We were setting up a traverse on an 87 acre parcel in northern NH today. The boss was up ahead looking for evidence and flagging the line and I was following chopping out the traverse lines and setting stakes. This parcel was remote and steep with a 20 minute walk just to get to the bottom corner and about 800 feet of vertical up to the back corner.
The boss had just descended over a steep bank (really a cliff) and set a traverse stake that was within sight of a iron pin and I needed to set a traverse stake at the top of bank. As the area was basically a slap of ledge with no topsoil, I hunted around for some big stones to make a stone pile to support my traverse stake. I came a stone and just tipped it up and piled two large stones at the base and secured a 16 penny nail to the top of stone with flagging.
We ran the traverse over the summit of Foster Hill, then east, down the steep face to the jeep trail.
Sonn To Become A Property Corner
Sorry but that looks to ancient and may easily be accepted by others.
Paul in PA
Dang!
I got winded just thinking about that terrain.
I Gots Ta Larn Two Spill Sune
Paul in PA
Dang!
I'm working on a couple of projects on terrain like that. We started on one in the Gold Country in August, very steep and hard ground, imagine walking on ball bearings on a 30% slope. We had some time this week to continue traversing on the boundary (so we can set sign posts later on line) and it had gotten wet from rain. That made it much better traction, less slipping and sliding.
Monday we go back to another project we are working on in the Redwoods. The current timber harvest rules call for spreading slash everywhere to fight erosion. So we're walking on slippery half rotten slash about 6" to 12" thick. The job is really interesting though. We are at a point where we are just about out of the heavy chopping at the bottom. The higher we get the better it gets (better is relative). The all weather road is on top of a ridge. There's other roads but we can't use them until next summer. Ultimately we will blaze and paint trees for line and probably set a couple of line monuments because the corners are in but there are some intermediate monuments called off-line by the controlling survey. I'm going to set a big impressive aluminum monument next to (<10' away) the tagged steel rod that is not the line (it's a long story).
Today's Daydreaming
I'm going to spend all day today sitting in a meeting with officials from 15 different counties. When I nod off from boredom I will try to make my daydreams be of you fellows huffing and puffing your way to the top.