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Sorry, Boyd. I don't remember any problem before, maybe because I come on here so infrequently.

Here is the 1969 NY Times article I mentioned above. Don't know if this link will work... [edited by moderator to remove copyrighted material]

" I started walking toward them fast" "I'll flip them onto their sides (if I can) and growl at them" Years ago I used to go camping with an avid outdoorsman. He called himself "Dances With Bears". He would go solo backpacking in the Sierra Nevada mountains. He amused himself by chasing...

Lucky. What would have happened if you were on foot?

Did u get away OK? I've been attacked by dogs too. One junkyard dog snuck up and bit the back of my leg right outside Sing Sing prison, which i used to have to visit on my job. But right thru my dungarees. Here's another one of me in the cranberry bog. Maybe i once posted these pictures...

"borrowing cranberries" Not long before above mentioned aerial attack. I was only taking a handful or 2... That's my VW Beetle in the middle distance. It ran great down there on those narrow sandy roads. So did the Subaru.

Cities are the really dangerous places, but u never know. This whole planet is dangerous.

I forgot about the ticks. Those things spoiled the Barrens for me. One weekend we spent camping around the vanished town of Mount, lolling around on the grass, beautiful weather. Our whole bodies were covered with ticks and we didn't even realize it. And of course the nasty little things...

My review of John McPhee's book The Pine Barrens which i wrote on Amazon in 1999, and they used to have it right up on top for a long time, but then they disappeared it, but this is it. It was first the NY Times article on the Barrens from, I think, 1969 (I once posted the copy of it on here...

I see that Tom Brown has come up various times on here over the years, mostly years ago. I read a book by him and encountered him only once around 1993 or 95 when he made an appearance at Ramsey Sporting Goods on Rt 4 in NJ. I got the same impression that most or all of u fellers seem to have...

Carranza Memorial Sep 1971 and 2012

Here is how i got strafed by a biplane. It wasn't on this day but close to it - this is the 1970's and i was borrowing some cranberries - just a little bit! - from a cranberry bog in the New Jersey Pine Barrens. A cropduster saw me and strafed me with bug spray or whatever they use. I got...

Awesome maps! Too bad I can't get to use them to explore those wondrous woods anymore as I now live far away. I used to use big paper USGS maps that I coated with waterproofing (and didn't fold up very well anymore after the coating) , that and my compass.

I'm the guy that took that picture. Friendship was already only partially inhabited by then. I've posted this before but I remember that day. I remember the quiet sounds of the farm animals in the little village. I'm sorry I didn't take more pictures there that day instead of all the random...

I've a photo of me and _____ on Quaker Bridge in '72. Don't know if I posted it on here or not. I didn't know Quaker but I briefly knew a Piney girl named Godfrey, as in Godfrey Bridge, her friend actually, and I believe her ancestry went way back in the Pines history.

I fell asleep in the desert out here once and awoke to a helicopter going in circles around me. He surely thought I was a dead body!

I don't know about ice caps but acid rain has eroded a lot of old carvings. I used to climb the Catskill mountains in the 60s and on and I carved my initials and the date deeply into the rock every year I went up Windham High Peak. Last time I looked, years ago now, it was barely visible...

In the old days it was very rare for me to encounter anyone in those woods. I could hike all day and not see a soul. No atv's, no motorcycles, once in a while maybe a Piney in a beat up truck.

Why hundreds of people vanish into the American wilderness https://nypost.com/2020/07/04/why-hundreds-of-people-vanish-into-the-american-wilderness/