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  1. TommyP

    Forked River Mountain Hike

    I want to ride Wells Mills on my bike, this will be a good opportunity.
  2. TommyP

    Driving Question

    That's one of the worst intersections around here. I deliberately take a different route to Black Run Preserve to avoid it... which sends me to the Gibbsboro Rd/Blackwood-Clementon Rd intersection, which is often worse :rofl:
  3. TommyP

    Tom Browns Passing

    I attended his Tracker School a year ago, and he was in bad health. I am glad I got to hear him speak. He passed on his knowledge to a lot of people, who will keep the school going.
  4. TommyP

    Franklin Parker Preserve

    Could have been an eagle or hawk. I love riding Franklin Parker. It's usually not so muddy except for the side across the highway from the Speedwell entrance (where you probably went fishing) so I might ride there Saturday.
  5. TommyP

    97th Carranza Memorial Service

    I attended a year ago. This year I had friends visiting and couldn't make it. It must have been tough in the heat!
  6. TommyP

    Portable tire inflators

    I've got the DeWalt that's two down from the cordless in the list, and it works great. It has a battery slot, and the battery costs $68, so I don't have one. It would cost $190 with the battery, so the $50 cordless ones I see on Instagram seem too good to be true to me, so I never bought one.
  7. TommyP

    Tabernacle Mayor

    I'm not Sicilian, but I have Italian ancestry. And for a Sicilian to disparage Pineys or any ethnic group in that way, all I can say is "disgraciata!"
  8. TommyP

    Road Conditions

    It's been a year, but I used to take Atsion to Quake Bridge, and then Goodwater Road all the way to Washington Turnpike, where you have many options to get to Chatsworth, like Iron Pipe road. The roads to Mount from QB were often very narrow and washed out. I made it once in a Subaru with 10"...
  9. TommyP

    Tabernacle Mayor

    Ahem. "Jason Howell, a longtime Pine Barrens resident and environmental activist, blamed Stone’s resignation on a “small contingent of people who used toxic tactics to obtain the political will.”" https://www.inquirer.com/news/new-jersey/pine-barrens-piney-pinelands-natalie-stone-20240523.html
  10. TommyP

    DEP Announces Virtual Public Meeting to Launch Wharton State Forest Visitor and Vehicle Use Survey

    It must have been too... taxing... for Florio to write his own opinions.
  11. TommyP

    Trip to Mount

    Nice! I made it out there in a Subaru a year or so ago and my paint job has the pinstripes to prove it. It took a few tries to find a road with go-arounds around the deep washouts. It's probably deeper now...
  12. TommyP

    Where is the OLDEST habited area of the Pinelands?

    That Shell mound south of Tuckerton is supposedly 1500 years old. It's more shore than Pine Barrens, but close.
  13. TommyP

    Any plans for next April's total solar eclipse?

    Before the clouds rolled in, Gloucester Township.
  14. TommyP

    Hiking Trails, Wheelchairs, Bicycles and the ADA

    I was just at Franklin Parker Preserve, on the bike-permitted green trails. I didn't know the Batona crossed into the Preserve. It's where I ride when Black Run Preserve and Batsto get too crowded.
  15. TommyP

    Hiking Trails, Wheelchairs, Bicycles and the ADA

    I'll take that under consideration! thanks
  16. TommyP

    Hiking Trails, Wheelchairs, Bicycles and the ADA

    I wish the Batona allowed bikes.
  17. TommyP

    Petition to keep Wharton's Roads Open

    I signed and wrote my representatives, one of whom had their office CALL me. They are hearing us loud and clear.
  18. TommyP

    Wharton State Forest 1966 Visitor Map nearly identical to 2024 draft Visitor Map

    What a joke. ORVs can escape down a hiking or mountain biking single track that a Tahoe can't follow. You can put up pylons but they'll be able to go off-road and avoid them. You are not enforcing anything against them, you are only stopping responsible riders and drivers. Which is your plan...
  19. TommyP

    Wharton State Forest 1966 Visitor Map nearly identical to 2024 draft Visitor Map

    This is why I stopped supporting the Pinelands Preservation Alliance and Pinelands Adventures. I'm not gonna pay to remove my own rights.
  20. TommyP

    Wharton State Forest 1966 Visitor Map nearly identical to 2024 draft Visitor Map

    It's like a lot of politics, they don't have public support so they hide what they are trying to do and sow outrage about "redneck off roaders destroying critical habitat" instead of "closing over half the roads to legal responsible use"
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