coos bay oregon
in the end no improvement was possible today either
owing to the weather
tho i climbed & manuvered around the greater canw & orsw area
& may well have sighted usorca once or twice
near the limit of visibility
judging from topozone
perhaps 5nm due west of dry caorw
but nothing was clear enough to warrant buying a camera
so the extant class e photo remains the best photo try to date
on further reflection i did reluctantly conclude that these tripoints are
worth the photographing
rather than just expecting people to use their imagination alone
but this one just wasnt worth photographing today
i also realized that because the caor line drifts a few degrees north of
west as it approaches the pacific
any serious try for continental canw & orsw should follow the exact latitude
of the terminal marker to the beach
rather than simply follow the fence line to project the final segment beyond
the terminal mark to the beach
there is a good little difference i would say
then even if that procedure is successful
the task will still remain of finding the westernmost dry point on that
latitude at mean low tide
so it looks like it will be difficult even with benefit of a gps to improve
on the modest class c visit i made there yesterday
tho again a photo would be a nice souvenir
m
nice tricountry point photo there too
harry of arabia
>From: "m donner" <maxivan82@...>
>Reply-To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
>To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: [BoundaryPoint] usorca try continued
>Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2001 00:56:30 +0000
>
>brookings oregon
>
>in any case when the crescent city library closed at 2
>there was nothing lefty to do but try to advance upon my point
>
>first of all
>i will say flat out
>the atmospheric conditions were so soft as not to allow any improvement on
>my earlier class e photo
>so my lack of a camera was not even felt
>
>i was able to recover again the caor terminal marker depicted in topozone &
>mentioned in bus&ss p151 as being
>12 chains from the shore of the pacific ocean
>or perhaps even better
>& as it also says
>212 miles & 28 chains west of cane aka canvor
>& gives nad27 coords
>so my lack of a gps also was not felt
>so far
>
>the marker supposedly dating to 1869 is humble but covered by a high
>voltage
>wire fence
>a low concrete filled pipestem rising from an even humbler concrete square
>tablet diagonally oriented
>
>it is difficult however to follow caor precisely from the terminal mark to
>the shore
>so any good determination of continental canw aka continental orsw cant be
>made without a gps
>but i made a best guess
>& advanced a few feet into the ocean
>a meaningful gesture i hope which represents some slight improvement over
>my
>earlier dry footed try
>& a concession of a rare case where gps rocks
>but we are still talking class e & not class d
>
>another interesting insight here
>no time
>this library is closing too
>
>more tomorrow as i am holding for a change in the weather
>
>m
>
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