NJ Winter Hang Trip Report

The NJ Winter Hang


In the Piney Woods

In a State Far,Far Away

There were a group of hangers.....


Wait.... Really LOL ....

Ok lets see if i can put this great weekend into words for all to enjoy :D
well lets just say there was no short of fun .... always fun to hang with like minded Hangers .. we had all kind of different setups of all sizes and hangers of all types from car campers to backpacker to Die Hard Gear heads it's always a joy to see other setups up close in person you learn so much at a hang.. no matter if your a Noob or a Vet to hanging Friday night Fun by the fine was great lots of great conversation to go around along with tips and tricks of the trade.
I'm not sure on the temps of Friday night but i would say they were in the 30's everyone had a great night even Bill... (DuDe !!!) HAHAHAHAH
Sat. started out with Coffee and meeting new faces over breakfast some members went out on day hikes some on Mnt Bikes and some stuck around camp playing with gear and making new friends or cooked ... the Smell of Bacon filled the air as it smoked to sweet goodness for hours .
everyone that made food did a fantastic job and my hats goes off to them :)
as everyone returned from there side trips we got a special treat from Steve who modeled in his HOT riding pants that started 2 Members to act like they were German ... LOL
I'm By the TREE!!!! .... HELP ME LOL...(inside Joke ) ask JerzyBears LOL
i was telling others about my Long lost Brother i found at the Hang ... well he is really not my Brother by we hit it off pretty good and i found a new Friend for sure AKA silentorpheus LOL Nothing but Love Franz LOL YA!!!
Sat night temp was 22F ... i was toasty warm all weekend :D
anyway Dinner went off without a hitch all the food was great and we had the raffle that was a blast ... well after all that it was party time and we rocked the Pine Barrens till the wee morning hours... well some of us did :rolleyes:
we also found out that a Subaru CAN NOT swim ... i hope they post the Video on Youtube it was SOOOO funny
anyway woke up Sun morning packed up and said my Goodbye And made my way back to good old Skook :(

if anyone who didn't make it you missed out on the best NJ winter Hang yet
daytime temps were in the 50's i think .... Can't wait for next year :D
i'll try to get this short video up soon... but don't hold me to it i'm lazy when it comes to editing video HAHAHAH anyone with Pics of the hang feel free to post links here :D

Much fun was had by all.

Good food, good friends, old and new. Overall a great trip.

I had a full post written up but accidentally closed my browser and lost it all. I'll write up a full post tomorrow as I need to head to bed. http://www.freesmileys.org/smileys/smiley-sleep013.gif

I really tried to make this hang. But was unable. do to family plans. Glad to see everyone had a great time. Hopefully next time. :D

OK, lets try this full report again now that 1. I've got some sleep and 2. I know not to close the browser on myself. :lol:

I arrived at camp around 4 on Friday. I want to thank all those that helped Stick setup the main camp area. Once I got all the hammocks setup (mine and my 2 boys) I headed over to the fire to meet some of the first timers and say hi to those that have been there before. Friday night was spent around the fire telling stories and catching up with everyone. I closed the fire out around 2AM(I think, I didn't carry a watch) when everyone decided it was time to head to bed.

I want to thank my Friend Joe for making breakfast for the early risers Saturday. Also Maple for her muffins. Yum, yum and more yum.

My Saturday day consisted of me hanging around camp as I was slow cooking 3 Bacon bombs for dinner. I made Lazy River Road a special one made of Venison and Turkey bacon. Dinner was wonderful again this year. Thank you to all who brought and made food. It was all very yummy.

After dinner we announced that Stick won the 2ND Annual Winter Hang Coup de grâce de grub: The Bacon Year.

Then we had the raffle. With Jhunt87 being the big winner of the night.

I would like to point out that this year I didn't fall asleep around the fire after all the festivities were finished. I retired around 2 again but I hear people were out there until 4 AM-ish.

Sunday is always the hardest as people are packing up and leaving. Me Stick and Stalker packed up our stuff. Policed the grounds and picked up some trash(not left by our group) to make it cleaner than when we got there.


Being the organizer, I want to say it was a success, but I want to hear more from those that attended.

We had 37 people total over the weekend. 36 at dinner/raffle/fire Saturday night. SweetBabyD, the Puffy section missed you Saturday night. ;)

I was smart this year, I took Monday off so I can relax as it felt like I was always doing something over the weekend. I wouldn't trade it for anything though. Love the group that come invade the NJ Pine Barrons.

Oh, almost forgot. Next year we will be splitting the 3rd Annual Winter Hang Coup de grâce de grub contest up. The categories will be Entrée, Side and Dessert. There will still be an overall winner. It will be up to the cook to decide where it belongs. There will be 3 sign up sheets and you will be assigned a number (Ex-S1,E2,D5) and we will have place cards to put your number on and have by your dish.

