star point 4 codikimo by moonlight & flashlight i estimated from my
roads of texas map measurements to be a tenth of a mile west of the
road center at the coki pavement change
so i figured it was just a matter of picking my way thru the barbed
wire & cactus & cowflop savannah for 176 paces & swinging the
flashlight around for paydirt
but found nothing & so went to sleep until morning
when my remeasurements said 3 twentieths of a mile
oops
so i walked off 264 paces & looked all around in broad daylight
from a variety of nearby vantage points
deer blinds & lots of scrubby veggies that could inhibit recovery but
again no marker that i could see
& now here at the library the usgs topo suggests 230 paces should
have been plenty & that the monument is in the bottom of a dry wash
so ok i know the wash it means & i know the latitude
where it could only have been hiding in veggies
or another washaway
nor is it visible in the aerial pic
so once again i dont really know if i missed something that was
really there or only supposed to be there
but so anyway that does mean codikimo is another one earmarked along
with crflhalu for a more careful revisit by usgs topo & gps
but i dont believe i could do any better with either of them now
if any better could ever be done with them
that is
& so now it is off to bahaknth for the 5th & final point of the lone
star tour try
& which will most likely complete my own 2004 multipointing year
tho i hope someone else will top it with a more nearly final try
for
most probably
in view of the state of most texas libraries & colleges & kinkos etc
the concluding chapter of this report will have to wait til 2005
--- In
BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, aletheia kallos
<aletheiak@y...> wrote:
> thanx again & again
>
> you are with me here you know
>
> well you all are actually
>
>
> & so next i blasted off again from the plainview library as i think
it was then
> toward crflhalu aka star tour point 2
> with starry eyed expectations of finding that needle in haystack
triangulation station
> or whatever it was supposed to be
> or at least giving it a mighty careful halloo
>
> & with careful interplay again between outer odometer & inner
pedometer
> advancing both eastward & then southward too from petersburg
> which was my only reference point btw on an otherwise blank grid in
the puzzle i was solving
> amazingly i was able to find the undoubtedly correct 30foot square
> set off by paired barbed wire intervals suggesting unused road
allowances
> & was then able to estimate the most central square yard in turn
within this 10yard square
> for a very credible & creditable class b visit as i thought then
> to the position of an otherwise naked or unfindable reference point
>
> an extremely careful halloo i thought
> within this actual but to me still invisible overview
> http://terraserver.microsoft.com/image.aspx?
T=2&S=15&Z=14&X=40&Y=585&W=18&qs=%7cpetersburg%7ctx
>
> & mind you
> this was all done without benefit of anything more than my national
road atlas actually
>
> very gratifying it was
>
>
> but i was still feeling unsure enough about the truth of this visit
to want to check into the nearest library & internet
> at lubbock actually
> for some confirmation
> & maybe to get some more maps in case i really did need them
> & report in to bp etc
>
> but the lubbock gollirama theme park was even more astoundingly
follirama than its amarillo counterpark
> so i could do none of the above except check my crflhalu try in the
roads of texas atlas you had begun from
> with some continuing rejoicing at what i saw there at least
>
> & i did take the opportunity also to xerox the roads of texas cuts
for the remaining 3 points on the tour
> namely crgaluly & codikimo & bahaknth
> which i then proceeded toward in that sequence
> rather than be inspired to return to crflhalu for a retry based on
anything i had seen at that time
>
> tho i might have felt differently if i had known of your new
addition & knew it to be correct too
>
> which i still cant be any more sure of on the aerial pic than i can
for bodahoma btw
> or yikes even than for arcapora & crgaluly
> both of which i have seen on the ground but still cant from the air
>
> for yes
> this report is also a confirmation that crgaluly too is ours my
friends since yesterday as well
>
> a battered 5foot reinforced concrete pyramoid much in the style of
arcapora but with its upper edges fluted & its top disk showing
cardinal abbrevs separating all 4 county names
> looking hand stamped rather than engraved
> & including a similar central void
> in which the 4corner point can only be inferred but not actually
seen in diagram
>
> date guess 1934
>
>
> & by then things had gotten really interesting for me
> 2 visits class a
> plus
> a valiant class b
>
> so thats looking perfect or better on 3 for 3
>
> & feeling just that good i blasted off again directly for codikimo
> by back roads hopefully all public
> across yellow house canyon
> aka the double mountain fork of the brazos river
>
> but no
> i was soon entering private property posted no entry except on
business etc etc
> yet private property so desolate i decided to play dumb & tresspass
anyway
> & was doing pretty good til i hit the stream ford
> which was looking pretty hairy
>
> & i stopped & got out & looked & looked & tested & tested & thought
& thought
> & finally dared to blast across it
> fishtailing thru the deep mud all the way & even getting the
interior floor wet & almost drowning the engine but still barreling &
coughing thru & up to dry land again
>
> it was the narrowest close call & escape i can recall ever having
from anything
>
> & yikes getting stuck would surely have meant getting caught too
> hahahahaha
> i howled in satisfaction even as the engine was still misfiring
hideously
>
> & of course it recovered in a few hundred more yards as it burned
the water off
>
>
> all which however didnt at all dampen my enthusiasm for the chase
> which reached the codikimo vicinity shortly after midnight under a
nearly full moon
> at what was certainly the high point of the entire tour thus far
> so let me just post this much so you can stay abreast
> while i continue cobbling together what happened next
>
>
> "Lowell G. McManus" <mcmanus71496@m...> wrote:
> Congratulations on your success! I was glad to be of help.
>
> Your next two "triangulation station" quadripoints are shown by
USGS as nicely monumented, so maybe they won't be too hard to spot.
>
> Lowell G. McManus
> Leesville, Louisiana, USA
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: aletheia kallos
> To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 2004 1:47 PM
> Subject: [BoundaryPoint] arcapora is ours
>
>
> that armstrong carson potter randall quadricounty point virgin
beauty
> & prima donna megapoint of the texas tertiary
> was successfully visited earlier today class a
> thanx substantially to our strong silent & uncannily trusty local
informant tex mcmanus
>
> heralded by & visible from the capo county line signs on federal
highway 287
> it is monumented by a somewhat battered & misshapen 3foot
reinforced concrete pyramoid with a footsquare horizontal top in lieu
of cap
>
> the overall form is much like a bradstreet 1924 model as recently
described for az3mayu
> but with a copper disk embedded in its top
>
> on the disk are engraved the names of the 4 counties in positions
suggesting the 4 quadrants
> but the precise 4corner point location in their midst is not
actually marked
> & has to be inferred geometrically
> which can be done with confidence actually only down to about the
correct square semicentimeter
>
> but an index finger tip covers & fudges all that just fine
>
> date guess 1927
>
> the usual barbed wire crawl
> plus an open ballpark or so to run in view of a ranch house
>
> & remember we are in texas now
> so even any slight tresspass is likely to be taken very seriously
indeed
> of course heightening the fun of the chase
>
> & the cold turkey approach was so satisfying that i have decided to
try to complete the entire 5pointed star tour cold turkey if possible
before resorting to any further mappery
>
> this may border on the footloose & fancy free however
> since the next 2 points i will be trying at least
> namely crflhalu & crgaluly
> are indicated not as monumented points necessarily but only as
triangulation stations
> so they could be something else than arcapora entirely & harder to
spot
>
> but we shall see
>
>
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