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    Closing West Mill Road

    As you can see from the open space overlay which may not be 100% accurate and from my stone GPX file which is accurate the raod passes above the Paradise Lakes exception. The state needs to get a surveyor out there and then take the guy to court and tell him to get his crap off their road before...
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    Closing West Mill Road

    Guy I could have swore the road stayed outside of (to the north) of the state monuments.I am going to have to see if i can find my files but I thought the northern most road was entirely on tstae property?
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    Bog Stone Stolen

    I see my old pics are all gone but i stopped out to the bog stone today to take it's two year old pic and it is still there.The first pic is a nearby stone that is a favorite of mine that is on the way to the bog stone.This stone has no name other then a number on the hartman maps for an Eli...
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    Hunter discovers human skeletal remains in Woods

    Was the pun intended? A long dead thread???
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    Age is no excuse...

    I thought about it too.No time then and none now.When i have the time I won't have the money and I"ll be too old anyway,matter of fact i already am.
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    Age is no excuse...

    And I have the nerve to complain about my ass aches?
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    Big Tulip Poplars in the Bear Swamp

    The big cedar on Nixon branch is slightly over 11 ft breast height.I guess it has never been reported
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    Big Tulip Poplars in the Bear Swamp

    A writer of Historical fiction that I really did like and have read all his books was terry Johnston who wrote the Titus bass series and was doing a series on the western Indian battles when He died half way through it.Also Donald Clayton Porter wrote an awesome White Indian series that I read...
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    Big Tulip Poplars in the Bear Swamp

    Yes Guy.First time I was ever pick pocketed by a bush. I"m surprised i walked that far without noticing it but the tree was in sight so I didn't need it at that point.When i left the tree I"d of noticed it being gone for sure.Normally it's around my neck but I shoved it in my pocket and had the...
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    Big Tulip Poplars in the Bear Swamp

    Never read Him but had a friend who raved about Him:-)
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    Big Tulip Poplars in the Bear Swamp

    PS Jim Wright wrote this? I"m descended from a Jim Wright! But He was from Goochland County Va back around 1800
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    Big Tulip Poplars in the Bear Swamp

    They started the hacking project when I was about 22 in 86? Unless they we're doing it awhile before I discovered them out to the Point.I walked up behind a young guy probably younger then I was who lived in a trailer hauled out there during the summer.He was behind a spotting scope spying on...
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    Big Tulip Poplars in the Bear Swamp

    This was taken last winter a day after I discovered these two trees.I took Whipoorbill out to see the trees and he filmed it live on periscope.he just realized his phone saved the video and he sent it to me on facebook. The biggest (second) tree has a Bald Eagle nest in it.The longest occupied...
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    Thompsontown

    That is new jersey sandstone,possibly impregnated with Iron Ore which in that case would make it Limonite.
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    Frost may be coming

    I was up it maybe ten years ago.Don't remember the road being that bad.I do remember feeling guilty when I got to the top and looked down and seen a steady stream of hikers inching their way to the top.Now I"m over 50 so no need to feel guilty anymore.Every one of em looked under 30
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    NJ Trail Tracker

    I have a friend from the Poconos area who met me back around 98.He was a Tom brown student like I was and he found me on this forum and PM"ed me.He wanted to learn the barrens since that was Toms stomping grounds and the setting of his books so I met him up by Hedger House and we frequented the...
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    Early Fall Bass River Stone Searching

    Need to start carrying a military entrenching tool with you Guy.They only weigh a couple pounds and will save your fingers:-)
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    Frost may be coming

    Climbed up Whiteface once.That elevator was the toughest one I"ve ever ridden!
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    NJ Trail Tracker

    I see they have been doing some blazing in Belleplain since I lived over there.I"ve walked all those trails before they were trails,most of the are old sand roads shown on the topos.That is some seriously chiggered country.The Mountain Bike trail has NO for hiking.Are they seriously telling us...
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    Sunrise at Wescoat Bogs Tuesday, October 10

    Actually the Fisher quite surprised me.I was in Cook Forest State Park and had no idea Fisher ranged that far south.I always thought of them as a far north critter.I saw it while driving down a road about 50 ft off the road,woods very open.I got out and followed it about 100 yards before it...
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