Actually in the place where I hiked the elevation is somewhere between 10 and 20 feet. But east of all 3 branches of the river there is some higher ground, where the maximum is 70 feet. The fire tower sits on the 70 foot ground. Right here at the house, 8½ miles away, we are at 80 feet. But the highest ground in all the entire Pine Barrens is about 214 feet, up in Ocean County. I didn't even realize that it was that low there. I just looked it up on Topoquest. My paper topographical maps are out in my truck. Barry
--- On Sun, 1/10/10, Marcboston <[email protected]> wrote: From: Marcboston <[email protected]> Subject: [ENTS] Re: Beautiful stunted Pitch Pines To: "ENTSTrees" <[email protected]> Date: Sunday, January 10, 2010, 7:42 PM Very interesting landscape. I know the pine barrens are at a fairly low elevation but the place looks like your up there. On Jan 9, 10:50 pm, Barry Caselli <[email protected]> wrote: > Today I took a nice hike in Wharton State Forest. I estimate that I hiked 4 > to 6 miles. I really can't be sure. The sky was a beautiful deep blue and > there were no clouds. It was perfect. I think the temperature was 29 or 30 > with a little bit of wind. I was totally in awe of the beauty around me, the > whole time. While hiking the nature trail I stopped to take some pictures, > and ended up shooting 2 min., 48 sec. of video. > As I said, fantastic beauty! I never tire of looking at Pitch Pines. They > come in such incredible great shapes, to quote a friend of mine on Youtube. > Here's the link:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4UzSdijIsk > And as a reminder, Wharton State Forest is the largest unit in the NJ state > parks and forests system, at 122,000 acres. When we moved to South Jersey in > 1985 it was only at about 99,000. It has gained quite a bit. > Barry
