Results: Geodashing Game 240 (GDFK)
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Scout
Oct 4, 2021, 10:10:55 AM10/4/21
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Results: Geodashing Game 240 (GDFK)
"Shortly after dashing off a message to the list stating I wasn't going to dash, I had a realization. It was just under an hour to sunset. There was time to drive to Dash Point by sunset. A sunset visit to Dash Point on the day marking the sunset of the Geodashing game? Plus, given my western US time zone, I might actually score the very last dashpoint in the game. I couldn't resist, and got in my car, hoping to catch a sunset picture from Dash Point itself. I enjoyed my drive through Dash Point along Dash Point Road, stopping on a hill just as the road turned south to take a lovely panoramic Dash Point Sunset picture. I continued my drive to the actual dashpoint, in the community of Fircrest. That's 3 final points for Aquadyne, for En Dash!, and for the Geodashing game. Getting there, both on this dashpoint, and the hundreds before, was all the fun."
That's Geodashing in Dash Point, Washington, with Aquadyne
"Pulled up on Ohio 47 heading west towards Richwood, OH, where my GPS read 180 meters. Flipped around and pulled into the pull off for the field and jumped out with my geodog Heidi, and the GPS reading on my phone of 168 meters. Walked along the edge, or as close as possible, of a very muddy, freshly plowed and planted soy bean field. Stopped at 98 meters with mud flowing into my sneakers, and snapped a picture. By the time I got back to the car I had fallen once, lost and found one sneaker in the mud, and both Heidi and I were covered in mud."
That's Geodashing in Ohio with PLMerry
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Game 240 (GDFK) of Geodashing, the last in its twenty year history, was won by team Llama League. Honorable mentions go to GeoTerriers and Team GPS.
Individual honors go to Rogbarn.
The game saw 55 dashpoint hunts in three countries (the US, UK, and Germany)
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A sampling of waypoints visited by Geodashing players this month:
on the boundary of the Stockport Golf Club southeast of Manchester, England
in Montgomery, Alabama, in front of a brick rancher with a single-car carport on the left a very large pine tree in the right center of the front lawn
in a very muddy, freshly plowed and planted soy bean field in Ohio
in the middle of a pretty luxurious looking house on top of an unexpected hill in Spring Valley, a neighboring city to San Diego, California
in Sugar Land, Texas behind a two-story house, whose ground floor is brick and upper floor is stucco, with a large weeping willow tree to the right of the driveway
in Omaha, Nebraska, in a red brick single-story house with a white Forester in the driveway, decorated with some roses and lilies
in rural Iowa, up a private drive labeled with a street sign, near a farmhouse almost out of sight at the top of the hill
in a vacant lot in rural Iowa, clearly planned for future development, with wild grass, shrubs, a few trees, and yellow flowers along the edge of the road a bit away from Lake Panorama
in southeastern Arkansas, down a unpaved clay road, which on both sides has been cut and replanted in pines, with very even spacing between the trees
in suburban Plano, Texas, in a yard of a large house in a subdivision bordered by a stone wall and iron fence
southwest of Waco, Texas, in a one-floor home on Pueblo Drive, with roses planted in front, a stone arch over the front door entrance-way and a blue welcome sign at the front door
at an off-ramp from I-81 in Pennsylvania, across a field of wildflowers and into the tree line
in an old, but well-maintained three-story farmhouse outside of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
in a run-down area across the Mississippi River from St. Louis, in a water retention pond on a service area for Amtrak train cars
in rural eastern Alabama, northeast of Montgomery, in the trees along the road
in southern Vermont, next to a dirt road, that's off a dirt road, that's off another dirt road, off yet another dirt road, off still another dirt road
in woods in New Hampshire, about 50 meters off the road, in tick country, which probably describes most of New Hampshire
off of a gravel road between corn fields in Nebraska
in a field of soybeans in Iowa
in the yard of a corner house in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, across the street from the Burke Estate, the home of the late actress Billie Burke, who played Glinda in the Wizard of Oz
in a light-colored brick house with a two-car garage in northwest Houston, with a metal plaque on the garage with two cherubs asking God to bless the home
in a yard of a rural house on the scenic "Geodashing" route from Buffalo to Rochester, New York
in farmland northwest of St. Louis, along a gravel road barely wide enough for two vehicles, just past a washed-out side road
in rural Missouri, four miles down a gravel road in a grassy area between the road and a soybean field
north of Lorraine, Texas, in the middle of cotton fields, some hay, and a lot of wind turbines
in suburban Cleveland, in a grassy area next to the driveway for the First Assembly of God church
in Connecticut, in deep woods by a small granite ledge that ran parallel to the road
in New Jersey, in a neighborhood of nice, 2 story houses of somewhat recent vintage all with neatly mowed green lawns
on a curvy and hilly road in New Hampshire, in deep woods of mostly deciduous trees, near a stunning double birch tree
in the village of Nohn, Germany, on an agricultural-only road where some kids were playing on the grass (there was also a sign asking people to please not urinate into the currant bush)
and in Massachusetts, on one of many roads in New England that just seem to go nowhere but eventually somewhere, at a house mostly hidden by trees on the edge of a nice large pond
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Rhomicron says goodbye to Geodashing: "Sad to realize that this may be my final dashpoint report. Even if I only caught the tail end of it, it was enjoyable being drawn to these random points on the globe. And although I like geocaching too, the small number of geodashers just gives it more charm. We are true adventurers. Thanks for the fun and hope it can continue in some other fashion!"
