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hey,i just saw this thread.i walked the batsto crowleytown road last winter.whenever it approaches the islands it really denses up and is hard to follow but the swamp portions are beautiful as your pics show.did you guys follow the whole route from the batona trail all the way to buttonwood...

I don't know why but I loved those trees.maybe they were diseased and the state thought they were a potential deadfall hazard over the road.they looked healthyy to me last time i went by.matter of fact their was a local cop parked under when i wen by. Al

tree hugger, i know where some really isolated islands are in the barrens if you need some possible sweat locations.some with streams nearby some without.some with cedar for the fire,some without.of course some of these islands are real bushwacks to get out too then again some are easy.if you...

Ben, I agree water is most important in the barrens except for maybe hypothermia,depending on season and circumstance.Treehugger is looking at it from Toms naked survival philosophy about nature providing everything you need.I"ve needed water bad in the barrens and can always find some though...

Tree huggin tracker. I"ve built a few sweat lodges in my time in the barrens and am a grad of toms standard class.after that they became too expensive and I"m not a follower of toms so called wilderness spirituality but I do like his survival skills though i had to go somewhere else to learn...

Bob, that was the only swamp i was ever afraid to cross myself.Something told me not to do it myself but to take someone with me so two of us went.I don't know if it's because I"m getting older and more cautious but just looking at that swamp from the edge the first time i saw it down by the...

heres our route three years ago across the swamp

Me and a buddy of mine crossed and recrossed the swamp 3 years ago.we started at the north end just south of the old bogs and headed south by south southwest and crossed some of the worst blowdown areas I have ever had the pleasure of crawling through and under and over.It took 2 hours to...

actually the open area in the distacd represents part of the route i took as i was lost in the fog.i got bogged down in what i believe is the strip of spruce on the left.i was travelling right.the photo was taken from the parking lot i eventually stumbl;ed into minutes before bumping into my...

yeah Bob you got me. it happened just like that.i kinda wanted to get lost in the fog to begin with but it ended up getting out of hand.i had wndered over two minor ridges off of huckleberry hill and only thought i had wandered one.i was wandering and had only a compass and no topo,i know the...

hey pinelandpaddler. was that you a while back that did the write up on the mechescatauxin?I was just out there last week and got the paddlin itch again but the waters pretty low.might take a crack at that creek after the fall rains. headin up to spring hill tonight to do some far out tailight...

It"s always been a dream of mine to float gently thru the fog between huckleberry hill and bear rocks while catching glimpes of ravens ridge to the south before the fog shuts me completely down.wandering with no place to go till i decide to find the trail.finally time to head back but wait! the...

i have seen nests similar to the one pictured and found baby snakes emerging from it so it was a pine snake den.the smaller dens approximately 50 yards away had pine snake eggs scattered around them.mammal dens are genearally concealed.not out in the open like that.pine snakes always put their...

the den with the dog in it is a pine snake den.I personally new a biologist who tracked pines and he had put snake fence around a den just like this and caught over a dozen snakes mostly young ones and several big females when they came out.yes snake doo doo and shed skins of baby are common...

that looks like a pine snake den to me.I know where more then a few are and have seen snakes digging them and coming out of them in the spring.These snakes use them year after year and they do get quite a pile of sand in front of them.Their always in the open exposed to sun and generally within...

I went canoeing down to the forks today and was going to head out to oak island on the tidal portion of bass river.never been there as was wondering if anyone has and if so which is the best way to approach it so as to avoid crawling across the marsh to get there.Any one been there? Al

grave site the new stone placed there in the 60"s i dont believe is the right place.before i even found this stone i missed it and went behind it right up on top of the hill between the abandoned foundation and the occupied house,right up against their yard actually and theirs a sunken...

the northernmost colony of water moccasins known is in richmond va city park.they would have to either cross two large bodies of salt water or ascend into the piedmont up past philly and then cross the dealware to get to the barrens.they dont like salt water though they"LL TOLERATE BRACKISH and...

their ar no poisonous snakes in the pines.poison is something you ingest (eat) some snakes are venemous (venom is injected into the blood stream not ingested) and the timber rattler is the only native venemous snake in the pines. Al

yes that green road headin northwest from the developement is the old rr grade.it's driveable you just have to know where to access it and dont mind getting your truck scratched up.high clearance is necessary but not 4 wheel