What’s up with the piles of rocks on mountaintops?

By Julie Fortin[This post also appears on the Mountain Legacy Project website. You can check out the MLP blog here.] As the Oblique Photography team prepares to head out into the field, they are training new field staff how to find the locations where land surveyors once stood to photograph the landscape. Sometimes it’s a bit more complicated (see our last blog post!), but sometimes there is a nice, friendly marker left behind by surveyors of the…

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What’s up with the piles of rocks on mountaintops?

By Julie Fortin[This post also appears on the Mountain Legacy Project website. You can check out the MLP blog here.] As the Oblique Photography team prepares to head out into the field, they are training new field staff how to find the locations where land surveyors once stood to photograph the landscape. Sometimes it’s a bit more complicated (see our last blog post!), but sometimes there is a nice, friendly marker left behind by surveyors of the…

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