Search results

A word of caution... it is easy to overwrite and lose any data you have on a chip, whether you loaded it there or purchased a pre-loaded chip. The maps reside as a single file on the chip. I purchased a download of bluechart data, and wrongly assumed that, since the topo and bluechart files are...

I believe a portion of the island(s) were used for a dredge disposal site. That iron structure could have been part of the outlet pipe.

Here is an example of what I consider "inappropriate": large tracts of actively farmed land are classified as environmentally sensitive grassland habitat in the Landscape Project, primarily because IF they were to stop being farmed and IF they were allowed to sit idle, they would revert to...

4wheelers love riding those dirt roads thru the old dredge disposal areas. Unfortunately, its illegal & the bridge police frequently patrol it. I often launch kayaks from the end of the road, & the patrols often try to run me off until I convince them I am not off-roading. Its one of the few...

Hummer and thinking are two words that don't go together.

A little historical tidbit on Moores Beach - I was working on what I believe was the last attempt to restore the main dike that kept the tide out around 1980, and had to get land rights. I recall one of the deeds described a property line that ran along a ditch that had been dug by slaves in the...

I have encountered them as far north as the New Paltz area in the Hudson River valley but not beyond, and certainly nowhere near as pernicious as they can be down this way. Oddly, I have never suffered from them in West Virginia but had one of the worst infestations in Missouri! Always in a...

Good grief! My family had 2 of them, probably bought around 1968? Talk about tanks - that was one boat you were not carrying yourself. We took 'em on the Allagash, down the Lehigh, as well as the pines. With the many patches over the years, they just got heavier. I forget how the one died, but...

It'll be fine, and most folks can easily carry a boat that size solo. Get too much shorter & you will be down to a solo canoe - which you may want consider if all your paddling will be solo. Just my 2 centavos, having paddled the piney cricks since I was 10.

Boy, I had no idea it had gotten that large, or that Durr stuck around that long! I do recall Gary Lake from my time there. Makes me feel prehistoric! Talk about thread drift, though...

1968-ish. Durr & Schaefer were the scoutmasters. I remember Durr used to hate going to scout camp, so he would take the whole troop up to Lake George instead so we could waterski!

Not to divert the thread, but that's my old troop! Guess they never die...

No surprise there... the military has been one of the worst polluters in the nation for years, with none of the enforcement standards that apply to private industry or public utilities. I lived in New Egypt around 1980 & it was the norm to see raw sewage from Ft Dix floating in Oakford Lake...

I believe they are part of the Rutgers cranberry experiment station.

Not to hijack Virgos earlier post, but it got me thinking. Are chiggers more of a pest now than they were in the past? As a kid, I spent my share of time in the pines. Ticks were always there, but I never remember getting chiggers like I do now. My most recent attempt to thwart the buggers...

Hah! Eminent domain it, I say... smooth traffic flow is a higher & better use than a shopping center. Must say, I don't find the "improvements" at the old Berlin circle all that great. Along the line of TeeGates comments, it reminded my of a drive in the pines some years back after being...

I think this is an aspect of land use today folks often overlook. If you take an area that is RELATIVELY free of housing sprawl (I know this gets harder and harder, but there are still some areas in the Pines & deep southern NJ, probably far NW jersey as well), we typically will have more...

I think the "raging rapids" must be at Great Adventure!

I was going to post this, but you beat me to it. This is truly one of the best things to come out of DEP, imho! I frequently need access to old a.p.'s, & the oldest I can reliably get a hold of easily are from the '40s. A few interesting things I came across: - Mannington Meadows in...

If you look back at macrosquat's history, they have a tradition of coming out with "new" os versions that are dogs, followed by versions that get it right. IIRC, ms-dos 4.0 was one of the dogs that replaced a perfectly functional ms-dos 3. 4.0 was shortly replaced by dos 5.0, which worked...