All,
Around a month ago I was looking over aerial photo’s along Route 539 and thought that the area looked interesting enough to plan a PBX hike. So I threw together a line of waypoints and sent them off to Bob for approval. After a few minor changes Bob sent sent this edited invitation out to all members announcing my trip.
Get yer swamp stompers on boys! We're going hunting for Cedar Trees--great big gobs of 'em! In fact, were' going to hunt down some corduroy roads, pine plains, and spungs while were at it. To top it all off, we'll end up at Lucilles in Warren Grove and have a big slab of warm apple pie!
This trip was planned by Guy, and it looks to be a good one. We'll start out on route 539 just south of 72, and we'll dive into the pine plains with mucho gusto! We are going to pick up a wonderful little tributary of the upper Oswego from where she bubbles out of the ground in the West Plains area. We'll follow this creek right down to where the main creek joins in.
I hope you can make it. Let me know if you'll be there so's I can look fer ya.
Happy trails..............bob
So this morning just past 9AM we descended on the little parking area along 539 near 72 located here.
http://maps.njpinebarrens.com/#lat=39.793270598756&lng=-74.37400817871094&z=16&type=k&gpx=
On the hike today was Bobpbx, Teegate (me), Hewey, Paul who is not a member here, and my favorite PBX member, Buddy!. We had no idea what we were in for, and the day turned out to be quite intensive. From minute one we struggled to push forward. Our first stop was an interesting spung which we shared with two ducks.
Another location.
The water you see here is on a tributary of the Oswego River. You are seeing the headwaters that will eventually make it to Oswego Lake and beyond.
This are is full of cedar swamps that have been harvested during various years in the distant past. Full of corduroy roads that are amazing to see are still mostly intact. This birds eye view shows what we had to go through.
Buddy resting on a corduroy road.
Bet you can’t see me 10 feet away!
Try 20 feet!
And the actual Oswego River along 539.
This duck is made of wood!
One area in the Warren Grove bog Preserve.
And we found a rare small patch of Broom Crowberry and some of them are blooming. As I have mentioned before this is one of the first plants to bloom in the pines and are so small you can barely see them.
Look closely.
Bob made a detour, and I am so glad that he did. We stumbled onto a sawmill that still had the pulley for the belt along with the solid steel shaft. This is something you just don’t see everyday!
Picture the belt around this sawing the wood.
Coupling
Notice how long it is.
The engines bolted on this.
These were inline with the pulley. So something mounted on here and the belt attached to whatever it was and ran to the pulley in the earlier photo’s.
Solid steel shaft.
Another coupler buried underground.
Complete shaft, or is it? We think it is longer but since it is underground we can’t really tell.
And finally, here is a video of what we had to endure today. And if you like to revel in others misfortune, you can get a kick out of Bob falling down. But you really should not laugh because it was a really tough day. So tough, we never even made it halfway. We had to bail early for lack of time. In the end the rating was a 7.5 out of 10; however, a day in the pines is always a 10 to me.
Feel his pain! Give it time to load since I left it at full size, about 20MB. And turn up your volume to hear our reaction. Broadband only!
http://teegate.njpinebarrens.com/03142009/cedar.mov
Guy
Around a month ago I was looking over aerial photo’s along Route 539 and thought that the area looked interesting enough to plan a PBX hike. So I threw together a line of waypoints and sent them off to Bob for approval. After a few minor changes Bob sent sent this edited invitation out to all members announcing my trip.
Get yer swamp stompers on boys! We're going hunting for Cedar Trees--great big gobs of 'em! In fact, were' going to hunt down some corduroy roads, pine plains, and spungs while were at it. To top it all off, we'll end up at Lucilles in Warren Grove and have a big slab of warm apple pie!
This trip was planned by Guy, and it looks to be a good one. We'll start out on route 539 just south of 72, and we'll dive into the pine plains with mucho gusto! We are going to pick up a wonderful little tributary of the upper Oswego from where she bubbles out of the ground in the West Plains area. We'll follow this creek right down to where the main creek joins in.
I hope you can make it. Let me know if you'll be there so's I can look fer ya.
Happy trails..............bob
So this morning just past 9AM we descended on the little parking area along 539 near 72 located here.
http://maps.njpinebarrens.com/#lat=39.793270598756&lng=-74.37400817871094&z=16&type=k&gpx=
On the hike today was Bobpbx, Teegate (me), Hewey, Paul who is not a member here, and my favorite PBX member, Buddy!. We had no idea what we were in for, and the day turned out to be quite intensive. From minute one we struggled to push forward. Our first stop was an interesting spung which we shared with two ducks.
Another location.
The water you see here is on a tributary of the Oswego River. You are seeing the headwaters that will eventually make it to Oswego Lake and beyond.
This are is full of cedar swamps that have been harvested during various years in the distant past. Full of corduroy roads that are amazing to see are still mostly intact. This birds eye view shows what we had to go through.
Buddy resting on a corduroy road.
Bet you can’t see me 10 feet away!
Try 20 feet!
And the actual Oswego River along 539.
This duck is made of wood!
One area in the Warren Grove bog Preserve.
And we found a rare small patch of Broom Crowberry and some of them are blooming. As I have mentioned before this is one of the first plants to bloom in the pines and are so small you can barely see them.
Look closely.
Bob made a detour, and I am so glad that he did. We stumbled onto a sawmill that still had the pulley for the belt along with the solid steel shaft. This is something you just don’t see everyday!
Picture the belt around this sawing the wood.
Coupling
Notice how long it is.
The engines bolted on this.
These were inline with the pulley. So something mounted on here and the belt attached to whatever it was and ran to the pulley in the earlier photo’s.
Solid steel shaft.
Another coupler buried underground.
Complete shaft, or is it? We think it is longer but since it is underground we can’t really tell.
And finally, here is a video of what we had to endure today. And if you like to revel in others misfortune, you can get a kick out of Bob falling down. But you really should not laugh because it was a really tough day. So tough, we never even made it halfway. We had to bail early for lack of time. In the end the rating was a 7.5 out of 10; however, a day in the pines is always a 10 to me.
Feel his pain! Give it time to load since I left it at full size, about 20MB. And turn up your volume to hear our reaction. Broadband only!
http://teegate.njpinebarrens.com/03142009/cedar.mov
Guy
