good thanx
& i have also since learned by trial & error & lots of needless wrong
turns etc that my impasse at interstate 66 was purely imaginary
since a spanking new route 638 rises from route 55 in linden just
around the corner from the appalachian trailhead
i only barely missed it this afternoon
dohh
which i only learned this evening on the way down
a reverse discovery similar to 700 chain bridge road
in the meantime tho i had dead reckoned my way on killer back roads
to within a mile of the truth by nightfall
& decided to come back down to front royal for the internet & warmer
sleeping
before continuing in the morning
it wasnt such a hard moment of truth after all
not yet anyway
& delighted i passed it
but of course all this is still prequel
--- In
BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Lowell G. McManus"
<mcmanus71496@m...> wrote:
> Mike,
>
> USGS maps show scattered dwellings within .4 mi. of the Clarke-
Fauquier-Warren
> tripoint. According to Microsoft Streets and Trips, they are on
roads called
> Axton Lane, Deer Path Lane, and Fawn Ridge Road (all Linden, VA).
These roads
> are accessed from Fire Trail Road, which is at the top of Blue
Mountain Road.
> The tripoint should be approximately 200 yards east of the
intersection of Fire
> Trail Road and Axton Lane.
>
> Lowell G. McManus
> Leesville, Louisiana, USA
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "aletheiak" <aletheiak@y...>
> To: <BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 2004 3:57 PM
> Subject: [BoundaryPoint] front royal va
>
>
> >
> >
> > all faculties presumably working here now mike
> > but the 3 missing coeds are still barely escaping me
> >
> >
> > also
> > ever since winchester
> > i have been devoting myself in earnest to the growing string of
blue
> > ridge pearls
> > which now runs consecutively thru
> > 1 frfrwa
> > 2 mdvawv aka jelowa
> > 3 cljelo &
> > 4 clfalo
> > tho called clfaje by mistake in
> > as in http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BoundaryPoint/message/12318
> > if indeed i have them all right even now
> > let alone all in the right order too
> > & it has continued today with an initially unsuccessful try at
> > 5 clfawa
> > which proves to be miles up the appalachian trail
> > on an only formerly vehicular ridge road
> >
> > or at least thats how it looked from the busy trailhead
> > just off interstate 66
> > where i got my first kicks from it & all the backpackers i would
be
> > pillowcasing with
> >
> >
> > but a county atlas here in the library offers some hope of a
closer
> > road approach
> > via blue mountain i think
> > or perhaps there is a better appalacian trail approach from the
north
> > & i may well check both of these ideas out further
> >
> >
> > however
> > a sample try at the twin & easy surrogate of clfawa
> > 5a clfrwa
> > came up empty
> > i mean
> > evidently unmarked despite a clear fence line
> > & easily searchable corn stubble field
> > & marked highway right of way
> > & signed county line
> > & pavement breaks
> > & even a power pole red herring
> >
> > not that i trust even probable twins to look the same any more
> > after my cljelo probably looks like van misapprehension
> > which came home to roost just this morning
> >
> >
> > but it is hard to see the point of busting more hump for what
amounts
> > to a 2 to 1 shot against finding it marked
> > except that it is the next perfect pearl on the still perfect
string
> >
> > oh yes
> > i know
> > the ridge & the boundaries do divagate a bit
> > indeed a bit all over the place
> > so this isnt really perfect at all
> >
> >
> > which however is a good thing
> > since perfect is finished
> > & finished is dead
> > as if there even were any such thing
> >
> >
> > but the ridge & boundaries are at least this far very
substantially
> > the same
> >
> > & so far all the tripoints do sit at least quite close to the true
> > blue ridge
> >
> > & there is a real nice streak of 4 at least class c visits already
> > going here
> >
> > so i am perhaps facing a real moment of truth in trypointing now
> >
> >
> > but maybe i will just go & look at some more maps before deciding
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Yahoo! Groups Links
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> >