2015-03-05 51 9

From Geohashing
Thu 5 Mar 2015 in 51,9:
51.4277491, 9.3520480
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Location

lat.427749, lon.352048: The hash lay on the hill Wartberg between Calden and Westeruffeln.

Participants

GeorgDerReisende

Plans

To travel by tram and by bus to Kassel International Airport and walk to the hash.

Expedition

2015-03-05 51 9 GeorgDerReisende 2395.jpg 2015-03-05 51 9 GeorgDerReisende 2399.jpg Again I travelled by bus to the Kassel International Airport and started to walk. While on my last expedition to this region, 2015-02-25 51 9, there was a lot of snow in the woods, today I saw the last snow on the mountains in the background.
2015-03-05 51 9 GeorgDerReisende 2403.jpg 2015-03-05 51 9 GeorgDerReisende 2408.jpg On the map I saw, that there were parts of the old national road and I tried to use these parts to reach the hash. But the road ended in nowhere. And there was only a very muddy edge of a field to continue.
In the background on the left side you see the Wartberg.
2015-03-05 51 9 GeorgDerReisende 2409.jpg But I saw a lot of wind. As long as I walked outside the forest, there was a cold wind blowing. Nearly I got a cold.
2015-03-05 51 9 GeorgDerReisende 2413.jpg 2015-03-05 51 9 GeorgDerReisende 2414.jpg So I returned to the new national road and walked along it. I passed near 2014-04-30 51 9, the shortest distance was 48 meters.
2015-03-05 51 9 GeorgDerReisende 2427.jpg Again I could walk along the old road. There I passed the entrance to a limestone quarry. This company looked like, that it produces that gravel, which makes the muddy forest ways hard. My way led me to the side of it, so I hadn't a better view.
2015-03-05 51 9 GeorgDerReisende 2431.jpg 2015-03-05 51 9 GeorgDerReisende 2434.jpg Then I entered the forest and there were the usual muddy ways. At first I walked along a way parallel to the national road, but just where the hash should be, there was a muddy forest way uphill. I followed it. At one place I saw this dangerous looking part of trees. And here there were only 35 meters to go, through this 'gate'.
2015-03-05 51 9 GeorgDerReisende 2438.jpg At this time there I walked more or less zigzag through small trees, always uphill, with some sort of muddy ground. But then I got the two meters mark.
2015-03-05 51 9 GeorgDerReisende 2439.jpg 2015-03-05 51 9 GeorgDerReisende 2440.jpg As I walked along the shown way, I decided, it could be ok to say, I reached the hash and while the gps told me, the hash is two meters away, it was this tree. But then I thought I can do this better and tried to dance around. But that was too dangerous:
2015-03-05 51 9 GeorgDerReisende 2441.jpg 2015-03-05 51 9 GeorgDerReisende 2442.jpg 2015-03-05 51 9 GeorgDerReisende 2443.jpg
I climbed uphill and found another forest way. From there I took those photos. The proof of my way, at one time I had passed the hash, but I don't know when and where. A view to the hash from above. The geohasher.
2015-03-05 51 9 GeorgDerReisende 2444.jpg 2015-03-05 51 9 GeorgDerReisende 2445.jpg 2015-03-05 51 9 GeorgDerReisende 2446.jpg
2015-03-05 51 9 GeorgDerReisende 2447.jpg 2015-03-05 51 9 GeorgDerReisende 2448.jpg Then the usual lookaround: to the south, to the west,
2015-03-05 51 9 GeorgDerReisende 2449.jpg 2015-03-05 51 9 GeorgDerReisende 2450.jpg to the east and to the north.
2015-03-05 51 9 GeorgDerReisende 2515.jpg Afterwards I walked along this newly found forest way to Westuffeln. Sometimes it was good to walk, sometimes it was very muddy. You know these ways.
2015-03-05 51 9 GeorgDerReisende 2533.jpg 2015-03-05 51 9 GeorgDerReisende 2537.jpg After a walk throung Westuffeln I travelled home, to Calden by hitchhiking, from there by bus. The photos show the old road, through Westuffeln, the Holländische Straße (road to Holland) and the new road, around Westuffeln.

Coordinate Calculator

Just as I wrote this report I got the message from Eupeodes, that the 'coordinates from March 4 onwards on the wiki are not reliable'. So again I calculated them myself.

Sometimes the peeron map doesn't show a marker. This happened first on 2013-09-24 51 9. So I calculated it by myself. As proof I have calculated the date which is shown at The Algorithm and those of some other dates. I have used http://elmar-eigner.de/md5_maker.html for the calculating of the md5 and http://www.easysurf.cc/cnver17.htm#bf16tobf10 for the calculating of the decimal fractions. The result was:

2005-05-26-10458.68 db9318c2259923d0 8b672cb305440f97 lat.8577132677070023 lon.5445430695592821
2013-09-21-15635.09 5fa26ea94f387b29 b57bdcb21e5af73d lat.3735722697594798 lon.7089212355480007
2013-09-22-15635.09 ba4d3c191547a4ba 6111e4205c6ecf96 lat.727741008876619 lon.3791792468077191
2013-09-23-15635.09 e5eac75c66f8bbbd 8dda3de131d0ebab lat.8981136894790066 lon.5541113543311585
2013-09-24-15452.31 be8103da25d3f6ab 2b0da6610d3e909f lat.7441561133944815 lon.16817703122546335

Given the result to my Garmin led me to the hash. North of Brakel. Hitchhiking as usual.

I hoped I am right. And I was.

Now again:

2015-03-05-18203.37 6d80f692a072145f 5a1fd1a849c2ddb7 lat.42774907188181316 lon.3520480190143291

Right for today.

Achievements

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GeorgDerReisende earned the Land geohash achievement
by reaching the (51, 9) geohash on 2015-03-05.