From the start this group was meant to be a
multipointing group.
North Americans do not have that many international
multipoints and so they like to focus more on national ones. Great!
The geography of Europe is very different and
international tripoints are more common, and we like them more.
I remember we were all almost virgins in our hunt
for points, and slowly we added a few conquests of pictures found
online.
The group gave birth to three great European
tripoint expedition, and some still in planning. More than 50% of the European
tripoints has been visited by the core members of the expedition groups and some
extras have been visited by individual BP members. I think that is way
beyound our initial expectations, at least mine.
It also means that finding material for new
tripoints gets harder. The remaining European ones are mostly remote in
either geography, hard accessible in mountain areas, or less interesting being
wet in river junctions or lakes.
The third world ones are even harder. Many are
remote, maybe disputed or undefined, hard to access, political
unrest and instability, expensive or
dangerous travelling, permissions from local border authorities are hard to get,
means nobody or very few have been to these places. Material are most likely
treaty texts, encyclopedias etc.
Having a South African wife has made me look into
doing a SA tp expedition, but being based in Cape Town just doing ONE tripoint
means a lot of planning and travelling.
We can not expect to the same rate of hitrates as
we had in the beginning.
Normal borders or (duo-point) may take
up more space on BP than multipoints, but it's not due to lack of interest,
just lack of new material.
But give us a few months, and we will boast a new
fresh photos of ATCHIT, ATCZDE and ATCHFLS taken by border freaks for border
freaks. And that should give us some fun.
In the meantime we may have some duo-point
discussions, which we also love: divided houses, enclaves, misplaced border
markers, etc.
Enjoy the rest of 2004.
Jesper