An old survey marker
Today was the first of our two “death marches”, as they are so affectionately referred to, and it wasn’t that bad at all. Not only that I was able to put my farm boy knowledge to some practical use.
The third system of survey is an archaic way of dividing the province into small piece of land that all have a unique identifying number. It isn’t necessarily a bad idea, it is just using very old units of measurement. The interesting and fun part, well the part that was fun anyway, was now knowing where the term ‘section’, ‘quarter section’, ‘township’, ‘range road’, and ‘baseline road came from. However the real cool moment was finding one if the old survey markers that was used when this system was put into place.
This is what you might see if you spot one
Our death march actually took us from one survey market to another through some pretty hairy bush. I ripped my sappy shirt and got a bit tangled up in some logs, but it was a great hike after all and our instructor let us fire off some bear bangers.
Tonight is pretty low key as the rain is now coming down in sheets and the air is getting a but cooler. A good time to catch up on some sleep, which is what I plan to do tonight.
I forgot to mention that there have been some timber wolves spotted in camp. Cool.