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wobblegong) wrote2019-01-11 01:19 am
wobblegong) wrote2019-01-11 01:19 am
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Pokemon Go 2019-01-10: Ramble-Log
Summary: finally made it out to the park known to be a nest. IT WAS SO GOOD.
Although I'd like to underline the "yay 'stops" aspect as well because I picked up and finished two tasks that awarded Anorith. The task was specifically to catch seven dark, flying and/or psychic-types.
Besides the windy weather (Flying, Psychic and Dragon boosts!) the park was a Spoink nest.
Spoink is a psychic type. >:)
Why yes, it was easy-breezy-lemon-squeezy.
Anyways, my radar-chasing eventually led me off the Absolutely Picturesque Straight-Out-Of-Mainseries-Game short grass trails running past long grass (maximum authentic Pokemon experience!) and up into the hills and the mud and the trees and did I mention hills and mud? By the time I made it back down I had come to realize those were less walking trails and more hiking trails. The realization kicked in around the point I was almost literally climbing down a section that would have been too steep for human-made devices but luckily the tree roots had grown in to make steps, while not even two meters to my side was a straight-ass vertical 6+ meter drop into the lake. It was enough to make my acrophobia tingle but I REALLY wanted that gym so I pressed on. (Yes, I was fine. The most exciting thing to happen to me was some creative mud sprays decorating the side of my boots. (Arceus bless knee-high boots by the way, I can't function outdoors with anything shorter.))
Besides my twenty six new Spoink, I grabbed a few water-types I rarely see (I smell water biome...) plus the two new-for-me psychic types. I also had the delightful experience of taking a neutral gym! I will probably never know why it was neutral given that all the other gyms weren't– best guess is the cell reception is spotty up there and whoever last cleaned it out couldn't talk their GPS into realizing they were within range after, since I had some mild trouble in that regard. I did skip one gym on account of no reason to walk to the kiddie playground, and got booted from another ten minutes after I walked past it, but the park closed 5 minutes after I left and doesn't reopen til dawn. Status of the various gyms when I was leaving:
[Cue Mandark laugh.]
Anyways, Pokemon aside I got to walk in really nice weather and mostly under the windbreak of trees so it wasn't even too frigid. The hills were even hillier than anticipated but I was MOTIVATED!
...
I also enjoyed all the memorial benches scattered around, particularly the ones in "how the heck did they get this out here?" locations. ;)
Walk: 6.3 km, 2hr 15min
Weather: sunny, WINDY (hello Windy weather boost), plenty of mud, cold
Caught: Goldeen, Wingull, Bronzo, Xatu
So the thing nobody had mentioned to me was that not only was this park a Pokemon Go nest... it was also pokestop central. This was nice both from a "yay 'stops" perspective as well as a radar one: my initial path was determined purely by popping open the radar, picking something I wanted and walking the brief distance to the 'stop to get it.Weather: sunny, WINDY (hello Windy weather boost), plenty of mud, cold
Caught: Goldeen, Wingull, Bronzo, Xatu
Although I'd like to underline the "yay 'stops" aspect as well because I picked up and finished two tasks that awarded Anorith. The task was specifically to catch seven dark, flying and/or psychic-types.
Besides the windy weather (Flying, Psychic and Dragon boosts!) the park was a Spoink nest.
Spoink is a psychic type. >:)
Why yes, it was easy-breezy-lemon-squeezy.
Anyways, my radar-chasing eventually led me off the Absolutely Picturesque Straight-Out-Of-Mainseries-Game short grass trails running past long grass (maximum authentic Pokemon experience!) and up into the hills and the mud and the trees and did I mention hills and mud? By the time I made it back down I had come to realize those were less walking trails and more hiking trails. The realization kicked in around the point I was almost literally climbing down a section that would have been too steep for human-made devices but luckily the tree roots had grown in to make steps, while not even two meters to my side was a straight-ass vertical 6+ meter drop into the lake. It was enough to make my acrophobia tingle but I REALLY wanted that gym so I pressed on. (Yes, I was fine. The most exciting thing to happen to me was some creative mud sprays decorating the side of my boots. (Arceus bless knee-high boots by the way, I can't function outdoors with anything shorter.))
Besides my twenty six new Spoink, I grabbed a few water-types I rarely see (I smell water biome...) plus the two new-for-me psychic types. I also had the delightful experience of taking a neutral gym! I will probably never know why it was neutral given that all the other gyms weren't– best guess is the cell reception is spotty up there and whoever last cleaned it out couldn't talk their GPS into realizing they were within range after, since I had some mild trouble in that regard. I did skip one gym on account of no reason to walk to the kiddie playground, and got booted from another ten minutes after I walked past it, but the park closed 5 minutes after I left and doesn't reopen til dawn. Status of the various gyms when I was leaving:
[Cue Mandark laugh.]
Anyways, Pokemon aside I got to walk in really nice weather and mostly under the windbreak of trees so it wasn't even too frigid. The hills were even hillier than anticipated but I was MOTIVATED!
...
I also enjoyed all the memorial benches scattered around, particularly the ones in "how the heck did they get this out here?" locations. ;)