Locating The Corners Of My Land

Finding Our Borders


SW "LS 2859"	SE "RCE 23256"	The boundaries	NW "RCE 23256"	NE "RCE 23256"


I've always known about this SW marker. Though rather impermanent it has managed to stay put and allow me to eyeball the south and west boundaries with a compass.	In 2007 I found these new stakes from a neighbor's recent survey and this old allusive tag that finally nails down our NW corner. I am looking south, towards our land.	Looking north down the hill across the Joshua Tree community park into its distant town. The tags are called monuments though most are no longer embedded in same.

Looking east from the NW corner towards the NE corner beyond the ridge to the left.	This is the same perspective as in the image above this one; just further away to get a wider angle view of this ridge.	Back on top of the ridge in the previous picture looking south into the valley. I have added a PVC pole on the western border so that I will be able to see it from below.

Fifty something years ago the original roads were cut along the borders of 10 acre parcels except where they had to skirt around a wash or hill.	Looking from the SW corner up to where I placed the PVC pole on the ridge this side of the NW corner.	This is the marker at the SW corner. To get my bearings in the preceeding picture, the plastic pipe was temporarily slipped over the marker to extend it vertically.

A few days later I noticed that the pole had disappeared from below so I climbed on up and discovered that it had slipped down between the boulders that it was wedged into.	So I hammered a steel fencing stake down adjacent to the old pole and slipped a wider PVC pipe over that. That should do it.

If you click on this image you will get one that fills the standard 1280 pixel screen. You may find it interesting, especially if you have read parts of my journals that occured in some of these places.

However, you can click HERE to see a truly amazing very large 5730 pixel wide rendition of the Quail Springs valley that almost makes you feel like you are flying low overhead as you scroll across the landscape.

Taken from the ridge just above the SE corner. In fact as you look at how the streets are layed out you can see how I zeroed in on where the SE corner had to be, simply by climbing around and over rocks until I found the spot where the road straight ahead and the one far to my left would have to converge. Then suddenly I saw it.


What I first saw was an orange ribbon tied to a bush, probably by the original surveyor or perhaps the owner/subdivider. Then I found the SE tag below the bush.	I placed a pole about a foot east of the tag and then another about 20 feet west on a ledge where it could be seen from below.	The one on the ledge is wedged into a crack at an angle due to the angle of the crack. It is also off the border by a few inches.

Both poles in one merged image. The pole near the SE tag is high on the left and the angled ledge pole is centered on the right.		The ledge pole up close.

Both poles from out front looking back. To see the SE tag pole (far rear) in perspective you may need to click on this one.	Still in morning shadow and cloudy, I had waited for the cloudcover. With water and phone in my backpack I could feel secure in knowing that I would be making this return downhill.	Three corners are established. I have heard about the fourth from a rock climber and I will find it, probably on my next visit to Joshua Tree.