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happycycler

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  1. Not as old as your find and I could not get a decent pix but I got a rush from visiting JC0625 - Chiseled Cross today.
  2. Thank you msprague for that link. I ran it for my house in St. Louis and found that what I vaguely remembered was essentially true. A very small declination here -- almost zero this last year.
  3. For me it IS prestigious when I have not done that yet.
  4. Good plan -- but we will see if you can stop at JUST ONE?
  5. Congrats. and thank you for sharing that find with this forum! Apparently the oldest benchmarks around the St. Louis, MO area are also 1871 era -- but I have not found one yet. My oldest so far is JC0043, a brass plate on Eads Bridge -- 1882. But this past weekend I did visit HE0206 -- 1894, which had been found by Geo*Trailblazer. Keep finding those great old ones and please keep us *posted*.
  6. Congrats. to all you folks in teh 100/100, 200/200.... clubs! Maybe someday for me.....
  7. Sure, why not, so long as they are in the GeoCaching Benchmark database. (Just my opinion, of course. This is just a game with occasional useful side effects -- such as when someone finds and reports a long lost mark to NGS or helps NGS correct a database error.) I am sometimes a few days late in recording my finds. Welcome to benchmarking -- in the GeoCaching sense!
  8. Yes. This past weekend I found a benchmark (PU 07, 2001 -- too new for the GeoCaching database) that had a cross made of white plastic sheets with the benchmark in the center of the cross. The plastic was getting worn out but I could tell where it had been. It was in a growing and active area near I-44 in Missouri.
  9. I am a long time ago FROM Wyo. Welcome to Benchmark Hunting and Good luck searching! There should be some interesting rural marks wherever you live in Wyoming. Post the pictures and then I can vicariously relive my misspent youth. I remember seeing some benchmarks while growing up in Southern Wyo. -- but can't recall where they were. Also many search for benchmarks without a GPS -- using only the descriptions. Get a list from your local zipcode. Go to benchmark Hunting
  10. Is that the Lolo pass trail that is on the Lewis & Clark route?
  11. Note for Dave and hopefully of interest to others. Today I returned from a weekend trip that included taking a look at AA7385. It is really there in Park Hills, MO as the description indicates. The latitude degree value somehow got to be 38 rather than 37 in the database. Rogbarn is the one who figured out that it was off by an even degree in latitude. I submitted a recovery to NGS today and also to our Geocaching benchmarking site. I also sent some snapshots to the Geochaching site.
  12. Black Dog Trackers, I asked rogbarn that same question, in an indirect way; but have yet to get the answer. I bet that there are several benchmarks along any 50 mile route near St. Louis.
  13. Yes rogbarn. JC1817 falls in the Webster Groves USGS Quad. -- right near the North edge of the sheet.
  14. After last weekend -- HD1222 -- I may start carrying some sort device to siphon water from a recessed area that i think may hold a benchmark. I think that my wife has a turkey baster that she won't miss till next Thanksgiving....
  15. This past weekend I found ROACH (HD1219) and TICK (JD2581). I did not set out to find buggy named triangulation stations -- just looking for some in an area we were visiting. BTW the Roach name is on a very small post office across the road from HD1219 and there are some Roach headstones in the cemetery near the azimuth mark for HD1219. I do not know anything else about TICK....
  16. Nice photo. I have been wondering what a pipe cap looks like. I have searched for them without success thus far. I would gues that you have found a section corner marker. You might plot it on a USGS Topographic quad to see if it falls at the intersection of sections 8,9,16,17. It appears to be in Range 7 West and Township ?something? (I just looked at the Topozone map for the area of JT2537 and those section numbers do appear. Look at the map at the 1:50000 scale.) Now you need to climb up on that hill and locate that station up there. You know that it is in the database. Keep on searching! [This message was edited by happycycler on May 15, 2003 at 06:43 AM.]
  17. Congrats to mattking and also to Kewaneh & Shark!! Everything is in such good shape too. Even the wooden witness post and the pole. These impress me. I have seen several 10 year old disks that were already unreadable due to lawnmower damage and such. Keep up the good work! I don't think that wood lasts that long here in Missouri.
  18. I have tried to locate most of the benchmarks that are an easy bicycle ride from my house. Therefore I now need to look farther afield. 1. Ask the wife where she is traveling next. Get the zipcode and get the GeoCaching list of benchmarks for that zipcode. (I am retired and she sometimes takes me along. ) 2. Read some of the descriptions to pick out some marks that I think might be findable. Copy and paste parts of the selected descriptions into notepad and print them out. Might also print out a mapquest or rarely a topozone map. 3. Use EasyGPS to download coordinates, etc. of the marks that I am interested in. Load from EasyGPS to my Magellan Merigold. Use Mapsend topo to print out an overview map for laying out a proposed route. 4. With the printouts on a clipboard, my overview map and the coordinates loaded into the GPS, I am ready to go. Lately I have also tried some older marks and I have also looked for some NOT FOUNDS (skulls). I am not having much luck with either of those though.
  19. Yes the quote: monumented date or the quote:first observed date are what I use to decide which ones are the oldest. The only way that I know now is to look at each data sheet. But of course my mentor rogbarn (who sometimes posts to this forum) has built a list of the oldest ones with 100 miles of a St. Louis, MO suburb. He shared that with me. Now if I could just find some of those 1871 markers!
  20. Congrats Joe and Southpaw! A great fine! You are really going after those benchmarks! WAY TO GO!
  21. Just got my $50 rebate check from Magellan! It did take a while but about the amount of time that they said to expect.
  22. FWIW the 2 churches (JC1590 & JC1587) and the one smokestack (JC1589) that I have logged were reasonably close to their published locations according to my GPS. (I stood near the structures to take my GPS readings.) Thus at least in these 3 cases those old 3rd order adjusted locations were still close to what I expected.
  23. Congrats.!! That is a great find!
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