Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] Digest Number 2088
Date: Apr 02, 2006 @ 23:41
Author: aletheia kallos (aletheia kallos <aletheiak@...>)
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> In a message dated 4/2/06 4:23:40 PM,
> BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com writes:
>
>
> > you may well have been wondering just what kind of
> a
> > multipointing society bp really is
> > or even could be
> > now that april fools have arrived in earnest
> without
> > so much as a single physical tripointing try
> having
> > been made by any of us this entire year
> >
> >
>
> Lest you think no one is trying, I spent Friday,
> March 31 visiting eight
> county highpoints in Virginia.
> Two of those were at tri-county points.
>
> One of the four highest points of Clark County is at
> or near the
> Clark/Fauquier/Warren trifinium. This is about
> eight miles north of VA 55, just off
> secondary route 638. Unfortunately there is no
> marker, and GPS must be used to
> get within twenty feet or so.
>
> The highest point of Greene County is located at the
> Greene/Madison/Page
> trifinium, a few feet off the Appalachian Trail,
> north of Bootens Gap on the
> Skyline Drive, and a short distance south of the
> summit of Hazeltop. One of our
> county highpoint group identified a rock that is
> very close (less than 20 feet)
> from the trifinium, as measured by GPS, and placed a
> cairn atop the boulder.
> My GPS verified that the boulder is very close to
> the trifinium. I'm too
> lazy to plow through the archives, but my memory
> seems to tell me that Mike D.
> visited this point a couple of years back.
>
> Mike Schwartz
>
>