Subject: berkshire perfection try still lives<br/>
Date: May 20, 2005 @ 05:35<br/>
Author: aletheia kallos (aletheia kallos &lt;aletheiak@yahoo.com&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1639719142">hapiri<br/>
or the hancock pittsfield richmond tripoint <br/>
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which you may recall was the unexpected wetpoint &<br/>
potential spoiler of an otherwise perfect collection<br/>
because she alone of all 44 tripoints in the county<br/>
turned up unmarked on the usgs topo<br/>
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was found in the border bible today described as fully<br/>
marked<br/>
yesss <br/>
by a stone monument sunk in the mud in the bottom of a<br/>
small pond<br/>
with a 1 & a half inch iron pipe for a finder standing<br/>
beside the bound<br/>
which shows above the surface of the water except at<br/>
its highest stage<br/>
situated near the easterly end of the pond 95 feet<br/>
west of the dam <br/>
etc<br/>
<br/>
& so she is not at all the spoiler i was preparing to<br/>
believe she was<br/>
<br/>
which means the desired perfection is still<br/>
theoretically attainable in the berkshires <br/>
with the help of a gps receiver to be sure <br/>
for the already at least 6 tough nuts that have been<br/>
identified<br/>
& now add to that a snorkel mask <br/>
for the at least 1 or 2 underwater tough nuts<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
for indeed i have subsequently also scoured both the<br/>
northern & the southern testaments to find that all 44<br/>
of my berkshire tripoint targets were marked in some<br/>
way as of 1915<br/>
just as i had originally merely presumed they were<br/>
but can now at last positively confirm<br/>
<br/>
so as of 90 years ago anyway <br/>
tripointing perfection was still theoretically<br/>
attainable in the berkshires <br/>
<br/>
42 of the 44 tripoints were marked with rocks of some<br/>
sort <br/>
i have now ascertained<br/>
& the remaining 2 with other hardware<br/>
<br/>
but in theory all were & are still equally &<br/>
absolutely visitable<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
& in reading the above marvelous description of hapiri<br/>
& studying the accompanying schematic<br/>
i tried to recall if i had even noticed such a pipe on<br/>
my first visit to the site last sunday<br/>
but could only settle the matter by returning to the<br/>
scene again today to scope it out afresh with benefit<br/>
of the new data<br/>
<br/>
& indeed the pond was running over the dam today<br/>
which means it was in fact at its highest stage<br/>
so the pipe was indeed either submerged or had<br/>
disappeared in the intervening years<br/>
& no further progress could be made on it today in any<br/>
case<br/>
<br/>
for indeed <br/>
even above & beyond the unfavorability of the water<br/>
level<br/>
the various data i now have stand in striking mutual<br/>
contradiction<br/>
<br/>
for tho the bible text says the tripoint is 95 feet<br/>
west of the dam<br/>
the bible diagram shows it 150 feet above the dam &<br/>
100 feet offshore<br/>
<br/>
& the usgs topo shows the tripoint at or certainly<br/>
very near the edge of the pond 158 feet from the dam <br/>
<br/>
but being unable to either reconcile all these<br/>
conflicting data<br/>
or to see the finder or the monument itself in the<br/>
water <br/>
i nevertheless tried to strike a rough average among<br/>
all the data <br/>
& made the attached revised guess photo<br/>
in which the notional tripoint is centered in the<br/>
foreground<br/>
perhaps just at the horizontal break in the scum line<br/>
<br/>
compare the topo to the aerial pic<br/>
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<br/>
in any case <br/>
the new pic represents a distinct improvement over the<br/>
previous one<br/>
& an upgrade from a class d to a class c visit now<br/>
i would guess<br/>
but clearly the gps & snorkel gear as well as a much<br/>
lower water stage will be needed for the eventual<br/>
upgrade here <br/>
to the perfection of class a<br/>
<br/>
so i resolved to return again during the next dry<br/>
spell<br/>
& otherwise to postpone this retry for last of all<br/>
after all 43 other companion tripoints have been<br/>
completed<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
from hapiri i proceeded to resume an earler try for<br/>
nearby lnpiri also<br/>
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just to try to regain some momentum & also to test out<br/>
my new legs<br/>
<br/>
this is how it went<br/>
<br/>
i parked where the gas pipeline crosses the dead end<br/>
approach <br/>
aka knox road<br/>
& rather than invading a lot of private property<br/>
i followed the clearcut of the gas line as far as what<br/>
i took to be piri<br/>
because it was at the margin of cleared & forested<br/>
land<br/>
or in other words just as the above topo shows it<br/>
<br/>
compare the much more recent aerial pic here too<br/>
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<br/>
& i was next able to get a pretty good fix on the<br/>
point where piri crosses a brook still about 360 yards<br/>
west of lnpiri<br/>
& picked up a very promising yellow blazed lead line<br/>
there<br/>
which however quit & turned much too soon <br/>
at a private survey marker<br/>
<br/>
i continued my pace count on the same bearing tho<br/>
& eventually reached & scoured what i took to be the<br/>
target area <br/>
albeit without success<br/>
<br/>
so this tripoint too has already attained its tough<br/>
nuthood<br/>
becoming the 7th in that class<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
& i have also found that my foot still needs a little<br/>
more recreation<br/>
so i will proceed to celebrate a somewhat longer<br/>
hiatus at this point<br/>
as i contemplate the return to potential perfection<br/>
for awhile longer too<br/>
with the score very conveniently holding at <br/>
one full 18 hole golf course down<br/>
& half of another tried <br/>
but still up in the air<br/>
<br/>
the unexpected assimilation with golf seems especially<br/>
felicitous here<br/>
<br/>
pointing tries are after all much like playing<br/>
gigantic golf holes <br/>
<br/>
play will resume<br/>
when it does<br/>
on the 2 suspended tries for dapiwa & lnpiwa<br/>
& will then proceed with the 17 remaining as yet<br/>
untried points<br/>
before returning to the collected 7 or more tough nuts<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
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