May 2014 Blog Posts (3)

For us, a holiday weekend means heading in the opposite direction of Jersey's beach traffic. We’d just had a lot of rain so we went west on Rt. 78 to check out Musconetcong Gorge’s cascades.

We hadn’t been since 2009, and planned on doing a similar but longer route by just going further on Highlands to Staats Rd. and then backtracking to the Switchback trail…

We only had Sunday available to hike so – of course – the weather threatened to be iffy. So we opted to hit up Jockey Hollow where we could get a decent hike in but it’s only just over an hour drive away.

The park was turning greener but wasn’t in full bloom yet. Most people were jogging or walking dogs on the park roads, and we only passed a handful of…

Headed up to Stokes for the 3rd annual “May Days” cabin outing on Friday, May 2^nd. This year I had bagged my 1^st choice -  cabin #6. It’s a great waterfront location with a neighbor on only one side and a nice picnic table/fire ring backyard. The only issue at #6 is waterfront access which is very swampy and unuseable, but that’s pretty much true of all the cabin sites.

I was joined by my Dad(TK), Uncle Jim(JK) and cousin Will(WK). JK and WK had…