Longest Benchmark descriptions...

[+Tacguy]

I know alot of the East Coast has some very low elevation points and was better developed when the surveying started back in the day... but the West Coast was totally undeveloped and some of these descriptions just boggle the mind What are some of your longer benchmark descriptions that make you wonder how the mark was ever found before GPS

 

Here's a local example (The witness post was probably sticking up in the middle of nowhere ):

 

EW7523

[Z15]

Another, got a laugh when I read the last paragraph.

 

TRILOBA USLS 1873

 

[This message was edited by elcamino on December 18, 2002 at 06:26 AM.]

[Wild T2]

Station Glasgow JZ3336

http://www.geocaching.com/mark/details.asp?PID=JZ3336

 

Fairly long because of so many recovery notes.

 

There are two recovery notes from 1935. The first one is from a USC&GS employee named R.P. Hoover. The second is from the property owner, a Mr. Jasper Bilby who was also a USC&GS employee.

 

Hoover probably just did a "drive by" recovery and never even got out of his car. Probably not a good thing to do when the property owner also happened to be the highest ranking civilian employee in the USC&GS. I suspect Mr. Hoover probably got fired.

 

The tall steel towers used in the triangulation surveys were called Bilby Towers; named after their inventor.

 

[This message was edited by Wild T2 on December 18, 2002 at 11:59 AM.]

[+rogbarn]

I've seen descriptions that repeat the to reach, sometimes more than once. But this is the longest description that I have found, 500 lines.

 

LW4436

 

It has 32 reference objects and 12 station recovery descriptions. As you suspected, it is very near where the Pilgrams first landed in 1620.