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    railroads in the pines

    Not in the Pine Barrens, but moi, fireman, Pennsylvania RR....
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    railroads in the pines

    A couple of years ago i posted the pictures i took of a train wreck - overturned RR cars - near Carranza Memorial about 50 years ago. And, speaking of the bombing range, 21 years ago when my rented car got bogged down in a remote part of the barrens (exact location still saved on my gps, i...
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    Driving thru the Pine Barrens in May 1975 in my '75 Subaru

    They were great on the narrow sand roads, small, good ground clearance and traction, and another great advantage they had over the big 4WD pickup truck i have now is that u could c what's in front of you. The big truck hood badly blocks the view, especially if u r going over an incline. The...
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    Pine Barrens Jamboree October 9, 2021

    Thank you! I always liked that event. They used to activate the water mill-driven lumber mill and everything and maybe they still do! I told my friend about it. Maybe she'll go. She remembered that i once bought her a beautiful blue bottle from that Fair. I forgot about that. I have a...
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    Weird finds in weird New Jersey!

    Is anything in them? Can u c inside them? It looks like the type of thing that people might use to hide things in, like a PVC cache.
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    Pine Barrens Jamboree October 9, 2021

    I just noticed this - too late. My friend back east might have liked that. Is this the annual festival that used to be held in Batsto, or is something different?
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    Trash

    Out here in the beautiful Arizona desert, same thing.
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    Driving thru the Pine Barrens in May 1975 in my '75 Subaru

    Oops - and I'm repeating myself too! That 1969 article starts off about the Plains part of the Barrens and includes a photo - and that's me there in my avatar standing in the Plains. But the last times i was down there - 2012 was the last - the Plains - the dwarf forest - was much higher than...
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    Driving thru the Pine Barrens in May 1975 in my '75 Subaru

    More of my vehicles in the NJPB - Toyota, 1990 Nissan, 1993 Sea Eagle Explorer inflatable kayak, 1990 Green VW, 1975 White VW (same as above), 1971 Dates are when the photo was taken
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    Driving thru the Pine Barrens in May 1975 in my '75 Subaru

    Sorry, Boyd. I don't remember any problem before, maybe because I come on here so infrequently.
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    Driving thru the Pine Barrens in May 1975 in my '75 Subaru

    Here is the 1969 NY Times article I mentioned above. Don't know if this link will work... [edited by moderator to remove copyrighted material]
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    More Changes at Forked River Mountain

    " I started walking toward them fast" "I'll flip them onto their sides (if I can) and growl at them" Years ago I used to go camping with an avid outdoorsman. He called himself "Dances With Bears". He would go solo backpacking in the Sierra Nevada mountains. He amused himself by chasing...
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    More Changes at Forked River Mountain

    Lucky. What would have happened if you were on foot?
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    More Changes at Forked River Mountain

    Did u get away OK? I've been attacked by dogs too. One junkyard dog snuck up and bit the back of my leg right outside Sing Sing prison, which i used to have to visit on my job. But right thru my dungarees. Here's another one of me in the cranberry bog. Maybe i once posted these pictures...
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    More Changes at Forked River Mountain

    "borrowing cranberries" Not long before above mentioned aerial attack. I was only taking a handful or 2... That's my VW Beetle in the middle distance. It ran great down there on those narrow sandy roads. So did the Subaru.
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    More Changes at Forked River Mountain

    Cities are the really dangerous places, but u never know. This whole planet is dangerous.
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    More Changes at Forked River Mountain

    I forgot about the ticks. Those things spoiled the Barrens for me. One weekend we spent camping around the vanished town of Mount, lolling around on the grass, beautiful weather. Our whole bodies were covered with ticks and we didn't even realize it. And of course the nasty little things...
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    Driving thru the Pine Barrens in May 1975 in my '75 Subaru

    My review of John McPhee's book The Pine Barrens which i wrote on Amazon in 1999, and they used to have it right up on top for a long time, but then they disappeared it, but this is it. It was first the NY Times article on the Barrens from, I think, 1969 (I once posted the copy of it on here...
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