Recent content by Pan

It still looks exactly the same in there. They probably want to pave it over and build an expanded airport and housing developments. They've wanted to do that for a long time. John McPhee wrote about it in his great 1968 book. I'm glad I knew it when McPhee and L. Herbert Gordon knew it.

It used to be so wild and free down there. I could drive anywhere I wanted to, hike anywhere I wanted, camp as long as I wanted, usually never seeing a single soul, just the sound of the whippoorwills. 1972: The Plains. Look how low the pine forest in the Plains used to be. Ultra...

"I kicked dirt on it" Back in the early 1970's I was hiking through the woods of Bear Mountain State Park, north of NYC, when I came upon a couple trying to stamp out a fire that they had started as a cooking fire and was starting to spread through the very dry woods, and I stopped to help them...

Wow! I think the date is 1795, but the 9 might possibly be a 0...1705!?

I don't know if it's possible to get on the near side of it, but if it is i think you could tie a cable to the right side of it and swing it around the stump, and then. Even if the big stump remains in place it looks like enough room to drive around it on the right. From the far side, though...

Couldn't a four-wheel drive vehicle pull that log out of the way?

Carranza Memorial, 1973

Yes, the Jersey D is my friend - but I forgot, there is one thing in the Barrens that scares me more than the bipeds that proliferate on your planet, and that is...ticks!

I am happy that in my time haunting those wonderful woods - the late 1960's through the mid 1990's - hardly anyone even knew about them and I could drive and hike and backpack and canoe/kayak without seeing a single person all day long. I don't recall ever seeing a police officer or other...

We did? I forgot. Duh. Remember that "Watch the skies!" line? It's taking on new significance! Next they'll start landing and one will land in a ditch and this old scientist with a hair-do like Albert Einstein will say, "I'm sure they have come in peace" as he walks down to greet them while...

I have a photo somewhat similar to that, except there's a helicopter between the vehicle and the helicopter rotor. They were lowering a big SUV into some wild river in CA. As for tin foil hats, mine is on permanently if "wearing a tin foil hat" means not believing whatever they're telling us...

"top secret black project ..." Lit up with all the regulation FAA lights.

"when I was working at the Opera Company..." I worked for the opera co. too, in AZ.

Your maps are incredible and I don't even know how to use a tiny fraction of their aspects. If I still lived back east and was still exploring the Barrens I'd use them all the time and learn how to use them. They sure beat the geo.survey maps and a compass I used to use. I coated my survey...

PM CAMP 1AA 16-MAY-09 19:52 N35 15.996 W111 41.435 7604 ft Symbol & Name 6/13/2013 3:40:02 PM CAMP 2A 29-JUN-14 08:30 N35 15.913 W111 41.506 7415 ft Symbol & Name 6/29/2014 8:32:32 AM CAMP A 28-MAR-04 13:47 N33 54.234 W111...