Subject: yesss fresh multipointing try today<br/>
Date: Apr 15, 2005 @ 01:37<br/>
Author: aletheia kallos (aletheia kallos &lt;aletheiak@yahoo.com&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-260561325">just made half a dozen approaches from all different<br/>
directions<br/>
but without even getting very close at all yet to my<br/>
objective<br/>
which was & still is the tripoint of the berkshire<br/>
towns of egremont & mt washington & sheffield<br/>
or in long shorthand us2ma3be4egshmw <br/>
tho i must say it is looking much more like a<br/>
quadripoint than a tripoint here at the upper center<br/>
of this map<br/>
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://topozone.com/map.asp?z=18&n=4663600&e=629877&s=50&size=l&datum=nad83&layer=DRG25">http://topozone.com/map.asp?z=18&n=4663600&e=629877&s=50&size=l&datum=nad83&layer=DRG25</a><br/>
but that is only because the state forest boundary<br/>
also evidently passes straight thru the tripoint<br/>
marker<br/>
<br/>
& 3 town lines plus 1 overlapping forest boundary<br/>
still dont quite add up to a true megapoint <br/>
do they<br/>
any more than a mountain of cyclopedism adds up to a<br/>
real point try<br/>
<br/>
but anyway<br/>
a first probe & try were made to ascend the mt riga or<br/>
mt washington massif from the south end in salisbury<br/>
connecticut <br/>
by the dirt road probably familiar to anyone who has<br/>
visited the ctmany tristate point<br/>
& all as shown in this zoom out view at bottom center<br/>
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://topozone.com/map.asp?z=18&n=4663600.00011842&e=629877.000003922&datum=nad83">http://topozone.com/map.asp?z=18&n=4663600.00011842&e=629877.000003922&datum=nad83</a><br/>
but the way was still blocked by the winter barricade<br/>
<br/>
so a second try was made from salisbury <br/>
but on the undermountain road aka route 41 this time<br/>
& reached berkshire school in sheffield<br/>
which is shown just southeast of the tripoint on the<br/>
first map<br/>
& where much later i got off the attached only best &<br/>
parting shot<br/>
just as the sun began to drop behind the mountain<br/>
& which does at least show the tripoint ridge as a<br/>
slight bulge just to the left of the peak<br/>
<br/>
so maybe my visit is already a class d as in distant <br/>
rather than class e as in elusive <br/>
if i am very generous to myself<br/>
& why not be<br/>
<br/>
but on this first visit to the school beneath the<br/>
tripoint<br/>
i decided it would be easier to circle around the<br/>
mountain to the north almost as far as south egremont<br/>
village in the zoom out map <br/>
& then up & over the mountain to the west <br/>
from where i figured i could just amble over to the<br/>
tripoint a lot more easily than scrambling up to it<br/>
from the school<br/>
<br/>
& so i backed off & continued circling behind the<br/>
mountain <br/>
where for my third try <br/>
i was finally inspired to ditch the car<br/>
at the trailhead on the street shown at left center<br/>
& to head up that trail on foot<br/>
with just a black & white copy of this map in hand<br/>
thinking i had struck on the best & easiest way in<br/>
<br/>
it promised to be less than a 2 mile ramble with a<br/>
minimal bushwhack<br/>
but the old unblazed trail soon petered out into<br/>
deadly thickets of mountain laurel<br/>
<br/>
& the potential replacement trail <br/>
which deflected slightly & climbed too much<br/>
was still only a line of fresh blazes <br/>
surreally offering no passageway at all yet thru the<br/>
tangled woods<br/>
<br/>
so i had to turn back & circle still more to the south<br/>
on the street<br/>
to come in via the mt everett aka mt washington state<br/>
reservation road at lower left <br/>
for a 4th try<br/>
<br/>
but it too was barricaded<br/>
<br/>
so i parked again there & walked up the road toward<br/>
the lookout tower<br/>
for what was now promising to be a 4 mile hike <br/>
one way<br/>
<br/>
& after several more probes into the woods <br/>
i unexpectedly reached guilder pond <br/>
where i realized i wasnt going to make it in & out<br/>
before nightfall<br/>
& so suspended the try at that otherwise highly<br/>
gratifying location<br/>
<br/>
& then repaired to the great barrington library to at<br/>
least consult the local boundary bible & get an idea<br/>
of what i still had to look forward to<br/>
<br/>
it said<br/>
a dressed granite monument doweled to the ledge & set<br/>
in cement marked <br/>
es 1914 mw<br/>
situated on the top of a wooded ridge about 700 feet<br/>
northerly from a wood road <br/>
etc etc<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
but on the way back to cream hill <br/>
i had another chance to pass by the school again <br/>
where <br/>
after taking that pic<br/>
i was also able to make an additional & final probe <br/>
just to see how far one can drive straight up the<br/>
mountain on the maintenance road<br/>
& it was surprisingly far up the dashed line shown on<br/>
the map<br/>
before i was forced to stop<br/>
<br/>
at a beautiful pool beneath a tall cascade<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
so <br/>
at this point i am not even really sure which<br/>
direction i should resume the try from <br/>
<br/>
i think for starters or restarters i will just wait<br/>
til they open the state reservation road<br/>
probably any day now<br/>
& then head back up to guilder pond<br/>
where i can hope to set off on the trail that skirts<br/>
mt undine to the east<br/>
& zigzags ultimately to within a few hundred yards of<br/>
the target<br/>
<br/>
i mean of course if everything is still there as shown<br/>
on the map <br/>
<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
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