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    New Chigger Remedy

    I went out into Bear Swamp with a friend a couple days ago.Walked some real chiggery looking old roads.I had run out of Peremethrin and he said not to worry He had spray.When i get to his house I said wheres the spray? he handed me a can of House and garden RAID.I have a pic of the can but for...
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    I Learned Something Today

    I was out with Sophie today (My Black Lab) and she caught another Box Turtle.She is a turtle catchin fiend and every trip I have to forcibly extricate box turtles from her jaw and then distract her from the turtle while I set it down and walk rapidly away.Well today we were along Snow Hill road...
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    Oswego House

    http://binged.it/1gZyG0I I do not remember this building and I have canoed the Oswego several times.What is it and does anyone have any pics of it.I assume it belongs to Haines.I think this would be Haines property or perhaps the experimental Cranberry state property?
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    Hail

    hail as big as the palm of my hand. my yard south of millville
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    Florida Express

    Thought the history buffs here might enjoy this.
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    NJ DEP proposes Millville land swap

    http://www.thedailyjournal.com/article/20140505/NEWS01/305050024/NJ-DEP-proposes-Millville-land-swap
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    Fire in Bevan WMA

    http://www.thedailyjournal.com/viewart/20140423/NEWS01/304230067/Crews-battle-forest-fire-Downe This is less then two miles from my house but the wind is blowing out of the NW so I can't smell it.Can see the smoke when I manage to get out from under the canopy.
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    Natural Navigation

    I was having a conversation with a fellow Piney the other day about ways to navigate naturally without compass or gps and we discussed solar or shadow navigation for awhile and then the subject of vegetation came up. When it's cloudy the sun,moon and stars will not help but plants and trees...
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    Private Site

    http://southjerseyexplorer.com Does anyone know anything about this site? I had it come on Google while searching for some topographical local place names and when I click on any of the links to this site it says private.Has anyone been on it? Is it a decent site or a bunch of vandals???
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    Brewster Stones

    Went out today in a seemingly little visited patch of Bevan WMA .There is about 300 ft of road frontage where state land touches the road,the rest of the area has private land blocking entry from the road and the area that is state is not signed so the only folks I think that are going back...
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    Snowy vs. Peregrines

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    Bushwacking Tips From Backpacker

    http://www.backpacker.com/bushwhacking/videos/166 I agree with the glasses tip but bushwacking in my experience is not hat friendly unless you enjoy picking you hat off the ground or out of the trees every few feet. Also the bushwacking backwards tip I think I will pass up.Other then spinning...
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    Caves of Burlington County

    http://maps.njpinebarrens.com/#lat=39.984092074895905&lng=-74.73404772552487&z=16&type=nj2007&gpx= This is posted in reference to a conversation that Pinelandpaddler and I had some time ago.I had read a Speleological Survey of NJ at one time and remembered an entry on a cave in Burlington...
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    Another plane

    http://maps.njpinebarrens.com/#lat=39.30660919157496&lng=-74.86721403869626&z=16&type=hybrid&gpx= I lost the old thread and can't find it.This has to be fairly new imagery because I check this area out a lot and never seen this.
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    Storm.

    I'ts 10:20 AM here and getting hammered.By the looks of the Radar this is just the tail of it.Looks like the core Barrens is taking a helluva beating.
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    Old backpacker Article on the Barrens

    http://books.google.com/books?id=-98DAAAAMBAJ&printsec=frontcover&lr=&rview=1#v=onepage&q&f=false From April 78.The same problems still persist and the same infamous NJ over regulation and inconsiderate negligence toward backpackers.
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    Garden Stae Parkway or 444

    I just noticed on my Vantage Point Base Map that the Garden State Parkway is listed as Interstate 444.Did the government buy the road from it's private owners and change the name to route 444? Google Maps still lists it as the Parkway.
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    Wading and Mullica with Whip and Chilehead

    Whipoorbill and I met up with NJChilehead (Mark) for a hike on the yellow trail at FPP and then afterwards Whip and I proceeded to Friendship for lunch and then onto the Mullica for some more late afternoon sunshine shots.Awesome weather,a bit windy but not too cold.I didn't get a pic of the...
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    Islands in the Pines

    Went out with Sophie today and did some more island hopping.Started out in drizzly weather in east Wharton and ended up in the sunshine in west Wharton. This one appears to be some sort of panels laid down for snkaes to sun under??? there were three sets of these on this one island.They...
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