Overnight trip with Adventure Girl squeezed between schedule constraints and weather, car camping and hiking in New Jersey’s Byrne State Forest.
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Unsurprisingly in freezing temperatures we had the whole campground to ourselves. Lovely quiet forest the next day, encountering just a few pleasant people and horses. Got super lucky and the storm forecast for the afternoon held off, so we had quite pleasant winter weather all day.
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I’ve never been to this forest before, and liked it a lot. Completely non-technical and flat (there are actually ADA accessible trails here), but several good length loops of enjoyable singletrack and doubletrack. Must be a mad house in summer, but very peaceful this weekend. Lots of lakes and marshes, which were especially scenic frozen over.
More photos are in the Flickr gallery.
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