Subject: golito was indeed too easy but i made the most of it<br/>
Date: Jun 10, 2006 @ 22:36<br/>
Author: aletheia kallos (aletheia kallos &lt;aletheiak@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1085064375">the 2 legged omens were spectacular<br/>
first a pheasant <br/>
soon followed by turkeys<br/>
then a great blue heron <br/>
& a pair of geese with 6 goslings<br/>
all very near or actually crossing the road right in<br/>
front of me<br/>
 <br/>
& that was just the first mile on the way down cream<br/>
hill<br/>
<br/>
but the tripoint proved so obvious & simple that i<br/>
would have had to complicate the try somehow<br/>
just to have something to report<br/>
<br/>
which in fact i did <br/>
albeit inadvertently at first<br/>
by mistaking the goli town line on deming road for its<br/>
goto counterpart <br/>
while still en route to the actual target area<br/>
& by then even finding a heavy steel u bar painted<br/>
yellow & red & very securely planted on goli there<br/>
right beside the road<br/>
which i initially mistook for the golito marker itself<br/>
 <br/>
even despite its unusualness & my misgivings about it<br/>
til i carefully reread the welcome signs & topo<br/>
when i finally realized where i actually was<br/>
as marked by the cursor cross here<br/>
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://topozone.com/map.asp?z=18&n=4627967&e=649003&s=25&size=l&datum=nad83">http://topozone.com/map.asp?z=18&n=4627967&e=649003&s=25&size=l&datum=nad83</a><br/>
& that i still had another quarter of a mile to go for<br/>
golito<br/>
<br/>
already feeling rather silly at this point<br/>
<br/>
but by the time i finally pulled up at the second road<br/>
surface change & second pair of welcome signs <br/>
which is to say the correct ones<br/>
i had just caught sight of the true golito marker in<br/>
the veggies about 50 feet off the road<br/>
<br/>
already no doubt about it at that point<br/>
<br/>
that was that & i fairly well knew it<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
after making my way down to the marker by balancing<br/>
precariously on a rotting log<br/>
rather than simply walking along the ground <br/>
which i imagined to be swampy tho it proved to be only<br/>
a bit spongy<br/>
i found the marker was a very ordinary 20th century<br/>
jobbie in cast concrete rising only about a foot above<br/>
the ground<br/>
inscribed g & l & t on the appropriate faces<br/>
but already dilapidating substantially into litchfield<br/>
<br/>
still it was the best preserved multipoint marker i<br/>
have ever found anywhere within connecticut<br/>
<br/>
after a perfunctory pat on its top dimple <br/>
i finally had to figure that the true tripoint was not<br/>
at all right there where it was supposed to be but<br/>
already about a foot to the northeast of the visible<br/>
part of the marker<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
the only wild 4 legged critter i met on the entire<br/>
outing was a turtle <br/>
tho this was on the home stretch<br/>
<br/>
he was also crossing the road in front of me & at a<br/>
good clip too<br/>
heading in the direction of the belmont stakes <br/>
& or united nations<br/>
as i figured <br/>
only about 100 miles due south of there<br/>
<br/>
since this try was in honor of the world cup tho <br/>
i imagined him in the race for the world class<br/>
naturally enough<br/>
tho i realize i may have been confusing my tripoint<br/>
try with a triple crown as well as a hat trick in this<br/>
case<br/>
<br/>
well<br/>
post time again<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
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