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    Chatsworth Club......

    i think i can still remember, but it is on "franklin parker preserve" property at the time i was there only a few scattered bricks remained
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    Chatsworth Club......

    when i lived on applejack road, just around the corner from the chatworth lake one of the local residents told me where "the prince/princess residents" was from tabernacle before you get to the lake on the left side back in the woods i found remnites of a brick sturcture, lots of bricks...
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    Searching For Commissioner Stones

    gee, i wish i had the " patience, persistence, research, persuasion" to do half of what Guy has done. is there a pill i can take for that ?
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    Half Wet, Half Dry, All Wild....a PBX Hike

    i had a great time also, good group of guys enjoyed feasting on wild cranburries, stomping throught the water and seeing old property markers many other interesting sites as well thanks for a well planned stomp throught the pines
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    Mount Misery's misnomer mystifies

    back in the 60's when i lived in the area one of the Pitman brothers showed me where the mill was located and some of the remnites at that time you could drive from rt 70 the back way on "rattler road" (which is now blocked and undrivable) or from mt, misery rd then down to what once was the...
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    Country Living Festival at Batsto

    the wife and i just came back form the fair and was surprised how many people were there, including one beaver we were walking past the fenced in pond along side of the mill and spotted a furry creacher on the bank. the color was not right for a ground hog neither was the tail about 5 inches...
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    keep your eyes open !

    we discussed that, since we did not come accross any rangers and did not have an exact location we chose not to. in hind sight we should have. some of us thought the rangers might over react. i will call them today and see what they have to say i just called the rangers and gave them all the...
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    keep your eyes open !

    five of us from the OCSJ went for a nine mile hike from Atsion Sunday. about half way into the hike we started to see something we have seen befor. some person or persons have spent alot of time spreading downed trees over marked and unmarked trails but now they are cutting healthy trees...
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    Flipped car on Caranza Rd (dirt)

    no don't know about that one, but i was in...i think it was a 55 buick in the eary 60's not much past reeves bogs on a dirt road when it filpped over and landed back on the wheels (washboaed road), took a while to get it started then we went on our merry way...lot more to the story though, LOL...
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    Hawkin Bridge to Evans Bridge

    those are great pics, i have paddled that section when the water was about 2-3 inches over the dam and another time when the dam was about 3 inches visable and wondered what it looked like at very low water level it is interesting to see that much of the dam and how it was constructed and the...
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    Burlco to spend $4.8M to preserve two tracts

    i would guess this would be part of the old columbus/kinkora line that ran through Lewistown that eventually ended at New Lisbon. you can still see the railroad grade on PBM road on the right headed towards browns mills at New Lisbon
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    Mystery solved.

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    Housing plan for farmland in Medford

    in reading the article it brought back something i read " if you can see the smoke from your neighbors chimney your too close" or something like that it is getting too urban for the wife and myself around here
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    Chiggered Again

    they must love you bob, i was in the woods early last week and only got about three the wife and i just came back from our last camping trip to tioga co pa, she finaly saw three live porcupines and even chased one down for a real close look and we saw slow moving bobcat up close....they do...
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    north branch of the Rancocas

    from rt 38, we put in on the pemberton/browns mills by-pass, the put in is on the left just befor the first parking lot for BCC befor PBM road. we dropped off the kayaks/canoes and then parked at the BCC side parking lot just down the road 100 yards and walked back to the put in you will have...
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    Savoy and Route 72 development??

    judging from the high numbers on the roads, i wonder if it was part of a grand plan for woodland twp which may eventualy meant lower numbers for roads closer to chatsworth along or close by savoy blvd that never got on paper
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    north branch of the Rancocas

    about eight of us did a 12 mile paddle from BCC to mt holly on the north branch of the Rancocas a very pleasant shady trip. thanks to some deadicated OCSJ members and others, it was just cleared of most of the snags and logs saw some hugh old turtles and some "Rancocas ducks" who swam...
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    Recreation Area

    i drove out to do a hike in th forest today and on the way i marked the road that was the back way into "woodland lakes" in the 60's....well just like i remember seeing it several mounths ago, not much of road left, but here are the coords. the previous i posted are not even close use these...
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    Magic mudhole is game's big secret

    i had read years ago that it came from a tributary next to the north/south freeway along cresent blvd (rt 130) near brooklawn next to a welding supply company
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    Recreation Area

    there was two ways into woodland lakes one on rt 72 the other was on rt 563 towards rt 72 from chatsworth, there were two old piney shacks on the left. directly accross there is a dirt road that leads through the woods to what used to be woodland lakes. it should be easly seen n 39 50.121 w...
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