2011-10-12 40 -74

Wed 12 Oct 2011 in 40,-74: 40.7024872, -74.3197296 peeron  Eupeodes google  osm  crox

Location

Springfield, NJ - On Mountain Ave. 3 houses NE of where it crosses Shunpike Rd. - Spindizzy

Participants

• Spindizzy at about 3:30
• Jevanyn at about 5:30

Plans

• Looks worthy of a No Batteries attempt for me. The hash appears to be in the middle of a tree near a sidewalk. Won't be able to do a meetup, however, due to a prior commitment. - Spindizzy 13:43, 12 October 2011

• Wow, really? That's less than a mile from where I work. Be there around 5PM. -- Jevanyn @40.6886,-74.3162 13:00, 12 October 2011 (EDT)

Expedition

Spindizzy: Drove to this location and arrived around 3:30 pm DST. Mountain Avenue is very busy with "No Standing" signs so I parked on a side street. Not wanting to look too conspicuous, I took a couple of photos - walking up to the hash and one from across the street, where there was a memorial park where I took some photos. There was a crossing guard to get across the street and I did not want to look suspicious.

Photos

Spindizzy

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  Walking to the geohash

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  Google Earth view

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  The Larch

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  Veteran's park 1

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  Veteran's park 2

Sorry, no photos of me - camera is a hand-held and difficult to self-portrait.

Jevanyn

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  Bush at the hashpoint @40.7025,-74.3197

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  Standing under this tree to try to stay dry (it didn't work) @40.7025,-74.3197

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  Me and Mr. Bush @40.7025,-74.3197

Achievements

Spindizzy earned the Land geohash achievement by reaching the (40, -74) geohash on 2011-10-12.

Spindizzy earned the No Batteries Geohash Achievement by reaching the (40, -74) geohash on 2011-10-12.

Spindizzy and Jevanyn earned the A Tale of Two Hashes achievement by meeting the challenge by Dvdllr to geohash in Springfield going to the (40, -74) geohash on 2011-10-12.