Subject: the dahiwa report at length<br/>
Date: May 17, 2005 @ 03:43<br/>
Author: aletheia kallos (aletheia kallos &lt;aletheiak@yahoo.com&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-371215468">thats the dalton hinsdale washington tripoint as shown<br/>
here<br/>
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.berkshireweb.com/themap/index.html">http://www.berkshireweb.com/themap/index.html</a><br/>
& here<br/>
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<br/>
<br/>
we easily found the intended jumpoff point where the<br/>
hiwa town line crosses pittsfield road just above or<br/>
southeast of upper sackett reservoir at about 510<br/>
meters above sea level<br/>
since there was a town line sign & pavement change<br/>
just there<br/>
& even a dire warning not to trespass on the reservoir<br/>
property<br/>
<br/>
but as there were no blazes along hiwa<br/>
& as we imagined the restriction might apply only to<br/>
the town of hinsdale where the reservoir actually is<br/>
situated & not to the town of washington <br/>
we conceived the idea of maintaining as much of a<br/>
sense of innocence & innocent passage as possible by<br/>
endeavoring to skirt hinsdale entirely & keeping to<br/>
the washington side of the town line<br/>
<br/>
but cloudiness obscured the correct bearing for doing<br/>
so<br/>
<br/>
so we set out on this difficult dead reckoned half<br/>
mile bushwhack try on a bearing derived from the angle<br/>
of the road intersection alone <br/>
while taking special care not to do the easy thing &<br/>
trail off any distance downhill or northward toward<br/>
the reservoir<br/>
<br/>
but we soon reached <br/>
at about the 100th pace <br/>
just the easy slippage into jeopardy that we were<br/>
hoping to avoid<br/>
in the form of a lovely trail bearing wnw right down<br/>
the hill & conveniently bridging the first stream you<br/>
see depicted there <br/>
<br/>
but we immediately joined this trail anyway<br/>
drifting onto the surely prohibited hinsdale side of<br/>
the town line<br/>
in the hopes of a better turn of trail just ahead<br/>
<br/>
this was after all deep wilderness <br/>
so the risk was very slight a full quarter of a mile<br/>
away from the actual reservoir<br/>
<br/>
& as we continued to drift northwest<br/>
by the time the pace count reached 300 we reached a<br/>
second bridge<br/>
<br/>
which proved to cross not a second brook but just a<br/>
second channel of the same brook<br/>
<br/>
for we had just traversed a 200 yard island while<br/>
slipping farther down toward the reservoir<br/>
<br/>
& this was getting us both seriously off course & into<br/>
greater jeopardy at the same time<br/>
<br/>
so i took the first opportunity to correct the course<br/>
& trailed off on a vestigial wood road that led<br/>
southwest fairly perpendicularly up the hill toward<br/>
the broad shoulder that is shown protruding into<br/>
hinsdale from washington above the 540 meter elevation<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
& scaled straight up the steepest part shown there on<br/>
the topo<br/>
<br/>
& then continued to grope our way topographically &<br/>
without benefit of actual bearings <br/>
as far as the second stream shown on the topo<br/>
which we reached at about the 700th pace<br/>
& then ascended to its head as indicated on the topo<br/>
which we reached & finally skirted at about the 800th<br/>
pace<br/>
<br/>
from there i again corrected course topographically by<br/>
climbing as directly as possible up the hill near<br/>
whose summit the target lay<br/>
<br/>
& once we reached what felt like the broad leveling<br/>
off that is indicated on the topo at the 564 meter<br/>
plane<br/>
i set a new course toward the next brook<br/>
which is shown dry on the topo but was a trickle<br/>
& which i figured brought us to within a few hundred<br/>
feet of the target after having zigzagged about 1300<br/>
paces toward fulfilling the 880 pace projected crowfly<br/>
 <br/>
& from there i set a final course toward the almost<br/>
visible knolltop<br/>
expecting the tripoint monument to heave into view off<br/>
the starboard bow at roughly 200 foot range at any<br/>
moment <br/>
when i paused to catch my breath & recheck the map &<br/>
wait for jc to catch up<br/>
<br/>
& as i explained my present working hypothesis to her<br/>
& continued scanning the scene for anything unusual <br/>
especially to my right<br/>
she pointed straight ahead of us to the marker at<br/>
about 30 foot range<br/>
<br/>
or actually to the 2 markers<br/>
<br/>
but i assume the taller one is the true one<br/>
<br/>
& they occupied a position in relation to the visible<br/>
hilltop that surprised me in view of their depictions<br/>
on the topo<br/>
<br/>
but no matter<br/>
<br/>
& she said <br/>
thats it<br/>
& walked straight ahead to them <br/>
& climbed up onto them for the pic <br/>
taking a bow while apparently levitating at the same<br/>
time<br/>
class aa at least<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
all in all <br/>
an extremely demanding & gratifying point under<br/>
difficult conditions<br/>
but quite a fine patchwork quilt of ingenuity &<br/>
persistence & just plain good luck in the end<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
	<br/>
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