Ratdog, you da man!
RR map of NJ 1887
http://mapmaker.rutgers.edu/HISTORIC...S/RR_of_NJ.jpg
shows the RR line in question...
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Ratdog, you da man!
RR map of NJ 1887
http://mapmaker.rutgers.edu/HISTORIC...S/RR_of_NJ.jpg
shows the RR line in question...
Mom has her own wooden Old Town canoe and still paddles the grandchildren upstream an hour to see the old abandoned apple orchards that supplied the Apple Jack Mill during prohibition. When the mill burned down, a builder craftsman gathered the timbers and bricks and built the house I grew up in.
Natureboy, post up when you are thinking about making this hike, might drop in on ya.
Silver, I need to walk the "new" sections of the Batona. Figure if I head out 2 hours before you, I should get to camp about an hour after you.:cool:
guess I didn't "discover" anything :(
http://www.nynjtc.org/hike/atsion-carranza-monument
will definitely post when I plan on this, prolly mid-late summer sometime...
It's a clear shot on the RR tracks from Atsion to Batona Camp. You'll cross over two beautiful train trestles (Springers Brook & Batsto River) along the way. :)Attachment 85503
Cool. I don't really care about direction, but I thought it would be better to do the lower miles first. I know my first day is always the hardest. I'm probably gonna do training hikes - do each leg individually between now and then - makes it easier to say, "I can do this" when you've actually done it. The most I've hiked in a day is 16 miles so I know I can survive that but doing 22 miles in a day is still something I have a hard time wrapping my head around.
I was thinking about slackpacking the long leg, Ong's Hat to Batona sometime soon 'cause that's the tough part. If I know I can slackpack it, then that makes me more confident I can do it with a pack.
I thought about that, but also thought about knocking out the longest part first and then each day gets easier. Ongs Hat to Batona is long but also the most fun and scenic. The new section in Franklin Parker Preserve is great because it goes through wetlands and is full of board walks and bridges. Pretty cool.