Hiking in a National Forest and found a 40' Pyramid

[pepperj]

your not very smart, just trying to troll. look at the picture 40yrds away. you see a tree that is about 16 inches in dia. running offset center. you tell me how to fake a picture so far back, it is was 4ft. the 16 inch tree in the middle would be a twig and never even show up. But, your depth and purpose isn't why most of us take a walk for stuff like this.

So you took the picture 120ft away.
I love to play comparison pictures.

Here is your 40ft Pyramid.

Now here is a barn picture.
Also taken from about 120ft away.
The midway point of the peak/or the top of the granary wall is 40ft.
The knuckle of the 40ft lift is shown.
So I know what 40' was on the structure.
I think still you need to realize that your Pyramid looks like a tent in comparison.

 

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[UnderMiner]

It's settled, the mysterious pyramid is the last remnant of a long forgotten ancient civilization that carved it from a single giant piece of rock, likely as an interstellar beacon.

 

[sibbley]

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Btw, yea it was close. I have a pic of my wife in front of it but I really don't feel the need to prove anything to you.
But if you could scrape up $10K and would want to walk out with me escorted by a group of men that you wouldn't want to meet ever again, lose your bet! Then I'm game.
I found it, I know where it is. It but a smile on my face. Bad news for you, your standing in front of what "use to be a barn" but yo really cant call it that any more because clearly it isn't. My pic is a Pyramid, a 3 year old could point it out point it out. You, will NEVER find something like this in your life. I tell ya what
If I want any more lip from you "Catfish" I will just rattle my zipper! how's that?

Still don't see any kind of man-made carving in that rock. Perhaps you see things we don't. The barn is most certainly a barn. Time to move on...

 

[Mason Jarr]

I was wondering how to shoot a LAT/LONG with a Compass? I'm Noob navigation

Finding lat/long with a compass is probably beyond your capabilities is you're new at navigation. Your best bet would be to use a GPS. I'm not saying it can't be done with a compass, but you'd have to triangulate your position and then plot that on a map. Maps are plotted on a true north standard and compasses work off magnetic north. If you look along the edge of topographic maps you'll see a scale that shows the difference in degrees between magnetic north and true north (its called deviation). If you have a good compass like a Silva Ranger you can dial in the deviation so you don't have to calculate it manually. After the deviation is adjusted you'll need to be able to see and identify two terrain features (maybe a mountain and a lake) that you can also identify on the map. Sight along your compass to the first feature and rotate the compass dial until the arrows are pointed at magnetic north. Without moving the dial lay the edge of the compass on the same feature on the map and move the compass body until the straight lines on the compass dial line up with the N/S straight lines on the map. Draw a line with a pencil along the compass edge. Repeat this process with the second terrain feature. Where the two lines you've drawn on the map cross is your approximate position. You should then be able to use the lat/long shown on the map to mark your position. As I said, GPS is much easier.

 

[Peyton Manning]

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Btw, yea it was close. I have a pic of my wife in front of it but I really don't feel the need to prove anything to you.
But if you could scrape up $10K and would want to walk out with me escorted by a group of men that you wouldn't want to meet ever again, lose your bet! Then I'm game.
I found it, I know where it is. It but a smile on my face. Bad news for you, your standing in front of what "use to be a barn" but yo really cant call it that any more because clearly it isn't. My pic is a Pyramid, a 3 year old could point it out point it out. You, will NEVER find something like this in your life. I tell ya what
If I want any more lip from you "Catfish" I will just rattle my zipper! how's that?

