wow thanx & much happier to have such telling
confirmation of my surmise & to make that 1 known
report now
but yikes they seem to believe the tricorner only a
geological formation without mentioning nor perhaps
even suspecting the geopolitical one
or is this just a coincidence
or a coinsidence
or some of both
&
it is also noteworthy that there remains some doubt as
to whether they actually penetrated the thickest &
topmost thicket to actually reach the true tripoint
position
for tho this special veggie condition may be common in
the smokies
nevertheless
given the extreme rarity of tripoints that actually
leave their names on the land like this one
the fact or nonfact of counting an exact coup on one
of these
looms as large in my mind as i imagine counting an
exact coup on a cohp must loom in yours
does that mean i would try to reach as well as climb
the highest tree
well lets say i would reach for as high as i could or
dared on it
& i realize this quirk must be at least part of what
makes multipointers or maybe it is just me
slightly strange by most standards
---
spookymike@... wrote:
> Here's a link to a report of a Tricorner Knob summit
> ascent:
>
http://www.mountainzone.com/weekendjournal/html/smokies_2.html
>
> And an excerpt from the report:
>
> <<<I arrived at the Tricorner Knob Shelter too early
> to start dinner and with
> energy to spare. I recruited two guys I met there,
> Luke and Tim, to join me
> on an excursion to the summit of Tricorner Knob. The
> off trail terrain started
> simply, but the briars and brambles closed in. It
> was a 15-minute bushwhack
> through some very thick brush with nearly 300 feet
> of vertical gain. Because it
> was labeled a 'knob' and not a 'bald' I should have
> known better. We finally
> reached the top, and there was no view to be had. A
> cluster of spruce trees
> were at their thickest right at the summit. But we
> did discover why it was called
> Tricorner Knob. There were three distinct corners,
> about 10 feet from each
> other, making up the summit plateau.>>>
>
> This is not an unusual situation in that area.
> County highpointers often
> make the trek along the A.T. to do Old Black and
> Guyot, both county highpoints,
> and have to do the short but intense bushwhacks off
> the trail to reach the two
> summits. Now and then some kind, if misguided soul
> machetes a path thru the
> brambles, but Mother Nature soon reclaims her space.
>
> Mike Schwartz
>
>
>
>
> In a message dated 5/17/06 3:29:50 PM,
> BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com writes:
>
>
> > Message 1
> > From: "aletheia kallos" aletheiak@...
> > Date: Tue May 16, 2006 1:27pm(PDT)
> > Subject: tricorner knob us2nctn3hasesw volunteered
> for most remote point
> >
> > http://www.wate.com/Global/story.asp?S=1938648
> >
>
http://topozone.com/map.asp?z=17&n=3952535&e=296039&s=25&size=l&datum=nad83&
> > layer=DRG25
> >
> > moreover the veggies are so thick up there
> > it seems nobody has ever punched thru to the
> summit
> > tripoint
> > notwithstanding its close proximity to the
> appalachian
> > trail
> >
> > or at least there are no known reports or pix of
> it
> >
> >
> > to give you an idea of my idea of how thick
> > here is the only known purported pic of its twin
> peak
> > mt yonaguska
> > half a mile up the ridge
> > http://www.unc.edu/~pjbarr/yonaguska.jpg
> >
> >
>
>
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