A Warm Day and a PennDOT Chiseled Square

On a sloppy but warm March Friday Rich and I took a short hike to the reservoirs. Just a few weeks ago I found a website listing some PennDOT survey marks, and we noticed a line that begins at the reservoir and follows the trails and gravity railroad bed down to ROAR 2 in Dunmore. … Read more

Benchmarks Close to Home

For a change of pace, I decided to seek out some Scranton benchmarks this morning. I initially thought that recovering the MINOOKA tri-station and associated reference marks was going to require climbing over a wire fence, but I got a lucky break this time. There is a convenient opening cut in the fence directly behind … Read more