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BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, Victor Cantore
<drpotatoes@y...> wrote:
> Adam,
>
> I visited this spot about a year ago and granted i am
> not terribly interested in finding the 'exact' point
> but love knowing i am looking at 3 entities at the
> same time.
hahaha
had a feeling you were more of a triarea man than an actual try
pointer doc
but thats great too of course
as are your directions to greater azbcca
> Access is easier from the mexican side, the people
> wont bother you in algodones and are used to tourists.
> as anywhere on the border watch out for crime. lock
> your car, dont take valuables, etc. the border
> attracts desperate people.
of course mexico is livelier & more interesting than the usa
& the right bank better than the left
since that is where the wall comes in
but for tripointing purposes adam
you may find the sw & nw approaches about equal
since you can walk right around the end of the wall there anyway
again the main task may prove to be how to get past the veggies
& the topo shows the nw approach is at least likely in that regard
while giving no clue about the viability of the sw approach
> cross the border into algodones and it is easy to find
> your way. you do have to go over a few dirt roads. the
> tram there is interesting since one tower is in us
> territory and the other on mexican territory; the
> border patrol informed me it was for dept of
> agriculture or something like that.
my guess is
the ibwc created it
for gauging the stream
If you approach
> from the us side you might be disappointed. there's a
> lot more to see from algodones.
>
> also since you are going to be there drive 20 miles
> south to azbcson. you can either cross back to the us
> and drive south through yuma if you are not
> comfortable driving in mexico or you can drive south
> from algodones. you do have to pay a toll (10 pesos)
> and again the best approach is from with in mexico.
> park your car and walk up the very thin bridge and
> snap a photo or two, that is, if you can stomach the
> traffic.
right
save the toll by approaching from the left bank in this case
& park at the cantina just before the bridge & its famous catwalk
where you will get your most dramatic photo op of the tripoint
but if you are as lucky as jack
you may also be able to walk out onto a dry stream bed to the exact
point where the thalweg crosses the monument line
however
especially if time is limited
try azbcca before azbcso
since azbcca is still a virgin
people here aren't as used to tourists as in
> algodones as all the retired people go there to buy
> their prescriptions.
>
> i'll attach 3 photos, first one is azcaba (bc looking
> into ca) second is bc looking into az, the third is
> azbcson from son.
>
> good luck
>
> vc
>
> --- adamnvillani <avillani@u...> wrote:
> > 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.
> >
> > 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?
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > Adam
> >
> >
>
>
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