that's the rogue head of the Rogue
I think the real head must be up the Muir, not the
nominal Rogue
http://www.topozone.com/map.asp?z=10&n=4766335&e=552886&s=50&size=l&datum=nad83&layer=DRG25
--- aletheiak <
aletheiak@...> wrote:
>
> oddly enough the head of the rogue looks like a
> place called
> boundary springs
>
>
http://www.topozone.com/map.asp?lat=43.06639&lon=-122.22917
>
> cant get away from the buggers
>
> but i will have the pleasure of testing empirically
> all the highest
> confluences & as many distinctly roguish headspring
> draughts as
> possible until finally deciding the real veritas
> caput for myself
>
> --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "aletheiak"
> <aletheiak@y...>
> wrote:
> >
> > nice one andrew
> > at the crosshairs of the americas
> > hahahahaha
> > looks like an inca pyramid there too
> > i love it
> >
> > not to mention that the original & main bridge
> over the canal in
> > panama city is called the bridge of the americas
> too
> >
> > but ya gotta believe
> >
> >
> > & meanwhile i have returned as always to the
> greater cape perpetua
> > area
> > finding my old rostah mon still not at home again
> > but conceiving here today also a new mega exciting
> plan
> > rather than hanging around anywhere even this
> fantastic very long
> > during the height of trypointing season
> >
> > specifically it is to perform a sawanabori of the
> golden rogue
> river
> > at least from its mouth at gold beach to its
> vortex at gold hill
> > & to then consider the sequel of this most golden
> & roguish
> > probability proceeding from there onward & upward
> > while also generally megapointing my way onward &
> downward to my
> > other regular cay
> > namely mig torch key
> > in the lower keys
> > in time for the prospective 86ing of prohibition
> celebration
> already
> > announced & scheduled for 16jan05 there
> >
> > tho it is already an admittedly ambitious plan
> > i should tell you i have also conceived several
> additional
> exciting
> > surprise interludes within it too
> >
> > yes i know that is staggering on this much bc bud
> >
> > but right now i am just trying to figure out where
> the true head
> of
> > the rogue is
> >
> > --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, Andrew T.
> Patton
> <andrew@A...>
> > wrote:
> > > On Sun, 14 Nov 2004 18:14:57 -0600, you wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > >While the NGS has often furnished its maps of
> Europe and Asia
> > with a green line
> > > >separating the two, I have never seen them do
> the same for the
> > two Americas or
> > > >for Asia and Africa.
> > > >
> > > >I would suggest that the COPA political
> boundary is an
> > unacceptable limit
> > > >between the Americas for at least the following
> reasons:
> > > >
> > > >1. Were there not two Americas prior to the
> 1903 independence
> of
> > Panam� from
> > > >Colombia?
> > > >
> > > >2. Nowhere does the NGS's Europe-Asia boundary
> follow a
> political
> > boundary.
> > > >
> > > >I would, rather, suggest the narrowest part of
> the isthmus.
> That
> > would be even
> > > >with the Golfo de San Blas.
> > > >
> > > >However, an excellent argument can be made that
> the continental
> > limit should be
> > > >across the lowest part of the cordillera that
> runs the length
> of
> > the isthmus.
> > > >That is, indeed, where the Americas would
> become two separate
> > land masses if sea
> > > >level were to rise sufficiently. (This
> thinking is influenced
> by
> > the actual
> > > >experience at the Bering Strait between Asia
> and North America
> at
> > the end of the
> > > >most recent ice age, and perhaps at the Strait
> of Gibraltar,
> the
> > Dardanelles,
> > > >and the Bosporus at various times in
> prehistory.) This lowest
> > part of Panam� is
> > > >the approximate location of the canal.
> > > >
> > > >Between Asia and Africa, both the narrowest and
> lowest parts of
> > the Isthmus of
> > > >Suez are the approximate location of the canal
> there.
> > > >
> > > >So, we can add Panam� and Egypt to Russia,
> Kazakhstan,
> > Azerbaijan, Georgia, and
> > > >Turkey in the list of countries with continuous
>
> intercontinental
> > sovereignty.
> > >
> > > I would suggest the middle of the Panama Canal
> as the effective
> > > boundary now. (Interesting tidbit --
> Construction of the Panama
> > Canal
> > > was completed 70 Years ago yesterday).
> > >
> > >
> > > I went to Panama about a year ago and made a
> complete transit of
> > the
> > > Canal. During the transit, I took the attached
> picture. It is the
> > > crossing of the Continental Divide while in the
> middle of the
> > Canal -
> > > so I am at the intersection of the border
> between N/S America
> and
> > the
> > > border between the Atlantic/Pacific Sides of the
> Americas. The
> > picture
> > > is of the South American part of the Continental
> Divide. More
> > photos
> > > of Panama can be found at
> www.andrewpatton.com/panama
> > >
> > >
> > > -Andrew
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Andrew T. Patton (andrew@A...)
> > > Travelogues and Photos at
> http://www.AndrewPatton.com - Latest
> > Entry: Panama
>
>
>
>
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