Sorry to be dense here, but I don't follow. I see one prominent border on
the scanned map, running southeast-northwest and with boundary markers
1021, 1024-1026, 1031-32 (around "Drei Steine"-- three stone, is that the
trinational point??), then running north with numbers like 193L, 194E.
Is that the German border, with Germany occupying the northeastern part of
the scanned image? So strange that they do not symbolize all
international boundaries the same way, or mark country names!
Does the Netherlands-Belgium border run west from "Drei Steine" with
markers Gp1, Gs2a, Gp2?
And what is the thing you refer to as a "salient", what country does it
belong to?
David
On Tue, 5 Jun 2001, Brendan Whyte wrote:
> Here is a nice German 1:25k map of our favourite tript.
>
> For those going on the September point-crawl, may I suggest taking the road
> from Aachen that heads west in the top of the picture, turning south just
> before the rial line, going under the line and then paralleling it up the
> hil towards the tript.
> A road turning south off this passes over the rial line in a small bridge a
> few 100 m before the rail line gowen into a tunnel. This bridge ends in some
> fields, so you would need to park before it.
> There is a lovely walk up a hedged fenceline past the words "Im Paaf" on
> the map, as it heads towards the strange salient in the BEDe boundary just
> south of the tript. The fields here are separated by a hedgelike linear
> copse, with a foottrack in the middle. It emerges at the border on the
> northern corner of the salient, where there is a boundary stone and a small
> turnstile to allow access from the foottrack along the BeDe border to cross
> directly over the salient. A similar turnstile interupts the small fence on
> the southern side of the salient as the path enters the woods again. The SW
> half of the salient, the end half of it, is actually in the woods too,
> unlike as depicted on the map. Thus the field forming the salient runs only
> halfway into it, before ending in a fence and trees. You have to walk
> another 100m along the imaginery extension of the field fenceline into the
> woods to reach the pillars at the end of the salient, one at each corner.
> Returning to the turnstiles, you can then follow the fence to the tripoint
> along a pleasant track, Belgian woods on one side, German pasture on the
> other.
> You can return to your vehicle, part way down the hill from the tripoint,
> along a German track between German woods and pasture. You cannot drive all
> the way to the tripoint up the German side, but have to stop at the final
> road junction a few 100m short.
>
> Another option is to take a train fomr Aachen to the first stop into
> Belgium, around Moresnet, and walk up fomr that side and down again. Then
> you can go under and over the border!
>
> BW
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