Subject: teetering cantilever tripoint rock<br/>
Date: Aug 27, 2006 @ 22:56<br/>
Author: aletheia kallos (aletheia kallos &lt;aletheiak@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-250850614">wanting to get out of the house but not too far out on<br/>
a rainy sunday morning & feeling the rustiness of not<br/>
having made a real multipoint try in the flesh since<br/>
cokesh <br/>
as reported here a few months ago<br/>
i set my sights today on kewawa <br/>
or us2ct3li4kewawa to be exact <br/>
a roadside tripoint of the towns of kent warren &<br/>
washington<br/>
which is situated literally on the shoreline of lake<br/>
waramaug <br/>
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here in litchfield county connecticut<br/>
<br/>
the kent warren town line was easy to identify at the<br/>
nearby road crossing & to then follow along a fence<br/>
line the short distance to the waters edge<br/>
where no conventional border marker was anywhere in<br/>
evidence<br/>
<br/>
but it soon became clear that the tripoint was indeed<br/>
marked <br/>
by a huge & distinctive natural boulder that came to a<br/>
noticeable point in just the right place at the end of<br/>
the apparent town line & jutted out a short ways there<br/>
into the lake<br/>
<br/>
as i made my way onto this rock & toward its most<br/>
protrusive point<br/>
which i took to be the exact tripoint indicator<br/>
its massive weight suddenly shifted like a seesaw <br/>
& i fully expected to fly headlong into the lake with<br/>
the rock tumbling after me<br/>
until it stopped with a clunk <br/>
at the more easterly of its two pivot or cantilever<br/>
points<br/>
& i ultimately regained my balance<br/>
<br/>
after teetering the rock back & forth a few times i<br/>
satisfied myself that it wasnt going anywhere but just<br/>
up & down & back & forth a little<br/>
<br/>
when i reached out to touch the point i could see that<br/>
the rock didnt just jut into the lake but actually<br/>
over the lake<br/>
so i had to wonder how the point of the rock<br/>
which was not on or above the shore<br/>
could mark the lakeshore tripoint<br/>
as well as a turnpoint on the washington town line at<br/>
the same time <br/>
hmm<br/>
<br/>
the lake level is controlled by a dam <br/>
& there was no question that the point on the rock<br/>
overhung the lake regardless of water level<br/>
<br/>
i finally shrugged & had to figure this was just a<br/>
neighborhood call <br/>
to within a few feet of the truth <br/>
& was most probably never meant to be absolutely<br/>
punctilious <br/>
<br/>
view north from the tripoint vicinity into waramaug<br/>
state park along the kent warren lakeshore boundary<br/>
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