A section corner falls somewhere on this broken cliff face:
Things were going pretty well till I came across about 4 of these:
I've had a few encounters this summer, and I figure somewhere nearby is a den. It looks like a den hideout, and this is the time of year I run into them more often, as they are heading back to the den for winter. I was really glad to find the corner and locate it seemed my head was on a swivel the entire climb. It's kind of amazing the monument is still there:
probably should have scratched a big arrow into the rock face, but by then I just wanted down.
Giving me the shivvers just thinking about it.
:gammon::plumbbob: NICE!!!!
Had one like that years ago doing an ALTA survey on a parcel south of Denver. Party Chief peers over the top of the cliff face, and about 3 or 4 feet below him is a ledge with a beautiful aluminum cap gleaming in the sunshine. He grabs hold of a scrub oak (with the second on the crew holding onto a rope tied around the party chief...you know, just in case something goes awry) and the party chief slowly starts to lower his leg down toward the ledge. What he couldn't see was that the "ledge" projected back into the cliff face under where he was standing and was apparently a very nice, sheltered home to some rattlers. He got his leg down about 18 inches form the top of the ledge and heard them start to rattle away. The story I heard was that the party Chief pretty much broke Mach 1 pulling his leg up and moving backward away from the cliff face... about 150 feet away. They got the shot (the next day) with some very creative work making sure the GPS receiver rod was plumb, but never could verify for sure what, exactly was stamped on that aluminum cap. No one ever went down to look 😉 Danger can come from any direction out there- be careful in the field.
So you were tying someone else's re-monumented corner?
Rankin_File, post: 447430, member: 101 wrote: So you were tying someone else's re-monumented corner?
this is a 1934 GLO corner, they were doing a dependent resurvey, this is a prorated corner, and no I didn't search for the "original".
Looked like an aluminum cap to at first. but 2nd look it does look like the 1930's era Brass caps I see out on the HES surveys down the Swan.
Some are getting a silver look to them, this one I posted earlier I thought the same thing until I looked at it really close.
