The Contest Logging Thread

*sigh* Went out in search of some benchmarks with nothing more than the coordinates in the GPSr. What a STUPID thing to do. Oh well, here are the very few we managed to find on 19 May....

PN0757 REG

PN0759 REG

PN0760 REG

PN0761 REG

PN0762 REG

Now to see what ones hubby found in North Dakota this past weekend. It is OK to "divide and conquer" right?

7.9k · May 22, 2007

Forty-four out of seventy-eight in Casa Grande on Saturday.

Recoveries for 5 19 2007:

Now I get to report the whole mess to the NGS!

1.6k · May 22, 2007

Man, some of you guys are recovery machines (Doc, AZ )!!!!

Saturday was a decent day for me.... Oh yeah, I did spend a good part of the day at the Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) open house. Wow! Really cool stuff !! Unfortunately, none of their benchmarks were accessible to me. Darn. They have some neat ones up on the hill by their antennas....

May 22, 2007

May 22, 2007

Just one last night, on the way home from golf:

05/21/07:

NB1330 - REG

May 22, 2007

KK0179REG

AA3406REG

May 22, 2007

AA3406REG

KK0179REG

Somebody has to make it easy on the scorekeeper!

7.9k · May 23, 2007

HMMMM? I thought I posted this....

Only recovered one today, out of 14 searched-for, I guess it was worth it!

DV2243, ERR

May 23, 2007

..sometimes 1 is all 'ya get:

1 for 5 last nite...but that was pretty much expected:

JV4204, REG

May 23, 2007

May 24, 2007

From 5/22:

1k · May 24, 2007

Only 3 on my way home.

DX0174, REG

DX0175, REG

DX0223, REG

Still need an "O"

Edited May 24, 2007 by fossillady

May 24, 2007

All Regular finds.

May 24, 2007

AF8987, REG

Pretty lousy benchmark hunting day today but I did find out where a lot of benchmarks aren't and won 4 tickets to a White Sox game partly because I was benchmarking. Can't have everything, I guess.

May 25, 2007

7.9k · May 25, 2007

Managed to round up four strays yesterday, and wound up in a weird situation which will be brought up in a new thread shortly...

Recoveries for 5 23 2007:

May 25, 2007

Got the L, now need the elusive 2. Looks like a 80 miles one-way to get it next week.

May 27, 2007

Seemed like I should have found more considering how long I was searching, but here goes:

05/26/07:

OF1979 - REG - Poor Disk Picture (understand if it doesn't count towards contest)

May 27, 2007

A few from yesterday:

1k · May 28, 2007

Just a few from the weekend.

5/26/2007

5/27/2007

Still need the "O" maybe tomorrow.

Edited May 28, 2007 by fossillady

May 28, 2007

5/26:

JV6135, REG

May 28, 2007

May 29, 2007

10.1k · May 29, 2007

Memorial Day weekend...

5/26/07. We went into the city, so we only found one:

KV0600 REG

5/27/06 Had my heart set on finding KV4816. Found RM2, triangulated, dug a twelve inch hole in the side of the trail with my trowel, but did not find it. Need to bring a pickax next time! And another DNF.

5/28/07 Gotta make up for lost time! Need cheap drive by's! But Passaic and Paterson?!?

Plus five DNFs. Hey! I never have to go back to Paterson!!!!

May 29, 2007

From 05/28/07:

May 29, 2007

I probably shouldn't have gone out with the thunderstorms, but decided to get one more weekend in.

I had to seek out something to park under for about 4 hours but fortunately had brought my laptop with me so I was able to keep busy. As I drove around, I saw lots of flooding. Since I was doing mainly culverts today (Sunday), you will see some of the flood waters being drained off in the pictures.

You might not be able to read AX1112 (seems to have been vandalized with a hammer) and a couple seem to have the wrong year in the datasheet for when the benchmark was placed (AX0798, AX0797).

Are we there yet?.... :blink:

Edited May 29, 2007 by Doc Geo

May 30, 2007

Here's todays finds. Pretty sure I passed up Doc Geo with these additions.

May 30, 2007

Ok...Here we go a few of our finds over Memorial Day weekend...

Edited May 30, 2007 by AstroD-Team

May 30, 2007

Ok, now that I'm a bit more awake, here are a few more from the holiday weekend...

QM0666 REG (OUR 300TH FIND!)

Edited May 30, 2007 by AstroD-Team

7.9k · May 31, 2007

It was a long and productive week-end, so I will break it into chunks for easier digestion.

Part 1, 5 25 2007:

7.9k · May 31, 2007

Part 2, 5 26 2007:

May 31, 2007

5/29 - the trip to pick up my '2'

KW1365, REG* (2)

May 31, 2007

This will be the end of the contest for me. Due to a serious family illness I have to go several hundred miles and won't even have access to a computer I can put digital pictures on. So, things will just fall where they may from now on. It has been fun even after gas prices went crazy. Enjoyed getting really into what is a new hobby for me. Thanks to 2oldfarts for sponsoring the contest and Happy Hunting to all of you, as John says.

7.9k · May 31, 2007

Part 3,

5 27 2007:

May 31, 2007

..officially truning off my Farts Counter®

May 31, 2007

from 5/30:

June 1, 2007

KK1994REG

JK0652REG

KK0904DNF

Helps to have some local knowledge to find some of these.

June 1, 2007

Two more logs for the contest.

RP0892 REG

RP0894 REG

7.9k · June 1, 2007

The last part of my Memorial Day weekend recoveries,

Part 4, 5 28 2007:

June 1, 2007

This is a correction from my last finding log. I listed AI3481 twice and should have listed the one below. That's what I get for trying to do more than one thing at a time. Happy Hunting everyone. I'm at a library computer for a few weeks and they frown on downloading pics. So, I'll just watch how this comes out. Good luck everyone.

AB7254, REG