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Dale Hill
Feb 6, 20229 min read
Tying Up Loose Ends
Sorting out an "Oops!" by U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Surveyors dating back to 1941 and tying up other "loose ends" in the desert.
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Dale Hill
Aug 28, 20219 min read
Joshua Tree SMASH
Road Trip to Joshua Tree National Park! I built this entire trip around finding a single, hexagonal Gravity Station Survey Mark. Job Done!
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Dale Hill
Jul 17, 20216 min read
Coronado SMASH
Day 2 of keeping things cool and "SMASHing" near the water! Lots of Coronado Benchmarks today and I picked up a GPSonBM priority on the way!
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Dale Hill
Jul 14, 20217 min read
San Diego Coastal SMASH
Staying close to the coast to keep things cool! It was a great day with 3 GPSonBM finds and new information on finding Tidal Station discs!
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Dale Hill
Jul 2, 202114 min read
Pala SMASH!
4th of July Weekend Survey Mark Scavenger Hunt (SMASH) in Pala and Pauma Valley, along SR 76 uncovering cool marks and their history!
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Dale Hill
Jun 29, 20217 min read
GPS on Bench Marks - June 2021
My new goal is 100 GPS on Bench Marks Recoveries by the end of the year, this month I added 9 Priority Recoveries with some cool finds!
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Dale Hill
Jun 18, 20216 min read
Point Loma Mini-SMASH
Today's Mini Survey Mark Scavenger Hunt took me back to Point Loma and Cabrillo National Monument; adding two Lighthouses to my recoveries!
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Dale Hill
Jun 11, 202117 min read
Sea Level to Soledad SMASH!
Follow my day-long Survey Mark Scavenger Hunt (SMASH) around San Diego where I recovered 37 survey marks from Sea Level to Mount Soledad!
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Dale Hill
May 30, 20214 min read
GPS on Bench Marks - May 2021
5 new survey marks recovered on the GPS on Bench Marks Priority List & my first A-1 priority Mark! Total GPSonBM recoveries to date: 16
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Dale Hill
Apr 30, 20217 min read
April 2021 'Drive-By' Survey Marks
While most of my recoveries are on hikes, I find many that are just 'along the road'. These are my 'Drive-By' recoveries for April 2021.
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Dale Hill
Apr 29, 202110 min read
GPS on Bench Marks - April 2021
My first full month participating in the National Geodetic Survey's crowdsourcing approach to collect GPS data on prioritized survey marks.
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Dale Hill
Apr 1, 20216 min read
March 2021 'Drive-By' Survey Marks
Most of my survey mark recoveries are on hikes, these are the ones that are just 'along the road'. I call them my 'Drive-By' 🚙 recoveries.
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