Subject: thames source try advances<br/>
Date: Jun 05, 2004 @ 00:06<br/>
Author: Michael Donner (&quot;Michael Donner&quot; &lt;barbaria_longa@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-350426016">all the state line pond watershed maps were finally printed & carefully <br/>
penciled up this morning<br/>
to within an acceptable margin of error<br/>
provided the difference between the competing sheds is not too close<br/>
<br/>
& after all the map swatches were fitted together carefully<br/>
& the irregularly shaped watershed areas measured & compared<br/>
the sawmill brook watershed proved to be about 22 percent larger than that <br/>
of the unnamed brook<br/>
<br/>
& this seemed a sufficiently decisive margin of superiority<br/>
even allowing for a possibly irregular distribution of rainfall & springs<br/>
so i was content to leapfrog directly up sawmill brook without ever having <br/>
actually seen its mouth<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
the similar but much smaller dilemma arising at the highest fork on sawmill <br/>
brook<br/>
at a point situated just below cedar swamp<br/>
which has also been both previously assessed & not yet seen<br/>
was similarly dispatched & confirmed by careful measurement<br/>
in favor of the moulton hill drainage rather than the one from cedar swamp <br/>
itself<br/>
by an even greater margin<br/>
of 28 percent<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
the fact that both of these confirmations were of continuations previously <br/>
guessed speaks well for my intuition if not for my confidence in it<br/>
but in this game there is no substitute for certainty<br/>
so i am still glad i slowed down to check<br/>
especially since i dont think i can proceed to locate the headspring til the <br/>
fall of the year anyway<br/>
<br/>
the summit of moulton hill is another matter & probably a much easier <br/>
culmination to achieve<br/>
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& i will try it directly on my next free ride to the neighborhood<br/>
which could occur as early as this weekend<br/>
<br/>
i was impressed to find the online japanese shower climbers doing a similar <br/>
leapfrog maneuver<br/>
by jumping right over their stream source too & directly to its overhanging <br/>
summit point<br/>
so perhaps i am on good authority in taking this decision<br/>
tho frankly i did intend to actually find & drink from the headspring itself <br/>
if any<br/>
as i have previously done with the housatonic & potomac & shenandoah<br/>
& as i have earnestly tried but not yet succeeded on many others<br/>
since a wet culmination is direct payment in kind<br/>
& a bigger thrill & reward than just climbing on up to the dry ridge above<br/>
<br/>
but there is definitely still somewhere to go here either way<br/>
<br/>
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