Subject: trying next for a score of 20 & a semblance of order<br/>
Date: May 09, 2005 @ 13:13<br/>
Author: aletheia kallos (aletheia kallos &lt;aletheiak@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1775059295">the next 4 tripoint tries in this neck of the woods <br/>
all of which are planned ambitiously for today monday<br/>
will undertake to bring the total berkshire try score<br/>
up to 20<br/>
as well as to fill in the coverage all the way up to<br/>
october mountain<br/>
or about 44 degrees & 22 minutes of north latitude<br/>
from where i then intend to proceed northward in<br/>
orderly progression for the balance of the berkshire<br/>
ensemble of 44 trypoints in all<br/>
which <br/>
as previously noted <br/>
match numerically the 44 prefectural tripoints of<br/>
japan <br/>
& as i also just realized<br/>
correspond just as perfectly to the 44 tricountry<br/>
points of europe<br/>
where some tries are also more or less simultaneously<br/>
in progress<br/>
<br/>
& todays 4 tries hereabouts break down conveniently<br/>
into a couple of mutually complementary pairs<br/>
<br/>
first<br/>
high up on the ridge line of tom ball mountain<br/>
at far left center of the following topo swatch <br/>
is the challenging algrwe <br/>
or the tripoint of alford with great barrington & west<br/>
stockbridge<br/>
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://topozone.com/map.asp?z=18&n=4679724&e=633181&s=50&size=l&datum=nad83&layer=DRG25">http://topozone.com/map.asp?z=18&n=4679724&e=633181&s=50&size=l&datum=nad83&layer=DRG25</a><br/>
while in sharp contrast <br/>
at the opposite side of the frame<br/>
but in reality only a couple of miles across town<br/>
along the grwe line<br/>
is the tame looking grstwe<br/>
where great barrington meets stockbridge & west<br/>
stockbridge<br/>
practically in downtown housatonic village<br/>
<br/>
more background on this point below<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
& in the next swatch <br/>
lying a few miles northeast of the first one<br/>
the hard & easy roles are seemingly reversed<br/>
for here the tame looking ristwe is to the left of<br/>
center<br/>
where richmond meets stockbridge & west stockbridge<br/>
apparently on the shoulder of the access road to a<br/>
radio tower<br/>
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.topozone.com/map.asp?z=18&n=4690176&e=637098&s=24&size=l&datum=nad83&layer=DRG25">http://www.topozone.com/map.asp?z=18&n=4690176&e=637098&s=24&size=l&datum=nad83&layer=DRG25</a><br/>
but to the right of center in this case is the more<br/>
demanding looking lnrist<br/>
aka the lenox richmond west stockbridge tripoint <br/>
at the opposite end of the minuscule rist line<br/>
scarcely half a mile away<br/>
probably in difficult woods<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
& here again is the reference map<br/>
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.berkshireweb.com/themap/index.html">http://www.berkshireweb.com/themap/index.html</a><br/>
on which can also be seen the fairly clean divide that<br/>
exists between what is usually called south county &<br/>
north county in the local lingo<br/>
somewhere in the narrow waist between great barrington<br/>
& pittsfield<br/>
which are the hubs <br/>
respectively <br/>
of the generally lower softer gentler south end of the<br/>
county <br/>
& the generally higher harder stronger north end <br/>
& thus of the tripoint ensemble as well<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
for tho i began on the second highest mountain in<br/>
massachusetts<br/>
namely mount washington<br/>
& have stalled & lingered midway on perhaps the most<br/>
illustrious one<br/>
aka october mountain<br/>
the highest & seemingly most forbidding mountain of<br/>
all still lies ahead in the form of mount greylock<br/>
which rises mostly on the west side of the town of<br/>
adams <br/>
& has 2 challenging tripoints waiting on its shoulders<br/>
<br/>
melville said the double humped greylock suggested a<br/>
great whale<br/>
hmm<br/>
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.mountainsummits.com/pictures/massachusetts/greylock/images/greylock17.jpg">http://www.mountainsummits.com/pictures/massachusetts/greylock/images/greylock17.jpg</a><br/>
& tho spelling it graylock rather than greylock<br/>
another local wag named hawthorne immortalized this<br/>
mountain no less with his own trypointing farce<br/>
entitled ethan brand than melville did october<br/>
mountain with his previously mentioned cockadoodledoo<br/>
 <br/>
<br/>
& just to bring all these literary orological<br/>
excursions back to at least one of the points actually<br/>
being tried today<br/>
a 4th & probably last mountain worth mentioning in<br/>
this connection is <br/>
monument mountain <br/>
which overlooks the aforementioned grstwe tripoint in<br/>
housatonic village on the banks of the housatonic<br/>
river<br/>
& which you can see by panning east from the first map<br/>
linked above<br/>
<br/>
for it is this monument mountain that is the really<br/>
monumentally historic one on whose peak melville &<br/>
hawthorne & oliver wendell holmes & a few others had<br/>
their famous literary picnic in 1850<br/>
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.adam-burton.co.uk/0116-31_th.jpg">http://www.adam-burton.co.uk/0116-31_th.jpg</a><br/>
<br/>
<br/>
& holmes is best remembered locally for having<br/>
supposedly said<br/>
the best tonic is the housatonic<br/>
<br/>
or<br/>
theres no tonic like the housatonic<br/>
<br/>
or something like that<br/>
for nobody seems to recall exactly what he actually<br/>
did say in this connection<br/>
<br/>
& moreover the quote is often misattributed to thoreau<br/>
& emerson & twain & others<br/>
all of whom <br/>
it is true <br/>
were also in the neighborhood from time to time<br/>
along with longfellow bryant wharton sedgwick etc etc<br/>
<br/>
well i am glad i got all that out <br/>
& them all in<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
& probably many other individual lights remain lit in<br/>
the berkshires<br/>
like norman rockwell simply is stockbridge personified<br/>
or vice versa<br/>
& arlo guthries alices restaurant survives in the<br/>
village of housatonic<br/>
etc <br/>
etc<br/>
but i think the true berkshire trypointing triad must<br/>
be the ones who have somehow managed to become<br/>
monumentalized with these 3 most famous mountains &<br/>
this only major river<br/>
<br/>
& if holmes is remembered for having said something<br/>
silly <br/>
then all the better<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
but anyway<br/>
ready <br/>
set <br/>
& once again<br/>
its bottoms up with a hoosy tonic & bearkshrward ho<br/>
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