- If I were to hazard a guess I would say that it was set as a BM for either the military or by the surveyor who did the survey for the Busch wildlife area. It was probably set to give a stable elevation in doing a topo map of the area for whatever work they might have been planning in the area. The angle that it is setting at indicates that it has been disturbed and the elevation is no longer any good. The stamping on the top was not done by whoever set the mark as it was more than likely a recycled cap and pipe...The real elevation would be only in the books and records of whoever set the mark. Of course this is only speculation and it could be something totally different for as Roger said there are many many different kinds of marks set out there. Dan (Thunder) --- Roger Barnes <rogbarn@xxxxxx> wrote: > - > > Sheesh, send out a message at 10:15 and a guy can't > even get home from > work before it's been jumped on, blown up and come > back down to earth. > :) > > I don't know what it is except that there are so > many different kinds of > markers out there put out by a lot of different > people that it makes it > hard to figure it out. I don't have any idea what > the N/E coordinates > (if that's what they are) are showing. If I were to > guess, I would say > that whoever surveyed the area (perhaps for the > picnic area, or just > general Busch surveying) placed it without any real > attempt to include > it in the wider network of geodetic markers. As > such, there is no > record of it except at the office of the > agency/company that placed it > and everyone at the picnic will not get an easy > benchmark to log. I'll > have to check to see what benchmarks are nearby. > > If anyone else has any ideas, feel free to jump in! > > Roger > > > Mike Griffin wrote: > > > > - > > OK, scouting around for the picnic caches I > stumbled on a benchmark. But this is no ordinary > benchmark. It is a pipe coming out of the ground at > a 45 degree angle. There is a mushroom like top that > has the following stamped in it.. > > > > N25.0000 > > E18.0000 > > Elev - 578.97 > > > > The head looks to be aluminum and the rest of the > pipe is metal. These canot be coords because they > put me in Libya. What do you suppose it is??? I > could not get a clear lock so I didn't really > waypoint it. It was way too foggy to get anything > yesterday morning. So I am heading back out right > now to finish up. I can certainly walk right back to > it as I know exectly where it is.. > > > > Any ideas?? Rog?? > > > > Mike > > > > > **************************************************************************** > > Our WebPage! Http://WWW.GeoStL.com > > Mail List Info. > > > //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/list?list_id=geocaching > > > **************************************************************************** > > **************************************************************************** > Our WebPage! Http://WWW.GeoStL.com > Mail List Info. > > //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/list?list_id=geocaching > > **************************************************************************** > > > > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. http://search.yahoo.com **************************************************************************** Our WebPage! Http://WWW.GeoStL.com Mail List Info. //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/list?list_id=geocaching ****************************************************************************