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May '76, me in The Plains again (or did I already post this one?)

Another shot of me borrowing cranberries from a cranberry bog (prior to getting strafed by that biplane).

Here I am backpacking in the Plains in Jan. 1972. Obviously not a devotee of ultralight backpacking. I wuz carrying a load for two.

Thanks for the historical photo, Guy. What an incredible resource the internet is!

"I take it you are not local." I'm in Arizona now. When I lived back east - until the end of '96 - I used to drive down from New York City.

Mine doesn't.

Note: Kids, do not try this this at home! Do not walk through clouds of DDT without adult supervision! Maybe when the crop duster in the biplane sprayed me that time it made me immune to chiggers (but not ticks).

I miss Prior Double Dark.

"God bless the person who invented Peremethrin.Wish i had it as a kid." So do you use this instead of DEET? Do you spray it on your socks and trouser bottoms?

Feller's lucky it was you who found them, Ed, but I would definitely say Boyd is right. I do NOT want any id on my keys (but maybe email is good, assuming your email isn't your real name, in case an honest feller like Ed finds them), and here's another thing: don't mark your home address...

That's cool, and your photography is GREAT! What equipment are you using?

Nice. As WC Fields said in "The Bank Dick", the resale value of the car on top is virtually nil.

Dragon - Maybe it's the ferocious ticks and chiggers that has helped to keep the Barrens barren all these centuries - along with the Jersey Devil, of course.

Guy - I just looked at the photos on top of this thread, and watched the video too. I actually found the video linked to your Youtube Friendship video. I must confess I didn't even look at this whole thread before. Wow! Extraordinary!

Yeah! Neat video. So that Russian guy was trying to get to Atlantic City from NY and he would up in Friendship? Well, maybe he was trying to take a scenic route through the Barrens and got lost. It's easy to get lost in there.

Chiggers: http://mdc.mo.gov/discover-nature/avoid-outdoor-pests/chiggers Closely related to ticks. You just gotta love that branch of the animal family! I wonder why I was never troubled by them. In latter days when i went hiking down there I'd wear white socks and tuck my pants legs into...

The Pine Barrens should secede from New Jersey.

The Pine Barrens were the worst place I've ever been for ticks. That's why I stopped going down there so much. So then, Bob, are chiggers something new in there?

I googled up some relevant links, including a photo of the place and another thread about it on here: http://forums.njpinebarrens.com/threads/dr-smiths-sanitarium-site.522/ http://mss3.libraries.rutgers.edu/dlr/showfed.php?pid=rutgers-lib:10973...

Ed - Are those little wooden barriers gone now? And yeah, women's fashions in the 70's were nice - no tattoos, rings through noses...