nice going mike
very fresh report & good to hear from you
our first nj tricounty point too
er
is that 1 down & 21 to go
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BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, spookymike@a...
wrote:
> I was in the field Saturday, 2/26, to visit the
Atlantic-Burlington-Camden
> County, NJ, trifinium (ABC). This is one of the very few NJ
tri-county points
> shown on topo maps as being marked. URL:
>
http://www.topozone.com/map.asp?lat=39.7297&lon=-74.7367&
size=m
>
> The problem with visiting ABC is the swampy terrain. I had
unsuccessfully
> attempted it directly from US 206 at the Atlantic-Burlington line
a couple of
> years ago, but without wading boots, that approach is a
nightmare. This time I
> parked off US 206 about 0.6 miles north of the AB line, where a
long-abandoned
> railroad track crosses the highway. Hike the dirt road
southwest along the
> overgrown track to a large clearing on the left (south) side.
GPS places this
> clearing about 300 feet before the unmarked BC line. You are
now prety much
> due north of the trifinium. Use the clearing to gain some
distance, then
> either follow your GPS or compass toward the trifinium. I had
to cross three
> brooks along the way, but kept my feet fairly dry by stepping on
clumps of
> vegetation to get across. The rest of the area was very
overgrown, but passable and
> fairly dry. When GPS put me about 90 feet from the marker, I
noticed a fairly
> substantial clearing, and at the edge of same there was the
marker. It is a
> brass disk, set in a six inch diameter, circular concrete base
about six inches
> high. The disk is labeled "county line" and shows the three
county lines
> with the county names in the appropriate places. It's dated
1937, with spaces
> for elevation and marker number that are blank. I did not see a
speck of
> litter, and would have to think this marker gets very little
visitation.
>
> Finding this marker with only a compass and no GPS would be
a daunting
> challenge. In summer this area is a sea of ticks and other
nasty critters, and the
> underbrush would be brutal.
>
> Mike Schwartz