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  1. Edit note: My last is S0260 Pigeon. The rock outcrop shows up nicely on the current Google Earth photo. MEL SG0260 HISTORY - 1911 MONUMENTED GSC
  2. Hi All, I remembered doing this short (489 Smoots) hike, but just not when/where. Finally found it in the field book covering my first benchmarking trip to the Minnesota Arrowhead after a kayak race out of Two Harbors. And saw my first Broad-winged Hawk on the hike back the Mt Maude fire tower. Leaded bolts, chiseled triangle & arrow; with extra credit for being set by the Geodetic Service of Canada. Please overlook my HH2 blunder - should read: HH2 475833.4 894453.7. kayakbird (MEL)
  3. Bill & All, 2009 was with a Nikon D40, manual 55-200 zoom. Upgraded in 2013 to a Canon Power Shot A-1200 (for birds ). 2015 & 16 was with a Canon SX50 HS. On a tripod, with a remote shutter release, for the long shot. And a handheld Canon SX70 HS in 2020. Raised on a ranch in Montana, I tend to 'chat' with locals (drives one of my birding companions crazy). Got the 2016 location info from a rancher working cattle after the 2015 observation, and checked it out on the way to camp at the BLM Moorhead. Can't resist putting a history link up for that location - there are PID's associated MEL. https://www.powderriverexaminer.com/story/2022/06/30/news/moorhead-a-struggle-by-a-dam-site/3796.html
  4. Distant Observations of our first national monument: Devils Tower, Wyoming 20 MAY 2009 45.04131 -104.76122 176° 31 MI P3110 20 OCT 2010 44.15206 -104.71869 360° 30 MI NO PHOTO 22 AUG 2011 45.08108 -104.17656 218° 43 MI NO PHOTO 01 AUG 2013 45.04813 -105.00083 SSE 34 MI P0778 01 MAY 2015 45.03947 -104.75469 176° 31 MI P0490 (2) 15 AUG 2016 45.10028 -105.49863 132° 52 MI P0490 (2) 06 JUL 2020 45.03797 -104.81472 171° 31 MI P4306 Deliberately drove Ridge Road moving between two SE Montana birding Hot Spots. A local rancher put me onto the 52 mile point. Summer time haze required a very early departure from the BLM Moorhead CG to get there by civil twilight. Hope that everyone gets the Hollywood connection. kayak bird
  5. Thanks, JASTA 11. Those MORC marks gave me several more great kayak camping trips. Would really like to post several views of an intersection station; but might just start another thread titled 'Used by Hollywood" kayakbird
  6. MORC Citadel SS1486, named after a prominent rock feature that Lewis & Clark passed going westbound on 31 July 1805. Wooden instrument stand was used during the 1949 re-survey. Bears Paw Mountains to the NNE. Found during a three day kayak trip in May 2009. Several of the NONPID river terrace elevation benchmarks were also found. kayakbird
  7. All, Interesting history that was chanced upon was a large part of my enjoyment while Benchmarking. The Missouri River Commission (MORC) string led into working on the Mississippi River Commission (MCR or MiRC) string. Looked a few places for evidence of King's 40th Parallel Survey; and then had to re-read Angle of Repose, which was plagiarized from letters of Mary Hallock Foote who had spent time around King's camps in the Rockies. Last, for now, the 'And State Surveys' was a grand idea, but not well planned by the politicians in the early 1930's. Found a few SS in Montana & Wyoming. Nebraska set hundreds but very few were surveyed in. kayakbird
  8. Fairly unique flared stem with a magic landmark. Brown CG1130
  9. Ernmark, Mining photos for biological items to send to iNaturalist. Did a two night kayak camping trip up reservoir from Hell Creek Marina on Fort Peck Reservoir, Missouri River, Montana. Tried to do SQ0601 Rock Peak also, but maxed out file limit. kayakbird
  10. frex3wv There are online conversion applications, but only do one at a time. I wrote an Excel to simplify my Missouri River Commission quest that will do as many as you want ; but it will not attach here. Is there a secure way to trade emails? kayakbird
  11. TillaMurphs had some of the best photo spreads. kayakbird (MEL on NGS recoveries)
  12. chapterbook & all, My Excel tabulation (which I would share with direct e-mail contact) has just over 4400 PID's logged to Geocache through 25 July 2014; with maybe another 20 in field books. 4376 recovered to NGS. kayakbird
