Bike Night
2009-12-16 -37 145 5 In someone's front garden, Claytonish, solo. 2/10 Car Night
2010-06-07 -37 145 6 In a house under construction in Oakleigh, on the way home from work, solo. 3/10 Bike Night
2010-07-11 -37 144 7 In the bush vaguely near Castlemaine, at dusk, solo. 8/10 Bike Dusk
2010-07-20 -37 144 8 In Altona Coastal Park with tAlex. 5/10 Car/foot. Night
2010-07-21 -38 145 9 On an oval in Skye, in the foggy dark, with Ellen. 5/10 Car and foot Night
2010-07-23 -37 145 10 On a rural property near Broadford, with Mitch and a couple of hiking buddies. 5/10 Car and foot Night
2010-08-09 -37 144 11 In a spooky cemetery, Footscray. With Mitch and partners. 6/10 Car Night
2010-11-05 28 77 12 Virgin graticule, New Delhi during Diwali! With Felix. 9/10 Public transport and foot Night
2011-10-15 -37 145 13 Lame car hash on a busy road, solo. 1/10 Car Night
2011-10-16 -37 145 14 Awesome mountain biking solo through Kinglake National Park. Music video and everything! 8/10 Bike Afternoon
2011-10-22 -37 147 15 Virgin graticule on a road cycling trip home from Bairnsdale, with Felix and tAlex. 6/10 Bike Midday
2011-10-29 -37 148 16 Virgin graticule en route to mountain biking adventure in Snowy River NP, with Felix and tAlex. 5/10 Car and foot Morning
2011-10-30 -37 148 17 Same graticule next day, wet, muddy bush bashing, with Felix and tAlex. 6/10 Car and foot Night
2011-10-31 -38 146 18 In a flat paddock near Yarram, with Felix and tAlex. 3/10 Car and foot Morning
2011-10-31 -38 145 19 In a flat paddock near Inverloch, with port, Felix and tAlex. 4/10 Car and foot Afternoon
2011-11-09 -37 144 20 In Wesley College, 400m from a conference I was attending, creates a surprising battle of wits with myself. 5.5/10 Foot Afternoon
2011-12-08 -37 145 21 In Shepherd's Bush, on a path, on a warm summer's night. 3/10 Car and foot Dusk
2011-12-21 -38 144 22 On a golf course in Geelong, cycled to the hash itself. 4/10 Bike Morning
2012-03-16 -37 145 23 Between two lanes of Monash Freeway, skiving off work solo. 5/10 Car and foot Afternoon
2012-03-18 -37 145 24 In Shepherd's Bush again, by bike with risky creek crossing and Felix. 5/10 Bike and foot Afternoon
2012-06-10 -37 145 25 On a stunningly scenic hill in a paddock near Merton, during a cycle tour, with Felix, tAlex and Andrew. 7/10 Bike and foot Midday
2012-06-17 -37 145 26 On a fence, near tAlex's house, with Felix. 3/10 Bike Evening
2012-11-02 -36 145 27 In a paddock near Benalla, with horrifyingly scary cows, with Felix. 5/10 Bike Night
2012-11-04 -36 145 28 In a paddock near Strathbogie, with Felix. 3/10 Car Night
2012-12-12 -37 145 29 In someone's front garden, near my house in Camberwell, with Ellen, Alex, Emma, Naomi. 4/10 Foot Night
2013-01-07 -37 145 30 In a cemetery in Springvale, scaring another expedition to death. Naomi, Felix, Cam, Lachlan, Tim B. 7/10 Car/foot Almost midnight
2013-01-12 -37 145 31 Deep in the bush near the Eildon-Jamieson road, during an epic solo cycle tour. 7.5/10 Bike/foot Midday
2013-05-24 -37 145 32 In a paddock in Ivanhoe, with a bunch of well dressed partygoers. 4/10 Bike Evening
2015-12-28 -37 147 33 In the bush just north of Dinner Plain, after cycling up Mt Hotham. 6/10 Bike Afternoon
2015-12-31 -36 146 34 In a paddock on the way to Wangaratta, with bonus dip in Ovens River. 4/10 Bike Morning
2016-09-10 -37 146 35 In bushland 5km north of Heyfield, during a cycle tour, with Tom, Miriam, Lachie and Ellen. We camped at the hash! 6/10 Bike Evening
2020-06-15 -37 144 36 On the edge of a park in Port Melbourne with Rob, Felix, Lachie and Ruth. 3/10 Bike Evening
2020-06-20 -37 144 37 On a steep street in Pascoe Vale with Lachie and Felix. 3/10 Bike Evening
2020-06-30 -37 145 38 On the banks of Plenty River, Plenty Gorge Park, solo. 6/10 Bike Afternoon
2020-07-25 -37 145 39 On an oval at Bulleen Park, solo. 4/10 Bike Afternoon
2020-11-24 -37 145 40 In the middle of a quiet back street. 3/10 Bike Early evening.
2021-03-14 -37 144 41 In a derelict former high school, Fawkner, with regular crew. 4/10 Bike Afternoon
2021-03-28 -37 145 42 On a bike path in Doncaster with Felix. 3/10 Bike Morning
2021-04-06 -36_146 43 In bushland near Stanley/Beechworth. 6/10 Car/foot Midday
2021-04-06 -36_145 44 In a paddock nearish Dookie. 2/10 Car Afternoon

