Subject: Re: still haskell & possibly last posts of 2004 bee pee Re: [BoundaryPoint] arcapora is ours
Date: Dec 30, 2004 @ 22:53
Author: Lowell G. McManus ("Lowell G. McManus" <mcmanus71496@...>)
Prev Post in Topic Next [All Posts]
Prev Post in Time Next
----- Original Message -----From: aletheia kallosSent: Thursday, December 30, 2004 2:40 PMSubject: still haskell & possibly last posts of 2004 bee pee Re: [BoundaryPoint] arcapora is oursthanx again & againyou are with me here you knowwell you all are actually& so next i blasted off again from the plainview library as i think it was thentoward crflhalu aka star tour point 2with starry eyed expectations of finding that needle in haystack triangulation stationor whatever it was supposed to beor at least giving it a mighty careful halloo& with careful interplay again between outer odometer & inner pedometeradvancing both eastward & then southward too from petersburgwhich was my only reference point btw on an otherwise blank grid in the puzzle i was solvingamazingly i was able to find the undoubtedly correct 30foot squareset 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 squarefor a very credible & creditable class b visit as i thought thento the position of an otherwise naked or unfindable reference pointan extremely careful halloo i thoughtwithin this actual but to me still invisible overview& mind youthis was all done without benefit of anything more than my national road atlas actuallyvery gratifying it wasbut i was still feeling unsure enough about the truth of this visit to want to check into the nearest library & internetat lubbock actuallyfor some confirmation& maybe to get some more maps in case i really did need them& report in to bp etcbut the lubbock gollirama theme park was even more astoundingly follirama than its amarillo counterparkso i could do none of the above except check my crflhalu try in the roads of texas atlas you had begun fromwith 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 tournamely crgaluly & codikimo & bahaknthwhich i then proceeded toward in that sequencerather than be inspired to return to crflhalu for a retry based on anything i had seen at that timetho i might have felt differently if i had known of your new addition & knew it to be correct toowhich i still cant be any more sure of on the aerial pic than i can for bodahoma btwor yikes even than for arcapora & crgalulyboth of which i have seen on the ground but still cant from the airfor yesthis report is also a confirmation that crgaluly too is ours my friends since yesterday as wella 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 nameslooking hand stamped rather than engraved& including a similar central voidin which the 4corner point can only be inferred but not actually seen in diagramdate guess 1934& by then things had gotten really interesting for me2 visits class aplusa valiant class bso thats looking perfect or better on 3 for 3& feeling just that good i blasted off again directly for codikimoby back roads hopefully all publicacross yellow house canyonaka the double mountain fork of the brazos riverbut noi was soon entering private property posted no entry except on business etc etcyet private property so desolate i decided to play dumb & tresspass anyway& was doing pretty good til i hit the stream fordwhich was looking pretty hairy& i stopped & got out & looked & looked & tested & tested & thought & thought& finally dared to blast across itfishtailing 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 againit was the narrowest close call & escape i can recall ever having from anything& yikes getting stuck would surely have meant getting caught toohahahahahai 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 offall which however didnt at all dampen my enthusiasm for the chasewhich reached the codikimo vicinity shortly after midnight under a nearly full moonat what was certainly the high point of the entire tour thus farso let me just post this much so you can stay abreastwhile i continue cobbling together what happened next
"Lowell G. McManus" <mcmanus71496@...> 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 kallosSent: Wednesday, December 29, 2004 1:47 PMSubject: [BoundaryPoint] arcapora is oursthat armstrong carson potter randall quadricounty point virgin beauty& prima donna megapoint of the texas tertiarywas successfully visited earlier today class athanx substantially to our strong silent & uncannily trusty local informant tex mcmanusheralded by & visible from the capo county line signs on federal highway 287it is monumented by a somewhat battered & misshapen 3foot reinforced concrete pyramoid with a footsquare horizontal top in lieu of capthe overall form is much like a bradstreet 1924 model as recently described for az3mayubut with a copper disk embedded in its topon the disk are engraved the names of the 4 counties in positions suggesting the 4 quadrantsbut the precise 4corner point location in their midst is not actually marked& has to be inferred geometricallywhich can be done with confidence actually only down to about the correct square semicentimeterbut an index finger tip covers & fudges all that just finedate guess 1927the usual barbed wire crawlplus an open ballpark or so to run in view of a ranch house& remember we are in texas nowso even any slight tresspass is likely to be taken very seriously indeedof 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 mapperythis may border on the footloose & fancy free howeversince the next 2 points i will be trying at leastnamely crflhalu & crgalulyare indicated not as monumented points necessarily but only as triangulation stationsso they could be something else than arcapora entirely & harder to spotbut we shall see
Do you Yahoo!?
Meet the all-new My Yahoo! Try it today!
Do you Yahoo!?
The all-new My Yahoo! Get yours free!