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  1. manumuskin

    New ORV Plan Ideas

    I have seen these maps and did not realize they were intended to replace the old topos. Not as ugly as the hybrids but something you can't see has a hard time being ugly. "Google your the reason are maps are ugly, little Google:" Wasn't that a song?
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    Where is this?

    I have found trees growing through tires that had to be fifty or close to it.Tires last forever.
  3. manumuskin

    New ORV Plan Ideas

    I did two years work for the Earth Science Corps volunteer updating the Dividing Creek Topo. I walked every street in Laurel Lake deleteing houses and trailers gone and adding new ones.It took two years to finish the updating.Then they wrote me a letter back Good Job! and said they were going to...
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    New ORV Plan Ideas

    Thats because as you said they haven;t been revised since the 70's.Such ashame.
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    Pine Barren History Shorts

    A young girl wrote that letter to Lincoln suggesting He grow the beard.I could find her name if you like,I forget it at present.
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    New ORV Plan Ideas

    I haven't been revised in over fifty years and I"m still viable,though barely so
  7. manumuskin

    New ORV Plan Ideas

    all those yellow roads are the sissy roads.If the road is on topo it's legitimate,of course half of those are gone and there are some new roads that are totally viable,well used and occasionally maintained.
  8. manumuskin

    Pine snakes

    I didn't run even when I was in shape.Hiking,Bushwacking, Swimming,Caving but never much on running unless it was a sprint to avoid getting caught trespassing or whooped for counting coup at a beer party but now I"m fat and old so even sprinting is not an option so I have almost given up...
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    Pine snakes

    Sounds like you were in the location known as Badwater.Lowest spot in western hemisphere at I think around -282 ft below sea level.The only place it ever hit hotter was Libya at 136. I know what your talking about ,it was hitting between 122 and 128 in Saudi Arabia in may before I came home back...
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    Today's Exploring

    I got lit up by about fifty IO caterpillars in Florida when I was twelve.What they did to me makes fire ants look sissified.I was playing tag and I was running from IT and I brushed against some of those highly multicolored evergreen bushes so popular down there an immediately felt like somebody...
  11. manumuskin

    Pine snakes

    Yes but not diamondbacks.The photo looks like a Northern Water Snake but a bit fuzzy. what kind of snake got you in Death valley? Hospit,lized?
  12. manumuskin

    Free National Forest Maps

    Are you any closer to allowing import of gpx files into the app?
  13. manumuskin

    Pine snakes

    Looks like a Western Diamondback to me.We definitely do not have them here.
  14. manumuskin

    Free National Forest Maps

    Oh Hell yeah! I just checked your app. I had it on local and just put it on all maps and there they all are! You are the man!
  15. manumuskin

    Free National Forest Maps

    well I will check em out!
  16. manumuskin

    Free National Forest Maps

    I had forgotten about this site and just went relooking for national Forest maps online and was directed here to my own link! Theree years old too! Thanks manumuskin! You hooked me up! Headin to vermon next year and was looking for Green Mountain NF maps
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    Driving thru the Pine Barrens in May 1975 in my '75 Subaru

    Pan I was eleven in 75.That makes you really old:-)
  18. manumuskin

    Boogars

    When I was little and thought no one would see me I would pick a boogar every now and then.My Pop Pop was always behind the newpaper so i was safe or so I thought.He would inevitable wait till I was extracting a real prize when i would hear him say "Pick Me a Winner! I would get embarrassed and...
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    More Changes at Forked River Mountain

    I have had several bears run from me.I wasn't chasing them but when they seen me they beat feet.One I did semi chase with a camera.It was a campground bear and every time I"d get close enough for a pic it would scoot up the hill a little and look back at me annoyed.I was in shape then and that...
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    More Changes at Forked River Mountain

    I used to take a two mile walk with my wife back in the day when I worked day shift like normal people.We used to pass a house on the route that had two rottweiliers. One was always in the house and the other was out and loose,no fence and they both liked to chase whoever walked past the...
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