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The mark was not found. Over the Columbus weekend I headed up to northern New Hampshire for some hiking, benchmarking and a bit of sight seeing. All the recovered marks (and all but one of the Not Founds) were boundary markers of one sort or another. Some were state boundary markers, some were US-Canada boundary markers and some were IBC triangulation stations (used when the US-Canada border was surveyed in 1915-1916). Here's a trip report: (visit link)
And here's a set of photo albums: (visit link) This mark was an IBC triangulation station disk set on bedrock at the highest point of Rump Mountain. I bushwhacked up to this peak with a friend about a mile from a logging road which runs east and south off of East Inlet Road in Pittsburg, NH. Once at the highest point, we found a hikers register tied to a tree and a pile of rocks underneath. The pile looked like it had been built and I carefully seached on and under all of the rocks in the pile, as well as others nearby. No obvious bedrock was found. No mark was found. On the way to the peak we crossed the state line into Maine and searched for and recovered the Maine-New Hampshire Boundary Monument No. 118. Pictures are included for this non-NGS mark. Logged with the NGS as "Not recovered, not found" on 10/12/2006
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 QH0543 "RUMP IBC" NOT FOUND,Parmachenee Twp, Maine
The hikers register at the high point of Rump Mountain.
QH0543 "RUMP IBC" NOT FOUND,Parmachenee Twp, Maine
Promising pile of rocks at the high point.
Maine-New Hampshire Boundary Monument No. 118
Maine-New Hampshire Boundary Monument No. 118 was recovered on the west slope of Rump Mountain on the way to the peak.
Maine-New Hampshire Boundary Monument No. 118
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