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Went to check out Tall Pines State Preserve in Sewell, Gloucester County, NJ last weekend. This is the site of the former Maple Ridge Golf Course, which was Ron Jaworski's Eagles Nest before that. Back in November, the state purposed it from a private developer, whose development plan fell...

Great event today! My camera is in the camera hospital, so I didn't get many decent pictures (stupid camera phone with low light levels), but the family and I had a great time. Kids loved the animals Cedar Run brought with (the little one was obsessed with the tiny owl, the bigger kid loved...

From Al Horner's blog: https://wordpress.com/read/feeds/23962835/posts/941605056 The article is about a group from California that hosts a massive jeep weekend each year in Wharton. If this is on the level, I'm with him on this one. Not sure how a California can get 70 jeepers to pay them...

All the South Jersey hikes I've documented so far (100+), in one convenient Google Map. https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?hl=en_US&app=mp&mid=zHMMSPVsm8jY.k9IovO_5Sq0U I'm sad, because I figured out how to add GPS tracks, but Google limits you to only 10 layers, and each GPS track has to be...

Black Run Preserve just officially released their new orienteering course brochure today. It's a bit over 6 miles. I know the fella that did most of the work developing it, so I got an advanced copy and did it about two weeks ago and had a blast. It's listed at 2 1/2 hours, but it took my...

Buddy sent me a photo-blog post about the Lumberton Nike base. Some real nice pictures, I enjoyed it thoroughly and thought I'd share :) https://photoimpressionism.wordpress.com/2016/01/20/lumberton-new-jerseys-nike-missile-battery-ph2325/

Went and hiked the blue and pink trails at Wells Mills a few weeks back. I hadn't been here before, but really enjoyed it. Have to head back to do the White Trail, was just too long for the babies :) My navigator. More pictures and trail info...

Hiked this over Thanksgiving weekend, it's just a few minutes from Belleplain State Park in Cape May County (it's officially in Ocean View in Dennis Township). Short trail, only 1.2 miles, but a good mix of meadow, forest, and swampland (including, of course, cedars). The best...

I've been slowly building up a minor New Sweden obsession over the last year or so, I figured I'd share the insanity. It's not the Pines, but it's pretty interesting! I started with two books - "The Swedes and Finns of New Jersey" by the Works Progress Administration (1938)...

Just out of curiosity, when does "New Member" come off your profile? I don't base a lot of my self worth off of online forum labels, but after 11 years of posting, I'm just trying to figure out how much longer I have to hang out with you bums... :D :guinness:

This week, I took the kiddies out to check out the Rancocas Conservacy's newly opened Cold Spring Nature Preserve, adjacent to Black Run Preserve in Marlton/Evesham, NJ. The one side of the road, where the preserve sign is, is a nice little walk, but nothing to get too excited about. However...

Thought it might be fun to start a Jersey Devil pop-culture thread. Not concerned with the more scholarly works like the McCloy/Miller books or Bill Sprouse's book, more along the lines of that terrible episode of The X-Files from a million years ago. At worst, I'll just talk to myself here :D...

Was looking to book a campsite, and noticed this go up on the Wharton page: "We are pleased to announce that the Crowley's Landing Boat Launch, Mullica River, Wharton State Forest, will reopen on Saturday, July 25, 2015. The ramp was closed due to structural damage. Boat Launch Permits will not...

Have to give Wharton their due here, the Mullica River Trail through the burned out areas at Atsion is already reblazed. They didn't waste much time with that one. It also never ceases to amaze me how fast the green comes back in after the fire. Proud of my three year old, this was...

Alright, I'm straying way out of the pines here (and out of the state), but if any place has an answer, it'd be this one. After over a decade of saying, "Hey! I should totally do that!", I finally went to Pea Patch Island/Fort Delaware this weekend. For those who aren't familiar with it...

Last Saturday, I checked out the Piper's Corner Preserve run by the Rancocas Conservancy. Trails are a little rough, and there isn't much there you can't see at Wharton down the road, but there is a broken down tractor in the woods that is pretty nice. I was pretty happy with that. On my...

Just moved, and my books aren't unpacked yet, and the web is incredibly unhelpful... Any idea the distance/estimated time to canoe the Great Egg Harbor River from Penny Pot to Camp Acagisca? Trying to figure out if it's viable for my Scouts. Looks like its about three hours from Penny Pot to...

Went out Memorial Day to hike the White Trail through the preserve. Beautiful sunny day to be out, with a nice breeze. Its listed at three miles, but I had a bit over 3.5 on my GPS. The highlight of this hike (actually, pretty much the whole trail) is running through the old cranberry bogs...

My grandmother had some pictures from when she used to go to the Sunshine Lakes in Voorhees. They were popular with folks from Philly, who would go out there in the summer to relax. Similar to Kirkwood Lake, Lions Lake, and Kresson Lake, all in the same general area. It seems odd to me...

Took my new kid on his first hike today, down the Mount Holly Rail Trail in Creek Island Park. It's only about 1/2 to 3/4 of a mile (one way), but there was a ton of remains of the old Burlington & Mt. Holly Railroad. According to sjrail.com, the line was abandoned in 1927, so I'm really...