Everyone will get one vote per categories and one vote for overall.

Maybe this year we will get actual trophies made. :)

kind and harmonious vibes. love my hammock friends! hammockers are the gentlest group on the forums. old and new friends - Maple thanks for hanging out with me. nice walk in the Pine Barrens. easy conversations by the fire... most cherished friends, i would travel hours to see all you. (you know who you are!) missed the "Puffies" but there in spirit! thank you for your gracious company. i am a lucky lucky person to know such fabulous people.

some pics, got some schmutz on the lens at the end, so sorry...see you in the spring :)

xoxo
sbd


http://s489.photobucket.com/albums/r...Winter%20hang/

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Originally Posted by sweetbabyd

kind and harmonious vibes. love my hammock friends! hammockers are the gentlest group on the forums. old and new friends - Maple thanks for hanging out with me. nice walk in the Pine Barrens. easy conversations by the fire... most cherished friends, i would travel hours to see all you. (you know who you are!) missed the "Puffies" but there in spirit! thank you for your gracious company. i am a lucky lucky person to know such fabulous people.

some pics, got some schmutz on the lens at the end, so sorry...see you in the spring :)

xoxo
sbd


http://s489.photobucket.com/albums/r...Winter%20hang/

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All those nice pics of our hike and not a single pic of the tremendous puddles we had to circumnavigate! No prob - Kayak Karl has all the puddle footage in his trip report!

Great seeing you again, sbd. Till we hike again!

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Originally Posted by SilvrSurfr

All those nice pics of our hike and not a single pic of the tremendous puddles we had to circumnavigate! No prob - Kayak Karl has all the puddle footage in his trip report!

Great seeing you again, sbd. Till we hike again!

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Great to see you silversurfer! Don't get any trimmer, you'll have to replace your wardrobe :) Karl took a lot of pics of the lagoons! Anyone have news of the non-submersible
Subaru? Knotty and AB had them - can't imagine they would take part in such shenanigans, but the Pineys do strange things to folks ...

Looks like everyone had a great time, sorry to have missed gathering with some friends. Thanks so much for the report!

**** shame I missed out. Worked till 530pm that Saturday. No way I would have made it out and enjoyed myself and drove back 8 hours later.

Awesome man and looks like everyone had a blast. Looking forward to seeing some video too.

Fronkster

Posted pics at the end of the original thread, as did some others.

Wonderful time meeting the people that write the words on the forum.
Checking out the gear and making new friends.

37 pics here :

https://picasaweb.google.com/create4...eat=directlink

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G...Hawk
Gallina



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Haaaaa....I love the meat hammock G....Hawk)))))):lol:
Giggling Shug

That was an impressive fire! The kind that you need a welding helmet and a asbestos suit to cook on.

Wish I could have been there but... SkyPainter and I did a reverse commute this weekend. I drove to Boston at 5:30 Saturday morning while he was driving from Boston! Maybe next year. Glad everyone had a good time. Thanks for the reports & pics.

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Great to see you silversurfer! Don't get any trimmer, you'll have to replace your wardrobe :) Karl took a lot of pics of the lagoons! Anyone have news of the non-submersible
Subaru? Knotty and AB had them - can't imagine they would take part in such shenanigans, but the Pineys do strange things to folks ...

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No Suby for me. That was Dylan, so you'll also need to change the caption on pic #26. Of course if Dylan wants to give me his sweet Cuben tarp... :)

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Originally Posted by Knotty

No Suby for me. That was Dylan, so you'll also need to change the caption on pic #26. Of course if Dylan wants to give me his sweet Cuben tarp... :)

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sorry Knotty, my mistake. changes will ensue. so nice to see you! best to you and your wonderful family!

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Anyone have news of the non-submersible
Subaru?

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It's back up and running from what I hear. It was still there when I left, and I was the last to drive out.

should have the video up tomorrow sometime.... :D
oh it's funny too .... :lol:

Well, finally made it home again from the New Jersey hang - what a BLAST! I will DEFINITELY be putting this hang on the calendar for next year, and, hopefully, get my timing a bit better.

Planned to drive down to Jersey From Mass on Friday, but lost that day dealing with the Admissions and Financial Aid Depts for my youngest, who was supposed to be starting on Monday. Finally got that sorted-out for the time being. Had to drop up to New Hampshire the next morning, and turned around and drove down at 4:00 AM. No traffic, made good time.

Landed in the Pine Barrens around 10:30 or so, and ran out of paved road on Carranza, so just kept driving. Nothing was marked. Luckily, after a couple of miles, I ran into Kayak Karl coming the other way, turned around, and followed him to Batona Camp. Many people were there already. GREAT site for hammocks - trees all over the place spaced nicely.

