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Mount Tamalpais State Park
Cripes Brad, the first pic looks like yer peeing on the monument, shame on you! ?????ÿ
That??s my 18-yo. ?ÿRaised him right. ?ÿHis sister took the photo. I did not hike up that far. ?ÿThe entire family is trained to keep an eye out for survey marks while on vacation.
"Gravity Car Barn"
I have had quite a number of cars through the years that only moved due to gravity, but, I never thought of building a barn to put them in.
Per Wikipedia:?ÿ The name?ÿTamalpais?ÿwas first recorded in 1845. It comes from the?ÿCoast Miwok?ÿname for this mountain,?ÿt?mal p?ji ?, meaning "west hill".?ÿ TAM-il-PY-iss
In the late '70s I was on a crew that surveyed a fiberoptic cable route from Kentfield in Marin County over the (almost) top of Mt. Tam and down to Stinson Beach.?ÿ It was during the winter, and often we'd leave the motel in the morning in a gloomy, drippy, cold fog only to emerge into brilliant warm sunshine as we got up near the peak.?ÿ
One of the other guys on the crew is now the Marin Deputy County Surveyor.?ÿ Super nice guy.
My Dad grew up in the town of Mill Valley below. My Grandmother??s kitchen window had a view of Mt. Tam.
Unfortunately we missed this:
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/25/us/worlds-ugliest-dog-mr-happy-face.html
I was last up there in my pre-surveying days; so I was less concerned with seeing survey monuments and more concerned with getting down to the Pelican Inn to see about some beers.?ÿ?ÿ
@jim-frame who did you work with that went to work for the County??ÿ If it was Brogan, he retired about 8-10 years ago from the County.
who did you work with that went to work for the County??ÿ
Keith Vincent.
@jim-frame he is very new at the County, but he has always been a really nice guy.?ÿ He used to work for Rhodes and Gardner, but who did he work with on the project over Mr. Tam?
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@la-stevens you too, fella! ?ÿYou are a generous host. ?ÿWas a lovely visit. ?ÿI now have a new friend on the west coast.
who did he work with on the project over Mr. Tam?
We both worked for the Spink Corporation at the time.?ÿ Spink had a PT&T contract and we did fiber route surveys all over Northern California, usually a 3-man crew.?ÿ Mt. Tam was a memorable one, as was the Golden Gate Bridge -- we flat-chained on the bridge deck all the way from Fort Point, across the bridge, and deep into the Marin Block house.?ÿ
In those days fiber cables were manufactured to length, as field splicing was a very involved and expensive process, so the designers needed to know within a few feet how long their cable sections had to be.?ÿ We'd be given a route map, and in urban areas we'd chain along a curb or a centerline stripe or some other feature identifiable on an aerial photo, painting 100-foot stations as we went.?ÿ In undeveloped areas -- like the dirt roads over Mt. Tam -- we'd traverse the road, PI-to-PI, as cable placement wasn't as critical.
I lost track of Keith until a few years ago, when we met up for lunch during a CSRC meeting in Sac.?ÿ I hadn't seen him since he was in his early 20s.?ÿ I think he spent most of his career with Marin Water District.?ÿ