Read this article over the weekend and thought this might be a good read. There are forums out there dedicated to this type of GeoCaching, although these people likely missed their calling in life if you ask me. But a good read on the FRONT page of the Wall Street Journal.
Here is a link I found for the Geocaching of Benchmarks.
Have a good week!!
Yes in the previously mentioned article by Dave Ingram on Saturday, I still feel the same that if PLSS corner recovery was a fad we would know where all of the fence corners, goat stakes, etc. are located.
This would establish bona fide rights according to some.
This reporter had interviewed me for over an hour on the phone, but most of the old USGS marks I go after are not in a database and that really confused her. I further confused her with trying to describe triangulation stations, section corners, magnetic stations and other survey markers as well as what surveyors do and how we use these marks. I guess I should have kept it simple.
The thread in the amateur forum that led to the story got off to a confused start, because the reporter posted her request on April Fools day and no one believed it was legitimate until the guy featured in the article contacted her with an offer of a trip and she responded from her WSJ email address. Turned out ok, in the end.
As I said in my comments on their website, this is still a vast improvement from the activities of the amateur GPS crowd a few years ago that recovered the marks and then chiseled them out in order to sell them on eBay.