2015-06-13 52 1

Location

Close to a public footpath, Kenton Corner, Suffolk, UK.

Participants

Expedition

Arrived. -- Sourcerer (talk) @52.2402,1.2168 10:24, 13 June 2015 (GMT+01:00)

Originally I planned to pair this expedition with the Sunday hashpoint. It turned out that there would be no mileage advantage as the route from Saturday to Sunday went right past my house. So I got the joy of a daylight expedition in the pouring rain! The weather forecast was for dull cloud with occasional showers. In fact we got continuous light rain with occasional heavy downpours. The temperature was 15C.

I parked the car at Kenton Corner and the hashpoint was about 650 metres away. The path zigzagged so the Pythagoras hypotenuse distance was greater. Close to the hashpoint, I discovered it was on the wrong side of the drainage ditch - consistent with my theories about quantum cussedness. I had to backtrack and cross the ditch. There was no water in the ditch. It was all on the tall vegetation. The crossing required a back-side slide manoeuvre. Soaked from the back-side down, I reached the hashpoint and took the photos. There was no 3G reception for the arrival message. I uploaded this from higher ground on the return walk.

I returned, exhilarated, to the car with wet clingy pants and soaked muddy feet.

We did it! -- ChromeCrusaders (talk) @52.2368,1.2164 21:47, 13 June 2015 (GMT+01:00)

We left later on then the Sourcerer did, meaning we had no rain to compete with. We also used a similar method of going around the point before actually reaching it, in the process, we found foot bridges over the ditch(s) and reached the point relatively dry, although the tall plants did try their best to change this. We also had phone signal (Go Virgin Mobile!)

Photos

Proof
The approach
The hashpoint
Google Earth Tracklog
ChromeCrusaders
Similar Plants
Although it's not clear in the photo, we found the Sourcerers' Back Side 'markings'

Achievements

Sourcerer earned the OpenStreetMap achievement

by contributing to OpenStreetMap based on their expedition to the (52, 1) geohash on 2015-06-13.

Expeditions and Plans

2015-06-13
Dunkirk, New York	Pedalpusher, Simon the dog, Myka the dog	Hatch Creek State Forest
Madison, Wisconsin	Someone went	located in a farm field not far from Madison.
Norwich, United Kingdom	Sourcerer, ChromeCrusaders	Close to a public footpath, Kenton Corner, Suffolk, UK.

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