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    Oregon 450 sale at REI

    But lots of good reviews for Google maps - and it's free! https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.maps
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    Oregon 450 sale at REI

    Navigon for Android. Lots of bad reviews. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.navigon.navigator_checkout_us&hl=en
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    Oregon 450 sale at REI

    Oh yeah of course - duh - like downloading maps to my GPS so the maps are on the GPS and not just picked up online. Duh. My Samsung 7" tablet has built in GPS and so does my little Samsung 4.2". Any idea how poi's and road routing and saving waypoints etc. compares on those tablet mapping...
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    Oregon 450 sale at REI

    Less. $180 for the 7" Samsung Android tablet at Costco, which is the one I have - but I'm totally confused about using it as a GPS. Doesn't it need to be online to function as a GPS? Mine won't acquire maps unless I'm online, but haven't owned it for long and know very little about it. I've...
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    Oregon 450 sale at REI

    Well, I'm going to have to get a new one sooner or later I think, though I've been accustomed to the Garmin 176 and 276C style for years now, but my 276 battery just went dead (tho it still works on external power) and I can't find my spare, and the buttons are becoming more unresponsive, and...
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    Oregon 450 sale at REI

    What, if any, advantages does the Oregon or Montana have over the latest Nuvis if you're only going to use it in a vehicle, including a vehicle driven off paved roads, like in the Pine Barrens or the Sonoran desert for instance? Meanwhile my Garmin 276C is still chugging along.
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    Gentle Reminder about the Image Gallery

    Gentile Gentle
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    Searching For A Cave In The Pines

    A lot of people feel as you do, Bob., but I am fascinating by subterranean stuff, and what's more I like tight places. It's an ancestral thing that goes back to the ice age. I feel safe from cave bears and other big fierce Pleistocene animals in a nice cozy cave.
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    Searching For A Cave In The Pines

    Oh I thought you knew how to get in the caves, Man. when you said, "Doesn't matter to me anyway.I know where the caves are when I am in the mood." I agree with what you were saying in almost all things, but maybe caves might be a bit of an exception as vandals trash them and destroy the...
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    Searching For A Cave In The Pines

    I didn't know that. I used to be more concerned with me catching something from the bats rather than vice versa, like crawling through thousand year old guano and breathing it in. Do cavers ever get sick from that? "I know where the caves are when I am in the mood." Do you know how to get...
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    Searching For A Cave In The Pines

    Hi, Manumuskin. I mostly caved in upstate NY, and a few in the west. I don't know if Leigh Cave is accessible anymore. Latest thing I noticed online (admittedly not searching very hard) was from 2002 saying access has been shut down: "Please note that access to Leigh Cave has been interrupted...
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    Looking for PB Tree Frogs and other amphibians

    Love those sounds! I'm glad they're still around. I was afraid that amphibians are going extinct. I remember camping out by Bamber Lake one summer night about 1970. The croaking of the frogs was very loud. And I'm with the guys on this thread who love New Jersey, at least the nice parts, esp...
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    Searching For A Cave In The Pines

    Ha I found it! It's spelled Leigh and it's NJ's largest cave. It's in Hunterdon County. There's a list of all NJ's caves here: http://www.nj.gov/dep/njgs/enviroed/oldpubs/bulletin70.pdf
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    Searching For A Cave In The Pines

    One of my sports used to be caving (spelunking). I was a member of the Met Grotto Caving Club in NYC, and I remember going caving with them once - about 1990 - in to cave in central or southern New Jersey called Lee Cavern or Lee Cave. It was locked with a gate so people couldn't get in, but...
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    Lakehurst: Barrens, Blimps & Barons: A History of Lakehurst, NJ

    What a sight that would have been to see it flying overhead, the length of an eighty story building!
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    I found a few more Pine Barrens photos c.1970 or so

    There are derailed cars on both sides of the track in the "NJPB 22Sep1971 NJ Central RR" photo too, but they are hard to see. The track was near the Carranza Memorial. The track was a long straightaway so I don't know how they got derailed or what happened. There was a discussion of it on...
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    I found a few more Pine Barrens photos c.1970 or so

    I've got some more pictures stashed away on 35mm slides and print film that have yet to be scanned.
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    I found a few more Pine Barrens photos c.1970 or so

    And, finally, the 1969 NY Times Travel Section article that made me want to go down to see the Pines in the first place - "Wild and Windswept Plains that only the Jersey "Pineys" know" -
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