Surveyors are the most important people on the planet. This thought occured to me while I was sitting on top of a mountain having finished staking out a microwave tower and filling out the field notes. All was nice, sunny, and peaceful when an annoying Bell 206 jet ranger comes flying in from the distance, circles the mountain a couple times and lands at the base depositing a trio of humanoids......they point up to me and proceed to climb the steep mountain......it is about a 20-30 minute climb for a fit person and then that's when it hit me.....They come to me to find the answer!....and they are willing to climb a mountain to talk to the wise one who has all their answers...because they know I poccess wise techniques and capability to gather wise data into my rite in the rain wise book... yep...if people are willing to climb a mountain to talk you...you gotta be pretty important..... either that or you really foocked up somewhere super bad... but these ones were not armed with pitchforks..
...i'm in Chuathbaluk...a small village on the Kuskokwim River at the moment...small shack is base camp for a large village wide asbuilt... a solo job...kinda hunkered down tonight when a knock at the door just now.... couple guys breezed into town looking for help with a jet assist pack or some engineering something or other problem ...shoot...I dont know...i'm just a friggen surveyor...The one guy says "Man ..it looks like you've been here a while" ... you gotta know where stuff is..." I sorta took offense to that but yeah...been in the bush and looking it... need a haircut.... could use a beer as well.... tail end of the summer... I tell the guys to check with the other guys down the road...
Great. Now I'm going to think of a dozen different comics where some wise fellow is sitting atop a mountain peak offering sage advice to his seekers such as:
Ain't the view great from up here?
It's now been 32 minutes and I ordered pepperoni, not canadian bacon.
Wrong peak. He's two mountains to the south. I'm just writing up some survey notes.
Apparently the Alaskans can grow some wicked weed, eh? 😉
Have a great week, and have a beer for me!
If I knew the secret of life, would I be on a mountaintop in a loincloth?
