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Station recovered in poor condition, location as described, along with reference marks 2 and 3. I approached the station from the parking area of nearest office building. As previously reported, most of this station disk seems to have been hacked away with a hatchet. Just a small piece remains attached to the boulder, but it is easily found at the listed coordinates. RM3 was also easily found, set in a boulder that is part of an old stone wall. RM2, not recovered in previous logged visits, was uncovered on a low rock barely above ground level and mostly covered with dirt and leaves. There is an old road/path that passes through the old stone wall, near the station, heading towards the watertower. The reference mark is just on the opposite side of the track from the station and closer to the watertower, in an area with many small pines. RM1 was not found. RM1 appears to lie in an area with piles of old junk and asphalt (or something similar). I didn't have tools to dig for the reference mark.
[Photos:] MY2614-CROSBYS_HILL_ECC_1935-1-20120323
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Wider view of station boulder, looking NW
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Reference Mark 2
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Wider view of RM2
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Reference Mark 3
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Wider view of RM3
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View SW towards RM2 from station, looking across the old track with watertower in the background
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View NW from station, looking towards RM3
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The station was found yesterday in poor condition. RM-3 was also recovered, but RMs 1 and 2 were not found.
The Detail photo shows what is left of the disk. Fortunately, it appears that the stem and the centering point have survived. It appears that this disk could be reset.
RM-3 is in excellent condition, looking like it was set last week. The site of RM-2 was measured to be just (E) of the raised edge of the approach path, but no boulder (or ledge either) was found a this location, which was covered with moss and forest litter. As for RM-1, also measured to be (E) of the approach path, a large quantity of congealed (and crumbly) asphalt was found to have been dumped in a 20 sq. ft. area around the measured location of the mark, perhaps burying it.
I reached the station by using my car's GPS to find the proper turn (W) off of Crosby Drive in Bedford. I then wound up and around the (S) end of the northernmost of the double office buildings shown in the Google aerial photo, parking in the lot along the high granite block retaining wall to the (S) of the huge water tank on the hillside. Entering the woods about 100 ft. (SW) of the tank, a gentle uphill climb (following your GPSr) brings you to the top of the hill and the station, which is about 200 ft. (NNE) of the water tank. The boulder in which the station is set is the only one that massive in the area, and is just to the left (W) of the access path, which runs (N-S).
In the Detail photo for RM-3, the monel rivet is about the size of a dime.
[This entry was edited by pgrig on Wednesday, July 30, 2008 at 10:00:23 AM.]
[This entry was edited by pgrig on Thursday, July 31, 2008 at 7:52:01 AM.]
[Photos:]MY2614-Detail
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Enlarged, the photo of the rivet shows the same kind of lateral surface gouging that is present on the station disk, implying that someone with access to the Description (since the rivet is surely undetectable from the station itself) tried hard to remove this mark as well. Bizarre.
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Photo looks (NW) from station towards RM-3, a monel rivet sunk in boulder that is part of the stone wall.
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