25-Mar-2001 -- The three of us had just finished placing a geocache at
Brushy Mountain
in Paulding county. My son and I had already done two
confluences 35°N
83°W and 35°N
84°W and had told my brother Johnnie about doing that. He said "Too
bad somebody had already gotten 34°N 85°W, because it is just a couple of
miles from the cache." I told him that while it is nice to be the first
visitors to a confluence, other visits count. So we head off to it. We parked at
the same crossing as the first vistor (Ernest Bennett). Then head down the
railroad until the GPS pointed 90° from the track and headed into the woods
with GPS and compass. It looks like we got very close to same spot as Ernest.
This is the first time we ever got the picture of the GPS with all zeros, at the
other confluences they would appear, but disappear before I could get the
picture.
So picture 1 is looking north to the confluence, we put the camera case on
the spot where we got the zeros. The thick woods in the background are
what we had to traverse to get here. Picture 2 is of Robert, Allen
(myself) and Johnnie Lacy standing on the confluence. I forgot to bring the
tripod, so it was taken with the camera hanging in a tree. Then the GPS shot is
picture 3 with those zeros.