2010-09-24 51 1

From Geohashing
Fri 24 Sep 2010 in Canterbury, UK:
51.9829422, 1.0410459
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Location

1) About a mile east of the village of East Bergholt and just south of the A12. It was in a sheep field.

Participants

Sourcerer - Arrived at about 18:56

MagicIan - Arrived around 21:20 and did not meet Sourcerer.

Expedition

2010-09-24 51 1 :: 2010-09-24 51 0 :: 2010-09-24 51 -0 :: 2010-09-24 52 -0 :: 2010-09-24 52 0

Sourcerer (Neil) made a 300 mile journey and took in five hashpoints. This was the first. It was a straightforward circular country walk past fields, across a stream and through a wood.

MagicIan drove 46 miles and parked on Cutler's Lane before walking the last half a mile to reach the hashpoint. When he did this he was quite excited as he mistakenly thought he would be reaching a virgin graticule. The walk itself was fairly uneventful. Even though it was pretty dark the moon provided some assistance and he could also use the pylons nearby to aid his navigation once he was off the footpath and onto the field.

Tracklog

Sourcerer's track is logged here at Wikiloc.

MagicIan didn't have a GPS device at the time and instead took photos of the 'view' from the hashpoint - mostly fuzzy outlines of trees in darkness!

Achievements

Neil believes this is the first documented expedition in the Canterbury graticule. It seems odd to claim this by visiting a point in Suffolk.

Virgin-graticule.png
Sourcerer earned the Virgin Graticule Achievement
by being the first to reach any hashpoint in the (51, 1) graticule, here, on 2010-09-24.

Congratulations from MagicIan to Sourcerer on his achievements, even if he was a little bitter about it at the time :-)

Photo Gallery

Expeditions and Plans

2010-09-24
Crestview, Florida Powertool In someone's backyard.
Plainview, Texas Redassag02 Just on the side of the road
Allentown, Pennsylvania Candida Nashe Southeast of Kutztown, Pennsylvania
Cleveland, Ohio jSchleappi, Teh Lauren East Cleveland
Portland, Oregon Michael5000, Jim Somebody's driveway, in Sellwood.
Landshut, Germany dawidi In the Danube river south of Sinzing, a few kilometers upstream from Regens...
Vancouver, British Columbia user:thepiguy In the forest north of Roberts Creek.
Nowy Sącz, Poland Felinator In small forest in Wieliczka.
Erfurt, Germany Mampfred, Rincewind Right in the middle of Erfurt next to the University of Applied Science. Pe...
London West, United Kingdom Sourcerer 3) A few hundred metres west of the village of Buckland.
London East, United Kingdom Sourcerer 2) A few hundred metres north of the village of Anstey.
Canterbury, United Kingdom Sourcerer, MagicIan 1) About a mile east of the village of East Bergholt and just south of the ...
Northampton, United Kingdom Sourcerer 4) Between the goal posts on a mini soccer field in a children's play area....
Cambridge, United Kingdom Sourcerer 5) 90 seconds before midnight - a grassy area between two houses east of Bo...
Edmonton, Alberta Phi-loci-raptor, b cereus Just back from work up north, fighting nightshift-lag, hangovers and racing...



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Sourcerer's Expedition Links

2010-09-20_52_1 - 2010-09-24_51_1 - 2010-09-24_51_0 - KML file download of Sourcerer's expeditions for use with Google Earth.