Subject: eggrsh squared & grnesh cubed<br/>
Date: Apr 20, 2005 @ 01:58<br/>
Author: aletheia kallos (aletheia kallos &lt;aletheiak@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1799203417">yess <br/>
& yesss <br/>
is the short of it<br/>
<br/>
& the medium is<br/>
everyone performed class a<br/>
euphorically at first & in the end ecstatically<br/>
<br/>
& the long form <br/>
with complete box score <br/>
follows here<br/>
for anyone who can stand to laugh that hard<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
since it was already after noon when i set out from<br/>
cream hill with only 1 shot left in my trusty old<br/>
polaroid<br/>
i really had very little hope or expectation of<br/>
scoring twice today<br/>
<br/>
so i took my time & even chose the slightly longer<br/>
approach to eggrsh<br/>
gliding up undermountain road & past the berkshire<br/>
school of fresh tripointing fame once again<br/>
where i already feel like a fully matriculated &<br/>
performing musician<br/>
<br/>
& duly paid my salutes to alma mater on my proud way<br/>
out to these my first postgraduate berkshire gigs<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
& as i reached the preselected jumpoff point mentioned<br/>
in the previous post<br/>
where it says here <br/>
battlesite mon <br/>
at bottom center<br/>
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i was surprised to find a trailhead parking lot<br/>
waiting for me there too<br/>
& staggered to realize this was because the<br/>
appalachian trail had just been rerouted right thru<br/>
there & was even heading due north from the battlesite<br/>
mon toward eggrsh as if just for my personal benefit<br/>
<br/>
& tho the mon was a highly photogenic mid19th century<br/>
rock<br/>
commemorating the last battle of shays rebellion 27<br/>
feb 1787<br/>
& tho i was also met there by an actually living<br/>
battlesite mon too<br/>
who had in fact just helped reenact the battle of<br/>
lexington <br/>
on the battle site mon<br/>
& invited me to attend his forthcoming reenactment of<br/>
shays right there too on its 220th anniversary <br/>
on 27 feb 2007<br/>
can you dig it<br/>
like be there or be square <br/>
& bring a fat joint<br/>
nevertheless i of course had to save my only shot for<br/>
eggrsh <br/>
the main event<br/>
which was still a bucolic idyllic country mile away<br/>
<br/>
so i headed up the appalachian trail in exactly the<br/>
right direction<br/>
tho of course it isnt shown on the topo this time<br/>
<br/>
but the trail soon veered right & climbed the hill to<br/>
the east <br/>
so i split off <br/>
or rather continued straight north <br/>
thru cornstubble & greensward & wooded swamp<br/>
til i spotted at a distance the companion marker that<br/>
told me i was already within half a mile of my<br/>
intended multidimensionalization<br/>
<br/>
& i slogged across the intervening wetland & bagged<br/>
this preliminary monument as it were<br/>
but for no other reason than to get a terminal fix &<br/>
pace count toward eggrsh<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
the difficulty at that point tho was that my projected<br/>
650 yard bushwhack to just west of midnight ran<br/>
straight across a marsh<br/>
<br/>
so i was able to perform this bushwhack only at an<br/>
eastward remove or rectangulation of about 180 yards<br/>
for a while<br/>
<br/>
& as i then soon angled back toward egsh where the<br/>
footing permitted it <br/>
i found i had lost count of both my northward &<br/>
lateral pace counts<br/>
hahahaha<br/>
since it is so tricky to walk & chew with both brains<br/>
at once<br/>
& finally reached the blessed state of complete<br/>
cluelessness both as to where i was & where i was<br/>
going<br/>
<br/>
& after flailing & lunging about randomly for awhile<br/>
in the hope of getting lucky<br/>
i admitted that i really needed to go back to a<br/>
previous known <br/>
or else find some new point of certainty<br/>
rather than trying to proceed in such a<br/>
multidimensional morass<br/>
<br/>
& had to wonder if i had been addressing her eggrsh<br/>
with enough regard to gain her needed favor in my<br/>
quest<br/>
<br/>
but in my retreat i soon came upon a fix point<br/>
namely<br/>
the north edge of the cultivated field shown on the<br/>
topo just west of midway between the 2 markers<br/>
<br/>
which instructed me to take 350 paces to midnight<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
easy enough <br/>
but these are marshy woods<br/>
& i was soon again skulking east onto dry ground<br/>
& losing my count as well as my bearing<br/>
when i noticed a line of pink tape blazes<br/>
approximating & indeed fairly proclaiming egsh<br/>
for anyone with eyes to presume it<br/>
<br/>
so i had regained my line<br/>
& didnt need my count if the blazes led to the<br/>
tripoint <br/>
as i by then strongly believed they would<br/>
<br/>
so onward into the swamp until it got really soupy<br/>
at which point i was forced to shirk eastward again<br/>
& hope to recover the pink blaze line at the opposite<br/>
side of what i then realized was nothing less than<br/>
hubbard brook coming down vossburg hill & fanning out<br/>
there just south of the triarea<br/>
tho not very clearly shown as such on the topo<br/>
hahaha<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
& only after slogging around & searching back intently<br/>
for quite a while did i catch sight of the pink blazes<br/>
again<br/>
only now on the correct side of the swamp<br/>
& knew they could only lead straight to my objective<br/>
<br/>
which soon emerged in the woods directly ahead of me<br/>
at point blank range<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
photo to come as soon as i can replace my dead mouse<br/>
batteries<br/>
but she looks much like her agemate egmosh <br/>
except she slouches badly & wears 2 pink ribbons<br/>
& about a foot of her undressed base is showing above<br/>
the swamp floor<br/>
<br/>
had a harder time getting out of the swamp than in tho<br/>
hahaha<br/>
until i eventually found an easy ford that i would<br/>
have used in both directions had i known of it<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
by then the day was slipping away <br/>
& i knew there would be no time to get both film &<br/>
grnesh<br/>
so of course i beelined toward grnesh<br/>
hoping to just scope her out & return another time for<br/>
the actual try if she offered the least resistance<br/>
this time<br/>
since i would need to return for the pic anyway<br/>
<br/>
& will continue with her soon in a separate message<br/>
but you can imagine me in the meantime racing east<br/>
across grsh & rush hour traffic toward new marlborough<br/>
the ne of grnesh<br/>
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