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I see that Tom Brown has come up various times on here over the years, mostly years ago. I read a book by him and encountered him only once around 1993 or 95 when he made an appearance at Ramsey Sporting Goods on Rt 4 in NJ. I got the same impression that most or all of u fellers seem to have...

Carranza Memorial Sep 1971 and 2012

Here is how i got strafed by a biplane. It wasn't on this day but close to it - this is the 1970's and i was borrowing some cranberries - just a little bit! - from a cranberry bog in the New Jersey Pine Barrens. A cropduster saw me and strafed me with bug spray or whatever they use. I got...

Awesome maps! Too bad I can't get to use them to explore those wondrous woods anymore as I now live far away. I used to use big paper USGS maps that I coated with waterproofing (and didn't fold up very well anymore after the coating) , that and my compass.

I'm the guy that took that picture. Friendship was already only partially inhabited by then. I've posted this before but I remember that day. I remember the quiet sounds of the farm animals in the little village. I'm sorry I didn't take more pictures there that day instead of all the random...

I've a photo of me and _____ on Quaker Bridge in '72. Don't know if I posted it on here or not. I didn't know Quaker but I briefly knew a Piney girl named Godfrey, as in Godfrey Bridge, her friend actually, and I believe her ancestry went way back in the Pines history.

I fell asleep in the desert out here once and awoke to a helicopter going in circles around me. He surely thought I was a dead body!

I don't know about ice caps but acid rain has eroded a lot of old carvings. I used to climb the Catskill mountains in the 60s and on and I carved my initials and the date deeply into the rock every year I went up Windham High Peak. Last time I looked, years ago now, it was barely visible...

In the old days it was very rare for me to encounter anyone in those woods. I could hike all day and not see a soul. No atv's, no motorcycles, once in a while maybe a Piney in a beat up truck.

Why hundreds of people vanish into the American wilderness https://nypost.com/2020/07/04/why-hundreds-of-people-vanish-into-the-american-wilderness/

You rang?

More on the above (The deletions were made back then): https://forums.njpinebarrens.com/threads/whats-the-statute-of-limitations-on-swiping-cranberries-in-nj.7389/

Your maps are awesome, Boyd. Wish I would have had that back then, and a GPS to go with it! All I had were the big awkward to use USGS maps, and I do recall that some were revised more recently updated than others, but I think the newest revisions I had were 1956, some going back to 1949 or...

Then turn left on the sandy road and right by the pine tree and there you are!

"No, that's why I asked you! " All I remember about it - I think! - was that it (the old barn) was all by itself in the woods near where my survey map showed Duke's Bridge. "Looking a little closer, that USGS Topo was printed in 1993 but wasn't updated since 1956. " 1956, yep those were the...

Oh OK, but shouldn't it say sites of historical structures? Do you see anything likely to be that old barn? It was in the woods all by itself with that little dirt path curving around it. If you could find the site there would probably still be remains of it, like old wood and nails...

Boyd, I think u r trying to get me to eat an old hat! My barn looked like it would be lucky to last two days longer and that was fifty years ago! Too bad I don't have the GPS coordinates. You could have looked for the remains. As it is, the only slight clue to its location is the dirt road...

I similarly own a 2009 Ford F150 4X4 V8 6 1/2' bed with shell that I use as a camper. About 250,000 miles. My previous truck was a 1997 F150 4WD V8 which I traded in at 332,000 miles. It still ran perfectly. So does my 2009 - knock on wood head! - except the seals leak oil, which my '97 never...

Watch Scotty Kilmer's videos on Youtube. Old Toyota's are his very favorite thing!