Beautiful country.?ÿ But, either give me a four-wheeler that goes everywhere or a helicopter.?ÿ Not a hiker.?ÿ No horses, though.?ÿ Have never met a horse that liked me in my entire life.
I was on foot for a while, mostly along a ridge for a new division line. The difficult part were the rods that couldn't push through the rocky ground, had to walk back and get the hacksaw.?ÿ
Love to be on foot, got my exercise yesterday for sure.?ÿ
Walking on relatively flat ground is one thing.?ÿ Going up and down significant slopes is quite another.?ÿ Just as rough on you on the way down as on the way up.?ÿ Still have a bit of a scar on the front of one leg from about 1974 where a dead weed slipped inside my jeans leg while stepping down on a steep Flint Hills slope.?ÿ That sucker gouged out a narrow strip several inches long
We don't have much of that flat ground you speak of. I do like going up more than down these days.?ÿ
Reminds me of the days when I humped the gravity meter around with a 5700 and spare batteries, extra water, winter clothes for survival?ÿ first aid kit, sat phone etc etc etc.......No flat ground for the wicked
Co-worker had a brilliant idea last week while climbing a steep slope. He said to put minus signs in front of the contour labels so that we are really going down, not up.
@mightymoe Was not us. We thought it was odd that they used that as an aerial target. I didn't know you could fly a site on the border.
Back in the early 2000's I surveyed all of the crossings from Cut Bank, MT to Point Roberts, WA for the Feds. The first pass was for aerial mapping with a second pass to do boundary utilities. I don't think the flight was much of a problem if the crews coordinated it.
What crossing is this, Boundary? If it is, I think that is the one we found some old grave sites on.
P.s. not our panel.