McMeanderer says goodbye: "The move to Buffalo and death of the Garmin iQue severely limited my participation, obviously, but I still checked in once in a bit... For the last eight or nine years I have been mostly living in Buffalo but splitting my time in Rochester. I scored this point on the drive from Buffalo to Rochester on June 21--for a while now I've been in just-get-there mode and have been wearing out I-90, so it was nice to have an excuse to take a more meandering route and enjoy the drive--and I'm so terribly slow reporting because...around ten days ago we had a baby (four weeks early...)." Congratulations.
Wisk says goodbye: "It was hard to believe we were in Arizona, everything was so incredibly green from the record monsoon rains we have been having. It was a sad day - our final geodashing geo-date - and one final time to say 'Three points for Wisk and the Llama League!'"
Rogbarn goes out with a personal achievement: "This is the crown jewel of my Geodashing career. GDFK-CYLI is in Delaware despite being 'Near' Sharptown, Maryland. By getting this DP, I have found a DP in every state east of the Mississippi River and every state that borders on the Mississippi River. I have the whole eastern half of the United States covered."
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I've ended each month's Geodashing report with these words for years. They are particularly meaningful this month. 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 .
"Shortly after dashing off a message to the list stating I wasn't going to dash, I had a realization. It was just under an hour to sunset. There was time to drive to Dash Point by sunset. A sunset visit to Dash Point on the day marking the sunset of the Geodashing game? Plus, given my western US time zone, I might actually score the very last dashpoint in the game. I couldn't resist, and got in my car, hoping to catch a sunset picture from Dash Point itself. I enjoyed my drive through Dash Point along Dash Point Road, stopping on a hill just as the road turned south to take a lovely panoramic Dash Point Sunset picture. I continued my drive to the actual dashpoint, in the community of Fircrest. That's 3 final points for Aquadyne, for En Dash!, and for the Geodashing game. Getting there, both on this dashpoint, and the hundreds before, was all the fun."
That's Geodashing in Dash Point, Washington, with Aquadyne
"Pulled up on Ohio 47 heading west towards Richwood, OH, where my GPS read 180 meters. Flipped around and pulled into the pull off for the field and jumped out with my geodog Heidi, and the GPS reading on my phone of 168 meters. Walked along the edge, or as close as possible, of a very muddy, freshly plowed and planted soy bean field. Stopped at 98 meters with mud flowing into my sneakers, and snapped a picture. By the time I got back to the car I had fallen once, lost and found one sneaker in the mud, and both Heidi and I were covered in mud."
That's Geodashing in Ohio with PLMerry
==================================
Game 240 (GDFK) of Geodashing, the last in its twenty year history, was won by team Llama League. Honorable mentions go to GeoTerriers and Team GPS.
Individual honors go to Rogbarn.
