daybreak & i was already on the fire trail
& soon pulled in at the right parking area
i thought it was still in warren county
where it says overlook on the topo
but as i realized only later
the place was slightly into clarke
found the ridge & the supposed overlook hilltop no problem
but no ability to overlook anything in these dense woods
a promising sign very nearby tho
witness marker
dont disturb nearby survey marker
& of course i disturbed & combed everything
but no marker was found
from there i followed the well rounded ridge north for 120 giant steps
which i took to be the maximum necessary distance for the tripoint
if my topozone topo was right
but nothing doing
then wandered about & got lost in the woods
as it is a cloudy day here
found & followed the ridge again
til i found the witness marker again
but oh no
this was a different post
& this one had a real marker not to disturb with it too
a beautiful brass spike driven most of the way into a brass octagonal
base plate in cement
head of spike an inch & a half across
spike an in inch thick
awesome
the words
county marker
were discernible on the base plate
but nothing else of interest
i figured this could well be it
but the truth was i didnt know where i was
i took a photo
then tried to find my way out of the woods
but this will have to be intermission
as i am losing my computer now for awhile
--- In
BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "aletheiak" <aletheiak@y...>
wrote:
>
> 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
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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> > >
> > >
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