Subject: winchester va<br/>
Date: Oct 12, 2004 @ 17:51<br/>
Author: aletheiak (&quot;aletheiak&quot; &lt;aletheiak@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1422658124">ok new state town library & computer<br/>
<br/>
so i assume i can now reveal<br/>
the answers to the previous quiz were<br/>
cracked prickers & smut guard<br/>
<br/>
& in the interval <br/>
i earnestly tried to drive my van all the way to van<br/>
the elusive northernmost point of virginia<br/>
aka vawv3frhamo<br/>
or the interstate tricounty point of frederick va<br/>
with hampshire & morgan wv<br/>
<br/>
& even took my own advice verbatim <br/>
as offered to pithokie who preceded me here in<br/>
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BoundaryPoint/message/14107">http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BoundaryPoint/message/14107</a><br/>
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BoundaryPoint/message/14137">http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BoundaryPoint/message/14137</a><br/>
after some prefiguration in<br/>
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BoundaryPoint/message/12318">http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BoundaryPoint/message/12318</a><br/>
<br/>
<br/>
combed the ridge on foot for a tenth of a mile in both directions <br/>
from the point of my best guessed odometer reading<br/>
<br/>
found nothing<br/>
tho it is another case of <br/>
well maybe under that huge tree stump there <br/>
etc<br/>
<br/>
could the usgs have been wrong about a marker named ridge<br/>
<br/>
could a state line turnpoint & tricounty point exist unmarked<br/>
<br/>
could the topozone mileage scale or my odometer be so far off<br/>
<br/>
i doubted things could actually be quite so deficient<br/>
<br/>
but just then the lady of cacapon mountain herself drove by<br/>
with west virginia tags of course<br/>
& i asked her if she knew where the state line was<br/>
<br/>
she said no<br/>
<br/>
had she ever seen a stone marker post anywhere around here on the <br/>
ridge line <br/>
i persisted<br/>
<br/>
naw been goin by here all my life & never saw it if there is<br/>
<br/>
so i thanked her profusely<br/>
& nosed my van up onto the ridge at the only place where it was even <br/>
possible to do so anywhere near my best guessed position<br/>
& photographed it there with 1 foot on the grille<br/>
etc<br/>
<br/>
me & my van at van<br/>
<br/>
to the best of my knowledge & ability<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
later<br/>
when i was accosted by the man<br/>
of the park<br/>
asking me if he could help me<br/>
so to say<br/>
& i had to return pursuit fast<br/>
i said <br/>
tip top unless you can do me one better<br/>
& stuck my map in his face asking him for the state line marker<br/>
<br/>
he said oh there are several <br/>
but no post<br/>
only disks in low slabs <br/>
& couldnt give me any coherent directions to any of them<br/>
but <br/>
walk along the ridge<br/>
<br/>
so of course i was able to salute & dismiss him summarily<br/>
while making as if to immediately obey his orders<br/>
<br/>
& tho any of his disks might be the van marker<br/>
i blew off the try at that point<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
& once again<br/>
had my doppelganger been there with his gps<br/>
it might have been different<br/>
but it was still pretty spectacular<br/>
<br/>
& maybe not quite up to ctmany leaf peeping standards<br/>
but close<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
running out of time now<br/>
& making the best of it<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
but i did also get to check out the 2400 foot cacapon mountain <br/>
culmination point <br/>
but was not inclined to cack upon it<br/>
& got to examine the peculiar feature called <br/>
the lock<br/>
which looks like a ridge bridge<br/>
or else a superhard left & right jog<br/>
from cacapon to piney<br/>
<br/>
& it struck me that the blue ridge <br/>
of my mind anyway<br/>
may be remarkable in that it evidently doesnt have any such bridges  <br/>
or locks<br/>
but runs many hundreds of miles without any interruption or jog<br/>
for as long as it is the blue ridge<br/>
<br/>
or isnt that so true & special as i imagine<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
well anyway<br/>
i will soon be out of time here<br/>
but it inspires me to at least check it out<br/>
<br/>
beeps</div>