Subject: Re: AZNVUT Details<br/>
Date: Oct 30, 2002 @ 00:00<br/>
Author: acroorca2002 (&quot;acroorca2002&quot; &lt;orc@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1744823967">--- In BoundaryPoint@y..., &quot;bjbutlerus&quot; &lt;bjbutler@b...&gt; got pricked <br/>
by a bush. <br/>
 but aside from some moderate anxiety at the prospect<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; of dying in the desert without having visited the tri-point, the<br/>
&gt; injury was minor.<br/>
<br/>
 </span></blockquote>i agree<br/>
it is much easier to accept any mishaps after making ones point<br/>
than before<br/>
<br/>
my own first try at aznvut was also made from mesquite<br/>
but solo<br/>
& without benefit of 4wd real or imaginary<br/>
also without cellphone <br/>
without gps or other navigational tools <br/>
without topozone etc nor anything really but a mental map <br/>
as recalled from a nevada road atlas i had once seen <br/>
& this was before jacks book too<br/>
so i imagined i was the first one crazy enough to try this point<br/>
& it was in the heat of summer to boot<br/>
& the starter in my truck had been acting funny<br/>
etc etc<br/>
but miraculously<br/>
i did manage to pick my way across 26 miles of that desolation<br/>
til the jeep track just petered out not far nw of the tripoint<br/>
& actually within an easy walk of it<br/>
as can readily be seen at topozone today<br/>
by just ordering up terry benches<br/>
<br/>
by that point any car failure would have necessitated a forced <br/>
night march out of there & back to western civ<br/>
but i dared to cut the engine anyway<br/>
because i couldnt spare much gas<br/>
& left the truck on foot very late in the afternoon<br/>
heading off to the southeast in search of the monument <br/>
as anticipated only from a reading of p160 in bus&ss<br/>
& with only a very general idea of where it might be hiding<br/>
<br/>
& of course i soon got exhausted <br/>
& night fell fast<br/>
& i couldnt find either the monument or my truck in the dark<br/>
but had to catnap with the sidewinders & scorpions til moonrise<br/>
sometime after midnight<br/>
when i was finally able to figure out <br/>
thanx to an ingeniously deductive but roundabout approach<br/>
exactly how to reach the truck<br/>
& the temporary rescue & comfort it provided<br/>
<br/>
the fact that the starter worked only with difficulty in the morning <br/>
was enough reason for me to break off the try forthwith & hightail <br/>
it directly out of the desert to safety at that point<br/>
<br/>
the starter did finally fail later in the day<br/>
but by then i had reached much easier conditions for repair<br/>
<br/>
some months afterward <br/>
while trying idnvut <br/>
i chanced to meet a man who had preceded me to aznvut<br/>
& he showed me a picture of himself & his wife at the marker<br/>
<br/>
so nothing had been lost there but my delusion of originality<br/>
& i did eventually return to finally bag aznvut some years later<br/>
in fact just hours before that puddle pic was taken<br/>
<br/>
but by then i couldnt have cared less about a mishap<br/>
& 7 miles in the midday sun seemed like a short walk <br/>
& the towing fee a small surcharge</div>