I got set-up (LOVE my new Camo Superfly Tarp!) and went over to meet some of the folks. Found the Jersey Bears nearby, and had a nice reunion with them! There was a fire stack in the fire ring that looked like it would burn down the entire forest - but once lighted, it was awesome, and produced heat for the chilly night ahead.

There were some pop-up tents, tables, grills, smokers, stoves galore, and enough food being prepared to feed a small army! The FOOD at this hang is simply outrageous! Sitting in the woods with friends, eating things like stuffed Venison Tenderloins wrapped in bacon, Bacon Bomb Meatloaf wrapped in bacon, Rice Cripsy with bacon squares, Cornbread and bacon, and many other dishes made this a very memorable hang!

A large raffle was held, sand I actually won a nice EDC folding knife from Frost Cutlery! The evening had the temps dropping, and it got down to about 22* that night. I awoke at 27* around 7:30 AM, but my sleep system worked very well - roasty toasty in My Warbonnet, with some added insulation besides my three-season UQ. I will be ordering some real winter insulation soon, though.

Met many new people, had some great conversations, and was once again convinced that outdoors folk are the best around! Much laughter, great food, many new rigs to see, and a great time! I actually got to see/try finally a Bear Mountain Bridge hammock from the Jacks.....sweeet! May have to consider one of those, now, too! (Gear junkie).

Folks were all leaving the next day, but I still had some time off, so I was deciding between getting a single permit for another day or two, or heading out. Since I would be the only one left, I packed-up and headed out to do some Salmon fishing in upstate New York, but as fate would have it, a call from home sent me back there.

This is an amazing hang, a great area, (once you find it!) and a definite on my dance card, for sure! It was great meeting all who attended, seeing old friends again, and I can still taste the Venison, Bacon Bomb, and Tilapia with bacon!

I have vids and pics to upload, and will try to get them up today...some never came out because my flash was off (D'Oh!) but some did.

If you can make this hang in any possible way next year- do it! You will not regret it, no matter how long the drive! (7+ hours for me, and would do it again in a heartbeat!)

Hang on -

~Sky

Had a great time seeing everyone again this year.

I can give an update on Subaru that could not swim.

Saturday night, somewhere around 11pm 2 forum members, 3 of my friends, and I decided to pile into my friend Doug's Subaru and drive to Apple Pie Hill(even though we had access to several lifted 4x4 trucks, because there was more room for passengers).

The path we took to Apple Pie Hill was littered with puddles, and there are several ways to get there that do not involve puddles. Doug got out to walk through the first 2 to make sure the depth was ok. Then we got a little lazy and drove into a really long puddle. Half way though the headlights dipped under water and the Subaru stopped moving and started filling up with water.

We hiked back to camp (only about a mile and half) and grabbed mturner05's Bronco II to come back and make the recovery.

That night and the next morning the Subaru would not start. The ECU is mounted near the floor on the front passenger corner of the car and had been submerged. We tried drying it out for a while but didn't make any progress.

Doug took the ECU home with him so he could pick up another one, we were worried that it was fried. Monday morning Doug picked up a new ECU from a junkyard on his way back to the pines, though he did not end up needing it.

He put the old one back in and it sputtered and started right up. Good as new, just a little soggy. It just needed some time to dry out.

We made some imperfect decisions but we all had a lot of fun.

Here is a link to the youtube video. My favorite part is at 1:25.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTtN7...&feature=share

That's a classic story for the ages - and all caught on video. Thanks for the update!

BWHAHAHAHHAHAHAH!!!!!! .... Oh man that is SOOOO funny
it's even better the 2nd time watching it :lol:

i have some pics on my phone of the water in it when you were back at camp yet....it still have a good 5-6 inch of water in it when they got it back

Haha yup. He was driving around last night and there is still a sloshing noise every time he accelerates and brakes lol.

The water pouring out when you open the door is hilarious. Maybe not for you, though.

HAHAHAHAH thats so funny LOL...
it's going to smell like old Pine Barrens water FOREVER LOL

When I saw them towing the Subaru backwards to try and jumpstart it on Sat morning, I had no idea what was happening! That car needs "four-oar drive", not four wheel drive! LOL!

Glad it worked-out eventually. What a trip!

~ Sky

Here are some shots from the hang:

Attachment 31616 The Bacon Bombs Being Smoked

Attachment 31617 Fire Stack of the Century

Attachment 31618 Jersey Devil Apron for the Cook-off Winner (Stick Won)

Attachment 31619 Lighting the stack

Attachment 31620 May as well cook hotdogs!

Some more shots from the hang:

Attachment 31621 The Jersey Bears made it!

Attachment 31622 Knotty made it!

