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    Seeking Guitarists / Country Musicians

    How do you like that Alvarez? Do you have one of the all solid wood models or laminate? I've been looking for a new mid-level acoustic, but I can't seem to find anything I really like for under $800. I'll probably wind up building one. I recently built an electric which I absolutely love...
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    Batona Trail

    They're pretty serious hikers. They have quite a bit of ultralight gear and they only carry like a quart of water at a time and purify more as they need it (they say that the water runs pretty clear this time of year anyway). I think for that trip, they may have had a car at both ends so they...
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    Batona Trail

    That's correct Jeff, based on what I heard. My brother and a couple friends were hiking from Carranza to Bass River to camp that weekend, and he left his car at the Carranza Memorial (with a parking permit). When they returned, there were a bunch of people there with trailered horses, and they...
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    Batona Trail

    Has anyone heard anything new about this yet? I'm on the Batona almost every weekend and I didn't hear anything about it.
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    Newspaper article

    Barry-I know of that area near Speedwell that you're talking about. Was that simply forest thinning? I thought that the WERE putting in a housing development...they barely left anything at all. It looks awful. I also don't really want to get into the ongoing forest management debate, but if...
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    Metal Markers on Batona

    It doesn't seem like the markers are that close to the hill, although it could be deceiving I suppose. It looks like the Wharton line is real close to the to the bottom of the hill, according to the elevation lines on your map, and I remember the markers being further away than that. I'll...
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    Metal Markers on Batona

    Wow, this board's been slow. Along the same lines as the "Stick Shelters" post, I have a question about some metal makers that I saw when walking the Batona between Carranza and Apple Pie. If memory serves, if you're walking toward Apple Pie Hill, they're after the last foot bridge and before...
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    Stick shelters

    Yeah, I graduated in '94.
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    Stick shelters

    Thanks. I graduated from Lenape High School in Medford and I thought I knew most of the high schools around South Jersey, but I guess Pinelands was in a different division for sports or something because I've never heard of it. I've been wondering for a long time what those little huts were...
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    Stick shelters

    German, just out of curiosity, where is Pinelands Regional High School?
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    Big Hill (Nature Center at Lookout Park)

    That might be Bob Drayton Sr. I don't really know the family that well, but the age and location sound about right.
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    Big Hill (Nature Center at Lookout Park)

    I don't know if they're actually Mr. Drayton's bogs, but the father of the guy with the septic service (and the famous "Mr. Bob" service) lives on Big Hill road in the middle of a bunch of bogs that we always called "Drayton's". He always goes all out for Christmas and decorates his entire yard...
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    Big Hill (Nature Center at Lookout Park)

    I've been there many times. I grew up near Sooy Place Rd., which is what they call Big Hill Rd. south of Rt. 70. There was [is] a Big Hill Landfill, which is what Leisuretown is now being built on as they expand, but the "experts" claim that it doesn't pollute the water table enough to matter...
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    test

    I guess my browser is working. I thought for sure that someone would have had something to say about the fire near the Parkway.
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    test

    Is there something wrong with my browser or have there really been no new messages since mid-May? (I'm not simply being sarcastic, I changed some cookie setting and now I get a new icon in the bottom of my browser when I go here.)
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    Markers in the pines

    That's like the marker I found by Batsto, except the one I saw looked like this: 45 W. ---------- L. It was a couple miles from Batsto on the Batona going toward Bass River.
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    JCRR markers and High Crossing

    Guy, I found another marker for you. Remember in that other thread, when I suggested that you look around the area near the switches between Pasadena and 72? From 72, take Pasadena Road toward the terra cotta factory for about 2.7 miles. There's a clearing there on your right (and to the...
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    Visit to Apple Pie Hill Tower

    I was also up on Apple Pie this weekend and saw that the tower was manned, but I didn't get invited up. I also noticed that the towers at Four Mile and the one on 539 just north of 72 were manned. Who mans them? I was confused when I saw that there was someone in the tower, but no forestry...
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    JCRR marker

    I'm not positive about exactly where it is, but it's before the second turn that you described, when you actually cross the tracks. As I recall, it's quite obvious if you're coming from 72 because there's a big clearing on the right and a whole lot of room to pull your car off safely and the...
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    JCRR marker

    Have you looked around the area between Pasadena and Rt. 72? There is a whole lot of JCRR stuff around there. I'll never be able to describe this, but do you know the part where the siding splits off from the main track there along Pasadena road? The switch there still WORKS. I couldn't...
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