I've posted the narrative and photos detailing my recent visit to the British Columbia/Idaho/Washington (BCIDWA) tripoint and 49N 117W degree confluence on the Degree Confluence Project website: http://www.confluence.org/confluence.php?lat=49&lon=-117&visit=4 Hopefully the combination of the narrative and photos will answer some of the questions raised in the prior thread I started about BCIDWA(and BCIDMT). I'll leave it to 'the experts' to determine what class of tripoint visit this is ;-) If it's in some way important to the visit class, I did touch the monument, the USGS brass cap, the US GLO brass cap, the LSAW plaque, and the ground all around the monument. -- Dave Patton Canadian Coordinator, Degree Confluence Project http://www.confluence.org/ My website: http://members.shaw.ca/davepatton/