Attachment 31623 Stalker made his own rig, although it might be hard to do a 'stealth hang' in it!

Attachment 31624 Smokers and grills and stoves, Oh my!

Attachment 31625 Fuzzy pic of the little hot dog camper in his bacon hammock under the bacon tarp.

Some more pics from the Jersey Hang.....

Attachment 31626 Iafte and Kayak Karl regaling the group with tales of meat to come .....

Attachment 31627 An enterprising hanger made this. Why, I don't know. Creative use of plumbing stock. Pretty cool, tho!

Attachment 31629 My new Warbonnet Camo Superfly. Absolutely LOVE it! (Kept the wind at bay that night!)

Attachment 31630 Stick wearing the Coup de Grace de Grub Winners Apron. Well-earned! (Venison Tenderloins Wrapped in Bacon - YUM!)

Attachment 31631 The competition sign-up sheet. More signed on later.

Man i look Buff in my IX Chaps :D

oh yeah i did upload the video to the Mac... just need to do some editing and i can upload it youtube later tonight or tomorrow when the little guy is in school

Just my hammock rig in New Jersey at the hang. Paul Gibson - I appologize for describing your New River Uq as a DOWN UQ! It is actually Climashield IIRC. Either way, the UQ works great! I should have turned-on the lanterns in the hammock for filming, but what do I know? Just got this camera!

The Ridgeline Organizer, the Peak Bag, and the Underquilt Cover are all new for me from 2QZQ. The shockcorded guy lines are from Mountainfitter. Tarp Skins are from TrekLight Gear. The idiot holding the camera is from Massachusetts.

Anyway, here is my WBBB in action, with the new Camo Superfly:

http://youtu.be/HWhbYraUAMw

Warm down to 22* that night!

~ Sky

i didn't forget about the video peeps..... just busy day i will have it up soon

What a great hang it was this year. Had a great time Friday night and wished I could of stayed over on Saturday. I gotta throw a HUGE shout out to Iafte for making me the Turkey Bacon Bomb and Stick for making me the Venison stuffed with turkey bacon. It was very delicious and very much appreciated. And of course Maples Banana Nut Muffins and the Chocolate ones too is one of my favorite breakfasts to wake up to. As always great seeing old friends and making new ones. Already have this hang on my calendar for next year and looking forward to seeing you all at MAHA and on the trail.

The last thing I saw lazy river road do at the hang was load up on Maple's muffins. Smart move.

Thanks for the tour SkyPainter.

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The last thing I saw lazy river road do at the hang was load up on Maple's muffins. Smart move.

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Who Me? :rolleyes:

And I just read through this whole thread after posting and all I can say is that is one of the funniest things I've seen in a long time. Glad the car is running again.

Oh what a awesome hang, NJ does bacon right, mmm mmmm gooooooooood!

Great seeing old friends and making new ones! Congrats to Stick on the win, Iafte, bro the bomb was the bomb dude I was tastin that smokey flavor mmmmmmmmmmmm now I'm droolin again! Uhhh where was I------- oh KK and Maple the pig rig was sweet, very ingenious, Dylan that was the best tasting fish I have EVER had!

Everyone and anyone who contributed in anyways,
a great big THANKS!!! If I missed anyone or anything you will have to forgive me it's Iafte's fault as all I can think about is the bacon from his bacon bomb:laugh::laugh:!!

I hope I can make this hang next year!!

i just had a Bacon cheese burger...... MMmmmm Bacon LOL

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Oh what a awesome hang, NJ does bacon right, mmm mmmm gooooooooood!

Great seeing old friends and making new ones! Congrats to Stick on the win, Iafte, bro the bomb was the bomb dude I was tastin that smokey flavor mmmmmmmmmmmm now I'm droolin again! Uhhh where was I------- oh KK and Maple the pig rig was sweet, very ingenious, Dylan that was the best tasting fish I have EVER had!

Everyone and anyone who contributed in anyways,
a great big THANKS!!! If I missed anyone or anything you will have to forgive me it's Iafte's fault as all I can think about is the bacon from his bacon bomb:laugh::laugh:!!

I hope I can make this hang next year!!

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:lol: I guess I can take the blame. Funny thing is, I wore my jacket to work all week and had a coworker drooling each time he was in the office. And a salesman came in yesterday and asked why the room smelled like bacon. :D

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Originally Posted by Knotty

The last thing I saw lazy river road do at the hang was load up on Maple's muffins. Smart move.

Thanks for the tour SkyPainter.

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===> Welcome, Knotty! Was great finally meeting you! Yeah...Maples Muffins... bacon...venison...Tilapia...Jambalaya...Cornbread. ... the list goes on.
I won't eat for this week, methinks! :D

~ Sky

Wow, looks like it was a great time. I will have to put it on the calendar for next year :)