Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] the southernmost point of west virginia aka wvs tried today
Date: Oct 20, 2004 @ 22:58
Author: Michael Kaufman (Michael Kaufman <mikekaufman79@...>)
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This jpg is not working for me. Maybe it is my
internet? But things seem two be working fine except
for two links - this one and the last one I sent
about.

--- aletheiak <aletheiak@...> wrote:

>
>
http://www.topozone.com/map.asp?z=17&n=4117447&e=439800&datum=nad83
>
> it didnt require a multipoint nor even a living
> clave or dead wall of
> any kind to get me out exploring this fantastically
> multicolored
> neighborhood this morning
> while admittedly not wanting to stray too far from
> my pub of choice
> for this evening
>
> so i set my sights on the nearby but humble & simple
> extreme point wvs
> which just happens to be more easily reached from
> out of state anyway
>
> for it is back of beyond & over the top in west
> virginia
> while a paved county road leads right up to it from
> here in virginia
>
>
> i was earnestly & somewhat excitedly expecting at
> least something
> even if not on the order of the 4foot standing rock
> that marks the
> thematically & functionally comparable southernmost
> point of eastern
> west virginia wves
>
> but in the event found nothing
> & could only feel the pavement end with my toes
> under piles of fresh leaves
> just before the road fork
> as depicted
> which is evidently entirely in west virginia
> or is at least entirely unpaved
>
>
> tho it seems clear enough that the geodetic sector
> of vawv converging
> from the east must end near here
> & equally clear that a road center line sector is
> also converging
> from the northwest
> there is depicted on the usgs topo a suspiciously
> nondescript looking
> jughandle shaped stitch connecting these 2 sectors
>
> admittedly
> some stitch is needed to connect them since they
> appear to not quite
> meet up of their own accord
>
> but it is evidently the southernmost point of this
> anomalous stitch
> rather than of both convergents that actually
> determines the true wvs
> point
> yikes
> or at least thats how the topo makes it look
>
> for none of this can be read on the ground
>
> & perhaps
> once again
> the truth will only be found in some verbal
> description somewhere
>
> http://www.encore-
>
editions.com/artists/american4/thm_josephhenrysharpautumninwestvirgini
> a194130x36.jpg
>
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