Dan Q
Based near Oxford; in the Swindon, UK graticule.
Expeditions
- Wednesday 19 February 2014 - successful expedition by bike (57.75 mile round trip) to a the geohash in the nearby London West graticule, to commemorate the second anniversary of his father's death.
- Monday 21 April 2014 - successful expedition on foot (1.2 mile round trip, including finding some nearby geohashes) to a hashpoint just 300 metres from his house, along with his partner Ruth and her baby Annabel.
- Saturday 12 July 2014 - successful expedition by car and foot to a geohash that was broadly-speaking sort-of between his house and an interview he'd just been to
- Saturday 22 August 2015 - failed expedition (actually a completely accidental "near miss"!) while driving South from Edinburgh to Oxford with a coincidental diversion via Lanark, as determined by retroactive reverse-engineering of Google Takeout data five years after the fact!
- Saturday 4 August 2018 - successful expedition by bike at midnight to a hashpoint about 2 miles from his house
- Tuesday 7 August 2018 - successful 6.5km expedition by bike (and foot at the very end) to a field South of Oxford after his afternoon's work meeting got cancelled
- Wednesday 22 August 2018 - successful expedition to East Adderbury to a hashpoint in a field of cows
- Thursday 23 August 2018 - cancelled expedition after the hashpoint location was revealed to be entirely in the wrong direction for my intended day's travel
- Thursday 23 August 2018 - successful expedition to replace the cancelled one; this time a hashpoint South one graticule, deep in a forest
- Tuesday 16 October 2018 - successful expedition to a roadside near a windfarm while en route to an exam
- Friday 9 November 2018 - successful expedition to the middle of a field in Somerset as a diversion from a journey from Oxford to Penzance (for Challenge Robin II)
- Tuesday 8 January 2019 - successful expedition to the A34 on the way to work to earn a Birthday Achievement (and to hide a geocache!)
- Monday 27 May 2019 - successful expedition to a cul-de-sac in South East Oxford as a break from studying
- Thursday 1 August 2019 - successful expedition by bike to a field near Charlbury Railway Station
- Friday 29 November 2019 - failed expedition to a footpath near Charlbury; stopped by flooding/falling into ooze; this was during the Dark Ages, so it was first documented only on my blog
- Friday 21 February 2020 - successful expedition to the village of Curbridge as a diversion on the way to a coworking space
- Saturday 22 February 2020 - a drive from Oxford to Preston is made much better by a diversion to the Peak District to climb part-way up a hill in a successful expedition to find a geohash
- Wednesday 9 September 2020 - successful lunchtime expedition to the Vale of White Horse
- Friday 19 February 2021 - successful retrohash to the 2012-02-19 51 -1 hashpoint to commemorate the anniversary of my dad's death
- Saturday 26 June 2021 - failed expedition to woods on Bladon Heath: I forgot my bike lock and so couldn't continue on foot the last kilometre
- Thursday 19 August 2021 - failed expedition to a field near Cote
- Sunday 29 August 2021 - successful expedition to a thorny cutting above the Lancaster Canal while driving my partner's brother to Cumbria
- Wednesday 22 December 2021 - successful expedition to the side of a field at Syde Farm on the East side of Syde
- Tuesday 1 February 2022 - successful expedition to the site of the (under construction) Aurora Solar Power Plant near Eynsham!
- Tuesday 8 February 2022 - successful expedition to a field near Kingston Bagpuize
- Saturday 19 February 2022 - successful first part of a two-day expedition
- Sunday 20 February 2022 - successful second part of a two-day expedition
- Monday 24 October 2022 - successful expedition to Wharf Stream Way, Eynsham
- Friday 2 December 2022 - failed expedition to a hashpoint guarded by a trio of bullocks near Appleton Sports Field
- Monday 5 December 2022 - successful night cycle out to a hashpoint off a bridleway begins Cokethorpe School
- Monday 2 January 2023 - successful damp hike around and then up Muswell Hill with a dog
- Friday 10 March 2023 - successful dog walk around North Leigh Common
- Thursday 27 July 2023 - successful dog walk with a runny nose (me, not the dog) near a school in West Witney while my partner went shopping, which is totally as good as if we were on the Isle of Man celebrating our anniversary right?
- Saturday 10 February 2024 - after a long hiatus, a successful expedition to a muddy field South of Cumnnor
- Thursday 9 May 2024 - the dog needed a walk, so we made a successful expedition to a hashpoint near Standlake Allotments
- Tuesday 22 October 2024 - successful expedition up Harcourt Hill (with the dog)
- Sunday 10 November 2024 - Tron lightcycle expedition to and from Barnard Gate via a circuitous route and some roadworks
- Thursday 14 November 2024 - failed expedition to a field near Ducklington
- Friday 22 November 2024 - successful expedition (and graticule unlocking in a previously-unexplored graticule!) to an abandoned pasture near Abbey, County Limerick, Ireland, with his mother.
- Saturday 23 November 2024 - failed expedition to another locked Irish graticule, on account of flood waters washing out all the meaningful roads between their AirBnB and the hashpoint
- Sunday 24 November 2024 - successful expedition deep into a forest on the hillside on the other side of the Suir Valley from Kilsheelan
- Monday 25 November 2024 - successful expedition to a very muddle field East of Claremorris, on the way to new accommodation
- Tuesday 26 November 2024 - failed expedition to a water hashpoint near Clare Island when no charter boat company would help deliver Dan there
Achievements
In reverse order of aquisition (i.e. most-recent first):
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- [email protected] - good old-fashioned email
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