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    Sunrise Step Off

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    Better than Chinese food & a movie!

     

    Buttaskotch sorta organized this one and asked me to share with all y'all.....

     

    I don't usually have any Xmas plans. And this year its an Xmas weekend! Anyone else out there, looking for something to do?

     

    I will be on a geocaching hike in South Mountain Reserve in Millburn, NJ. This park has at least 25 geocaches of various types and difficulties.

     

    If its not too late, after conquering all caches in this park, I am going to attempt to locate all of the caches on the Branch Brook Power Trail (20 caches) in the East Orange area.

     

    DIRECTIONS:

     

    Driving Directions

    Take Interstate Route 78 to Exit 50B (Maplewood, Millburn) and continue north on Vaux Hall Road for 0.7 mile. After crossing a bridge, turn left onto Millburn Avenue. In 0.5 mile, the traffic is routed to the right, onto Essex Street. After passing the Millburn railroad station, turn right onto Lackawanna Place. At the next intersection (Glen Avenue), turn right and then make an immediate left into the Locust Grove parking area.

     

    Locust Grove off Glenn Ave

    N 40 43.662, W 074 18.243, Milburn, NJ

     

    0900 12/25/11

     

    Mike

    Sunrise Step Off

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    The weather should be fairly seasonal so dress for it:

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    Mostly cloudy, 22. Northwest wind between 18 and 22 mph, with gusts to 30 mph. 30% chance of light snow showers. Wind Chill of 9. Should be a great hike. I am sorry I am missing it.

     

    I hear John makes the best coffee east of Seattle so you should be fine.

     

    so, in other words, PFC, with the 'breeze' making it RFC?

     

    M

    Sunrise Step Off

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    aww mannn....I miss going out with you guys...been so freeking crazy with work, the weekends are filled simply with battery recharging....today MIGHt have been ok, except for some family passing thru for a visit...if I missed that Mom would be mad, and we don't want THAT....

     

    next time...maybe

     

    M

    Sunrise Step Off

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    Yeah Ruthy's , and good to see you are still among the living. :)

    What happened to the 13 week season ?

     

    strikus intreruptus

     

    Ci is still at it....the others start back up in July & Aug

     

    ahhh...showbiz!

     

    M

    Sunrise Step Off

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    meet us at Chelsea Piers for coffee.

     

    Ruthy's?

     

    after all the time I spend there during the week, I should go BACK on the weekends?

     

    I always wanted to hide a cache outside the stages...call it ''Dun-dun"

     

    interested, but have to see how the schedule go...

     

    M

    Sunrise Step Off

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    Looks to be a nice day though! I am bringing enough food for a five hour tour

     

    uh oh...remember the LAST time someone did that with a boat?

     

    Do that make you the professor? & Packnack the Skipper DiviDivi the Howells? Buttaskotch MaryAnne or maybe Ginger?

     

    too dadgum busy these days...can't remember the last one I found....maybe if SAG do a LITTLE strike....

     

    M

    Sunrise Step Off

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    May 12 Noon? Now that's more like it!!!!

     

    When is Mother's day?

     

    May 12 be a Monday...not that hiking on a Monday would be a BAD thing....so let' make it the 11th...oh, wait...THAT'S Mother's day....

    :P:P

    Sunrise Step Off

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    sorry guys, stuffed to the gills with Matzoh balls & brisket (so NOW I could REALLY use a hike...) plus, work has come back with a vengance....will have time during a wacky hiatus season....

     

    there's always the birthday weekend at the Jamboree!

     

    M

    NNJC Spring Picnic ~ Tiki Stomp Party

    in Northeast

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    I know what a tiki is and I now what stomp means, but what is a Tiki Stomp?

     

    issat what happens when the torch falls over & you try to put it out with your feet? ;)

     

    or is it when one of the big heads falls over & you don't get outta the way fast enough? :)

     

    help me out here....

     

    M

    Sunrise Step Off

    in Northeast

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    hey kids-

     

    well, the strike is DEFINITELY over...not gonna see the house in daylight for awhile...

     

    was hoping to eek out one more with you on Saturday, but I just got my Friday call time...11am....which ain't too bad, untill you add 12+ hours or so to it...which makes my chances of getting up at oh-dark-thirty to climb mountains about nil...

     

    have fun & take lots of pictures!

     

    M

    Sunrise Step Off

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    Pretty much. I figured I'd pitch it to the crowd that'd be most likely to get up early on a weekend and take a field trip someplace interesting. We could do a bit of exploring once we got there. I notice you didn't reject it. :blink:

     

    ahhh, you are observant, grasshopper....

     

    at first thought, I think, "why drive 3 hours to see a ghost town"....then realize that I just answered my own question....I love wandering around places like that...especially fter seeing pictures of the closed rte 61...it has that creepy/cool/boyarehumansdumb kinda thing about it....

     

    M

    Sunrise Step Off

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    Not to steal thunder from the Megaliths event, but I've been looking at one cache/place for a while as a potential destination -- Centralia, PA -- and was wondering what the local opinions might be. Supposedly it's quite a sight, and there are a bunch of caches on the way there and back to break up the drive.

     

    well, that WOULD be a drive...not a whole lot of walking, but a bunch of driving & grabbing?

     

    M

    Sunrise Step Off

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    We are taking suggestions/request for the Next Sunrise Group Event.

    Citicar wants Sunrise Sunset, a hike into a West Facing Overlook, light dinner as the sunsets and then get out before it goes black.

     

    I want a Kayak Event from Laurel Hill Park into the Meadowlands (they rent kayaks and canoes so lack of ownership is not an issue, also kid friendly ) for perhaps late May or June.

     

    Ramapo mentioned change of venue to Palisades for some new adventure.

     

    Weathernowcast wants a CITO--he is envvironmentally friendly.

     

    Anyone else want to chime in ?

     

    We are also looking for someone who wants the coveted Events Icon in their Hide Stats

     

    may/june is a long way off...what about March? Marching in March?

     

    I like the sunset idea...sounds cool....

     

    I really wanna do Federal Hill, but methinks most here have done them, no?

     

    M

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