Don't do what I did-twice: I set up under a four foot diameter pine to locate about a hundred trees that were tagged with metal strips for identificat...

@norman-oklahoma I think that's do TO us.

Draw a sketch showing your distances (slope, horizontal, vertical) and the solution should jump out at you. Don't forget that a negative vertical dist...

I used to work in five counties: Los Angeles, Orange, San Bernardino (bigger than some states), Ventura and sometimes San Diego. There were probably 2...

@crashbox And you can probably find them at night because they glow in the dark.

@mathteacher Isn't the mark-to-mark distance a slope distance?

The original post sounds like the surveyor equivalent of "Do you still beat your wife?"