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It's there, but not there... It's not in the Groundspeak database, and it's only referenced at the NGS database. If you go to this page, NGS Datasheets then click on Datasheets, you can look up info on benchmarks in several different ways. What I did was click on the Radial Search, then entered the coordinates you posted (as N441612 and W0711812) and a search radius of 1 mile. That brought up a list of Mt Washington marks. The two dates on the marker you found indicate that it is a reset, meaning the original mark was set in 1851 and this replacement disc was set in 1934. So, I selected the mark with designation Mt Washington Reset, then clicked on Get Datasheet. On the datasheet you can read about different recovery reports over the years., especially the 1943 and 1958 reports that talk about the reference marks. About 1/4 down from the top, there is a section where it says PID Reference Object. In that list, you can find DA5228 Mt Washington RM 2, which is most likely the disc you found. If you go back to the link, click on PIDs and enter DA5228 it would take you to a datasheet for that disc. Except that it comes up with the FATAL ERROR No Marks Found page, which means there isn't a datasheet - down at the bottom of that page it will list the PID, name, coordinates, and over on the far right one or two letters. In this case, NN meaning they didn't have the required information for a datasheet. So, unfortunately, you can't log it as Found anywhere, just maybe as a note on the Geocaching page for PF0950.

PID CM7498 Island Azimuth mark, Land O Lakes area, Grand Mesa, CO some people have logged this as KM0285 I came across the mark by accident, at the time I was just sightseeing, not caching or hunting benchmarks. So, I missed a few on the Mesa

Not that it's any kind of official type marker, but here is a large marker from Bryce Natl Park. I asked in the visitor center about markers in the park, other than the one at Bryce Point. The lady I asked didn't know of any, then remembered this one had been set at the base of the flagpole outside the center.

Found this on the way back from a cache today read the log, see the poor photos

I have a TB that was dropped in the Hebron cache, west of Enterprise, last September. The cache has only been logged twice since then, and no mention of my TB. If anyone happens to be out that way, and could check the cache for my TB, I would really appreciate it. I was looking at the maps of the area, and see there is a new cache still waiting for a FTF, and other caches that are rarely found. Just curious, are there not a lot of cachers in the area or are the roads bad ? thanks

I have the yellow Etrex, I got my cable on eBay from seller rnrplace, it's 4 ft long, connects from the back of the GPS to your USB port, comes with a mini-CD with the drivers. I've been using mine for over a year now.

I don't know about the ones you found, but the ones I've found are actually benchmarks of some kind, I've found several of them and identified the PIDs. Unfortunately, most are "presumed destroyed". There are at least two that can actually be logged on GS, CZ0790 and CZ0793 I also saw some similar items, from a distance, at Glen Canyon Dam near Page, AZ.

Wow, that was quick ! USPS came through... Thank you, UNK1, just received my prize today, I really like it. I hadn't seen one of these before, good quality. I may just have to check out that website a little more. And thanks again to you, and your helpers, for the contest

Echoing TillaMurphs - many thanks to UNK1 for planning and holding the contest, to the judges for all their time and effort in checking the entries, and to the other competitors for keeping me going I found some new areas which I will be exploring further, learned a little history, and was saddened to learn of "history" that's been lost due to construction and/or thievery. As for the rare settings, I think southpawaz discovered that there was only one #21 in AZ, but it's now destroyed. I'm sure soil conditions have a lot of impact on what settings are used . The ground around here will corrode a copper/zinc penny in short time so tough on metals, and then there is the caliche, which is like concrete, so driving in a rod would be ... difficult, but it probably would have great stability once in there. In my county, more than 55% of the markers are setting #7, and a large percent of the rest are #30 or #36 - which seem to be used for almost all of the 30-something settings no matter what they were.

Final entry, not what I wanted but the UNK#7 eluded me once again (but I will try for it another day!) CG0356 Setting 36 = 1 pt CG0120 Setting 7 = 1 pt total = 2 pts Thanks for the contest, UNK1. It gave me a push into looking for benchmarks, and I ended up finding some new areas to enjoy. Sadly I never got to look for any pre-1900 marks, but in my area the only ones are in the hills along the Mexican border - not a place I want to be hanging out on my own.

I haven't seen it mentioned, what's the deadline for logging entries ?