Near misses

  1. 2009-05-25 -37 144 - South Melbourne, passed within 25m, but didn't bother to leave public transport for the occasion. 0/10
  2. 2009-07-17 -36 146 - in a paddock nearish Bright, saw the hashpoint, but didn't get out of the car. 0/10
  3. 2010-08-08 -37 144 - Wading into Port Philip Bay, out of time. 5/10
  4. 2012-06-01 -36 146 - Livestock fail near Glenrowan. 0/10
  5. 2020-05-03 -37 144 - Inside someone's front garden, Coburg.

Unsuccessful hashes

  1. 2009-05-30 -37 145 - a house next to a park in suburbia, by car, solo. Private property. 2/10
  2. 2009-06-08 -37 144 - blinded by science (Felix!), in a paddock near Macedon, with Matt, by bicycle in the dark. 5/10
  3. 2009-09-19 -37 145 - failed due to unexpected water. Solo bike quest through forbidden water catchment in Yarra Ranges, eventually descending steep gully and turning back due to existential crisis, inadequate lighting and waterfall within a couple of hundred metres of the point. 9/10
  4. 2012-06-01 -36 146 - in a paddock near Winton, northern Victoria. It turns out I have a morbid fear of cows.
  5. ...something...dinner plain...something
  6. 2020-05-03 -37 144 - in someone's front garden, in Melbourne. Unsuccessful? Meh, I'd call it.
  7. 2020-06-21 -37 145 - rode halfway to Kangaroo Ground. Forgot to bring snacks. It was getting late. Sooooo hungry.

Results

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Stevage achieved level 7 of the Minesweeper Geohash achievement
by visiting coordinates in Melbourne East and 7 of the surrounding graticules.

Graticule map (thanks Michael5000!)

This area represents the whole of Victoria. The two blue graticules are totally water. Dark lightgrey are New South Wales or ACT. Only proper expeditions are counted below; half-hearted attempts or expected failures aren't counted.

N\E 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149
-34 Wentworth Mildura Balranald
-35 Underbool Ouyen Swan Hill Deniliquin Cobram Corowa Wagga Wagga Tumut
-36 Nhill Horsham St Arnaud Bendigo Shepparton
2/2
Albury Wodonga
2/3
Corryong Jindabyne
-37 Casterton Hamilton Ballarat Melbourne West
6/7
Melbourne East
16/18
Mansfield
1/1
Bairnsdale
2/2 Virgin graticule!
Orbost
2/2 Virgin graticule!
Mallacoota
-38 Portland Warrnambool Colac Geelong
1/1
Pakenham
2/2
Traralgon
1/1
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