Results: Geodashing Game 96

"On the other side of the fence was the edge of Werribee Gorge State Park.
Luckily, the animal proof fence was nearly, but not quite, GeoffJ3191 proof. I
found some thick sticks and pried the wire apart as best I could. Then I was
just able to delicately extrude my body between the strands, thinking as I was
doing it how this could very easily end in tears (both meanings of this word
apply here). Having passed through, I was still about 50 m away from scoring
but I was now at the top of a very steep, rocky, thinly treed slope down into
the gorge. To move 50m horizontally, Pythagoras reckoned I would need to go
somewhat further down the slope, and he was right. I very carefully descended
along and down the slope until I reached a beautiful large eucalyptus tree which
was 85m from ground zero. Close enough."

That's Geodashing in Victoria, Australia with geoffj3191

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Game 96 of Geodashing was won by a large margin by team "GeoTerriers," their
second win in a row. Honorable mentions go to teams "En Dash!" and "Llama
League."

Individual honors go to PLMerry thanks largely to a two-day, thirteen dashpoint
mad dash. RogBarn was second thanks to several weekends of multiple dashpoint
scores. Jack Frickey was third, thanks to his 2200 mile, twelve dashpoint mad
dash. RogBarn gets special recognition for going over 1000 points in his
career.

The game saw 106 dashpoint hunts in six countries (Australia, the US, Finland,
Brazil, Germany and Canada).

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A sampling of waypoints visited by Geodashing players this month:

in the middle of nine sets of tracks of Caulfield Station, a major suburban hub
in Melbourne, Australia, scored by three players with three visits on June 1

in an industrial area of Salo, Finland, near a car wash, a cleaning firm and a
car repair shop

in a muddy field in Colorado near a natural gas well

near the yachts of Brazil's Iate Clube Guaiba and the course of the Match Race
Championship which took place in March

in a typical suburban neighborhood in California's Silicon Valley, near a white
stucco house with a red tile roof and a small citrus tree in the front yard

on sandy soil among sparse sage brush, juniper trees and lichen-covered rocks,
on the north side of Utah's I-70

in Pennsylvania, in an open field of thigh high grass and MANY wild flowers
(white, yellow, blue, purple, orange)

in pine covered, rocky terrain of the southern Black Hills of South Dakota, near
the 80,000 acre burned area of the ten year old Jasper Fire

on picturesque rural property outside Sydney, New South Wales, owned by the
"Sisters of the Good Samaritan"

between two corn fields in Minnesota ("The corn is growing well so far, but will
need some rain and then some hot, sunny days to have a good crop.")

on the rocks and sand about 20m from the water of Australia's Southern Ocean,
just off the Great Ocean Road, one of the world's great scenic coastline drives

on top of a small Saguaro cactus along a pipeline road in State Trust lands in
Arizona

in a grove of macadamia nut trees in Queensland, within site of the Glasshouse
Mountains, including a great example of a volcanic plug

on California's Little Tujunga Canyon Road, a typical winding, one-lane-each-way
mountain road with a few Mexican Evening Primrose and a number of Scarlet
Larkspur scattered along the roadside

in plowed, flat, rich bottomland in Illinois, just a couple miles from the
Mississippi River

in the water of Great Salt Lake at Antelope Island State Park, a land of stark
beauty, with pesky flies in the air and seagulls in the marsh land

in western Kentucky, around a barn and the edge of a cornfield, on the edge of
the woods from which the sounds of children playing in water could be heard

behind the backstop of a school's baseball diamond in Indianapolis

and outside a liquor store in Phoenix, Arizona, near Chase Stadium, home of the
Arizona Diamondbacks

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RogBarn celebrates 1,000 lifetime points:

"Cuba, Missouri. This DP was worth another 3 geodash points which gave me an
overall total of 1,002. If I had realized it, I would have planned some sort of
a celebration but as it turned out, that's exactly what we did. We were hungry
and rather than settle for a chain restaurant next to the highway, we went into
the town and found Missouri Hick Barbeque. It was good food and a great way to
celebrate reaching the 1,000 point mark."

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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 .