I went up to take the Alaska Exam this weekend and couldn't pass up the chance to get to my 16th initial point. It was a beautiful day in Alaska on Saturday and I think trudging through the snow to get up to the meridian was much better than fighting off the mosquito's later in the season. You park right on the Idatarod Trail and then hike up the trail for a few hundred feet before bushwacking through the snow and devil's club for about half a mile.
Whittier, Alaska
A public monument hidden near the road
Cool...now that's a nice prize!...never been there to the IP but have a replica of the cap on me fireplace mantel...
> True point is 1/2 of a mile East of this Granite Marker
hmmm, that is going to ruffle some feathers
Beautiful!
Now, when that snow finally melts,
I'm going to come up there and check it out!
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Nice job Kurt! Now I know why you plan those exams!
Cool pictures. How long till they notify of exam results?
Hope your flight home goes well.
We put the public granite monument at the closest place to the IP. The intent was to bring public awareness to surveying and the Seward IP. We also had a roadside kiosk with more information, but the vandels kept destroying everything. The Alaska Society of Professional Land Surveyors actually permitted the site for the public monument that lies inside the ROW for Nash Road.
Thanks for the post on your IP recovery Luke, looks like you had a fun day. Best of luck on your exam results.
The test results will be certified by the AELS board at their next meeting in May.
Just curious, do you know how many sat for the exam?
Dugger
I do not know Dugger. However, if you really want to know I can find out. The minutes of the AELS board are on-line, and those minutes lists the names of canidates approved to sit for the exams. We would have to review the last 3 Board minutes to get all of the names. My guess would be under 15. Perhaps Luke could chime in as he was there.
Nice pics,
thanks for sharing,
Chr.
Don't really need to know, just curious about the new people coming into the profession.....
My question is: What does the shape of the Iditarod sign represent? It's similar to, but pointier than, the CA highway signs discussed recently which to me look like acorns, but apparently represent miner's spades.
I wounder if the line East to the true corner is curved. 😉
RADAR,
I believe that there were 24 sitting for the state specific. Nobody left early and I could have used about another hour. The exam was almost identical to the Washington State exam as far as content, but there was a lot of state specific learn if you practice here regularly questions that I was taking too much time to locate in their laws. I needed more of the BLM questions which come second nature without searching.
A very comprehensive test on the Alaska laws for sure. Wait and see is all I can do at this point. Too bad I couldn't get some extra credit for an Initial Point recovery!
Kurt
I can tell you the route that I took definitely had a curve in it.
> I believe that there were 24 sitting for the state specific. Nobody left early and I could have used about another hour. The exam was almost identical to the Washington State exam as far as content, but there was a lot of state specific questions that I was taking too much time to locate in their laws.
Thanks Kurt,
It's interesting, to me, to see how many are interested in the profession enough to sit for the exam. Thanks for the update....
Is there a big difference in aquatic boundaries and riparian rights?
Dugger
It looks like the top of an open 3/4" iron pipe about a foot and a half SW of the cap (upper right in the photo with your boot toes).
Please tell us I'm mistaken and that nobody actually pincushioned the IP.
> It looks like the top of an open 3/4" iron pipe about a foot and a half SW of the cap (upper right in the photo with your boot toes).
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> Please tell us I'm mistaken and that nobody actually pincushioned the IP.
Evan,
That is a PVC that looks snapped off in the concrete. I would imagine that there was either a piece of PVC projecting out of the concrete or they put it in so that something could be placed in the pipe. I have been looking for the corner remonumentation notes and haven't had any luck yet. I have an email in to a BLM surveyor who has helped me out in the past. I almost did not find the brass cap due to a heavy covering of ice and no tools with me. I found a large rock to bust up the ice and was being very careful not to hit whatever was buried in the ice. I kept exposing concrete and some small stones pushed into the concrete. I believed there may be a faint X in the concrete between the stones and stopped exposing concrete, but my curiousity got the best of me and I found the brass cap just east of where I had thought was the center of the pad.
Northern Surveyor - do you know anything about the remonumentation of the corner? In 1992 there was a survey filed showing the original 1911 GLO cap, but in a 1996 survey the BLM cap was shown on a survey for the commemorative stone parcel down by Nash Road.
Kurt