Adam,
I'll try to answer your questions that were addressed to me below by mid-week.
Some will require a little research, and I'll be away tomorrow.
Lowell G. McManus
Leesville, Louisiana, USA
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From: "adamnvillani" <avillani@...>
To: <BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2003 10:36 PM
Subject: [BoundaryPoint] mxn trip?
> A while ago somebody (it might have been acroorca2002) posted about a
> trip to visit the northernmost point in mexico, which I guess under
> our notation would be something like mxn or mxus2azcabc. Anyway, I
> was planning a visit out the that area either this coming Friday or
> Saturday, and was wondering if anyone had any hints on the best ways
> to approach the point. I guess Lowell would have the goods on where
> exactly in the Colorado River the tripoint is, since he's our
> resident expert on the usmx treaty.
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> I suppose another historical tripoint I could pick up would be the
> historical tripoint between California, New Mexico Territory, and
> Mexico before the Gadsden Purchase was made. That would be where the
> Gila River flows into the Colorado, on the north side of Yuma, right?
> Lowell, do you have any idea whether that tripoint would be in the
> river midpoint, the thalweg, one of the banks, or what?
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> I also plan to pick up the 33N115W confluence point, but from the
> description of that on www.confluence.org, it sounds pretty easy to
> find with a GPS receiver. If I'm feeling lucky I might try for
> 32N115W, but that sounds like 5 miles of driving on questionable
> roads in Mexico, which I'd feel a lot better about if I had (a) 4-
> wheel drive, (b) somebody fluent in Spanish with me, and/or (c) a
> lack of memories of bad experiences getting cars stuck in the mud in
> the middle of the desert in the US, and that was bad enough. Come to
> think of it, one time I was in a caravan of Suburbans on a Geology
> field trip in Mexico on a road even the locals didn't take any more,
> and one of the vehicles got stuck in a rut. Thank God we had a winch.
> Car trouble is no fun.
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> Adam
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