Mason Reed grew up in Hancock, Maryland, where the surrounding mountains, forests, and waterways helped foster a lifelong preference for being outdoors. After high school, Mason enlisted in the United States Army, serving four years as an 82D Topographic Surveyor. The assignment introduced him to professional surveying and gave him his first substantial experience working with survey instruments, measurements, field calculations, and terrain. Just as importantly, it showed Mason that he had found work that suited him—technical enough to keep him challenged while allowing him to spend much of his time outdoors.

After leaving the Army, Mason carried that experience into civilian surveying. He spent the next several years expanding his knowledge of the profession and working on a variety of residential, commercial, and development projects throughout the region. His work eventually brought him to Falcon Hollow, where the wooded countryside, lake, and slower pace appealed to the outdoorsman in him. What began as another place on the job gradually became somewhere Mason could picture making his home.

After settling in Falcon Hollow, Mason established Falcon Valley Surveying, building the company around the practical, straightforward approach he had developed over years in the field. Although owning the business brought administrative responsibilities he could happily do without, Mason never intended to become an office-bound boss. He remains actively involved with his crews and is still most comfortable walking a property, checking the work, and solving problems alongside the people he employs.

Today, Mason is a familiar presence on survey sites throughout Falcon Hollow and the surrounding area. Experienced, dependable, and quietly good-humored, he takes his responsibilities seriously without taking himself too seriously. Even after decades in the profession, Mason still prefers work boots and open ground to an office chair—and the career that began during four years in an Army survey unit remains exactly the kind of work he enjoys doing.