+TeamThompson Posted July 31, 2003 Share Posted July 31, 2003 I've logged my first few benchmarks now, three finds a couple of not founds and a few notes. And submitted four recovery reports to NGS. Guess I'm in for it now! Quote Link to comment
+happycycler Posted July 31, 2003 Share Posted July 31, 2003 Welcome and ENJOY! Quote Link to comment
+seventhings Posted August 2, 2003 Share Posted August 2, 2003 Welcome aboard, Thompson Family. What makes you think that you're "in for it" now that you've started hunting marks? I guess you've been reading all the how-many-angels-can-dance-on-the-head-of-a-pin discussions in this forum. I commend your use of POST A NOTE for apparently inaccessible marks. That's a valuable tool for other hunters. Quote Link to comment
+TeamThompson Posted August 2, 2003 Author Share Posted August 2, 2003 Hi seventhings, In for it as in: I can't leave the house without checking to see if there's a mark near where I'm going. Between the county I live in (San Mateo), the county I work (Santa Clara) in and a county I drive to weekly (San Benito) there are around 2000 stations, guess I've got my work cut out for me! I have been following the postings the last couple of weeks and have come to the concolusion that I'm going to log a note at least for every mark I hunt. One thing I've found quite frustrating is when I'll be driving along and see a nearby mark. Bringing up the description on my Palm V I'll suddenly realize that the mark has been listed as missing since the early 70s! But I'm slowly learning to take that in stride and just remember to post a note/not found. Cheers, Bruce. Quote Link to comment
sixthings Posted August 3, 2003 Share Posted August 3, 2003 bear in mind, Thompson Family, that many of the marks you find inadvertently are marks that you aren't looking for. recently, on a drive through colorado, i drove down a road that had many witness posts. i hadn't researched the area ahead of time, but was excited that i might log 20 or so marks quite easily. i pulled off the road and photographed a few, and realized that they were all highway marks, and local marks, but none were in the NGS database. it's very satisfying to find a mark that went missing back in the 70's, but it's frustrating to learn that the mark you find is an unrelated mark that just happens to be near where the old one was. you'll see Quote Link to comment
+TeamThompson Posted August 3, 2003 Author Share Posted August 3, 2003 It's funny you should mention that! The very first mark I hunted is on a bridge in Pacifica. My daughter and I walked along the side of the bridge with the sidewalk and came across it on the curb. I took pictures, made a couple of notes in my log and we went happily along. Later, when I went to log the find I realized I'd found the wrong mark (a California Highways mark I believe) and the mark I was really looking for was on the diagonally opposite corner of the bridge! Since then I've been confirming the markings on the disk with the description from the datasheet. Lessons learned! Cheers, Bruce. Quote Link to comment
sixthings Posted August 3, 2003 Share Posted August 3, 2003 yes, always always ALWAYS take your datasheet with you. there's nothing worse than hiking up a 10,000 foot mountain/ hill, making an easy find, and later realizing that the stamping on your mark doesn't match. even worse, is that when you read the description, you realize that you were probably standing on the correct mark while photographing the wrong one. like this one. Quote Link to comment
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