07-Jul-2023 -- Driving eastwards along I-40 in northeastern Arizona, I made a detour through the Navajo Nation to cross into New Mexico and try to visit this intriguing ‘forgotten’ Degree Confluence Point, visited only once - more than 21 years ago - by the Luettringhauses. Furthermore, this lone visit was in Winter; I was looking forward to seeing what it looked like in Summer.

I wanted to avoid bothering the people in the house that’s to the North of the point, especially as they had reassured the previous visitors that the point lay in ‘open land’. Instead, I wanted to drive on a dirt road to [35.99607,-109.00137] (0.3 miles South of the point), where Google Earth showed that there was a path that leads towards the point. But unfortunately I couldn’t find a way to get to this dirt road from the highways nearby (Indian Service Route 12 and Highway 134). Every possible entrance that I investigated was either closed off, or was really someone’s driveway. Running short of time, I decided to make this an ‘incomplete’ visit, and instead take a photo (0.56 miles from the point) from the closest approach on the highway: the driveway of the house to the North.

I’ll make another attempt to visit this point sometime in the future, when I’ll try to better plan a hiking route to the point that doesn’t involve passing by someone’s house. I also regret not having taken any photos of the stunning sandstone cliffs visible from the highway about 4 miles South of the point.