User:Arvid

From Geo Hashing

Jump to: navigation, search

[edit] Achievements

Arvid earned the Virgin Graticule Achievement

by being the first to reach any hashpoint in the (52, 7) graticule, here, on 2008-07-23.

Arvid earned the Bicycle geohash achievement

by cycling to the (51, 7) geohash on 2008-08-01.

I actually cycled to all my hashes except one, see Bicycle Geohashes/User:Arvid for a complete list.

Arvid earned the Land geohash achievement

by reaching the (51, 7) geohash on 2008-08-01.

Arvid earned the Border geohash achievement

on 2008-08-01 by crossing the Netherlands-Germany border to reach the (51, 7) geohash.

Arvid earned the Velociraptor Geohash Achievement

by reaching the (52, 6) geohash for 2008-08-09 with highly visible raptor claw marks.

Arvid earned the Cold geohash achievement

by reaching the (52, 7) geohash on 2008-08-20 while the temperature was 19°C.

Arvid earned the Drowned Rat Geohash Achievement

by reaching the (52, 7) geohash on 2008-08-20 despite being thoroughly wet from rain.

Arvid earned the Multihash Achievement

by reaching the (52, 6) and (52, 7) geohashes on 2008-08-25.

Arvid earned the No trespassing consolation prize

by almost reaching the (52, 7) geohash on 2008-08-26.

Arvid earned the Virgin Graticule Achievement

by being the first to reach any hashpoint in the (52, 8) graticule, here, on 2008-08-30.

Arvid earned the Drag-along achievement

by dragging fuzzie and bz2 to the (52, 4) geohash on 2008-09-10.

Arvid earned the Public transport geohash achievement

by reaching the (52, 4) geohash on 2008-09-10 via bus and train.

Arvid earned the "Mother Nature's Bitch" Consolation Prize

by failing to reach the (52, 7) geohash on 2008-09-15.

Arvid earned the Cold geohash achievement

by reaching the (52, 6) geohash on 2008-09-18 while the temperature was 9.3°C.

Arvid earned the XKCD-100 Achievement

by reaching the (53, 6) geohash on 2008-10-04.

Arvid earned the Multihash Achievement

by reaching the (52, 6) and (53, 6) geohashes on 2008-10-04.

Arvid earned the Virgin Graticule Achievement

by being the first to reach any hashpoint in the (53, 7) graticule, here, on 2008-10-18.

Arvid earned the Regional geohashing achievement

by reaching a hash point in all 4 graticules belonging to Borken district.

Arvid earned the Sunrise Geohash Achievement

by reaching the (52, 7) geohash on 2008-12-07 to smile at the first rays of sun to cross the horizon.

Arvid earned the xkcd Decurion achievement

by attending 17 Saturday meetups.

Arvid earned the Déjà Vu Geohash Achievement

by reaching the (52, 6) geohash on 2008-12-13, and previously on 2008-12-12.

Arvid earned the Frozen Geohash Achievement

by reaching the (52, 7) geohash on 2009-01-02 while the temperature was -4.2°C.

Arvid earned the Midnight Geohash achievement

by reaching the (52, 6) geohash on 2009-01-30 in the middle of the night.

Arvid earned the GeoTrash Geohash Achievement

by cleaning up the (51, 7) geohash on 2009-04-25.

Arvid earned the Tron achievement

by reaching and returning from the (52, 7) geohash without crossing his own tracks on 2009-07-19.

Arvid has achieved Level 5 of the Minesweeper Geohash achievement

by visiting coordinates in Enschede, Netherlands and 5 of the surrounding graticules.

[edit] About

I live in Enschede, Netherlands, which is in the south east of N52 E6. Graticules I consider in general are N52 E6, N51 E6, N52 E7 or N51 E7. When I'm in for a big challenge I might go to graticules further away.

I use Geohashing as an excuse for cycling somewhere else then what are my default routes. I cycled London Edinburgh London, report here. I did a XKCD-100 by bike, and cycled back on October 4th 2008 as part of my preparation for that.

Next challenges: completing a Minesweeper achievement, regional hashes of Overijssel(2 out 3), Borken district(done), Netherlands(6/14), Nordrhine-Westphalia(5/13).

My general means of transport until march 2009 was a recumbent bicycle by Nazca.

Currently it is a recumbent bicycle by Challenge. The first ride I did with that was to the hash at february 21st 2009.

I'm not that motivated anymore. I'm still looking at the hashpoints daily, but don't know how often I will still go. --Arvid 20:08, 23 September 2009 (UTC)

Tracklog of all bike hashes attempted in 2008
Tracklog of all bike hashes attempted in 2009

[edit] Statistics

Total Expeditions	58
Hashes reached	50/60
Attempts in the Netherlands	27
Attempts in Germany	32
Attempt in Belgium	1
Blinded by Science	2(the first 2)
Mother Nature	3
No Trespassing	5
Drag along hashes	3
Saturday 4pm meetups.....	17 (of 23)