Its Sunday morning, 25 degrees with the wind blowing around 40 mph, one corner to look for, its on the side of the ridge in the distance according to my calculations.
Only way to get there is hoof it down the canyon and back up.
We are looking for an original land grant stone mound with a bearing tree mentioned from the 1870's.
It took 6 hours to find it and 3 hours to get back to the truck, My son Ross found it and he was thumping his chest like king kong. The bearing tree or its stump was not found. From what I could determine there must have been a bad fire there.
So tired finding it, I forgot to take a picture.
This job is in the books. four long days in the field and the plat and notes might take me 3 hours to finish.
Randy
> The bearing tree or its stump was not found. From what I could determine there must have been a bad fire there.
Just as a footnote, sometimes it's a good thing that a bearing tree was burned if the stump at ground level is reduced to charcoal. I've found the remains of cedars that were marked as BT's in the late 1860's and evidently cut around 1890 for posts. The stumps burned to the ground when the debris was burned off to make a pasture. The stumps had burned to ash, but when the fire reached the roots going into the ground, it left only charcoal which persisted in perfect shape for more than a century, but hiding under a layer of duff from the cedars that returned to cover the pasture.
Great one, Thanks for sharing