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I just got back from a 5 day hiking trip to the Boundary Range - the ridge line that forms the 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. This station is a boundary monument that is about 1/2 mile west of Monument 475. we accessed the border from East Inlet Road in Pittsburg New Hampshire. We drove in on this dirt logging road about 13 miles towards Rhubarb Pond and had to walk the last mile and cross a beaver dam at the outlet of the pond. With map and compass we headed for a saddle on the border ridge at Monument 476. We arrived in about half an hour only slightly east of that point, and then headed over to monument 475, about a half mile away, and then returned and worked westward along the border. The monument is the old style monument with a cast iron post set in a concrete base. Logged as "recovered in good condition" with the NGS on 8/29/2006.
Photos:
 QH0499 "MON 476 IBC", NH/Quebec border
QH0499 "MON 476 IBC", NH/Quebec border
Close up of the base showing the monument number.
QH0499 "MON 476 IBC", NH/Quebec border
An IBC bench mark (non NGS) set in the base of Monument 476.
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