17-Feb-2001 -- I live in Minden, LA, (32.6255N 93.2764W) so 33 degrees N 94
degrees W is not too far away. After checking various maps I had
available, I took off on a Saturday afternoon to check it out. From La
1 north of Rodessa, LA, I turned east on Caddo Parish Capps City Road
and went about a mile to where a logging/oilfield road heads south from
the pavement. After following this road on foot - it was much too wet
to drive - for about a half mile, I came to a point due east of my
objective that showed I was going to have to leave the beaten path.The
confluence point turned out to be a hundred or so yards off the
logging/oilfield road in a clear-cut area that has not been replanted.
The predominant vegetation is last year's dead cypressweed stalks
interspersed with blackberry canes. The ground is covered with
three-year-old deadfall left over from when the pine trees were
harvested.
Tripping over dead branches while wading through head-high weeds, a
good portion of which are thorny, does not make for easy hiking, but I
got there. I was afraid the point was going to be in the flood waters
of the east fork of State Line Creek, but it turned out to be about ten
feet from the water's edge. Then I realized I had not brought anything
to mark the spot, so off with my jacket. By then I had worked up a mild
sweat anyway.