Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] Re: Digest Number 2088
Date: Apr 03, 2006 @ 18:22
Author: aletheia kallos (aletheia kallos <aletheiak@yahoo.com>)
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> Mike: Our bootprints definitely overlapped, andhttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/BoundaryPoint/message/15754
> that now explains the
> mysterious vibrations I felt when prowling the area.
> The Skyline
> Drive is indeed a treasure trove of high and multi
> points. BTW, the
> drive was nearly empty on this beautiful, if
> somewhat hazy day. Quite
> a contrast from the hordes of summer.
>
> Never got around to visiting every NJ tri-county
> point (internal +
> shared with other states) as planned for this past
> winter, but the
> maps are done, the GPS coords are available, and
> just have to wait
> until the ticks and crops die off next fall.
>
> Guess DC/MD/VA N will have to wait another year...
>
> Mike
>
>
>
>
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> --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, aletheia
> kallos <aletheiak@...>
> wrote:
> >
> > bravos mike & thanx
> > very interesting
> >
> > here is our earlier however improbable clfawa try
> all
> > in one message
> > co starring lowell
> > if you will follow the thread in sequence from the
> > bottom up
> >
>
> >http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BoundaryPoint/message/15769
> > but did you recognize any of this stuff
> >
> >
> > & similarly grmapa
> >
>
> > starring yourself even then from mendham__________________________________________________
> >
> >
> > all those blue ridge pearls are the absolute best
> > even if they cant be found
> > or perhaps especially because they cant be found
> >
> > i seem to recall stringing exactly 2 dozen of them
>
> > all class e
> > & there are still many more untried farther south
> >
> >
> > --- spookymike@... wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > 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