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    Garoutte Tavern in Historic Pleasant Mills, New Jersey

    Bad News and Good news.The bad news is I didn't find it.By the time I got there I only had about a half hour to go over the whole graveyard quickly.I would need at least a couple hours.I wore sandals,bad move.The whol graveyard is landscaped with prickly Pear.My wife could here me howling across...
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    Garoutte Tavern in Historic Pleasant Mills, New Jersey

    I"m not speaking of family trees but of actual documents and pdf files where people have written his history.Might not be help documenting but inetersting reading none the less. I am leaving now for Batsto.will send you a pic if I find it and will start sending you documents probably tomorrow a...
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    Garoutte Tavern in Historic Pleasant Mills, New Jersey

    I am on Ancestry.com and I just found tons of documentation on this guy and I found His Find A Grave website but that has no pic of the stone neither.I live an hour south of Batsto but may be headed up that way in a couple hours to take the dogs swimming.If I go I"ll give it a look real fast and...
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    Chigged!

    I have never heard of anyone being hospitalized by chiggers.Also a month and a half is a long time.When I get chigged if I don't treat the bites with an Epsom Salt Hot bath or swim in the ocean and just let it run it's course I"m whole again after two weeks.One swim in the ocean or two salt...
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    Shore Birds and Blueberrys.

    Do they fertilize Blueberry bushes with fish like the Indians did with Maize? Could be picking up the pickers lunch remains as well?
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    Chigged!

    The last couple nights Whip and I have hit the woods recording.The first night He got lit up right.Wearing Hiking boots and they went through his socks.I was wearing knee highs (without the heels) and never got a single chigger.Do you think they can't hold onto the rubber or is it the smell of...
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    Planning a Batona Trail Thru Hike

    Mountainbikemax I have a gpx file here that I got off the internet.I can send it to your email or I will post the link.It was put on the internet by our very own Kayak Karl. This site does not recognize KMZ or GPX files so I can't post it.I can convert it to KMZ if you like and email it to...
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    87 yo woman stranded

    I thought it was just me Bob but Scott seems to have developed a soft spot:-)
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    PB National Park?

    Thats another way to shut the roads down. Or get em black topped
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    Possible Coyote Attack

    Either the Coyote was rabid or his story is bunk.I can see the coyote attacking the dog but coyotes don't attack people unless their rabid or a person jumps into a dog fight or it's a baby or toddler might be a possibility. I"ve wandered into coyotes numerous times and they either immediately...
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    87 yo woman stranded

    If they were MP's they are notorious for being bad mannered butt wipes.Never had a run in with them when I was in the Army but I have never heard of a good confrontation with them.
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    Questions for the canoe (and fix-it) guys

    I have always been the stern man on canoe trips and the stern or steering person needs a longer paddle then the bowman for increased leverage.I always liked a paddle about chin length when set on the ground vertically.A bow paddle I like about shoulder height.I like my paddle a little long so...
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    Washington Tavern

    I know right where thats at.
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    156 days until ...

    I like every season for a different reason.Summer for swimmin and caving.Both places are cooler then the surrounding areas. I like fall because it's beautiful and the most enjoyable weather for a regular walk and if cool bushwacking.Winter is best for bushwacking and stone hunting. Your not...
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    ORV Management In Sensitive Areas Of Wharton

    I do not like the new topos at all.They are aerials with topos laid over them. I like the old maps like on Libre.They have much more info then is visible on the new ones.Benchmarks,houses weather obscured by trees or not.I would rather flip back and forth between topo and aerial and have all the...
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    ORV Management In Sensitive Areas Of Wharton

    I bet if you go to the road in red and walk it you will find old ruts and possibly Trailing Arbutus growing inside them.Old roads never die,they just camouflage themselves with vegetation.
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    Snakes

    I am an environmental criminal! Funny how if the rest of us grab a snake we are psychologically damaging it but for "Snake Whisperer" here it is okay. Sounds like another outsider coming down here {from North Jersey by the sound of the accent} and telling the rest of us how to live.Nice trick...
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    Hen of the Woods ID ?

    One to 48 hours.
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    Pine Barren Flora

    What is that plant fourth pic down with the square stem like a mint? leaves don't look minty though. Oh Okay I see in the larger photo is the Turks stem.Never realized they had a square stem.I recognize the flowers but never paid the leaves much mind.
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    Hen of the Woods ID ?

    Scott, You can have an allergic reaction to any mushroom and should never eat them raw.I trust Felix.I ran into Him 30 years ago and He knew his shrooms then,He's been doing it ever since. My buddy Bobby has only one bad experience and not from misidentification but He ate some shrooms that were...
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