Geodashing Dashpoint Log
2011-01-02 20:35:22 UTC
GDAP-MUNO
Player: Haraldpoiss
Team: FinEst Dashers
GDAP-MUNO is near Voikula, Estonia.
> Date, Points, TeamPoints, Dashpoint, Country, State, Lat, Lon, Distance
2011-01-02, 3, 3, GDAP-MUNO, Estonia, , 58.5196, 23.3672, 0
Number of previous hunts by Haraldpoiss: 14
This was the most extreme dashpoint I've ever visited. It was in a real ass of
the hell, or actually on a small peninsula called "Võilaid" or "Butter islet"
in translation. It used to be a real islet in the past, but because the land is
continuously rising here, it now has a narrow (and awfully bad and swampy)
connection to island Muhu. Walking there was really like in butter, only deep
snow instead of it, occasionally with some water and unfrozen mud under it. It
took me 9 hours total to get there and back. First my car got stuck around
there 4 times. Finally I reached to 2,7km from target and took a 5 hour walk in
50cm deep snow. Average speed was 1km/h. See my detailed report below.
11:00 Left home
11:50 Cups measuring speed on the road. I had only 15km/h over, so they didn't
touch me.
12:00 Arrived to target area, got stuck 1st time on the border of Võiküla
(Butter village in translation), started digging out. The road there was really
like butter, only snow instead of it;)
12:30 Got the car moving, managed to reverse 100m and got stuck 2nd time by the
power lines entry point to Muhu island.
13:00 A tractor came to clean up the road and pulled me out. A local guy told
me that it would be better to approach to the islet from Rässa (another village
nearby). So I started driving there, but managed to find a trap and get stuck
3rd on the same road, which was now "cleaned".
13:30 Got the car moving again by driving it patiently inch by inch back and
forward. Arrived to Rässa and got stuck 4th time, because I chose wrong way.
Actually it was the right way, but for some reason they had given up using it
during this winter and pushed a temporary road straight over the frozen field.
14:00 Got the car moving after driving back and forward with 5m amplitude for
half an hour. Reached to 2,7km from target. Driving further was impossible. The
roads around there looked like some sledging trenches on Olympics. 3m wide and
high snow berms on both sides. Started walking.
15:43 Sunset on the shore of frozen sea
17:00 Reached to target in total darkness. Didn't see much, but it seemed like
a totally swampy area under the snow with a lot of reed growing around. Lights
of Virtsu harbor on the continent 8km away were visible over sea. As I later
looked from some aerophotos, the point was actually in a small lake. Covered
with ice of course. Started walking back. It was quite hard to follow my
tracks, because it was dark now and I didn't have a flashlight
19:00 Back in car, started driving home
20:00 Back home
Next time when I go to such place in winter, I buy myself snowshoes. Then I can
walk on the snow, not step through it. And I'll tie my pants to my ankles. Then
snow can't push them up and get in my boots. I poured half glass of water out
of my left boot at home. And I was wandering, why my toes were freezing. Still
5 hours in snow like that...
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