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Posted - 08/01/2011 : 3:39 PM
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Does anyone recognize this? It was just a feet meters away from the trail, on the way to Wolverine South campground from Four Point Campground (about a kilometre or so north from there) on the Brazeau Lake loop. It stood about 5 cm above the ground and nothing else really around it. As you can see it is quite old. We did not test to see if the penalty was still in effect! 
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 map hatin', coffee perc totin', garbage collectin', backpacking, action hero wannabe, who loves to hide out in Garibaldi park and will have his scouts sing if you keep him awake at night
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Posted - 08/01/2011 : 3:48 PM
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| It's a survey marker. |
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Posted - 08/01/2011 : 3:53 PM
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| It's a border marker of some kind. They use ones like these to mark the border of provinces, although they normally have the provinces written on them. Could be parks boundary? |
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Posted - 08/01/2011 : 4:01 PM
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| Well it was between the trail and the Brazeau River. The Jasper - Whitegoat Wilderness boundary is about a kilometer away from there. So it wouldn't designate that boundary, unless that was the boundary at that time. |
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Dewdney, BC
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Posted - 08/01/2011 : 7:05 PM
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It is a survey benchmark ; they can be found anywhere a survey has been done and don`t denote anything other than a station or point on that survey .
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Calgary, Alberta
Andorra
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Posted - 08/01/2011 : 9:13 PM
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| They are normally set pretty flush with the ground. Since it looks like it's just in dirt, I'd suspect the ground has eroded out from around it. |
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Posted - 08/02/2011 : 11:48 AM
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| That makes sense. I guess the date refers to when the surveying would have happened? |
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Posted - 08/02/2011 : 12:05 PM
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| There's a brass one cemented to a boulder by the road that runs from the parking lot to the Ramparts Hostel, and one carved into a tree on the Glacier Lake trail. That one's from 1928, I think, and it refers specifically to a topographic survey. |
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Unity, Saskatchewan
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Posted - 09/13/2011 : 9:00 PM
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It's definitely a survey monument. I'm a surveyor.
It was planted there way back in 1927. It's a brass cap set in concrete. It is likely at the boundary of a major surveyed line such as a surveyed baseline along a "Township" boundary.
How was the trip through the Brazeau Loop my friend?
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