Subject: Re: but could gthnsv really look like this up close
Date: Oct 22, 2002 @ 17:06
Author: acroorca2002 ("acroorca2002" <orc@...>)
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oops
how about this way
http://
www.elsalvador.com/planeta/2002/110402/fotos/Montecristo.JP
G

or
http://www.elsalvador.com/planeta/2001/110402/fotos/Montecrist
o.JPG

oh well

--- In BoundaryPoint@y..., "acroorca2002" <orc@o...> wrote:
> thanx mostly to jesper
> we have already enjoyed several class e & d photos of the
> guatemala honduras elsalvador tripoint
> located high in the cloud forest atop montecristo
> also called trifinio
> meaning triborder
> & situated in a triple national park
>
> & we might well have expected a distinctive mountain peak
> with an obligatory statue of christ
> if we could ever get a close enough look
> on a clear enough day
>
> but now comes this inexplicable close up pic
> without any caption or accompanying text
> but with the words elsalvador & montecristo in the url
> http://www.
> elsalvador.com/planeta/2002/110402/fotos/Montecristo.JPG
>
> apologies if doctoring it by hand is necessary
> as this experimental format is the best i can hope to try
>
> anyway it shows a parklike setting within a craterlike
depression
> surrounded with what looks like cloud forest all right
> & surmounted by a pole
> which could be a tripoint marker
> & might even support a crucifix
> if again we could only see it clearly & completely enough
>
> at all events it is our first class c try at gthnsv
> for whatever that may be worth
> & i do presume all tries at improvement are worthy
> but only time will tell if this is actually the real stuff
>
> one could even hope that doug might settle this question
> while in guatemala for bzgtmx this winter
>
> & if he does so
> he will be the first to collect all the tricountry points of north
> america
> for
> yes
> guatemala hogs them both
>
> & he would also thereby surge into the worldclass lead
> & become the first person in the world with a score of 21
> tricountry points tried
>
> am i rooting too hard