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I just got back from a 5 day hiking trip to the Boundary Range - the ridge line that forms thr border between the US and Canada alnong New Hampshire and western Maine. The area is very remote and the only passage in most parts of the area is over dirt logging roads. I drove up Wednesday and crossed over to Woburn Quebec which is a few miles past the Coburn Gore Maine border crossing, where US Route 27 crosses into Canada. I hiked Wednesday afternoon, Thursday and Friday from the Canadian side and then Friday night crossed into Pittsburg New Hampshire where US Route 3 terminates. Saturday morning I was met by a friend and spent Saturday and Sunday morning hiking from the US side. All of the benchmarks were on or near the border. There were a series of boundary monuments (set in 1845) and a few triangulation stations set by the boundary commision when they did a triangulation of this section in 1915 - 1916. This station is a tringulation station about 1.5 mile east the border near Monument No. 472. Getting to it involved a significant bush whack from the border swath. I approachefd the border from the Canadian side along a trail that leads to Marble Mountain near the town of Notre Dame des Bois. The station is mounted on a boulder at the top of the east peak of "Twin Peaks", a mountain in far western Maine. The original surveyor's entry states the the mountain was known as "Nicollet Mountain" at that time. The disk was not covered by vegetation and was readily visible. It is mounted on the slanted side of the boulder, which is unusual, but the boulder did not appear to be disturbed. There is a nearby hiker's register and several hikers had noticed the station. However as far as GC and NGS are concerned, for me it was a ... "First to Recover"  Logged as "recovered in good condition" with the NGS on 8/29/2006.
Photos:
 QH0381 "NICOLLET", Maine/Quebec border
View of the boulder showing the disk from the side. Note the slant.
QH0381 "NICOLLET", Maine/Quebec border
QH0381 "NICOLLET", Maine/Quebec border
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