all faculties presumably working here now mike
but the 3 missing coeds are still barely escaping me
also
ever since winchester
i have been devoting myself in earnest to the growing string of blue
ridge pearls
which now runs consecutively thru
1 frfrwa
2 mdvawv aka jelowa
3 cljelo &
4 clfalo
tho called clfaje by mistake in
as in
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BoundaryPoint/message/12318
if indeed i have them all right even now
let alone all in the right order too
& it has continued today with an initially unsuccessful try at
5 clfawa
which proves to be miles up the appalachian trail
on an only formerly vehicular ridge road
or at least thats how it looked from the busy trailhead
just off interstate 66
where i got my first kicks from it & all the backpackers i would be
pillowcasing with
but a county atlas here in the library offers some hope of a closer
road approach
via blue mountain i think
or perhaps there is a better appalacian trail approach from the north
& i may well check both of these ideas out further
however
a sample try at the twin & easy surrogate of clfawa
5a clfrwa
came up empty
i mean
evidently unmarked despite a clear fence line
& easily searchable corn stubble field
& marked highway right of way
& signed county line
& pavement breaks
& even a power pole red herring
not that i trust even probable twins to look the same any more
after my cljelo probably looks like van misapprehension
which came home to roost just this morning
but it is hard to see the point of busting more hump for what amounts
to a 2 to 1 shot against finding it marked
except that it is the next perfect pearl on the still perfect string
oh yes
i know
the ridge & the boundaries do divagate a bit
indeed a bit all over the place
so this isnt really perfect at all
which however is a good thing
since perfect is finished
& finished is dead
as if there even were any such thing
but the ridge & boundaries are at least this far very substantially
the same
& so far all the tripoints do sit at least quite close to the true
blue ridge
& there is a real nice streak of 4 at least class c visits already
going here
so i am perhaps facing a real moment of truth in trypointing now
but maybe i will just go & look at some more maps before deciding