Mike,
The de Bruin photos of markers 1 and 2 do not show the area of the
tripoint.
Rock 1 is at the base of a cliff. The photographer had to lean out and
get photos from directly above it. It's an ordinary upright boundary
rock, but the tight photos show flowing water washing its moss-covered
base on the Italian side. It has a dimple and two lines in its top.
Marker 2 is supposedly incised into the top of a relatively inaccessible
rocky cliff. The photographer gives us various telephoto shots of the
red-posted sign that stands next to it.
Lowell G. McManus
Leesville, Louisiana, USA
----- Original Message -----
From: "aletheia kallos" <aletheiak@...>
To: <BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, July 31, 2006 6:49 PM
Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] My visit to Campione d'Italia
> thanx very much mats
> all wonderfully clarifying
>
> tho for some reason i cant access the de bruin pdf
> caption texts
> nevertheless what i can see there plus all the various
> other data taken together do seem to pretty well
> confirm that
> b o t h
> the arogno bissone campione tripoint aka arbica
> a n d
> the arogno campione castagnola become lugano tripoint
> aka arcalu
> are situated at the unmarked intersections of brook
> bottoms with straight line segments defined by pairs
> of chit rocks
> the former by rocks number 13b & 14 hyperextended 7
> meters south of no 14 to named position v1
> as you have observed
> & the latter by & between rocks number 1 & 2
> roughly 15 meters south of no 1 or a quarter of the
> way from it to no 2
> thanx in this case to tullio aebischers data
>
> we do not yet appear to have seen a positively
> identifiable pic of either tripoint position tho
>
> it is possible that the very first de bruin pdf pic
> shows the arcalu brook somewhere in the right general
> vicinity for the tripoint to be in frame
> but still doubtful because no accompanying chit rock
> is visible there
>
> it is far more likely that vito la collas 2 wonderful
> views include arbica even if it is hiding directly
> underneath the foot bridge or in the creek bed some
> very short distance below the foot bridge
>
> & let me say despite your modest disavowal of the post
> 14 alignment
> several of these pix leave little doubt that this post
> at least
> does stand centered directly upon or very close to the
> chit alignment
> even if none of the other posts do likewise
> so i am seeing & counting it as being in the same line
> as 13b & 14
> for purposes of visually placing the tripoint position
> in the photos
> i think correctly
> even if not yet to my complete satisfaction
> since i cant measure off the 7 meters from here
>
> but do you or craig or dieter or any of our other eye
> witnesses have an opinion of exactly what point on
> these pix the 7 meters measured off in the correct
> direction would bring us to