Garmin map oddities

[Teegate]

So which is it?

So then..is rockwood here:
http://topozone.com/map.asp?z=18&am...00&size=l&datum=nad83&layer=DRG25

or here:
http://topozone.com/map.asp?z=18&am...00&size=l&datum=nad83&layer=DRG25

:think:

I've just recently begun exploring this area. Is this sleepy creek road?

http://topozone.com/map.asp?z=18&am...00&size=l&datum=nad83&layer=DRG25

I was recently wheelin' back there, and got stuck while attempting to ford a large puddle..or was it a stream? Which leads to me to another, albeit irrelevant question: Is it legal to ford streams in a veichle? I saw no signs indicating it was impermissible to cross this stream...but am curious.

Thanks

The first link is correct. And if you went down the road at your third link you must have found the county marker at the end of the road.

I would say if the road goes through you should be in the right by forging it. Then again I know a few roads that continue across but there is no way anyone should be allowed to cross.

How did you get out?

Guy

 

[pinelandpaddler]

Hey guy, let me give you two thank yous. One for replying to this post, and another for replying to the other post.

Do you have any idea as to what was at the second location?http://topozone.com/map.asp?z=18&am...00&size=l&datum=nad83&layer=DRG25

As to getting out, I was fortunate enough to meet a very friendly hunter who was kind enough to pull me out. He had a 'yota, and the thing did a damn fine job. I initially called my buddy who is in a jeep club, and he informed me that no one in that club would ever pull out a Ford (we were in a bronco). Hey man, I love jeeps, but such snobbery is just depressing.

 

[NewSchoolPiney]

As to getting out, I was fortunate enough to meet a very friendly hunter who was kind enough to pull me out. He had a 'yota, and the thing did a damn fine job. I initially called my buddy who is in a jeep club, and he informed me that no one in that club would ever pull out a Ford (we were in a bronco). Hey man, I love jeeps, but such snobbery is just depressing.

I'll hold my tongue, but it's really hard to after only recently becoming a Toyota truck owner. Just another form of prejudice and pride if that's the reason you act like that when someone is in need. That type of snobbery will come back to bite you in the keester. Keep karma in mind.

If you need a hand ever, PM me and I'll give you my cell phone number. Don't have a winch yet ($$$) but I plan on getting some nice tow straps. I live 2 driving minutes from Atsion Ranger station and would love any excuse to head out into the pines even more than I currently do.

Peace,

Justin

 

[Ben Ruset]

I hate it when clubs get snobbish like that. Everyone should help out on the trail no matter what they drive.

 

[pinelandpaddler]

I hate it when clubs get snobbish like that. Everyone should help out on the trail no matter what they drive

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Amen to that!

 

[Teegate]

Do you have any idea as to what was at the second location?http://topozone.com/map.asp?z=18&am...00&size=l&datum=nad83&layer=DRG25

That is a cranberry bog. Scott on this site said that people he knows who frequented that area in the 60's called it Westcoat's bogs.

Did you check out the old bridge there and the sandstone weir? By definition a weir is:


1. A fence or wattle placed in a stream to catch or retain fish.
2. A dam placed across a river or canal to raise or divert the water, as for a millrace, or to regulate or measure the flow.


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Guy

 

[RednekF350]

Guy
I took a good friend of mine crabbing this weekend out of Cape May.
He is 78 and he is the guy that told me they were called Wescoat's bogs.
He started riding motorcycles through the pines in 1947 on 45c.i. flathead Harleys. He is still a member of South Jersey Enduro Riders.
He was friends with the guy that lived in the old white house that is falling apart along Constable Bridge Road near the gun club trailer at the active bogs off 206.
He said that the fan shaped bogs were active into the 1950's and then the state acquired them as they were piecing together the final sections of Whaton State Forest.
He told me that he and some fellow riders tried numerous times to ford Sleeper Branch on Harleys in the 40's and 50's but never made it across no matter where they tried.

 

[Teegate]

He seems to be someone you may get some more interesting information from in the future. Keep at him


Guy