Found today CZ0496 Setting 30 = 1pt (NGS datasheet shows this as setting 32, it is set in the headwall of a concrete culvert/bridge - if you accept the NGS setting then this is 1pt + 5 pts pre 1960 = 6 pts) CZ2492 Setting 59 = 1 pt CZ0360 Setting 17 = 1pt + 25pts UNK = 26 CZ1030 Setting 32 = 1pt + 25 pts UNK = 26 CZ0329 Setting 32 = 1 pt + 10 pts pre-1935 = 11 pts CZ1020 Setting 37 = 10 pts first of setting + 5 pre-1960 = 15 pts Now have 18 different settings = 25 pts total points this post = 105 (or 111 - see note in red above - leaving this one up to the judges)

My first out of state was in July 2008, I flew into Louisville, I stayed there for the night then took off on a roadtrip around the state. But the first cache I did while there ? I drove across the river into Indiana and found the Falls of the Ohio Devonian Fossil Beds EarthCache.

June 4 CZ1412 Setting 31 = 10 pts first of setting CZ0043 Setting 36 = 1 + 10 pre-1935 = 11 pts total points = 21 how disappointing, I couldn't get to the marker that would have given me 18 different settings(was donating too much blood to the flora) and another I was looking for has apparently been "removed" (set vertically in the face of a highway bridge pier)

Found May 28 AI1931 Setting 59 = 1 pt CZ0651 Setting 7 = 1 pt CZ0591 Setting 7 = 1 pt CZ0589 Setting 7 = 1 pt CZ0592 Setting 0 = 1 pt + 25 UNK = 26 pts total this post = 30 pts

oh, so critters are good too ? Well, caching not benchmarking, but GPS related anyways. First one I ever saw in the wild, and apparently not too common at all anymore. My apologies for the low quality picture, but the sun was getting pretty low and I was a little nervous, this guy had just been hissing at me - should have gotten the picture a few seconds sooner. His mouth was wide open showing off the teeth, and it was making a loud, hoarse hissing noise.

Sorry, the Santa Rita Mountains, the large "bump" on the left end is Elephant Head, the white speck (maybe not visible at this reduced size) at the very top of the highest peak is the Whipple Observatory on Mt Hopkins. The view is from just south of Green Valley, looking towards the east. hmm, it is similar to Sleeping Ute, I had to google some images to see it.

Found May 10 CG0028 Setting 36 = 1 pt May 18 CZ0064 Setting 30 = 1 pt CZ0649 Setting 17 = 1 + 10 pre 1935 = 11 pts CZ0650 Setting 7 = 1 pt CZ0652 Setting 7 = 1 pt CZ0642 Setting 7 = 1 pt CZ0615 Setting 7 = 1 pt CZ0614 Setting 7 = 1 pt May 19 CZ1493 Setting 32 = 10 pt first of setting CZ0216 Setting 34 = 10 pt (first) +5 pre 1960 = 15 pts CZ1502 Setting 35 = 10 pt first of setting CG0303 Setting 7 = 1 pt CG1152 Setting 7 = 1 pt Total points this post = 55 ETA: oops, skipped a couple. CG0558 Setting 36 = 1pt CG0559 Setting 30 = 1 pt Corrected total this post = 57

Out trying to find a few benchmarks for the contest today, anyone that has spent time in southern AZ should recognize this.

I would think that geoaware has already specified what the correct spelling is and how to write it. (Color emphasis mine) EarthCache when using mixed upper and lower case letters, in normal everyday writing. EARTHCACHE when using all caps (as quoted above) like on the coin.

Many benchmarks located at Hoover Dam, here is a picture of the highway bridge under construction. When it's finished, traffic will be going waaayyy up there instead of across the dam.

View from the trail within yards of Bryce Bench Mark

Go to the coin's page, and look for the log from when you placed it. On the right side, click on Visit Log. Over towards the right, just above the date, there should be a link to upload image, just click on that, then you should be able to upload the images. I can still add images on a coin I dropped months ago.

Just took a look at the cache. They used unfamiliar wording is all. The "series of legs" just means a series of short trips. For example, the number on the tag is 400 M, meaning 400 meters. That means your first leg (distance to travel) is 400 M in the direction given. Then, per the description, the next leg you continue 200 M in the same direction, then the next is 100, etc until you reach the cache ; they described where it was placed. "leg distance" means the distance you travel in each of the separate little trips. "Leg" here is used the same as legs of a relay race, if that helps clarify.

Found 5/7 CG0848 Setting 49 = 10 pts first for setting CG0847 Setting 59 = 1 pt CG0849 Setting 59 = 1 pt CG0029 Setting 36 = 1 pt CY1152 Setting 7 = 1 pt total this post = 14