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[cohp] Digest Number 5248
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Digest #5248
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Re: Cheaha Mtn question by "Don Holmes" donh41
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Bordeaux Mtn - revisit made. by
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Re: Eastern NM TRs by "Andy Martin" oldadit

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Re: Cheaha Mtn question
Tue Feb 2, 2016 7:05 am (PST) . Posted by:
"Don Holmes" donh41
To quote from a book: "The USGS benchmark is in the middle of the walkway to the observation tower. The actual highpoint appears to be a boulder at the back of the building."

Don Holmes

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Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2016 18:31:37 -0600
Subject: [cohp] Cheaha Mtn question

Was driving through Alabama today, and just for the hell of it I turned off and went to Cheaha Mountain for a second visit.

I did this one first probably close to 20 years ago, and back then I just went up in the CCC tower and left.

This time I started poking around, and I found that the highest current land is a big rock that is behind the building. The top of the Rock is about four feet above the level of the floor in the tower, and well above the benchmark in front of the tower.

A question: what are we considering to be the highest actual spot there? The summit has obviously been altered substantially with the construction of the tower, but the rock behind appears to be natural, and it's higher than the tower floor slab.

Just wondering.

John Garner

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Bordeaux Mtn - revisit made.
Tue Feb 2, 2016 11:18 am (PST) . Posted by:
Everyone out there can breath a sigh of relief. I had a few beers, numbed myself up and dove back into the jungle. Yes, I brought some dependable measuring devices with me and here it is -

Original Bordeaux Mtn highpoint
N 18 20.02' W 64 43.40'
Elevation 1283'-1289&#39; with crude altimeter.

New area with boundary marker
N 18 20.02' W 64 43.43'
Elevation 1248'-1253&#39; with crude altimeter.

As can be seen it wasn't even close. The new area is nothing more than a seldom visited dirt pile lost in the woods. In no way did it feel this huge of a discrepancy in elevation loss but again, I had a few.

Jobe Wymore
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Re: Eastern NM TRs
Tue Feb 2, 2016 2:25 pm (PST) . Posted by:
"Andy Martin" oldadit
(Chris)
Quay County HP--"Un-Luck-iano Mesa"
>>I would not recommend attempting this road unless it is bone dry,
and/or you have 4WD.

Amen to that.

Sounds like a pretty muddy affair, certainly
worse than on my hurried visit to the COHP in the
last millennium.

Had to revisit the Mesa a couple years back and
tag the Mesa HP:

http://listsofjohn.com/mapf?lat=34.9798&lon=-104.1503&z=18&t=h&d=r

You can spot a water tank in the link above -
it is pretty flat up there, the tank location
might actually be at the HP ?

This is a possible side trip that COHPers visiting Quay
might consider, as the Mesa HP is #13 in NM isolation per LOJ:

http://listsofjohn.com/PeakStats/ISO.php?sort=&State=NM

Another pic of the tank:

https://sites.google.com/site/oldadit/some_idiot.jpg

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