Results: Geodashing Game 234 (GDFE)
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Jan 4, 2021, 12:06:12 PM1/4/21
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Results: Geodashing Game 234 (GDFE)
"On my way to this one, I turned off I-83 early to take a phone call, and got myself sort-of stuck at the edge of PA 216 just west of the exit. I say 'sort-of stuck' because I noticed that I had traction in reverse, and would certainly have managed to extricate myself if that had proven necessary. As soon as I finished the call I stopped to take, I called AAA, figuring that I would cancel the call when I got myself out. But before I even finished with AAA's hold music, not one, but three people had stopped their cars to give me a hand. The first commented that he had a tow rope, the second looked at my wheels and said that he could give me a push and we wouldn't need the tow rope, and the third stopped behind all three of our cars with his emergency flashers on. Sure enough, I was able to back up enough to get to a spot where the second guy was able to apply a shoulder to my car and get me up onto the shoulder. I thanked them and then got back on my way. Getting to the dashpoint, I was able to score easily in the Heritage Valley Federal Credit Union parking lot."
That's Geodashing in Pennsylvania with BOB
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Game 234 (GDFE) of Geodashing was won by team En Dash!, in a one-point win over teams GeoTerriers and Llama League.
The game saw 18 dashpoint hunts in two countries (US and Germany).
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A sampling of waypoints visited by Geodashing players this month:
in Colina Park Golf Course, an extremely compact golf course in a dense San Diego neighborhood
in a farm field on the western edge of Santa Maria, California, where some leafy green vegetable (lettuce? kale? bok choi?) are approaching ripeness
along the California coast, in a small complex of townhomes south of Santa Barbara, California
in Scranton, Pennsylvania, birthplace of US President-Elect Joe Biden, in a yellow house with red ribbon wrapped as a candy-can stripe around the white pillars of the back porch
in the Heritage Valley Federal Credit Union parking lot in York, Pennsylvania
a bit west of the town of Aurora, Utah, up climbing dirt roads for three or four miles, offering beautiful vistas in the Sevier Valley below
in private property off of the highway near Karlsruhe, Germany
in Missouri, along a very nice rural road, uphill, with curves and beautiful scenery, just within scoring range from the fence at the side of the road
by a house painted in several shades of green and with a carport rather than a garage, in the Eagle Rock District of L.A, west of Pasadena, an area with a lot of what we tend to call "California bungalows"
in suburban Washington State, 3 km from Dash Point State Park (which, after 20 years, is still waiting for its first dashpoint)
in Damascus, Maryland, among big box retailers at the highway exit, and along Long Corner Road, a winding road with high points overlooking hills and valleys
and in southern Illinois, in a nice looking farm field that had been harvested and plowed under waiting for the next growing season ("The sun was showing thru the clouds as it was setting on the horizon. It was a big red ball without any other color showing on the clouds. We've seen many colors in many sunsets over the years but we had never seen the deep red that we saw in this one. What a treat!")
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Douq Millar offers this year-end wish for a better 2021: "We're really looking forward to getting the vaccine and being able to safely travel. Our big dream is Ecuador or Spain (where I've seen many reachable points, at least if one has a car). We really want to get to some more exotic place than midwest USA and find some really remote DPs. We've always enjoyed Geodashing because plotting a route through available DPs and simultaneously some of our other destinations and almost always encountering adventure, or at least sites to see we would have never found without doing this crazy search for random points. Even though GPS is no longer the novelty it once was the benefit of getting off the beaten path and finding the unknown is as fresh as ever."
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Thanks to all the Geodashing players, whose many great reports are quoted here, not always with proper attribution. Complete, original reports are available on the Web site.
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About Geodashing: Geodashing is a game in which players use GPS receivers on a playing field that covers the entire planet. The waypoints, or dashpoints, to be reached are randomly selected. The win goes to who can get to the most dashpoints; that is, if you can get to them at all! Each game has a new set of dashpoints making each game different and unpredictable. For more information and to play, visit http://GPSgames.org .
