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[ski3pin]

A couple of weeks ago we enjoyed a day hike close to home, our backyard. I have the story with photos completed and it can be found on our blog here -

 

Two Peaks - August 2020

 

We hope you enjoy tagging along with us and don't get to coughing too badly or start looking for ticks.

[Casa Escarlata Robles Too]

Thanks for the trip and info on markers.

I always like to find the survey markers

when we get out on a hike and the tree markers that

show what section of the area you are in.

Frank

[Vic Harder]

Love how you two manage to get away from the crowds!

[craig333]

Doesn't appear to be a SOTA summit. Definitely long pants country.

[ski3pin]

Thanks for the trip and info on markers.

I always like to find the survey markers

when we get out on a hike and the tree markers that

show what section of the area you are in.

Frank

Frank, thanks for the kind comment.

[ski3pin]

Love how you two manage to get away from the crowds!

Yup, I didn't mention it in the narrative, but the folks on mules quite a distance away were the only people we saw on a busy Saturday in the Sierra Nevada. Just what we were looking for.

[ski3pin]

Doesn't appear to be a SOTA summit. Definitely long pants country.

Yes, indeed! I look at the photos and can immediately smell the dusty scent of huckleberry oak.

[smlobx]

Nice to have such an enjoyable hike nearby!

[Foy]

Thanks, as always, for the fine TR.  My favorites of your TRs are those in which you teach about old-school land navigation using USGS topos and a compass.

 

In this one, I gladly learned about the origins of the PLSS.  I had thought the processes had been originated after Thomas Jefferson, as POTUS, sent Lewis and Clark out for a look-see up the Missouri River, so along about 1805-1806 or so. It's very cool to find out its origins were some 20 years earlier.

 

Some of the founders and early prominent citizens were surveyors: some good, some not so good.  George Washington was a surveyor. Thomas Jefferson was the son of Peter Jefferson, one of the surveyors who cut the state line between North Carolina and Virginia all the way from the Atlantic Ocean to the Cumberland Gap. Washington and Peter Jefferson were two of the good surveyors. Then came Daniel Boone providing many, many surveys of land in Kentucky and later in Missouri.  Boone apparently "shingled" so many tracts so badly that he was dogged for his entire life by litigation resulting from his work.

 

There is a group of reenactors who appear at festivals/fairs in the garb of PLSS surveyors' and have a plethora of tools, instruments, and equipment used in the PLSS days.  I had a ball talking with them at Bannack Days, Bannack, Montana back in 2010 or 2011.  

 

Foy--bogged down in old English "metes and bounds" North Carolina, and son and grandson of civil engineers who made a living surveying.

[WjColdWater]

Very nice! Great pics! Wondering why we don’t see you in the pics ? Lol. Again thanks for sharing such incredible adventures and educating us about the natural world. I forwarded the survey makers to my brother in law he is a master survivor. H e lives for these things!