All,
Back on October 1 all members of PBX received this edited email from Bobpbx announcing our first hike of the new season.
Boys, put some new grease in your wheels, cause were heading south! Who amongst us has not heard the backroom whispers regarding Menantico Creek and Menantico Wildlife Management area, and the fabled blue waters created by man. Those who whisper say “stay away, they’ll bust you and cart you off to jail—put you in the hoosegow!
Well, let us test the waters boys! We have to expand our horizons a bit too…see what lies south of us. This trip is being led by our intrepid swamp-tromper and bushwhacker extraordinaire, the fabled big Al (Manumuskin) of Deep Down Jersey fame.
This trip will be on Saturday, 22 October. This is a real road trip for some of us, so we’ll scoot the meeting time a bit, to 9:00 AM sharp…and be ready to go. I’ll give you the meeting spot coordinates very soon.
Get up early for this one boys, and prepare yourselves too, it’s a 7.5 miler!
Hope to see you there my sunny weather friends!
Happy Trails…….bob
So this morning we all met up and after finishing the vehicle logistics we headed off with Al showing us the way. Attending on this hike was ... Bobpbx, Teegate (Me), Jessica, RednekF350, Oji, Hewey, Manumuskin, Woodjin, and Mickey.
I have to admit that we saw so many ruins and cellar holes today that Al will have to set me straight on all of them. So I will just post the photo's if I am uncertain the names.
Bob on the boardwalk with his head down checking on the plants.
His head still down with others joining in.
Chimney along the banks of the Manumuskin River.
Mickey checking out the leaves on a tree. He knowns the names of almost all of the trees.
More ruins.
We arrive at the area where Al learned to swim when he was 7 years old.
The bridge he walked across is still there but blocked off. Here is RednekF350 handing out peanuts to all of us. It was a fine treat!
Jessica pointing at something.
Starting to congregate.
A nice size tree. Mickey made me take this photo. He loves trees.
There must not be any birds in far Southern NJ.
Train
Jessica starting giving us all a hard time so we did what we always do ... we killed her. This shows her seconds before that took place. The wheel almost hit my GPS...it was a close one!
We left this old Mustang in the woods in the event anyone wanted to bail out early. No takers for some odd reason.
And our group shot of the hike.
Almost at the end.
We traveled 8.7 miles and ended with 1 hour of sunlight remaining. The general consensus was a rating of 9 out of 10 with Bobpbx rating it a solid and absolute 10. Thank you Al for a great planed hike, and we will be retuning next year early summer for a different perspective.
Guy
Back on October 1 all members of PBX received this edited email from Bobpbx announcing our first hike of the new season.
Boys, put some new grease in your wheels, cause were heading south! Who amongst us has not heard the backroom whispers regarding Menantico Creek and Menantico Wildlife Management area, and the fabled blue waters created by man. Those who whisper say “stay away, they’ll bust you and cart you off to jail—put you in the hoosegow!
Well, let us test the waters boys! We have to expand our horizons a bit too…see what lies south of us. This trip is being led by our intrepid swamp-tromper and bushwhacker extraordinaire, the fabled big Al (Manumuskin) of Deep Down Jersey fame.
This trip will be on Saturday, 22 October. This is a real road trip for some of us, so we’ll scoot the meeting time a bit, to 9:00 AM sharp…and be ready to go. I’ll give you the meeting spot coordinates very soon.
Get up early for this one boys, and prepare yourselves too, it’s a 7.5 miler!
Hope to see you there my sunny weather friends!
Happy Trails…….bob
So this morning we all met up and after finishing the vehicle logistics we headed off with Al showing us the way. Attending on this hike was ... Bobpbx, Teegate (Me), Jessica, RednekF350, Oji, Hewey, Manumuskin, Woodjin, and Mickey.
I have to admit that we saw so many ruins and cellar holes today that Al will have to set me straight on all of them. So I will just post the photo's if I am uncertain the names.
Bob on the boardwalk with his head down checking on the plants.
His head still down with others joining in.
Chimney along the banks of the Manumuskin River.
Mickey checking out the leaves on a tree. He knowns the names of almost all of the trees.
More ruins.
We arrive at the area where Al learned to swim when he was 7 years old.
The bridge he walked across is still there but blocked off. Here is RednekF350 handing out peanuts to all of us. It was a fine treat!
Jessica pointing at something.
Starting to congregate.
A nice size tree. Mickey made me take this photo. He loves trees.
There must not be any birds in far Southern NJ.
Train
Jessica starting giving us all a hard time so we did what we always do ... we killed her. This shows her seconds before that took place. The wheel almost hit my GPS...it was a close one!
We left this old Mustang in the woods in the event anyone wanted to bail out early. No takers for some odd reason.
And our group shot of the hike.
Almost at the end.
We traveled 8.7 miles and ended with 1 hour of sunlight remaining. The general consensus was a rating of 9 out of 10 with Bobpbx rating it a solid and absolute 10. Thank you Al for a great planed hike, and we will be retuning next year early summer for a different perspective.
Guy
