All,
With the summer months coming for other pine barren adventures, all of the PBX member on 5/11 received the announcements of our final PBX hike of the season. Here is an edited version of the announcement from Bob.
At 8:30 AM on Saturday, 6 June, we will meet at the usual place on the road to Wading Pines Campground in order to consolidate our bodies and our gear. From there we will dump a couple vehicles on the way to our starting point on the Batsto River’s eastern side. Our goal is to travel partway down the Batsto until the Penn Swamp Branch delta, and thence up the Penn Swamp Branch to it’s very source my friends…just a short jump from good old Mount Jemima..or Jemima Mount if you are local.
As usual, I will try to reserve a portion of the picnic grove at Wading Pines Campground for an after trip barbecue.
Hope to see you there. Until then….Happy Trails Boys!
On this hike we had members:
Bob (bobpbx)
Jessica
Myself
Scott (RednekF350)
Gabe (pinelandpaddler)
Tom Folcher (long-a-coming)
Chris (Hewey)
Ted Gordon (Lost Town Hunter)
Along with original PBX member Paul
The vehicle logistics were quite involved. Bob met Scott and drove to a parking area along Tuckerton Road near Jemima Mount. They then drove back to Washington. The rest of us met up at 563 at the entrance to Wading Pines. We then left a few vehicles at the entrance to Wading Pines and drove my car, Lost Town Hunter's and Hewey's vehicle to Washington to meet up with Bob and Scott. We left my car there and drove the three remaining vehicles to two locations along the route as well as the starting point. Along the Batsto River near the confluence of the Penn Swamp Branch. Unfortunately, my GPS did not keep a record of our tracks so I can't pass that along; however, here is the map from Bob showing our planned route. Click on it to make it larger.
Jessica shown here navigating a cedar swamp.
Blue Flag Iris
The end of the Penn Swamp Branch at the Batsto.
The bridge from Quaker Bridge to Batsto.
Tom, Chris and Scott.
Taking a short break as well as our lunch break in the middle of a road.
Jessica ascending one of the many islands we visited on our route.
Walking the margin.
Interesting find.
Lost Town Hunter moving along well.
I found this to be the nicest place along the way.
Jemima Mount in view.
And my favorite photo of the day showing the valley at Jemima Mount.
It was after 7PM before we all arrived at Wading Pines as a few of us had to pick up all of the vehicles along the route. Here again we celebrate our final time this season as well as for other reasons.
I have a few video's that I will post later today. The weather had it's moments but all and all it was a great day.
Guy
With the summer months coming for other pine barren adventures, all of the PBX member on 5/11 received the announcements of our final PBX hike of the season. Here is an edited version of the announcement from Bob.
At 8:30 AM on Saturday, 6 June, we will meet at the usual place on the road to Wading Pines Campground in order to consolidate our bodies and our gear. From there we will dump a couple vehicles on the way to our starting point on the Batsto River’s eastern side. Our goal is to travel partway down the Batsto until the Penn Swamp Branch delta, and thence up the Penn Swamp Branch to it’s very source my friends…just a short jump from good old Mount Jemima..or Jemima Mount if you are local.
As usual, I will try to reserve a portion of the picnic grove at Wading Pines Campground for an after trip barbecue.
Hope to see you there. Until then….Happy Trails Boys!
On this hike we had members:
Bob (bobpbx)
Jessica
Myself
Scott (RednekF350)
Gabe (pinelandpaddler)
Tom Folcher (long-a-coming)
Chris (Hewey)
Ted Gordon (Lost Town Hunter)
Along with original PBX member Paul
The vehicle logistics were quite involved. Bob met Scott and drove to a parking area along Tuckerton Road near Jemima Mount. They then drove back to Washington. The rest of us met up at 563 at the entrance to Wading Pines. We then left a few vehicles at the entrance to Wading Pines and drove my car, Lost Town Hunter's and Hewey's vehicle to Washington to meet up with Bob and Scott. We left my car there and drove the three remaining vehicles to two locations along the route as well as the starting point. Along the Batsto River near the confluence of the Penn Swamp Branch. Unfortunately, my GPS did not keep a record of our tracks so I can't pass that along; however, here is the map from Bob showing our planned route. Click on it to make it larger.
Jessica shown here navigating a cedar swamp.
Blue Flag Iris
The end of the Penn Swamp Branch at the Batsto.
The bridge from Quaker Bridge to Batsto.
Tom, Chris and Scott.
Taking a short break as well as our lunch break in the middle of a road.
Jessica ascending one of the many islands we visited on our route.
Walking the margin.
Interesting find.
Lost Town Hunter moving along well.
I found this to be the nicest place along the way.
Jemima Mount in view.
And my favorite photo of the day showing the valley at Jemima Mount.
It was after 7PM before we all arrived at Wading Pines as a few of us had to pick up all of the vehicles along the route. Here again we celebrate our final time this season as well as for other reasons.
I have a few video's that I will post later today. The weather had it's moments but all and all it was a great day.
Guy
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