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"Hold on to your hat" Old Mister Ong didn't.

"The little Chatsworth store has long been the heart and soul of the Pinelands, a local gathering spot that shaped John McPhee’s The Pine Barrens, a classic 1968 book..." I first came upon Busby's back in 1969 shortly after reading Herbert Gordon's intriguing story about the Barrens in the NY...

I've wondered about that myself, and even back in the days when I'd haunt those woods - the 70's mostly - the little bit of foam I saw and seeing the biplanes spraying fertilizer or bug spray or whatever it is on the cranberry bogs (and one memorable time on me!) made me hesitate to drink the...

I think the newer units are capable of using maps other than Garmin's but not mine.

EC - Is that 450 the Garmin Montana? Last time I looked into this, months ago, that was the new model I had my eye on, but I was going to wait until my 276 busted. There were software bugs in the Montana (if that's what you're talking about) back then. Presumably that's all been straightened...

"Well it seems like FOREVER, but my new map is finally available for download here: Boyd's Map of New Jersey 2012" I've been using GPS for years, since Garmin's earliest models, but since mapping units came available I've only used Garmin's own maps. I'm still using somewhat old technology...

I love GPS. I used to have to spend so much time plotting out complicated routes with paper maps ("turn left (east) on 3rd street; turn R(S) on 2nd big street - right after Avenue X but before Soandso Street...") or trying to figure out where I was.

I wish I had such an awesome thing as this back in the days when I prowled those wonderful woods. All I had was a gas station road map and geological survey maps that I purchased, the latter often last updated in 1898.

Wow - amazing find - but is that a different wreck from the one I photographed in 1971?

You have a great job, Dragon, way better than having to work in all the worst slums and places in and around NYC like I did. I miss the Pine Barrens. It was so very different from those places, a wonderfully relaxing antidote...

Canoeing and kayaking - messing about in boats, as Ratty says - are some my favorite things to do.

You people are talking about New Jersey, right? I thought that New Jersey forbids honest people from owning hand guns and being able to defend themselves. Am I wrong. Handgunlaws link to NJ: http://www.handgunlaw.us/states/newjersey.pdf

When I lived back east I used to want to camp out in a PB ghost town (but no, not Batsto) on Halloween, or at least make an all night moonlit hike through the Barrens, but I could not find anyone brave enough to do it with me and I was not brave enough to do it alone. I did, however, once, many...

I was quoting the guy on the advrider forum there, Boyd, but I'm glad to hear they are straightening everything up with firmware/software updates. As I said, I plan to replace my Gramin 276C with this one one day, but 276C is still going strong (except for the buttons getting somewhat sticky...

REI, good idea, and yes they do have it. http://www.rei.com/search?query=garmin+montana&button.x=45&button.y=17 Looks like good prices too when you consider the 10% member discount (I've been an REI member since 1970). REI periodically comes out with 30% discount coupons, but GPS and some...

Good to hear that you like it because I was keeping it in mind for when my Garmin 276C gets replaced. I'd like to try to find/google-up a 276C owner who switched to the Montana so that I could get a direct comparison. Are there any things you particularly like or dislike about it, Boyd?

I like that then and now photo. That wee tree in the left foreground has now grown up. Yow, I never saw foam like that down there! There used to be a tiny bit around the edges sometimes, but I never saw anything even remotely like that. I think that maybe John McPhee's statement that all the...

Unfortunately there are a lot of problems with the new Garmin Montana: http://forums.groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?s=fb84ef7e531ba2cf244b4910e477d5d8&showtopic=279922&st=50

OK, so WAAS can give a more accurate position reading when stationary. Is there any reason why not to leave it on all the time when moving? I don't think so. Then why even have an option to turn it off?

Shorpy website is like great museum of old photographs. I did some - uh - cranberry pickin myself down there ...couple a photos on that thread I made of my old PB pictures.