--- aletheia kallos <aletheiak@...> wrote:

> with the southernmost 20 berkshire town tripoints
> already fully tried
> http://www.berkshireweb.com/themap/index.html
> the overall coverage is now proceeding northward as
> follows
>
> 21
> the presently ongoing try that was begun yesterday
> is
> for
> hipewa
> the hinsdale peru washington tripoint
>

http://topozone.com/map.asp?z=18&n=4694244&e=657097&s=25&size=l&datum=nad83&layer=DRG25

> which looks to be about 214 feet from a road
> possibly named fassell road in hinsdale per the usgs
> topo
> but evidently also named east washington road per
> mapquest
> & a viable approach to the neighborhood has already
> been confirmed
> but the actual point try remains to be carried out
>
> 22
> lnpiwa
> or lenox pittsfield washington
>

http://topozone.com/map.asp?z=18&n=4695850&e=645863&s=25&size=l&datum=nad83&layer=DRG25

> apparently combines urban with remote by suggesting
> a
> roughly 2968 foot bushwhack from a residential
> neighborhood at right angles to a road & a stone
> wall
> & a forest border
> along a lnpi municipal boundary that one could hope
> is
> blazed
> since pittsfield is a city
>
> 23
> lnpiri
> lenox pittsfield richmond
>

http://topozone.com/map.asp?z=18&n=4697330&e=640377&s=25&size=l&datum=nad83&layer=DRG25

> looks to be about 600 feet from some homes
> but perhaps more importantly about 1010 feet bearing
> s10e of where their driveway is crossed by a stone
> wall
> since that is probably a better point for a
> concealed
> approach thru the woods
> in which there is again reason to hope for help from
> a
> blazed city line
>
> 24
> dahiwa
> dalton hinsdale washington
>

http://topozone.com/map.asp?z=18&n=4697200&e=650652&s=50&size=l&datum=nad83&layer=DRG25

> looks to be about 485 feet bearing n26e of a knoll
> top
> of uncertain accessibility
> with an initial try most likeably via pittsfield
> road
> aka blotz road
> proceeding northwestward from route 8 in hinsdale
> with the intention of somehow skirting south of the
> upper sackett reservoir so as to approach the target
> knoll from the east & south
>
> 25
> dapiwa
> dalton pittsfield washington
>

http://topozone.com/map.asp?z=18&n=4697259&e=647963&s=50&size=l&datum=nad83&layer=DRG25

> seems to require skirting both a reservoir & a
> gravel
> pit
> but a residential neighborhood to the north offers a
> possible entree
> as well as a bearing of s10w & a distance of about
> 1113 feet from the intervening brook
>
> 26
> hapiri
> hancock pittsfield richmond
> but yikes whats this

whoops & yikes indeed

corrected map
http://topozone.com/map.asp?z=18&n=4697595&e=636839&s=25&size=l&datum=nad83&layer=DRG25
& thanx for your patience

> no marker indicated
> & this baby is looking decidedly aqueous to boot
> in a first & indeed totally unexpected occurrence of
> probable wetness among the berkshire 44
>
> & it is enough to send the entire project into a
> direct tailspin
> since a significant part of the point of the try was
> for a presumably attainable perfection
> whereas now there is a substantial doubt as to
> whether
> any such perfection is even loosely reachable in the
> present venue
>
> for even if all the hard nuts do miraculously crack
> with a gps receiver
> this single point of unattainability may still
> remain
>
> or so it appears for now
>
>
> on the other hand
> before anyone gets too excited & jumps off the deep
> end
> it should be recalled that there have already been
> several dilapidated rocks recovered in this
> collection
> that definitely blur their tripoint positions by at
> least several horizontal inches
> & there have also been at least a couple of
> tripoints
> where duplicated monumentation has created an
> uncertainty about the exact tripoint position on the
> order of several horizontal feet
> so a best possible visit to this possibly uniquely
> wet
> & possibly uniquely unmarked hapiri tripoint may not
> prove to be any less accurate than a visit to the
> slackest of the 43 markers of the other points in
> the
> series
>
> & moreover hapiri may not be wet today at all if her
> pond has drained
> & could be marked
> whether wet or dry
> usgs topo to the contrary notwithstanding
>
> & even if she is wet
> she may still prove not to be uniquely wet
> since there still remain many completely unexamined
> tripoints
> plus the earlier one that may have been swamped by
> beavers
> etc etc
>
> & so there is no need to abandon the overall try
> just
> because of a little possible wetness at one point
> & still every reason to press on
> as i do
> with try point number 27
> hipewi
> aka hinsdale peru windsor
> which at bottom center here
> is looking relatively remote & challenging
>

http://topozone.com/map.asp?z=18&n=4706068&e=658790&s=50&size=l&datum=nad83&layer=DRG25

> & i think i would like to probe the various access
> routes before deciding on the direction of approach
> for the actual try
>
>
> & i dont mean to suggest i will try all 7 tries in a
> single day
> but i am preparing maps for all of them & planning
> another possible outing for this weekend
> & if i got real lucky & somehow did ace all 7
> in any period of time
> then that would mark halfway to completion
> with a score of 22 down to 5 up & 17 left for 44
> right

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