Mike Berry, Scott Freshwaters, Kevin Samuel, and Gary DeJarnatt.
Interacted with 50+ people, what a great time!
Thanks for posting the pictures Scott. It was a great time to talk to some non-surveyors in a no pressure setting.
I think this will be a great annual event. Looking forward to many more.
I agree, the satellite turkey shoot on the butte was a good event. As Jered McGrath put it, we had a lot of good face time with John Q. Public.
We were on Pilot Butte, a 500’ tall hill in the middle of Bend:
The road up to the top is closed for the winter, but the State Parks manger gave us the combo to the gate so we could truck all our gear up. It is an extremely popular hiking spot, on a good day hundreds of folks get their work outs by hiking up either the road or the trail that corkscrew up the butte. It’s a one mile hike from top to bottom:
The station “Pilot Butte” was set in 1932 by the USC&G:
The weather was brisk with a persistent, cold wind blowing from the southwest. To stabilize the set-up for the 4 hour occupation we first tried driving the Secco pole through the top of Kevin’s head.
Scott also brought his total station, which was real popular with John Q., Jane Q., and Junior Q. Public for mountain gazing
(you can tell how cold it was by the color of the tripod's legs)
The Park “Hosts” are State Park volunteers who live in a fifth wheel down in the parking lot. I read that the wife (pictured below at the left talking to Gary DeJarnatt) has one of those hideous degenerative muscle diseases forged in the hubs of hell and that she obsessively labors up the butte to offset the effects. A very sweet gal. Her one day record is 16 round trips up and down the butte. Also, a BLM surveyor from Billings Montana showed up. He’s the guy in the Tee Shirt (!) at the right of the photo talking to Kevin.
The best part of the event? When my wife Maureen hiked up and brought all 4 of us sandwiches for lunch. What a gal!
I agree those sandwiches were great, your wife was very kind in packing our lunch up the hill!
That graffiti is horrible up there isn't it? All that spray paint on the new viewing deck... darned kids.
Maybe next year this little punk will tag along!
Kevin - graffiti?
Kevin, I don't see any graffiti in any of the above photos, so you must be talking about the subtle mark I made to ensure that we would find the brass cap. I didn't post it previously, but here is a photo of it, barely discernable except to the trained surveyors eye:
Kevin - graffiti?
Well, I wasn't going to say anything, but I think you guys were over-stepping your bounds on this one:
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Kevin - graffiti?
What bothers me Wendell is that Kevin apparently wasn't paying much attention today and forgot that the little guy was up on the butte with us this year:
Kevin - graffiti?
OH, is he the one that did all that great artwork?
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Good Lord, real surveyors
would have humped that stuff up to the top. Like this guy did:
Edit:
On second thought, you guys probably did do the surveyorly thing
and find a way through the gate.
Good Lord, real surveyors
We always do our best to be surveyorly!
Great post Scott, Thanks for sharing!
> .... To stabilize the set-up for the 4 hour occupation we first tried driving the Secco pole through the top of Kevin’s head.
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Hahahahah
Since I am of a Scandanavian persuasion that probably isn't a bad idea.
Dense bone structure is good for something!;-)