Got a feelin a ban is imminent

 

[BullFrogTango]

I'll give you just a second data point. Egypt was settled by the Nile Delta. The reason was the Nile provided a lush and aired growing/farming necessity for the Egyptians to expand and prosper. Well guess what, in 31 BC the Romans Kicked their ass. But the Prince fled with 50K other Egyptians to a know trading route far enough away. The Mississippi River Delta in 31 BC was much more expansive and it was inhabited by several different civilization at various times. So yes, i do not know who what how when where and why?
Fact , it is equal on all three sides.
the angles all match. and its 40ft. tall
I waited 3.5 months just for this reason, being trolled. A matter of fact i bet 20% of it is below ground.
It sits back up in a box canyon that when it floods, it probably rises a considerable amount of water filling that entire area.
It sits up in higher scattered (200 yards high point) very close to a river bed upon a small maze of smaller cliffs that have been carved to their current shapes.. the ground around it is very deep loam and silt. The line of bluffs that rise above the back side of the pyramid are 160-220 ft. that is the original waterline to the whole area at god only knows B.C.

 

[BullFrogTango]

Finding lat/long with a compass is probably beyond your capabilities is you're new at navigation. Your best bet would be to use a GPS. I'm not saying it can't be done with a compass, but you'd have to triangulate your position and then plot that on a map. Maps are plotted on a true north standard and compasses work off magnetic north. If you look along the edge of topographic maps you'll see a scale that shows the difference in degrees between magnetic north and true north (its called deviation). If you have a good compass like a Silva Ranger you can dial in the deviation so you don't have to calculate it manually. After the deviation is adjusted you'll need to be able to see and identify two terrain features (maybe a mountain and a lake) that you can also identify on the map. Sight along your compass to the first feature and rotate the compass dial until the arrows are pointed at magnetic north. Without moving the dial lay the edge of the compass on the same feature on the map and move the compass body until the straight lines on the compass dial line up with the N/S straight lines on the map. Draw a line with a pencil along the compass edge. Repeat this process with the second terrain feature. Where the two lines you've drawn on the map cross is your approximate position. You should then be able to use the lat/long shown on the map to mark your position. As I said, GPS is much easier.

thanks, i agree. I felt like an idiot. i think i took a couple let me go find my notes. I would not want to be handed my first attempted on the job compass "Failure" but give me a couple...

 

[Peyton Manning]

Three sides?
Aren’t Egyptian pyramids four sided?

 

[Red_desert]

Try this...

That above is lightened.

Closer...

Now top area.

 

[BullFrogTango]

Three sides?
Aren’t Egyptian pyramids four sided?

I did not know that. Great data point . but I think if you look at the pic it is four. Geometry isn't my passion.
1.)So the front,
2.)the side with picture showing the slice through the middle
3.) is the left shoulder
4.) around the back matched the front slope me the other three where more of a mirror match 45 degrees lets call it. were as the back was more like 55 degrees. Look the whole Egypt thing is like I was setting off like "Raiders Of The Lost Ark" Indiana Jones style.
Like most of my enjoyment reading KGC, Knights Templar and the Mason's. It can drag you around and in and out many rabbit holes. But i guess, I'm like a small Beagle running down every sent. So, long /short. I read that someone found it hiking but the article just gave me a very large area.
I was looking for various wagon trails and Indian trade routes and somehow a reference given in the first article 8 -10 months prior tipped me to a same data point.

 

[BullFrogTango]

It looks like it cracked off the larger rock to the left, the big crack in it is due to natural erosion of a weaker vein of material that used to be in the crack.

It does look that way in the picture.
My eyes on it:
1.) where it looked like it cracked off from it was 4x bigger
2.) the 4 sides angles matched 90 plus percent perfect
3.) nature by our first set of rules...NEVER greats 90 degree angles and this had 4 running the entire length each corner.
4.) the Dam thing and it's sides, anyone of them look like a saw milled flat, straight and almost polished with for a rock that side didn't have high/low lumpy in the middle . It was like a first cut of stone for a large island cut but never that smooth or polished
5.) I think 25-35% is not shown because it underground a lot deeper. so I am just wanting various eyes and opinions on it. I am not a geologist, i could not begin to tell you what type of rock it was.
But is wasn't something you could try and scrape and it would shift off.

 

[Red_desert]

It could be a solar calendar.

Ancient Calendars With Huge Panels, High Circles Discovered on Pueblo Walls in Colorado, Archaeologists Say

 

[minerjosh]

Isn’t todays find supposed to be stuff you found today?

