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Moon, Venus, Marsh by Chase Schiefer, on Flickr _______________ Nice one! But why does the moon appear so big in the sky and so tiny in photographs?

It is wonderful to see how fast the pitch pine forests in the Barrens recovers from fire. A month from today there will be yellow-green sprouts everywhere.

How often do these "controlled burns" turn into disastrous forest fires?

Come on. This is silly. How many long distance elementary school helium balloons are there compared with, say, plastic bags, plastic soda bottles, oil spills, big ships dumping their refuse, cities dumping their refuse, old fishing nets, chemical dumping, Fukushima radiation, future radiation...

I don't really remember where the balloon I found was from, someplace pretty far away, maybe even Virginia too. Hey, is the Pine Barrens like the Sargasso Sea, but a collecting place for lost aerial devices? Nah, I don't think that elementary school helium balloons are a serious environmental...

Yeah, REI will let you take their bikes outside to try them too. I've been an REI member for the longest time. I saw Best Buy selling the Montana by googling it, but maybe it's only online. Yes, 276C has a USB interface. Thanks for the Basecamp link. I'll try it. Is it much better than...

Good to hear that frogs are still singing. I was afraid they were going extinct. I remember camping out one summer night around 1970, by Bamber Lake. It sounded like Jurassic Park. Speaking of fifth graders, once, long ago, hiking in the depths of the Barrens, I found a helium balloon with...

"Pan, I think you're on the verge of over-thinking thi..." You're right, Boyd. I do tend to do that, and I'm not even ready to get one yet. I was just in a REI store. I should have taken a look - but in stores the GPS units aren't turned on so you can see the actual screen in action, are...

Nice side by side comparison, Boyd. I don't understand all the screen jargon. As far as clarity and legibility and ease of viewing is the Montana screen better? The 276 screen was widely acclaimed as the best, and for a while they were saying that nothing could match it. A Garmin tech told...

Comparison of he Montana screen with my 276C screen Montana: 3.5" X 2" 272 X 480 pixels bright, transflective 65k color TFT, dual-orientation touchscreen; sunlight readable 276C: 3" X 2.2" 320 X 480 pixels 256-color TFT https://buy.garmin.com/shop/shop.do?pID=233...

Boyd - I saw you post this on gpspassion.com: "These days I don't use any of my Nuvi's, I am very happy with my Montana on foot as well as in the car. Now if Garmin put the Montana software on 5" panel for vehicle use, that's something I could get excited about." That sounds like what I want...

My old 276C doesn't say street names but it does give verbal turning instructions plus the visual. I use both. My big complaint with the verbal instructions is that it drawls them so slowly, like "turn...right...in...200...feet". On crowded fast moving roads you need that info quick. Need...

I hear ya on that. Good thing they got rid of those nasty things. There are plenty of other drawbacks with it too compared to the newer units - much harder to get in and out of the vehicle, complicated, doesn't say street names, backlight usually must be on (the older black and white 176 was...

Thanks for the good info , Boyd. That's an excellent discussion forum link. " Reports are that the 5" screen on the 3500 series is beautiful" Last night I was reading on some other forum people complaining that the 5" screen is bigger but blurrier, having the same number of pixels or...

Ha! For sure. We need more signs like that. I've run into a lot of those. Still looking at what's available for possible future replacement of my venerable Garmin 276C, mainly for road use, but also for off road driving of the NJPB sort, but these days out west in Arizona, etc. New...

Yes, that's even better. I was thinking it needed to be run through an anti-fade program. "Can you make out the writing behind that guy in from of the lift?" We can see the "boys positively forbidden". Did the management call the workmen boys? Then the partially visible word might be...

What's going on at Batsto? I haven't been there in years. Do they still run the sawmill on special occasions? One of the last times I went there I found a tree with more hummingbirds in it than I have ever seen in one place before, including the hummingbird place at the Desert Museum here in...

Ong's Hat: John McPhee said that after a dance a girl got mad at a guy named Ong and squooshed his hat and tossed it up in a tree and it stayed there, and so they eventually started calling the settlement Ong's Hat.

I used to go down there, and camp there, but I never read this book: http://www.amazon.com/Ongs-Hat-Beginning-Joseph-Matheny/dp/096781622X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1330099663&sr=8-1 Has anyone here read it?

Hat. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ong%27s_Hat,_New_Jersey