Post the strangest things you have seen in the woods!!

[Phil Dwyer]

A common sight on these internets, the photoshopped tree that has been circulating these tubes for years. At least my pigman was less circulated.

Ya, no sooner did I post, I thought...sure enough someone did that on a puter.

 

[Cpl Punishment]

Well, there's a tree I would hug!

 

[REKCUT]

I have told this before, but it comes to mind every time someone puts up a thread like this. The weirdest thing I saw in the wild was not something I saw, but rather something I smelled.

I was solo hiking Mokelumne Peak in Mokelumne Wilderness in the Sierras, in an area that sees very little human presence. About five miles from the trailhead (which was at the end of five miles of dirt road so narrow that brush was scraping both sides of my car, which was at the end of maybe 10 miles of gravel road), I came to a large deadfall with a lot of trees in a jumble.

I was suddenly hit by an overwhelming smell. The only thing I can compare it to would be if you took a hundred stinky dogs that hadn't had a bath in years, got them all damp, and put them in one cramped room. I could taste it in the air. I walked by the deadfall area, paying very close attention to it. After summiting Mokelumne Peak, I returned the same way. When I got to the deadfall, there was no trace of any odor.

There is only one reasonable thing that could have been.



It must have been bigfoot!!!

 

[REKCUT]

I got this picture of bigfoot one time.

Masteroffajitas and Lambertiana must have been in the same neck of the woods!!

 

[Big Mike]

I was thinking that or a wolf. Wolves can get pretty ripe depending on what they have been eating.

Nothing smells as bad as Big Foot, or so I was told by a friend who had a face to face.

All these years later you can still see the fear in his eyes as he recounts the encounter.

And the smell, totally foul. :barf:




"If you're not living on the edge, …you're taking up too much space."

Big Mike

 

[tonym]

Nothing smells as bad as Big Foot, or so I was told by a friend who had a face to face.

All these years later you can still see the fear in his eyes as he recounts the encounter.

And the smell, totally foul. :barf:




"If you're not living on the edge, …you're taking up too much space."

Big Mike

Mike I told you not to take that personally.

 

[James_Terrio]

Bigfoot loves beef jerky...

[youtube]GJF0cuYbYyI[/youtube]

You guys will find the bit at 2:40 particularly amusing.

 

[TWBryan]

Many years ago,I was bow hunting with a friend on a small island here in Florida. We were lying out on the dock,waiting for afternoon to go back. I looked up and high in the shy was what appeared to be a translucent object, appeared to be a flat, circular ,have regularly spaced windows(????). It was rotating slowly. I watched it for some time,by the time my buddy had woken up it had "faded" away. I've since been told it was weather balloon. Curiously I've looked up images of weather balloons and haven't seen anything like it. I don't know what it was,and probably never will.

 

[KuRUpTD]

 

[LMT66]

Yes, it would anneal them.

I have told this before, but it comes to mind every time someone puts up a thread like this. The weirdest thing I saw in the wild was not something I saw, but rather something I smelled.

I was solo hiking Mokelumne Peak in Mokelumne Wilderness in the Sierras, in an area that sees very little human presence. About five miles from the trailhead (which was at the end of five miles of dirt road so narrow that brush was scraping both sides of my car, which was at the end of maybe 10 miles of gravel road), I came to a large deadfall with a lot of trees in a jumble.

I was suddenly hit by an overwhelming smell. The only thing I can compare it to would be if you took a hundred stinky dogs that hadn't had a bath in years, got them all damp, and put them in one cramped room. I could taste it in the air. I walked by the deadfall area, paying very close attention to it. After summiting Mokelumne Peak, I returned the same way. When I got to the deadfall, there was no trace of any odor.

This happens to me often after a night with a can of beans around a campfire. Maybe you passed me on the trail??

 

[KuRUpTD]

 

[Mack]

I didn't see it but...
Here's the story

http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/otx/photo_gallery/snow_rollers.php

 

[dawsonbob]

I didn't see it but...
Here's the story
www.wrh.noaa.gov/images/otx/photo_gallery/snow_rollers/SnowRolls09033113a.jpg

Your link doesn't lead to the story, only to the original jpeg.

 

[James_Terrio]

Looks like snowy round bales of hay... which have since been outlawed, since they don't provide cows with a square meal... *groooannnn*

 

[Mack]

Your link doesn't lead to the story, only to the original jpeg.

Thanks, fixed.
http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/otx/photo_gallery/snow_rollers.php

 

[dawsonbob]

Thanks, fixed.
http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/otx/photo_gallery/snow_rollers.php

Thanks, Protourist. That's really interesting ... I've never seen anything like that. Nature is infinite in her variety.

 

[pvicenzi]

Masteroffajitas and Lambertiana must have been in the same neck of the woods!!

Where did you get that picture of me?