 

[Peyton Manning]

I did not know that. Great data point . but I think if you look at the pic it is four. Geometry isn't my passion.
1.)So the front,
2.)the side with picture showing the slice through the middle
3.) is the left shoulder
4.) around the back matched the front slope me the other three where more of a mirror match 45 degrees lets call it. were as the back was more like 55 degrees. Look the whole Egypt thing is like I was setting off like "Raiders Of The Lost Ark" Indiana Jones style.
Like most of my enjoyment reading KGC, Knights Templar and the Mason's. It can drag you around and in and out many rabbit holes. But i guess, I'm like a small Beagle running down every sent. So, long /short. I read that someone found it hiking but the article just gave me a very large area.
I was looking for various wagon trails and Indian trade routes and somehow a reference given in the first article 8 -10 months prior tipped me to a same data point.

I’m going by your words in post #30, you said three sides

 

[BullFrogTango]

Isn’t today's find supposed to be stuff you found today?

I like to think of it as Today was my turn to bring something in for "Show and Tell" to bring something in for show and tell. My apologies

 

[BullFrogTango]

I’m going by your words in post #30, you said three sides

well i look at the Egyptian pyramids and count 3. Im, dyslectic and numbers, words and 3 vs four sides isn't beyond my range of seeing and registering something different. But, my 10K is a standing offer. But it will be mine when you drive home. So slow your roll...

 

[pepperj]

I'll give you just a second data point. Egypt was settled by the Nile Delta. The reason was the Nile provided a lush and aired growing/farming necessity for the Egyptians to expand and prosper. Well guess what, in 31 BC the Romans Kicked their ass. But the Prince fled with 50K other Egyptians to a know trading route far enough away. The Mississippi River Delta in 31 BC was much more expansive and it was inhabited by several different civilization at various times. So yes, i do not know who what how when where and why?
Fact , it is equal on all three sides.
the angles all match. and its 40ft. tall
I waited 3.5 months just for this reason, being trolled. A matter of fact i bet 20% of it is below ground.
It sits back up in a box canyon that when it floods, it probably rises a considerable amount of water filling that entire area.
It sits up in higher scattered (200 yards high point) very close to a river bed upon a small maze of smaller cliffs that have been carved to their current shapes.. the ground around it is very deep loam and silt. The line of bluffs that rise above the back side of the pyramid are 160-220 ft. that is the original waterline to the whole area at god only knows B.C.

I’m going by your words in post #30, you said three sides

But 3=4 in some worlds.

 

[minerjosh]

It does look that way in the picture.
My eyes on it:
1.) where it looked like it cracked off from it was 4x bigger
2.) the 4 sides angles matched 90 plus percent perfect
3.) nature by our first set of rules...NEVER greats 90 degree angles and this had 4 running the entire length each corner.
4.) the Dam thing and it's sides, anyone of them look like a saw milled flat, straight and almost polished with for a rock that side didn't have high/low lumpy in the middle . It was like a first cut of stone for a large island cut but never that smooth or polished
5.) I think 25-35% is not shown because it underground a lot deeper. so I am just wanting various eyes and opinions on it. I am not a geologist, i could not begin to tell you what type of rock it was.
But is wasn't something you could try and scrape and it would shift off.

25 to 35 % underground or 20% under ground is hard to imagine with that large rock formation right next to it on the left side. Especially if this thing is 40 feet above ground? I’m sorry I don’t see it. These are not redwood trees for reference

 

[pepperj]

well i look at the Egyptian pyramids and count 3. Im, dyslectic and numbers, words and 3 vs four sides isn't beyond my range of seeing and registering something different. But, my 10K is a standing offer. But it will be mine when you drive home. So slow your roll...

Selling off a national park asset.
Uncle Sam might want some of your gains.

 

[BullFrogTango]

Selling off a national park asset.
Uncle Sam might want some of your gains.

yeah, I swear to god... This whole National Park thing has a lot more behind it than hiking trails. It is our History Geo fenced off from it's sovereign