  13. Shirley & all, I have not been active in the '2oldfarts' area for several years, but always enjoyed reading their founds. Sorry that John is gone. Have fond memories of spending a delightful day, 18 November 2011, with him at the Lees Ferry historic landing. Ran levels from GP0234 down to the rivers edge, trying to get an elevation correlation to assist in locating GP0236. Not found that day, nor on later visits by me. The campground host gave us a boat ride four miles up river and put us on a rock shelf that had marginal potential for GP0237, which also remains Not Found. USGS photos taken 24-29 Sept 1921 pinpoints the 'large rock in the river with a vertical staff'; but I don't believe the slopping shoreline rock ever had a disk in it. This is the only BM that I will bother to salvage from Groundspeak. kayakbird
  14. Oops! All, I woke up in the middle of the night knowing that I had used the wrong term. And I still Geocache PV05235 every chance I get, but do not recover to NOAA this best ever intersection station. kayakbird
  15. All, The original post should have use 'benchmark' instead of' landmark'. A landmark may be, or have an official NOAA benchmark (sometimes two words) associated with it. Please save the snide comments for other social media. MEL From the 'net': " Semantics! "bench mark" associated with surveying can be referred to a permanent mark created at a recognized height which is used as the basis for measuring different altitude of topographical point. 2 : general semantics 3a : the meaning or relationship of meanings of a sign or set of signs especially : connotative meaning b : the language used (as in advertising or political propaganda) to achieve a desired effect on an audience especially through the use of words with novel or dual meanings noun noun: landmark; plural noun: landmarks 1. an object or feature of a landscape or town that is easily seen and recognized from a distance, especially one that enables someone to establish their location. "the spire was once a landmark for ships sailing up the river" "
  16. foxtrot_xray & all, Many of the Geocache one time snapshot Datasheets monument-ed dates have been changed. Quite a few, I think, because of information in all the Precise Level Net documents that floated to the surface with internet searches. I believe that PLN-18 was one that I used extensively a dozen years ago, but can't pull it up right now. MEL
  17. Datasheet history for EE0017 has been updated; but not EE0061. EE0017 HISTORY - Date Condition Report By EE0017 HISTORY - 1900 MONUMENTED CGS My all time favorite - a recessed square; which took a rod with a special end. History also now updated. Sorry for the repeat reference from several threads ago. EV0852 HISTORY - Date Condition Report By EV0852 HISTORY - 1907 MONUMENTED CGS MEL https://www.geocaching.com/mark/details.aspx?PID=ev0852
  18. Thanks, Bill. Attached is an old thread of mine on these points: https://forums.geocaching.com/GC/index.php?/topic/262734-1930s-state-survey-benchmark-motherlode/
  19. Albany County, Wyo is a hotspot for a sub-set of very interesting marks. The 'and State Survey' series from a special, but very short lived, Depression Era program. Tried, but failed, to find a link to one of Jerry Penry's write up on these. The linked PDF covers everything. kayakbird Bottles, Pots, & Pans?-Marking the surveys of the U.S. Coast ... https://www.ngs.noaa.gov › Survey_Mark_Art
  20. All, Most of my found chiseled marks are in the southwest with a few northeast of Duluth. Remembered that there was one somewhere in ND, and it took awhile to dredge TG0045 out of my transit book for August 2009. Was interesting to see that the 'Unknown by CGS (MONUMENTED)' has been updated to 'TG0045 HISTORY - 1913 MONUMENTED CGS' in the current DATASHEET. MEL Photos in link: https://www.ngs.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/ds_mark.prl?PidBox=TG0045
  21. ItsDiamondWolf, Do a search for 'settings' in this forum. Many, many possibilities - I particularly liked the 'chiseled square' in rocks or concrete. kayakbird
  22. Bill93 @ all, A search for 'Garden Hoe Rake Hand Tools 15 Inch Gardening Cultivator' brings up several $20.00+/- options for one similar to the one I found near EV0852 6Mar2010. The hoe end has been welded back on a couple of times. https://www.geocaching.com/mark/details.aspx?PID=EV0852
  23. Stumbled upon this tidbit of history on the word 'gage'. MEL https://www.usgs.gov/faqs/why-does-usgs-use-spelling-gage-instead-gauge?qt-news_science_products=0#qt-news_science_products
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