2013-04-16 55 37

Tue 16 Apr 2013 in 55,37: 55.7227043, 37.6105782 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox

Location

Shabolovka street, on the sidewalk.

Participants

vb (talk)

Plans

To cure insomnia by having a long walk.

Expedition

~7h walk home-hash-home. Some blisters, but otherwise feel great.

GPS refused to behave at the hash, probably because of the nearby Shuhov tower (TV/radio transmission), so categorising it as no GPS expedition.

The hash turned out to be not on the sidewalk but just at the side of the street, since sidewalks are separated from the street by some meters of trees an what would be grass in summer.

Walk distance: "My Tracks" on the phone shows 35.5 km. "Google Earth" - 34.5. After removing obvious GPS glitches with "GPX Editor" - 32.7. After downsampling initial 10k+ points to about 1400 - 32.6, further downsampling to about 100 points, which is too few - 32.1km. Finally approximating as 32.5km.

Tron: not a pure pure Tron, since I entered and exited shops etc, and made last few meters to the entrance of the building where I live the by the same path - but still within limits, as I understand.

Tracklog

Photos

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  Trinity Church on Shabolovka (originally built in 1699, then rebuilt several times) as seen from the hash

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  apartment building (built in 1962), closest to the hash.

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  surprisingly couldn't find any info on this building across the street from the hash, excerpt that it is obviously an old one.

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  panorama at the hash.

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  Tram depot (1909, Shukhov) is about 400m north from the hash.

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  Famous Shukhov Tower (1922) is about 600m south from the hash (as seen from the tram depot).

Achievements

vb earned the Tron achievement by reaching and returning from the (55, 37) geohash without crossing his own tracks on 2013-04-16.

vb earned the Walk geohash Achievement by reaching the (55, 37) geohash on 2013-04-16 on foot, travelling a distance of 32.5km.