2013-03-02 21:53:09 UTC
GDBP-MUAZ
Player: Haraldpoiss
Team: FinEst Dashers
GDBP-MUAZ is near Koinastu, Estonia.
> Date, Points, TeamPoints, Dashpoint, Country, State, Lat, Lon, Distance
2013-03-02, 3, 3, GDBP-MUAZ, Estonia, , 58.6286, 23.0346, 0
Number of previous hunts by Haraldpoiss: 38
Wow-wow-wow, it's Haraldpoiss with breaking news from Saaremaa, reporting another overseas dashpoint visit. It was on a small islet, near island Muhu.
We had a nice sunny winter day with chilly -10C outside. Approaching to the dashpoint, I first took a wrong way, which ended with a sign "Private property". Oh, how I just love these. As the road was narrow and there was deep snow on both sides, there was no possibility to turn around. So I had to reverse for about 0.5km. Oh yes, and of course I was not careful enough with it and drove too close to the side of the road and got stuck. It took me half an hour to get out from there. Nothing serious though.
So, I took the right way after that, which had quite bad snow conditions. The semi-hard snow between the driving tracks was continuously scraping the bottom of the car. It should have taken me to the shore, where from the point 2.2km away should have been walked to. Well, that's not the way I do business ;) It was quite cold and windy out there on the open sea... and there were some tracks on the ice, which looked like an unofficial ice road. So I drove onto the sea and made it to 460m from the point. Basically I parked in the middle of the sea and walked from there to make it zero. It was on the outskirts of islet Kõinastu.
While I was careful when approaching, on the way back I made easily over 100km/h on ice. It felt like driving on a dried salt lake or something. It was fun. And I didn't wear seat belt of course, because it's illegal to wear it on ice (as it is actually illegal to drive on ice anyway). Back on dry land, I saw a nice fox on roadside, but it ran away as soon as I stopped, so I couldn't take a picture. Afterwards I visited Muhu hill-fort and saw kite surfers on the ice of strait Väike. Road conditions were excellent and for my big surprise, I didn't see cops this time nor any other phenomena that may disturb fluent traffic.
http://geodashing.gpsgames.org/cgi-bin/dp.pl?dp=GDBP-MUAZ
In the beginning of ice-road, shore of Saaremaa visible over sea
Parking in the middle of sea, shore of Saaremaa visible on horizon
As we've had few weeks of quite warm weather, the leaves are about to
burst out already. On top of the rampart of Muhu stronghold, 9.5km from GDBP-MUAZ.
