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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 about 1/4 miles south of the boundary, about 3 miles southeast of Marble Mountain. The bushwhack was short and relatively painless and the summit area was open. There were howeever no obvious rock outcrops in evidence although I found several rocky spots with moss covering them which I probed and scraped. The mark was not found. This would be a good area for someone to search with a metal detector, but due to the remoteness of the peak, that person is not likely to be me. Logged as "not recovered, not found" with the NGS on 8/31/2006.
Photos:
 QH0503 NOT FOUND Maine/Quebec border
View of the summit area of the peak. Note the hiker's register (glass jar) hanging on the birch tree.
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