2010-05-02 55 -111

Sun 2 May 2010 in 55,-111: 55.3530534, -111.0108065 peeron  Eupeodes google  osm  crox

Location

On township road 734A, 14km east of Highway 881.

Participants

B cereus

Plans

The iPhone Geohash app showed this location to be a fairly short drive away from the drilling rig I'm working at. Satellite view shows roads that aren't on the road maps which would allow a multiple achievement virgin tron speedracer land hash. Since I'm on nightshift, I'll get up on the early afternoon and try this geohashing thing

Expedition

Success! Got to my first geohash location. I left 2 hours before my shift, which should have been plenty of time. The shortcut I saw from satellite maps turned out to be a cutline and not a road, so I had to backtrack 25km to the highway. Guess I'll have to try tron another day. I was all setup to take speedracer picture when Kazza said "turn left now". Stupid iPhone lied. The location turned out to be a couple hundred meters off the road. I should probably tell you that Kazza is the voice of my Nuvi. Armed with my bear safety kit, I walked across an open field then into a mossy floored lichen covered pine forest. The day before, I had just seen an emaciated cinnamon coloured Black Bear who looked VERY hungry after hibernating, so I was a bit nervous while in the forest. I quickly got to the location, took my pics of proof, stupid grin included, and got the heck out of there. I arrived back at work only one hour late.

Photos

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  Sickly swamp pines

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  I really need a handheld GPSR

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  Obligatory stupid grin

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  This is my other car

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  Back to work

B cereus earned the Land geohash achievement by reaching the (55, -111) geohash on 2010-05-02.

B cereus earned the Virgin Graticule Achievement by being the first to reach any hashpoint in the (55, -111) graticule, here, on 2010-05-02.