First Trip to the Pines

[davensj]

Yesterday was the one of the day’s best I’ve ever had. I’ve lived all my life in South Jersey. Hiking, camping, hunting, fishing, canoeing….Never had been to the Pines. I don’t post much on here, I just sit back
And read the posts and all the fun everyone is having. Yesterday I grabbed my maps and GPS and
headed north to the Pines.
Never being there before and I don’t have a 4X4 so I was kind a Leary about some of the roads I traveled down,
But all was well. I did the Carranza Mem., Apple Pie Hill, (loved the Smashed Computer Monitor at the bottom of the Tower)...Kids… And Bear Swamp Hill. I did find the Landing Gear. And just by luck I found the “Charles Wills†Grave.
I figured by the time I got to Friendship I’d stop and get something cold to drink….yea right, All I got was a
4ton. Limit Bridge (jokes on me again). Oh well…. As Arnold would say I’ll be backâ€

 

[Ben Ruset]

That's the area I started exploring when I first visited the Pine Barrens back in 1997.

That's my old 1989 Mercury Cougar at Friendship the first time I visited there. I drove up Iron Pipe Road in it. Didn't get stuck, although it felt like I would!