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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 along 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 was a triangulation station on a peak at the end of the southwest ridge of Mont Gosford. This involved a bushwhack of about 3/4 of a mile up along the ridge starting at the Mont Gosford trail. Near the top of the peak the spruce and fir were extremely dense and it was difficult to move - somtimes I had to crawl under the trees at ground level. With the help of my GPS and by visual observation I found the highest point, but there were no exposed rocks and probing likely spots revealed no rocks near the surface. The mark is probably there (who would go here to steal it?) but not found by me. Logged as "not recovered, not found" with the NGS on 8/31/2006.
Photos:
 QH0392 NOT FOUND, Maine/Quebec border
View of the high point of the peak.
QH0392 NOT FOUND, Maine/Quebec border
View of the ground at the high point.
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