Subject: may day on october mountain etc<br/>
Date: May 02, 2005 @ 01:26<br/>
Author: aletheia kallos (aletheia kallos &lt;aletheiak@yahoo.com&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-667630160">the first attachment is a photo of me by jc<br/>
as i appeared earlier today for my cosmic date with a<br/>
tree <br/>
& for an ensuing 7th try for lelnwa<br/>
the lee lenox washington tripoint <br/>
which tho purportedly monumented & supposedly located<br/>
only about 550 feet straight up the hill to my right<br/>
in fairly open woods<br/>
eluded me yet again<br/>
<br/>
& this time i was also put off by 3 fairly<br/>
authoritative maps all at once<br/>
namely<br/>
the same usgs topo i have been beaming up here all<br/>
along<br/>
& which wasnt much help on the first 6 tries either<br/>
plus now<br/>
the corrected schematic from the 1915 border bible i<br/>
also recently flashed<br/>
which showed trails & a brook confluence & gravel pits<br/>
that werent found today in any case<br/>
& also<br/>
the greatest puzzlement of all<br/>
a current state forest hiking trail map<br/>
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.mass.gov/dcr/parks/trails/OctMtn.gif">http://www.mass.gov/dcr/parks/trails/OctMtn.gif</a><br/>
which promises what i took to be the same 1915 trail<br/>
& even labels it by the same name it had in the 1915<br/>
schematic<br/>
schermerhorn<br/>
but nothing even remotely answering to this<br/>
description was found <br/>
<br/>
once again it was enough for me to call out loud for a<br/>
gps receiver<br/>
which it now appears i will be forced to buy for my<br/>
next lelnwa try<br/>
unless one of these towns has done a recent<br/>
perambulation that i can crib some fresh data from<br/>
first<br/>
since at this point my best guess is that the marker<br/>
may be hidden from view under a fallen tree<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
following a picnic on top of the mountain as also<br/>
suggested by the tree<br/>
& then a short drive across lee & lenox<br/>
the second attachment shows jc immersed in ciphering<br/>
out the full word stockbridge <br/>
inscribed on the west face of the prismatic lelnst<br/>
rock<br/>
<br/>
lenox may be legible facing the camera <br/>
& lee is not visible around the corner at left<br/>
<br/>
i finally settled on this easy roadside tripoint to<br/>
serve as the 11th absolute visit only after both<br/>
lelnwa & aleggr had proved so elusive<br/>
<br/>
indeed i had already noticed & driven past lelnst at<br/>
least twice before <br/>
but deliberately without claiming it previously<br/>
so long as i was still hoping to maintain the sequence<br/>
i had begun with<br/>
& since it was until today only a class d or c peek<br/>
anyway<br/>
<br/>
but once i decided to proceed without lelnwa in the<br/>
bag<br/>
there really wasnt much to this final play of the<br/>
first quarter<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
the third attachment shows jc <br/>
not long after the second one<br/>
feeling the multidimensional energy rising from the<br/>
1910 grlest marker<br/>
<br/>
gt b for great barrington<br/>
as you may be able to see<br/>
but just l for lee<br/>
& just s for stockbridge<br/>
<br/>
does great barrington have a superiority complex<br/>
i wondered<br/>
<br/>
here the 19th century predecessor rock was knocked<br/>
over & broken into at least 3 pieces by the falling<br/>
tree<br/>
one of which is at lower left<br/>
<br/>
& it looks as tho the tripoint must even have been<br/>
displaced a few feet when the replacement marker was<br/>
installed <br/>
<br/>
indeed this exciting discovery of the ghost rock still<br/>
more or less in situ was just what i needed to gain a<br/>
little support for my theory that lelnwa too may have<br/>
gotten hidden or smithereened by a tree<br/>
<br/>
& this point was just what was needed also to start<br/>
the second quarter of play with a bang<br/>
<br/>
for i found it by dead reckoning after first<br/>
deliberately overshooting & then circling around from<br/>
behind at a 275 foot offset from a 1200 foot reach of<br/>
steep hiking trail that i had only dimly recalled was<br/>
diagrammed in the 1915 border bible<br/>
but hadnt actually copied<br/>
<br/>
it was quite a tour de force in difficult terrain &<br/>
veggies<br/>
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://topozone.com/map.asp?z=18&n=4679751&e=641115&s=50&size=l&datum=nad83&layer=DRG25">http://topozone.com/map.asp?z=18&n=4679751&e=641115&s=50&size=l&datum=nad83&layer=DRG25</a><br/>
<br/>
when the target turned up more or less where expected<br/>
jane blurted in amazement<br/>
i just dont know how you do it<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
2 more tries were ventured but not completed<br/>
<br/>
first grmoty <br/>
or the great barrington monterey tyringham tripoint<br/>
where i made a complete try involving about a mile of<br/>
bushwhacking<br/>
before realizing i had actually gotten turned around<br/>
somehow & had walked off the road in the wrong<br/>
direction<br/>
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://topozone.com/map.asp?z=18&n=4678063&e=643830&s=50&size=l&datum=nad83&layer=DRG25">http://topozone.com/map.asp?z=18&n=4678063&e=643830&s=50&size=l&datum=nad83&layer=DRG25</a><br/>
<br/>
i cant believe it actually happened <br/>
but it really did<br/>
& immediately following such a flattering success<br/>
hahahaha<br/>
<br/>
i made a follow up try in the right direction <br/>
but only succeeded in learning that i will definitely<br/>
have to take a roundabout hiking trail to avoid some<br/>
swampy bottoms en route<br/>
& in realizing i was too tired to proceed with that<br/>
plan today anyway<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
& grlety<br/>
or great barrington lee tyringham<br/>
i merely scoped out from the road on the way back to<br/>
cream hill<br/>
as it was growing late etc<br/>
but found lety pink ribboned & looking like an easy<br/>
direct line for another time<br/>
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://topozone.com/map.asp?z=18&n=4679787&e=644839&s=50&size=l&datum=nad83&layer=DRG25">http://topozone.com/map.asp?z=18&n=4679787&e=644839&s=50&size=l&datum=nad83&layer=DRG25</a><br/>
<br/>
<br/>
so til that time<br/>
its 12 down & 32 to go<br/>
<br/>
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