This is the worst one I've ever run into. Need to mark the NW of the NW. I believe from the notes that the corners are there - GLO posts and caps from late 30's. Even if I get to the East 1/4 will need to take a chainsaw to clear for GPS to work. Over 1000 feet of elevation change, more like cliffs than a mountainside.
Here is link to topo (40 foot contours).
http://www.highterra.com/pdf/Section_22_Birch_Creek.pdf
Got any volunteers?
Center of Section about N39 35 15.99 W111 20 55.81. Zoom in with Google Earth and you can see the relief.
Ya better hurry Leon, it's THAT time of year up there...
Loyal
My kind of survey.
Thanks, but I'll pass on that invitation.
I'll be at the top of our best impersonation of a bluff later this morning. But, I'll drive to within forty feet of where I need to be both times. On the top side, not the bottom. The railroad shown between the bluff and the river is the now-abandoned Santa Fe that ran from Pittsburg to Chanute. These are 10 foot contours. About a mile to the southwest is the site of the first establishment of Osage Indians in Kansas after leaving Missouri in about 1800. It was also the site of the first Presbyterian mission school in 1820. The treaty signed between the US and the Osage in 1865 was signed about one mile straight south of the cemetery shown.
LRDay, post: 398704, member: 571 wrote: This is the worst one I've ever run into. Need to mark the NW of the NW. I believe from the notes that the corners are there - GLO posts and caps from late 30's. Even if I get to the East 1/4 will need to take a chainsaw to clear for GPS to work. Over 1000 feet of elevation change, more like cliffs than a mountainside.
So, why don't you take the jeep trail through Sections 13 and 14 and walk the Ridge Line to reach the corner instead of trying to climb the hill on foot?
Now that looks fun, are you trying to do it this fall? There can't be much time left, at that elevation we already have snow and it's a really light snow year this year.
Most years you would be out of luck by now even getting close with a rig.
Leon, looks fun to me. I am dying to get out of the office. Let me know when.
I think we have a week or two. Tell my boss that I am doing a demo...
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LRDay, post: 398704, member: 571 wrote: This is the worst one I've ever run into. Need to mark the NW of the NW. I believe from the notes that the corners are there - GLO posts and caps from late 30's. Even if I get to the East 1/4 will need to take a chainsaw to clear for GPS to work. Over 1000 feet of elevation change, more like cliffs than a mountainside.
Here is link to topo (40 foot contours).
http://www.highterra.com/pdf/Section_22_Birch_Creek.pdf
Got any volunteers?
Center of Section about N39 35 15.99 W111 20 55.81. Zoom in with Google Earth and you can see the relief.
If I didn't have a day job, you could count me in to be there in a heartbeat. Looks like fun.
Jobs like that make we glad I am now a Flatlander. You need what one of the old legendary County Surveyors in the Ozarks had, his name was E. Turner, you can find his work in several Forest Service offices. He was supposed to have had a trained small mule that would follow him like a dog and carried all of his equipment. He usually set square stones for corners and the story goes that he set the largest stone his could drag up. Having found a lot of his corners I do not doubt that at all.
looks dangerous getting to the N1/4 from the canyon, cliff faces, maybe swinging to the north from the NW corner and coming back at it from the NW?
Coming at it from the NE would mean getting up above 10,000' (is that above timberline there? it would be here), might be way late for that.
I do my other jobs to feed the family waiting for these....
I've done a few of those. Planning is essential. Sometimes I just walk around the whole section. Don't forget food and water.
All you gotta do is follow the little black lines on the ground that show up in all the aerial views as you walk around the section. When two lines meet------------that's the section corner.
Kent McMillan, post: 398736, member: 3 wrote: So, why don't you take the jeep trail through Sections 13 and 14 and walk the Ridge Line to reach the corner instead of trying to climb the hill on foot?
Yeah, I've considered that route. Their is also what appears to be a ATV trail from the North up to near the ridge. Might be gated though.
The real buggar is the East 1/4. Looks like a hike up the creek from the west. The oaks, brush and aspen are real thick in there and it's quite a climb also. I doubt that the corner will be GPS able also, maybe could clear enough to make it work but would need to take a chain saw. It's at least a two person hike in if not three to get the gear in there.
LRDay, post: 398959, member: 571 wrote: The real buggar is the East 1/4. Looks like a hike up the creek from the west. The oaks, brush and aspen are real thick in there and it's quite a climb also. I doubt that the corner will be GPS able also, maybe could clear enough to make it work but would need to take a chain saw. It's at least a two person hike in if not three to get the gear in there.
Well, they aren't all one-trippers, right? Worst case is you have to set some GPSable control to tie the corner from.
