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I would so be there. I'ts gorgeous up that way. Another thing that would be fun would be an early fall run down the upper Delaware.

Very nice, Trailhead! Thanks for posting those.

The other thing about soloing in a canoe, for me, is to turn it around and sit facing the wrong way on the bow bench. Kind of puts me more toward the middle and balances the boat nicely. My childhood on the rivers in Indiana was all about canoes. My friend Tod and I would spend hours on the...

Hey Jerseyman. Good to see you're climbing out from under your pile of work :). Those putt-putts look like fun, for sure. I saw an abandoned truck lying in the weeds off the old Chester Branch of the Central RR a few months back. I think it's been there for about seventy years. The axles and...

More wells will let the rainwater run down to the acquifer faster! So, what is the real situation with the acquifer? It's not always easy to tell what's happening from the surface appearance of wetlands in any given season. Is the southern part of the state short on rain this year? We've...

Or they would be, if they could borrow money and had a market for their products. Of course, over time that market will come back, and hopefully the oversight will be there.

Well then wouldn't Lake Superior be a lot larger, since it has about 9k more sq. mi. of surface area than Lake Michigan? Or are you counting Huron as well? Hydrologists consider Michigan and Huron to be one lake.

Clear off that 12 or 14 miles of track from Atsion through Whiting and do this... http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/08/travel/escapes/08RAILCARS.html

Swamps are tough. I was stuck in a huge bramble patch a few weeks back and it was a very similar feeling. I think the biggest problem in those types of adverse conditions is mental. You burn a lot of optimisim with every step. The same thing would happen in nice, open forest lands cushioned with...

Well, the government doesn't enjoy the asset value and any appreciation, so I'm not sure about ownership. But I am sure that property taxes are a crappy way to pay for services. It's a basic principle of economics that the remuneraton for a service or good has to be tied to the quality, and it's...

I was on my way to pick up my daughter this afternoon and I noticed that a large Cicada was clinging to the side of the truck. Not grasping an edge or something, just standing in the middle of a broad area of painted vertical sheet metal... at 50 mph. Those are some sticky feet. Even after that...

It's absolutely true, which is why I said it was the one skill you needed :) There are techniques, of course, but the more overgrown the area the harder it is to do. If you have sunlight and are cognizant of the time of day you can move in a generally straight direction in any terrain. If you...

The only thing you need for wilderness survival in the pines is to know how to walk in a straight line. ;)

Anyone else have Cicadas in their trees? We had a nice little emergence here over the last week. My girls have been getting all grossed out by the shed pupal (I think) shells hanging off all the trees.

The island is called Oak now, but the road out onto it still shows up as Mathis Island Road on my GPS, so perhaps there is something to that. I suspect you will hear from someone on this board who knows :).

There are quite a few roads that were paved at one point and have now reverted. Check out Jenkins for a good look at a road in the middle of the process.

Exactly. That's why I stay away from my lawn in the summer. My wife never believed me, but now I will point her to this thread.

Hahaha, great story. I agree the fox was probably not going to eat the cat. In addition to being painful everything I've read says they taste like crap. Your cat comes when you call? My cat is around when I am outside, but it's voluntary, with no sense or admission that she can't leave...

Yeah, they did a good job. We used to go in there around 2 or 3 AM for coffee and cheesecake all the time.

Wow, looks like they had a nice place there at one time.