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Ha! For sure. We need more signs like that. I've run into a lot of those. Still looking at what's available for possible future replacement of my venerable Garmin 276C, mainly for road use, but also for off road driving of the NJPB sort, but these days out west in Arizona, etc. New...

Yes, that's even better. I was thinking it needed to be run through an anti-fade program. "Can you make out the writing behind that guy in from of the lift?" We can see the "boys positively forbidden". Did the management call the workmen boys? Then the partially visible word might be...

What's going on at Batsto? I haven't been there in years. Do they still run the sawmill on special occasions? One of the last times I went there I found a tree with more hummingbirds in it than I have ever seen in one place before, including the hummingbird place at the Desert Museum here in...

Ong's Hat: John McPhee said that after a dance a girl got mad at a guy named Ong and squooshed his hat and tossed it up in a tree and it stayed there, and so they eventually started calling the settlement Ong's Hat.

I used to go down there, and camp there, but I never read this book: http://www.amazon.com/Ongs-Hat-Beginning-Joseph-Matheny/dp/096781622X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1330099663&sr=8-1 Has anyone here read it?

Hat. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ong%27s_Hat,_New_Jersey

"Hold on to your hat" Old Mister Ong didn't.

"The little Chatsworth store has long been the heart and soul of the Pinelands, a local gathering spot that shaped John McPhee’s The Pine Barrens, a classic 1968 book..." I first came upon Busby's back in 1969 shortly after reading Herbert Gordon's intriguing story about the Barrens in the NY...

I've wondered about that myself, and even back in the days when I'd haunt those woods - the 70's mostly - the little bit of foam I saw and seeing the biplanes spraying fertilizer or bug spray or whatever it is on the cranberry bogs (and one memorable time on me!) made me hesitate to drink the...

I think the newer units are capable of using maps other than Garmin's but not mine.

EC - Is that 450 the Garmin Montana? Last time I looked into this, months ago, that was the new model I had my eye on, but I was going to wait until my 276 busted. There were software bugs in the Montana (if that's what you're talking about) back then. Presumably that's all been straightened...

"Well it seems like FOREVER, but my new map is finally available for download here: Boyd's Map of New Jersey 2012" I've been using GPS for years, since Garmin's earliest models, but since mapping units came available I've only used Garmin's own maps. I'm still using somewhat old technology...

I love GPS. I used to have to spend so much time plotting out complicated routes with paper maps ("turn left (east) on 3rd street; turn R(S) on 2nd big street - right after Avenue X but before Soandso Street...") or trying to figure out where I was.

I wish I had such an awesome thing as this back in the days when I prowled those wonderful woods. All I had was a gas station road map and geological survey maps that I purchased, the latter often last updated in 1898.

Wow - amazing find - but is that a different wreck from the one I photographed in 1971?

You have a great job, Dragon, way better than having to work in all the worst slums and places in and around NYC like I did. I miss the Pine Barrens. It was so very different from those places, a wonderfully relaxing antidote...

Canoeing and kayaking - messing about in boats, as Ratty says - are some my favorite things to do.

You people are talking about New Jersey, right? I thought that New Jersey forbids honest people from owning hand guns and being able to defend themselves. Am I wrong. Handgunlaws link to NJ: http://www.handgunlaw.us/states/newjersey.pdf

When I lived back east I used to want to camp out in a PB ghost town (but no, not Batsto) on Halloween, or at least make an all night moonlit hike through the Barrens, but I could not find anyone brave enough to do it with me and I was not brave enough to do it alone. I did, however, once, many...

I was quoting the guy on the advrider forum there, Boyd, but I'm glad to hear they are straightening everything up with firmware/software updates. As I said, I plan to replace my Gramin 276C with this one one day, but 276C is still going strong (except for the buttons getting somewhat sticky...