The game saw 55 dashpoint hunts in three countries (the US, UK, and Germany)
==================================
A sampling of waypoints visited by Geodashing players this month:
on the boundary of the Stockport Golf Club southeast of Manchester, England
in Montgomery, Alabama, in front of a brick rancher with a single-car carport on the left a very large pine tree in the right center of the front lawn
in a very muddy, freshly plowed and planted soy bean field in Ohio
in the middle of a pretty luxurious looking house on top of an unexpected hill in Spring Valley, a neighboring city to San Diego, California
in Sugar Land, Texas behind a two-story house, whose ground floor is brick and upper floor is stucco, with a large weeping willow tree to the right of the driveway
in Omaha, Nebraska, in a red brick single-story house with a white Forester in the driveway, decorated with some roses and lilies
in rural Iowa, up a private drive labeled with a street sign, near a farmhouse almost out of sight at the top of the hill
in a vacant lot in rural Iowa, clearly planned for future development, with wild grass, shrubs, a few trees, and yellow flowers along the edge of the road a bit away from Lake Panorama
in southeastern Arkansas, down a unpaved clay road, which on both sides has been cut and replanted in pines, with very even spacing between the trees
in suburban Plano, Texas, in a yard of a large house in a subdivision bordered by a stone wall and iron fence
southwest of Waco, Texas, in a one-floor home on Pueblo Drive, with roses planted in front, a stone arch over the front door entrance-way and a blue welcome sign at the front door
at an off-ramp from I-81 in Pennsylvania, across a field of wildflowers and into the tree line
in an old, but well-maintained three-story farmhouse outside of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
in a run-down area across the Mississippi River from St. Louis, in a water retention pond on a service area for Amtrak train cars
in rural eastern Alabama, northeast of Montgomery, in the trees along the road
in southern Vermont, next to a dirt road, that's off a dirt road, that's off another dirt road, off yet another dirt road, off still another dirt road
in woods in New Hampshire, about 50 meters off the road, in tick country, which probably describes most of New Hampshire
off of a gravel road between corn fields in Nebraska
in a field of soybeans in Iowa
in the yard of a corner house in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, across the street from the Burke Estate, the home of the late actress Billie Burke, who played Glinda in the Wizard of Oz
in a light-colored brick house with a two-car garage in northwest Houston, with a metal plaque on the garage with two cherubs asking God to bless the home
in a yard of a rural house on the scenic "Geodashing" route from Buffalo to Rochester, New York
in farmland northwest of St. Louis, along a gravel road barely wide enough for two vehicles, just past a washed-out side road
in rural Missouri, four miles down a gravel road in a grassy area between the road and a soybean field
north of Lorraine, Texas, in the middle of cotton fields, some hay, and a lot of wind turbines
in suburban Cleveland, in a grassy area next to the driveway for the First Assembly of God church
in Connecticut, in deep woods by a small granite ledge that ran parallel to the road
in New Jersey, in a neighborhood of nice, 2 story houses of somewhat recent vintage all with neatly mowed green lawns
on a curvy and hilly road in New Hampshire, in deep woods of mostly deciduous trees, near a stunning double birch tree
in the village of Nohn, Germany, on an agricultural-only road where some kids were playing on the grass (there was also a sign asking people to please not urinate into the currant bush)
and in Massachusetts, on one of many roads in New England that just seem to go nowhere but eventually somewhere, at a house mostly hidden by trees on the edge of a nice large pond
==================================
Rhomicron says goodbye to Geodashing: "Sad to realize that this may be my final dashpoint report. Even if I only caught the tail end of it, it was enjoyable being drawn to these random points on the globe. And although I like geocaching too, the small number of geodashers just gives it more charm. We are true adventurers. Thanks for the fun and hope it can continue in some other fashion!"
McMeanderer says goodbye: "The move to Buffalo and death of the Garmin iQue severely limited my participation, obviously, but I still checked in once in a bit... For the last eight or nine years I have been mostly living in Buffalo but splitting my time in Rochester. I scored this point on the drive from Buffalo to Rochester on June 21--for a while now I've been in just-get-there mode and have been wearing out I-90, so it was nice to have an excuse to take a more meandering route and enjoy the drive--and I'm so terribly slow reporting because...around ten days ago we had a baby (four weeks early...)." Congratulations.
Wisk says goodbye: "It was hard to believe we were in Arizona, everything was so incredibly green from the record monsoon rains we have been having. It was a sad day - our final geodashing geo-date - and one final time to say 'Three points for Wisk and the Llama League!'"
Rogbarn goes out with a personal achievement: "This is the crown jewel of my Geodashing career. GDFK-CYLI is in Delaware despite being 'Near' Sharptown, Maryland. By getting this DP, I have found a DP in every state east of the Mississippi River and every state that borders on the Mississippi River. I have the whole eastern half of the United States covered."
==================================
I've ended each month's Geodashing report with these words for years. They are particularly meaningful this month. 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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harleydavidsonandy
Oct 6, 2021, 7:38:17 AM10/6/21
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Thanx to Scout and his Llamas for running GPSgames.org for 20 years!! Although more as a passive member in the last few years, I loved all gpsgames and played them regularly since 2005. Many wonderful memories to keep in mind!
Thank you all!
Cheers
Andy
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