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  1. manumuskin

    Any plans for next April's total solar eclipse?

    Almost like it was designed that way:-)
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    Any plans for next April's total solar eclipse?

    I saw the one seven years ago in Tennessee.It was worth the trip even though I got caught in a dead stop traffic jam for three hours once back out on the highway.If you've never seen a total solar eclipse it is definitely worth the drive.Not seeing this one because funds are tight from medical...
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    Fries Mill

    There is a burnt out wreck next to the main drag in from Schooner landing.Discovered it on a PBX hike I led through there many years ago now.I"ll see if I can pin it.It's just out of site of the main drag. Right about here...
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    Fries Mill

    Boyd they just wiped that cellar hole out along with the Brady cellar acorss the street a couple years ago when they re did the rifel range.They took a bulldozer in there and flattened it all out.The cellar in your photo is now right square in the middle of the range and completely gone.What a...
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    Fries Mill

    What metal? Where?can you link using Boyds maps to the spot?
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    Fries Mill

    Also the tree is leaning toward the open water to the left.as it leans for the sun it tightens its cable till it snaps or comes out by the roots
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    Fries Mill

    I have read in a book some where that trees do not actually grow "up" but expand at their twig tips and expand in girth adding rings but say you make a chest level blaze today and come back in twenty years.The blaze will still be chest level but barely discernible as a scar that will be...
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    Fries Mill

    Bob that area is full of Wisteria,This appears to be a wisteria vine to me.I can think of no steel cables left in that area.I may be wrong but I do believe it's a vine.Would be in character with that area
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    Fries Mill

    Black Rat snake possibly getting ready to shed.has to be the most common snake around,the woods are full of em.Great climbers and eaters.My Great Grand dad would trow em in the corn crib to keep the rats out of the corn.Make good pets too,very seldom bite unlike a racer,quite strong.van tell...
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    Fries Mill

    Bridge was solid as a rock wasn't it? Was last time I crossed it and that wasn't long ago
  11. manumuskin

    Fries Mill

    the third pic is the beach is on the left where i learned to swim.beach is gone and water much shallower now
  12. manumuskin

    Friday afternoon at Parvin State Park

    A small hint,there are points in that crik.I won't say where but their there.
  13. manumuskin

    Fries Mill

    Thats the old diving board foundation.Dive there now you'll break your neck but it was deep back then.ziI don't know if they had dug it out or natural events made the hole and then filled it in. Did the bridge hold up for you?
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    Fries Mill

    PS if you cross the bridge immediately head south to the right or you will pass garrisons house.He thinks that all is his kingdom but once across the bridge he only owns the land on the left out to the black top but if you let him BS you he will have you thinking he owns it all,best just to...
  15. manumuskin

    Fries Mill

    The old saw mill sat immediately to your right.you can look along the shore and see the old foundation block with the bolts in it the diving board used to be attached to.The crik was much deeper then.Camp Hollybrook days back in the 70's
  16. manumuskin

    Fries Mill

    That bridge is fine. i walked across it a few months ago and I dont even want to tell you how much I weigh.enough to be the bridge tester. The barricade is to stop dirt bikes not hikers
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    Tory Pine Tree Robbers

    I hear the Wooleys owned some swamp land I have this album since the 80's,never thought I"d marry a woman related to the swamp owners.
  18. manumuskin

    Fries Mill

    The Stream you were looking at at the party spot was Manumuskin River,same creek that runs under the bridge only downstream. Big Neal branch meets the Manumuskin at the Bridge in what used to be the backed up pond.There is often no water in it. and 66C10 us correct bennetts Mill was a Cranberry...
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    Fries Mill

    Yes this is the exact spot where his well photo was taken.
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