Two of the local scenic attractions are waterfalls within a few miles of each other in separate canyons that merge together just downstream from each of the falls.
A while back Perry Williams posted pictures of the smaller of the falls on that other site. I thought about giving him a hard time about not seeing the brass cap at the bottom of the trail, then I took some relatives to the falls and found this.
On the trail and almost to the bottom.
Pipe under a log.
Close up of the pipe with the brass cap removed. Someone had gone all the way to the bottom of the trail and removed the brass cap. Just for fun-I guess! The cap was set by a surveyor that I know for a mineral survey. To go all the way there and become a vandal seems so stupid.
Tell Perry to put it back..
seriously, that sucks.
do some of these geocachers swipe monuments?
Probably a non-surveyor geocacher claiming a prize.
Truth be told, it was probably a field crew tying in the corner and the cap was loose.
I've found several "disturbed" and destroyed corners with brass caps in them that somehow went missing. Now whether the cap went missing first or the corner got beat around first remains a mystery.
I've even removed one or two myself, but they were VERY DESTROYED when I did that. My dad has a brass cap for a City of Houston monument that he's had as a paper weight for as long as I can remember.
Recently, we found (I'm not making this up) a counter weight of concrete being used in the back yard of a lot we were surveying. Upon inspection, it was a TRI-STATION and the whole thing was pulled up with the cap intact still imbedded in the concrete.
We bought the thing for $10 and planted it in the front yard of the office with the arrow that would point to the Azimuth mark, pointing at the front door.
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I knew the monument must be missing if I didn't find it.
Porcupine Falls was one of our favorite places in Wyoming. It was out on a rough dirt road with no real signs, so we were surprised to see such a spectacular falls.
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When you posted the picture, I thought why didn't he mention the brass cap; it's not like you can miss it. Well I found out. It's not there anymore.
Those falls are pretty cool, but just down the road is a more impressive one.
A longer hike but not as steep.
Hey guys, That was my brass cap monument set in aprox. 1985. It was a discovery monument set for the client on a placer claim. Somebody must have thought it was a unique cap to want to remove it. When I set it, it was flush to the surface. There are rp's to the point but it is insignificant, the claim is probably null and void. It is strange to see one of my monuments via the internet set 25 years ago! I can remember to this day how cold the water was when we set the monument. The canyon was so steep we had to set a lead tack and brass washer on the opposite side of the canyon and occupy the point to sight to the bottom of the canyon for the tie to a PLSS corner. One of the members on our crew at the time is now a nationally known attorney! Some times we just have too much fun.
Pablo
Hey, Pablo. That is a fun hike to go sightsee; but doesn't seem like much fun to survey.
Although, another guy and I used to train there a long time ago. Hike in and run back out. We did three "laps" one morning. Now I just want to walk out without stopping and that is plenty hard.
I remember when we hiked down in with equipment, one member of our crew was a former special forces member and talked about how the hike in and out is what he termed "character builders"..."when we get done you can see them little buggers all over your body". I can't imagine doing three laps in and out....you sure you don't have some billy goat genes in ya?
:>) Pablo
The two of us were training for the season before out sophomore year in college and were running up this canyon. But it was full of snakes and poison ivy. So I came up with the bright idea to do the run out of the falls. It's too high to have snakes or ivy. We did it on two weekends and did two runs out. The second time we made it all the way both times by going really slow-more of a walk than a run. Then the third and last time we went up there we got competitive and after two said we could do another. i almost couldn't drive off the mountain. I was tired for days.
