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