Survey Mark Recovery: Locate, Photo-Document, Verify the condition of Survey Marks, and report results to the NGS, a day well spent! 😊👍🏻

What an adventure! 16.7 miles, 3,831 feet of vertical gain, a boulder-strewn mountain side with lots of Class 3 bouldering & Type 2 fun!

Sorting out an "Oops!" by U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Surveyors dating back to 1941 and tying up other "loose ends" in the desert.

My 5th time back to Hot Springs Mountain Summit and my 3rd San Diego Six-Pack of Peaks Challenge Complete AND a personal record on descent!

Five Peaks down, one to go! Closing in on the San Diego Six-Pack of Peaks Challenge with a beautiful day on El Cajon Mountain!

Today's trifecta included Volcan Mountain Benchmark, Cuyamaca Peak, and Corte Madera Mountain. Check out the full story & awesome pictures!

Happy New Year 2022! I joined a few friends for an Epic New Years' Hike at the stroke of midnight. What a great start to the New Year! 🎉🏔

Survey Mark hunting on a Volcano 💥Obsidian Butte was a cool pile of rocks with a pre-historic history, + lots of marks found along the way!

What started off as a routine Drive-By Recovery, turned into a 3-week survey mark recovery project and a lesson in Flood Plain mapping!

Today's return to LCIR and ABDSP was a fun day of Peak Bagging with Friends and #94 of 100 on the San Diego Sierra Club 100 Peak Challenge!

I returned to Box Canyon and the surrounding area for more Survey Mark Recoveries on November 6, 2021. Fascinating history & cool finds!

"You ain't having fun unless the trip ends in the hospital" 😳 LOL, Just one comment I heard in response to today's adventure. Read on!

The original plan was to complete all 5 hikes in a day, that didn't quite happen; check out all 5 trip reports inside for the full story!

Road Trip to Joshua Tree National Park! I built this entire trip around finding a single, hexagonal Gravity Station Survey Mark. Job Done!

A return hike to Monument Peak to document a survey mark that I missed last weekend and a chance to do some needed trail maintenance.

Two months to the day from a torn ACL and I am back on trail for my first hike, some cool Survey Mark finds, and a bit of CA Land History!

Day 2 of keeping things cool and "SMASHing" near the water! Lots of Coronado Benchmarks today and I picked up a GPSonBM priority on the way!

Today was a great day to hang out at the Oceanside Harbor and Pier looking for survey marks! I found 3 Tidal Stations & some bonus marks!

Staying close to the coast to keep things cool! It was a great day with 3 GPSonBM finds and new information on finding Tidal Station discs!

Finding a 2 or 3-inch brass disc can be challenging at times, today's recoveries were easier to find and included crosses, domes, & towers!