Stuck in the Pines!

[Teegate]

All,

We headed out this morning to visit the two ruins near what the USGS maps says is Rockwood. One appears to be a cranberry warehouse just like in Friendship or Hampton Furnace. The original building is sandstone, and it appears a cement addition was added to it at a later date.

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Steps in the new addition.

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The second ruin.

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Leaving there we saw this, and in many other places.

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From there I decided to try my luck at driving from Batsto to the cranberry bog Steve and I visited last week. We first stopped at Constable Bridge.

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Our luck changed after that, so these photo's need no comment from me.

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In ten minutes we were out, after jacking up the wheels and using a trusty pine branch, and we headed toward Moores Meadow road. If you have not visited that old scenic building there, you may want to do it soon. It looks like they may be ready to demolish it, if they have not already started on it. There were two men there and it appears they were removing wood.

Our final destination was Apple Pie Hill where there was a major motor cycle event going on. We ate lunch and watched them all arrive and depart.

BTW, while pushing the sand from under my car, it is obvious that the sand is only about 8 inches thick. The ground under that is as solid as a rock except if your wheels are turning over it. I was able to use my jack right in the road and it did not sink into the ground after clearing away the sand.


Guy

 

[BEHR655]

Guy,

Sounds like a great trip......almost! If you ever get stuck call my cell#. I was in that area today as well.

Steve

 

[Teegate]

Guy,

Sounds like a great trip......almost! If you ever get stuck call my cell#. I was in that area today as well.

Steve

I laminated your cell number and have it in my wallet. I also now have Bob and Ben's number with me.

Guy

 

[bobpbx]

That's Hairy Blazing Star Guy:

http://www.njpinebarrens.com/forums...ery&file=index&include=view_photo.php

 

[BEHR655]

Hairy Blazing Star Guy

That's a funny name.

 

[Teegate]

That's a funny name.

Hairy Blazing Star Steve:

Hairy Blazing Star Bob:

Whatever

Guy

 

[Boyd]

Glad you got your car out of there! I have driven over that bridge, then turned around after seeing how soft the sand got. I hiked down the road a mile or two and remember thinking that I was glad I didn't attempt it in my car! :wink:

 

[Teegate]

Glad you got your car out of there! I have driven over that bridge, then turned around after seeing how soft the sand got. I hiked down the road a mile or two and remember thinking that I was glad I didn't attempt it in my car! :wink:

Thanks. I actually just misjudged how sandy it was at that spot. Since I went forward to get out, I had to turn around and go back through it. I just went faster and it was a breeze. The speed is the key. The problem with this car is the very low front bumper. If I go fast and the car bounces, it hits. I already have cracked it in one spot. With my Escort I could speed through anything, and not worry about the bouncing.


Guy

 

[RednekF350]

We used to call that road the "Water Road" back in the 80's.
Starting at 206 and going out to Constable bridge there were uncountable slop holes and running water crossings especially about a mile east of the turn off for the bogs that you guys went to.There were a couple of 1/4 mile stretches where you just ran in water.The sand was a welcomed site as you got closer to Constable's.
I remember even in the late 80's driving through water holes (hard bottomed though) between 206 and those bogs where the water would crest over the headlights of my '87 F-350.
Then the Forest Fire guys,around 1990, cut and filled all the way to Batsto and took care of most of the holes.
Now, almost 15 years later, its starting to look like it needs a good dozing again.

 

[Teegate]

The water table is most likely much lower now than back then, because there is another dry stream or lake bed that Steve and I drove in along that road. I did not take photo's of it but Steve did I believe. It is completly void of water just like the one I was at a month back near Lower Forge.


Guy