+DragonsWest Posted June 9, 2011 Share Posted June 9, 2011 (edited) Over the weekend I was driving westward along California 78 from Salton Sea to Anza Borrego when I glanced over and saw the unmistakable shape of a monument. A quick U-turn (on a mostly vacant highway) and I returned to eyeball A579 Soon I observed there was a -578 and -579 series from 1939 along the road, pretty easy to spot. From the looks of finds along the road they're mostly findable with many in the area yet unrecorded by finders on GC.com. As long as you have water and don't mind the Sun it looks like a great place to see how many you could find in a day, if you're in it for the numbers or just for the fun of seeing how many you can find in a series without a gap. I only had time to log a few along the road and thought it would be fun to try to get A-Z. Some may require taking along a small spade as the shifting sands may have obscured a few. Also observed were many square concrete monuments with a steel rod protruding from the top. I took a few coordinate readings and some pictures. Not sure if these were Riverside County projects or what, but they do look pretty old. One picture has lettering on it. Edited June 9, 2011 by DragonsWest Quote Link to comment
foxtrot_xray Posted June 9, 2011 Share Posted June 9, 2011 Over the weekend I was driving westward along California 78 from Salton Sea to Anza Borrego when I glanced over and saw the unmistakable shape of a monument. A quick U-turn (on a mostly vacant highway) and I returned to eyeball A579 Soon I observed there was a -578 and -579 series from 1939 along the road, pretty easy to spot. From the looks of finds along the road they're mostly findable with many in the area yet unrecorded by finders on GC.com. As long as you have water and don't mind the Sun it looks like a great place to see how many you could find in a day, if you're in it for the numbers or just for the fun of seeing how many you can find in a series without a gap. I only had time to log a few along the road and thought it would be fun to try to get A-Z. Some may require taking along a small spade as the shifting sands may have obscured a few. Also observed were many square concrete monuments with a steel rod protruding from the top. I took a few coordinate readings and some pictures. Not sure if these were Riverside County projects or what, but they do look pretty old. One picture has lettering on it. While there are runs of benchmarks in many places (along older highways and railroads) those - the two (one?) that you took pictures of appear to be Highway ROW monuments. ("RW MON") However, I'm not familiar with that area (unfortunately!), so I'll leave others to clarify on that. --Mike. Quote Link to comment
kayakbird Posted June 10, 2011 Share Posted June 10, 2011 (edited) DragonsWest, Too bad that Pa Paw is missing from this string. Looks like every other one has been logged! (edit: logged as found) Does anyone have an unbroken run (edit: logged as found) - A thru Z? With or without India and Oscar, of course. kayakbird Edited June 10, 2011 by kayakbird Quote Link to comment
2oldfarts (the rockhounders) Posted June 10, 2011 Share Posted June 10, 2011 DragonsWest, Too bad that Pa Paw is missing from this string. Looks like every other one has been logged! Does anyone have an unbroken run - A thru Z? With or without India and Oscar, of course. kayakbird Do you mean logged as in found or logged as in found/destroyed/missing? John Quote Link to comment
kayakbird Posted June 10, 2011 Share Posted June 10, 2011 DragonsWest, Too bad that Pa Paw is missing from this string. Looks like every other one has been logged! (edit: logged as found) Does anyone have an unbroken run (edit: logged as found) - A thru Z? With or without India and Oscar, of course. kayakbird Do you mean logged as in found or logged as in found/destroyed/missing? John John, I did leave out a couple of words, didn't I. Thanks, Mike Quote Link to comment
2oldfarts (the rockhounders) Posted June 10, 2011 Share Posted June 10, 2011 DragonsWest, Too bad that Pa Paw is missing from this string. Looks like every other one has been logged! (edit: logged as found) Does anyone have an unbroken run (edit: logged as found) - A thru Z? With or without India and Oscar, of course. kayakbird Do you mean logged as in found or logged as in found/destroyed/missing? John John, I did leave out a couple of words, didn't I. Thanks, Mike We have found 1 complete run in southern Utah (Kane County) but 1 of them was found in destroyed condition. It looked as though it had been hit by a grader. John Quote Link to comment
kayakbird Posted June 10, 2011 Share Posted June 10, 2011 John, Did you map scout and get all of them in one day? Mike Quote Link to comment
2oldfarts (the rockhounders) Posted June 11, 2011 Share Posted June 11, 2011 (edited) John, Did you map scout and get all of them in one day? Mike No we didn't. There are 3 different runs between Page, AZ and Kanab, UT. The first 1 starts in Kanab and the "A" is missing (at least we couldn't find it), but the rest of that line is still there (at least I think it is). The next run starts where the first ended and we found all 24 with the "M" having been hit by the grader and severely damaged. We had downloaded Kane County to GSAK and from there transferred the file to our mapping program. It was easy to see the string of benchmarks that runs for over 65 miles along Hwy 89. We loaded that file to the GPSr and whenever we were going that way we would stop and grab some. There are several other runs that we have done in this area, but there is always 1 or 2 that have been destroyed and are gone, so we can't claim a find for the full run. John speelliing got me! Edited June 11, 2011 by 2oldfarts (the rockhounders) Quote Link to comment
AZcachemeister Posted June 11, 2011 Share Posted June 11, 2011 I'll have to check on that... I HAVE done some runs that were at least as long as a whole-alphabet run would be, but as I recall they involved a jump to the next series. Quote Link to comment
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