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The PPA has regularly used communications to their membership to send the message that there is only narrow opposition to the MAP and that this community is not willing to accept a common sense approach to the issues in Wharton. Any of the membership that doesn’t get information from other...

Thanks Guy. I updated my post to link to the web page. I also deleted my other comments to keep the thread on track.

This thread reminds me of something I hadn't thought about in a long time. When I was in my early teens, I explored what appears to be the Dicktown Nike Base. (according to Google Earth) It was the late 80's and, of course, at that time, it wasn't part of our culture to take pictures of...

I called them last weekend for what looked like suspected dumping. (A pickup truck with a washing machine and a bunch of tires pulled into the woods, well off the road). They were very efficient and the Park Police officer called me back in less than 5 min to get more detail and thank me for...

I was going to ask the same question. I was planning on shopping around for a new mountain bike this spring and was wondering if those kind of tires are new big thing......

Jon, for the record, I also always carry a knife and a hiking stick (and a first aid kit) when I am alone out there for emergency preparedness purposes. But I agree with Smoke, my fear is a little more of animals of the human variety than those of the canine variety. :). Do whatever makes you...

Hi Jon! Welcome to the forum! You have nothing to worry about. There have been reports of a few attacks, but there have been a lot more reports of shark attacks and lightning strikes. :) You may hear them at night camping or hiking, but will be unlikely to see them, they tend to be very wary...

I was scouting out a new activity for my wife and I this weekend so I checked out the Penn Branch bike trail. I had never know it was there before I saw it on the MAP a couple months back and have been meaning to check it out. I found it where it crossed over Mount Sandy Ridge Road (closest...

I had always thought that the quality of a sunset was a very local phenomenon, mostly subject to the nearby clouds, but it is obviously a lot more than that. Check this out, here is an article on a sunset forecaster that nailed Sunday night for our area...

What do you think of these? Yotes? I saw these on the way in to Quarter Mile last weekend. The reason I noticed them was that there were no fresh human tracks nearby.

Huh, I always thought of Penn as the less developed forest. I never pictured it as more of a destination in the past than it is today

Why did they have bathrooms out there? Just to support the fire tower?

You're expecting another little one? Congrats!!

I've always been interested in the history of Mannis Duck pond and the origin of the name. It aways struck me as kind of a peculiar spot, kind of an isolated place to build a dam. It look like it goes back as least as far as 1930, looking at the 1930 aerial...

Seems more and more of the media are looking at this a little more objectively, except the Courier. Still not sure where they are coming from....

Boyd, this might make bite the bullet and buy a hardware GPS as opposed to my iPhone solution we talked about a couple months ago. I can only add map sources from a tile server, or a geo-referenced map. This is how I hosted the M.A.P. map: http://mapwarper.net/maps/11261 Using that, i was...

Agreed, I think that now (I hope) we will be on a path where not everyone is happy with everything, but most people are happy with most things. The only people who will totally unhappy are those on either extreme.

Might I also add that this attempt to try to force everyone into a box as either friends or enemies is part of the problem. This is a nuanced discussed and there is a spectrum of opinions. The simple "for or against" concept is not a sufficient model of reality. This is why the public needed to...

Jason, the main point of my post was to defend Ben and Gabe and to point out how utterly ridiculous it was that he picked out those two attack, not to strike an allegiance with Jack. I can agree with Jack that we both think the MAP and how it came about is wrong. I can also think that it is...

The race track and Amatol?