
Ernmark
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...I have a big 'ol rock in my yard that's not subject to surface motion!
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QUOTE(wwflover13 @ Dec 21 2007, 09:40 AM) Oh yes they do! For example, check out this trio: PING, PONG, BALL ...and SOUTH Carolina's no slouch either - FRED, BARNEY, & WILMA PS...no sign of Betty, even in the NGS database..
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..I learned on a recent trip that the North Carolina Geodetic Survey has a sence of humor when establishing new marks: ex. - CRAZY
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Oh - here's an interesting one from Pittsburgh: 254 - if you look closley, there's only a $10 fine for disturbing!
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..a few really old USCS chiseled squares: A - located in Hagerstown, MD C - located along the Potomac in MD
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..there's only one of these: WM19BK
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...you know it's really scary when you can look at all those counties & recognize who the GEOCAC'ers are!
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...just received my box today - thank you very much...and for spending arm+leg to ship it across the country! PS: ...and the carved jade dolphin - really neat! Somebody would be envious of that!
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...or perhaps weighting the type of mark - making the rare ones more valuable - like a magnetic or gravity station....
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...or we send the hunters out to find all the ones with the bouough/county info on the datasheet
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PM sent - thanks ! PS - here's a contest idea for a future one - "ROCK" "PAPER" "SCISSORS"
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Poker Fun Run logging thread
Ernmark replied to 2oldfarts (the rockhounders)'s topic in Benchmarking
3 of a kind: GABLES 3 GABLES 3 RM 5 GABLES 3 AZ MK -
"..looks like the bounce is gone out of his bungee !"
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[hijack] LINDENSTRUTH - HU1521 - Ocean City, MD ..what it used to look like: [/hijack]
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...and we could be days away from the Transcontinental Linkup !
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Benchmark Picture Contest 2007 - Part 2
Ernmark replied to Black Dog Trackers's topic in Benchmarking
..and I was all proud of these, but since nobody else nominated 'em I'm posting them anyway : AI8792 (what looks like a bag of trash by the pole) AI9387 -
Holo - thanks for the info - great link also. I was actually thinking of starting a thread on this subject, as thare are so many 'anomalies' along borders & we BM hunters often seem to be following them during our hunts!
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Nice ! (never realized that NM had a ~1.5 mi. 'kink' in it's eastern border, either!)
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.."drawing" on the disk w/ the wide sidewalk chalk works great - the only reason the picture I posted earlier isn't real neat is that I didn't waste much time cleaning the excess away (& used flash). Reason I use it - not much chance of anyone confusing it as some other powder
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Love it - sure makes nosing around different areas for BM lines much easier ! Thanks for putting in all the effort!
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..got it - courtesy of this thread ! Took about 10 minutes..(with crossed fingers the whole time) & very pleased with the unit's performance so far!
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..I seem to have gotten myself stuck in the Explorist 210 NAND loop - I can get into the codes - but it looks like the basemaps that were on the Russian site are unavailable (403). Is there any other place to get ahold of them?
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mloser also deserves credit for getting the chance in that county to hunt on the grounds of a base where live target practice is conducted ! Example - KW3080 (or was he allowed in for other reasons - "O.K. men - head out and look for your target - some guy in the woods running around with a metal detector.") ("Also - he may be armed with a camping fork & a 100' tape measure") Congrats on the induction to the B.M.H.O.F. ! - Ernmark (threadkill ratio 76.2%)
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..instead of cornstarch, I just grab one of the kids' pieces of big "sidewalk" chalk: Doesn't do a bad job - it's easy to carry & it's made of environmentally friendly fossilized critters!
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..regarding MC1715 - based on the description "IT IS A GRANITE POST, 0.67 FT (20.42 CM) BY 0.83 FT (25.30 CM) SQUARE, FLUSH WITH THE GROUND" - I'd say you found he correct post. I would bet that a different post was stolen - I've noticed that state lines are often marked w/ multiple posts/markers over the years, some of which are broken, etc. Assuming the garage & spike (if it hasn't been paved over) measurements still check, I'd be confident w/ a 'found good' ..regarding MC0284 - I've run across some of these myself & I believe the general consensus in the forums & in reading over availabe information from NGS was a 'found poor' - as the location is verifiable, but it use for vertical control is suspect. If I'm correct, this coat-to-coast Holomap connection could warrant a Shorelander Wing in the new Benchmarking Hall of Fame Museum under construction in Cary, NC (Temp. HQ in PFF's garage) . I usually log the same in GC as w/ the NGS - although if the bridge is gone, for example, I'm more apt to log on CG as 'destroyed'...