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Oh yes. Look at my avatar picture. That's me in the dwarf forest, the Plains, 50 years ago. I have posted other old photos of the Plains here too. But when i was last back there, ten years ago, I no longer towered over the forest like Paul Bunyan. The trees are now much taller.

Yes, my sign has nothing written on the bottom.

I saw TBJ - Tom Jones, the Tracker, right? - once when he gave a talk at Ramsey Outdoor store on rt. 17 N in NJ around the mid 90's. I remember he drove up in a Hummer. Sorry to say I got a bad impression of him. I had read his first book shortly after it came out and I was skeptical of a lot in...

I was looking to see if I had any more pictures of those two ghost towns scanned on my computer and i came across this one...I used to see a lot of these around the Barrens back then. Deer hunters platforms I think Or was it TJ...

They must have put those signs up shortly before I took that picture. It looked new in mine, but two years later when you took your picture the lettering was already worn off.

NJPB, site of Washington, 50 years ago, Nov 1972.

Back in the early 70's we camped at the site of Mount for three days. The weather was so beautiful we lolled around on the grass. Then we found our bodies infested with ticks. Never noticed or felt a thing. Got them out by dipping a rag into my VW gas tank and touching them with the rag. They...

But the house with the chimney, the chimney was quite a bit in front of the foundation, no? In this one it looks like the chimney, if that's what it is, is behind the foundation. Nature has erased almost all traces of the town of Friendship. Does anyone know how that town got its name?

It must be - I. Herbert Gordon. The beautifully written article was made almost 53 years ago. I think the "sun-drenched two-pump service station", was the place I saw it off in the distance and walked to after I had finally exited the woods and reached a road, after two days, and hiking eight...

My mistake. U R right it does work. I was thinking - rather not thinking - before that it was a link and nothing happened when i clicked on it. Duh.

But that link that i posted back then was removed. Does it work for you?

Ants r what attacks me out here, giant ones with huge pincers, and tiny ones that cause unbearable itching!

Oh that's something new. Thanks. I'm never troubled with them out here in the desert tho, tho I hear they're out here and dogs get them, but so far not me (knock on wood head). Back east tho, I had so many of them - Long Island, Arkansas...and the NJPB was the worst.

...that first brought the NJPB to my attention. But I am not allowed to post it on here. https://forums.njpinebarrens.com/threads/wild-and-windswept-plains-that-only-the-jersey-pineys-know.12883/

Duh, it took me 8 1/2 years to notice I had posted the wrong picture right above! Sorry, I'm a little slow. The picture right above is me in the ghost town of Gleeson, AZ by a gravestone that says, "Yee Wee born in China, died in 1962 (I think) - "I see you tomorrow". This picture was taken...

I used to go down to the Pine Barrens from the late sixties to the mid 90's with a couple of forays up to ten years ago. I don't remember seeing a single one of those nasty things down there. It was very peaceful back then. They are all over the desert, where I am now, though.

I never heard them called chiggers back in the old days when i used to go down there to the Pines, but I'm no expert, I just had so many on me down there. Ticks are the only outdoor thing I'm afraid of. Back then i used to dip a rag in the gas tank of my VW Beetle and touch them with a little...

"prohibit legal vehicle access?" When i used to haunt the NJ Pine Barrens, from the late 1960's thru the 70's and 80's and early to mid 90's, and then occasionally into the early 2000's and even a couple of times since, there was pretty much nobody at all driving on those roads except me in my...

Here's me in the Barrens in a hard shell aluminum canoe, spring 1980. Where was I? I don't know. It looks like a place that was flooded. A friend brought this canoe down (I have some more photos of that trip) but I'd rent them there too. Are the PB canoe rental places still there? Those two...

Where did I get that goofy picture? I don't even remember posting that...looks like my old VW tho...and I do remember that guy in the desert. Probably nobody else would have picked him up with a tattoo like that, but wth I don't care. I picked up a Mexican with a rifle way out in the desert...