Strange Appalachian

Okay so here it is, I just want some opinions on what it could be!!

I am an avid Hiker and one day while I was hiking a stretch of the Appalachian in New Jersey, I had to use the "Little Boys Tree" and had to make a drastic flight of the trail to do so (Dumb Tourists) so I Admit I got a little lost. While lost I stumbled upon a very strange sight!

Now I know I had been at least twenty or some miles from the closest town in the middle of the woods when I came across a fence, without a lie fifteen feet tall and barbed wire and enclosing a manhole cover.

I researched the hell out of it, and found nothing.

I am going to try to find it again and snap photos but until then..

Anyone on know what a manhole cover with a barbed wire fence around might be doing on the top of a mountain in New Jersey?

Thanks

Mobhit

I am almost willing to bet it is an old Mine claim. I see them all over when I go hiking, although I have never seen one with a manhole cover. But again, sounds like an Old Mine Claim.

-Kdial1

Ah ha!
Knew there were A.T. folks snooping around here.
Which shelters was it between?
Give us some details.
What was stamped on the manhole cover?
What high point were you near?
Get a back azimuth distance and elevation from a known point?

Well I've never seen anything like that anywhere around the Appalachians in PA, and I've spent years and years traipsing about fishing and hunting.

No GPS unit to lock in the coordinates? I thought just about every hiker nowadays carried one of those things...

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Old Mine probably surrounded by barbed wire due to hikers and animals so as to not fall in.....old mines abound in WV. So this is common that animals and occassionally a hiker will get lost and have to be found. Many stories of animals, dogs mostly running after deer who fall in and are never found or at least not for a long time. Most farmers etc know of them and stay clear. Old mines usually are not stable, not deep but can kill. Avoid them.
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