User:Sporksmith

From Geohashing

Regular expeditions

Date Primary transport Success? Notable achievements Location / Notes
2023-01-01 30 -97 bicycle No No trespassing 40m Behind a home in the North Hills of Austin.
2023-01-05 30 -97 bicycle Yes On street in front of a home in Austin.
2023-02-19_30_-97 bicycle yes circus (juggling) At a park entrance
2023-03-18 30 -97 unicycle No No trespassing 5m Juuust inside a back yard.
2023-04-13 30 -97 EUC No No trespassing 27m Back yard
2024-05-08_30_-97 car and short walk yes circus (juggling) Just off of a park path and next to a fireant hill.

Retrohashes

I don't like to drive a car for geohashing purposes. Unfortunately in my home of Austin, TX this makes most hash points impractical to travel to. As an alternative sort of mini-adventure, I've compiled a list of the 600+ hash points within 20 km of my home since the birth of geohashing (2008-05-21) using https://kripakko.neocities.org/geohash_retro/, and am attempting to visit them in chronological order.

I probably won't bother making full-fledged entries for these expeditions, though may make a note on pages that already exist.

Hash date Planning Expedition date Mode of Transport Success? Expedition
2008-05-23 2024-05-02 unicycle Yes! strava, wiki

Pretty easy one. Quick lunch-time expedition by unicycle. I did have a bit of excitement where I zoned out a bit and got going too fast, and realized I was tipping forward. Luckily I was able to jump forward and off and run it out.

2008-06-11 2024-05-03 EUC No. Private property. Got within 1 km. Hashpoint 1 of 2 on a 30 mile expedition. Turtles, wildflowers, mud, and stroads. A right hook incident that left me mostly ok https://hachyderm.io/@sporksmith/112377820568032723
2008-06-12 2024-05-03 EUC Yes! Hashpoint 2 of 2 on a 30 mile expedition. Turtles, wildflowers, mud, and stroads. A right hook incident that left me mostly ok https://hachyderm.io/@sporksmith/112377820568032723
2008-06-15 Robinson Ranch. Probably inaccessible. 2024-05-10 Bicycle No. No trespassing. 170m. 1 of 3 https://www.strava.com/activities/11379591920
2008-06-26 In the right-most lane of Mopac Expressway. Probably unreachable without a car. possibly combine with previous expedition. 2024-05-10 Bicycle No. There might be alligators road rage. 63m. 2 of 3 https://www.strava.com/activities/11379591920
2008-07-04 On a residential street. possibly combine with previous 2 2024-05-10 Bicycle Yes! 3 of 3 https://www.strava.com/activities/11379591920
2008-08-16 Parking lot of "Applied materials building 34". Unclear whether publicly accessible
2008-08-21 Parking lot of a shopping plaza
2008-08-24 Wilderness