03-Jun-2026 -- Driving north from Lewiston, Idaho to Spokane, Washington, I took a detour (through the college town of Moscow, Idaho) to visit this point. From the report from the previous visitor (Joseph Kerski, in May, 2024), I knew that the point lay in a wheat field, so I was eager to avoid trampling on as much of the wheat crop as possible. Fortunately, I managed to avoid walking on any wheat, because - at this time - the field around the Degree Confluence Point was bare - apparently recently harvested. (This might have been the same crop that Joseph walked through just over two years ago.) However, there was an (apparently younger) wheat crop still growing on a field to the North of the point.

Like Joseph, I approached the point from the West (to avoid the farm houses to the East of the point). I parked at [47.00508,-117.01397], 0.75 miles WNW of the point, and started hiking up the hill. At first, the field was bare, but then, 0.32 miles from the point, I entered a fallow field, with long grass growing. Walking through this long grass, I disturbed a pair of white-tailed deer. I was able to photograph them as they ran away to the South. At 0.13 miles from the point, I entered another bare field, and walked through it (crossing a small ditch, then hiking up a small hill) to reach the point, which lies near the top of the hill.

As the point lay in a bare field, I wasn’t expecting the ‘drone’s eye’ view of the point to be particularly interesting. but - to my surprise - it revealed an interesting, inadvertently artistic pattern in the dirt, made by the equipment that recently harvested the wheat crop. Here is a remote-controlled aerial video of this confluence point.