"On my way to this one, I turned off I-83 early to take a phone call, and got myself sort-of stuck at the edge of PA 216 just west of the exit. I say 'sort-of stuck' because I noticed that I had traction in reverse, and would certainly have managed to extricate myself if that had proven necessary. As soon as I finished the call I stopped to take, I called AAA, figuring that I would cancel the call when I got myself out. But before I even finished with AAA's hold music, not one, but three people had stopped their cars to give me a hand. The first commented that he had a tow rope, the second looked at my wheels and said that he could give me a push and we wouldn't need the tow rope, and the third stopped behind all three of our cars with his emergency flashers on. Sure enough, I was able to back up enough to get to a spot where the second guy was able to apply a shoulder to my car and get me up onto the shoulder. I thanked them and then got back on my way. Getting to the dashpoint, I was able to score easily in the Heritage Valley Federal Credit Union parking lot."
That's Geodashing in Pennsylvania with BOB
==================================
Game 234 (GDFE) of Geodashing was won by team En Dash!, in a one-point win over teams GeoTerriers and Llama League.
The game saw 18 dashpoint hunts in two countries (US and Germany).
==================================
A sampling of waypoints visited by Geodashing players this month:
in Colina Park Golf Course, an extremely compact golf course in a dense San Diego neighborhood
in a farm field on the western edge of Santa Maria, California, where some leafy green vegetable (lettuce? kale? bok choi?) are approaching ripeness
along the California coast, in a small complex of townhomes south of Santa Barbara, California
in Scranton, Pennsylvania, birthplace of US President-Elect Joe Biden, in a yellow house with red ribbon wrapped as a candy-can stripe around the white pillars of the back porch
in the Heritage Valley Federal Credit Union parking lot in York, Pennsylvania
a bit west of the town of Aurora, Utah, up climbing dirt roads for three or four miles, offering beautiful vistas in the Sevier Valley below
in private property off of the highway near Karlsruhe, Germany
in Missouri, along a very nice rural road, uphill, with curves and beautiful scenery, just within scoring range from the fence at the side of the road
by a house painted in several shades of green and with a carport rather than a garage, in the Eagle Rock District of L.A, west of Pasadena, an area with a lot of what we tend to call "California bungalows"
in suburban Washington State, 3 km from Dash Point State Park (which, after 20 years, is still waiting for its first dashpoint)
in Damascus, Maryland, among big box retailers at the highway exit, and along Long Corner Road, a winding road with high points overlooking hills and valleys
and in southern Illinois, in a nice looking farm field that had been harvested and plowed under waiting for the next growing season ("The sun was showing thru the clouds as it was setting on the horizon. It was a big red ball without any other color showing on the clouds. We've seen many colors in many sunsets over the years but we had never seen the deep red that we saw in this one. What a treat!")
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Douq Millar offers this year-end wish for a better 2021: "We're really looking forward to getting the vaccine and being able to safely travel. Our big dream is Ecuador or Spain (where I've seen many reachable points, at least if one has a car). We really want to get to some more exotic place than midwest USA and find some really remote DPs. We've always enjoyed Geodashing because plotting a route through available DPs and simultaneously some of our other destinations and almost always encountering adventure, or at least sites to see we would have never found without doing this crazy search for random points. Even though GPS is no longer the novelty it once was the benefit of getting off the beaten path and finding the unknown is as fresh as ever."
==================================
Thanks to all the Geodashing players, whose many great reports are quoted here, not always with proper attribution. Complete, original reports are available on the Web site.
==================================
About Geodashing: Geodashing is a game in which players use GPS receivers on a playing field that covers the entire planet. The waypoints, or dashpoints, to be reached are randomly selected. The win goes to who can get to the most dashpoints; that is, if you can get to them at all! Each game has a new set of dashpoints making each game different and unpredictable. For more information and to play, visit http://GPSgames.org .
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