craziest things youve seen in the woods!

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i know someone else posted something like this a while back but i loved the replies. whats the craziest things you've seen in the woods?
 
I've found airplanes, cabins, covered wagons, ammo, beer, underwear, money, fishing gear. Probably could remember a lot more if I really thought about it.
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In the Bradshaw mountains in AZ I found a food cache, actually a pile of tin cans, they were full when they were put there...there was a very large metal spoon and the lid from a cook pot...looked like leftovers from some prospector.
 
I found a flattened weasel in a fresh elk bed once. Did the elk lay on it?......I don't know. Maybe it was suicide.
 
I saw a nice four point sitting on its butt with it's legs out in front of it like a dog. Wish I would have had a camera, but didn't.

Dub
 
Same as BOHNTR, a decomposed body. Actually, here's the story if you guys don't mind.

We were quail hunting & my brother found a human skull. We were a little freaked out about it.....I figured someone decapitated this dude & threw his head out in the desert. Well, we called the Sheriff & they supposedly did a search with dogs to find the rest of the body which they never did.

Two weeks later my brother & I went out to the same general area for another afternoon quail hunt. We walked 50yrds off the road & BAM, there was the rest of the body. Talk about weird, we were didn't want to call the Sheriff again in fear they might think we had something to do with it!

Dental records showed it was a guy from Flagstaff running from the law. They found his vehicle out by Gold Canyon but never found him. He died from heat exhaust.
 
>A badly decomposed body.......
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>BOHNTR )))---------->

BOHNTR WHAT kind of body?
What have you got if ya haven't got a story?
 
A few years back (80's) my partner and I were bow hunting in the San Gabriel Mountains of so cal and smelled something that was obviously dead. When we looked for it, thinking maybe a deer someone didn't find, we found a human body.

Long story short, the woman was identified by homicide investigators as a missing person. I believe, if memory serves me correctly, the suspect was located later deceased by apparent suicide.

BOHNTR )))---------->
 
My buddy and I were hunting in the mountains in N. Calif. where we live and we came upon this Chocolate Lab puppy and a Billy Goat running together down the road. The nearest house was a long, long way away from where they were. We were camping up in the mountains and I had my dog with me, so we stopped and I gave them both some dog food. The dog had no collar or ID tags, I hated doing it but we had to leave them. I called the proper authorities when we got back to civilation, I never did here what happened.

Last year my dad and I were scouting E. Oregon and hiked up this mountain and it was flat on top. We were out in the middle of no where just walking along looking for deer sign and trying to learn the area. I looked down and there was a empty .50 Cal shell just laying there in the sand. We guessed it must have been from WWII when they were doing strafing runs in the desert. I really don't know how it got there, but we didn't find anymore.

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I have a friend that up until a year ago used to live near Cathlamet on the Columbia River in Washington. He used to elk and deer hunt on timber lands North/East of Cathlamet...anyway the funniest story I ever heard was when he told me about something they ran up on while out elk hunting a few years ago.

He and his hunting partner used their mountain bikes to access the timber land roads since you couldn't use a motorized vehicle...it was the best way for them to get back into the area instead of hiking. So anyway, one warm Indian summer type day during the early archery season they come peddeling around a blind curve in a logging road and run smack into two guys, obviously flammmers...riding thier mountain bikes buck naked, yukin' it up and having a good old time. My buddy said it was pretty funny watching them scramble off thier bikes and trying to conceal themselves behind their bikes! Then they proceeded to make up some lame excuess about it being so warm that day, and how they really weren't prepared to ride as far as they did, so they didn't have on the appropriate shorts, and that they were both getting rashes...so they had to ride naked to be comfortable!

It's a pretty funny story, especially to hear him describe it.
 
I found a dead body up big cottonwood canyon a few years back. Only missed the homicide by half hour or so. Headed up bow hunting on the late season and found her on the side of the road in a pool of blood. Her boyfriend shot her twelve times until she dropped dead. The story has been on americas most wanted a few times and still havent found the guy. Pretty wild to see first thing in the morning.
 
Back in 2000 I was with a few dudes out int he desert north of Winnemucca, like 4hrs off road into the desert. No sign of human life anywhere around. and according to our maps, we were in BFE.

As we are getting ready to hunt some birds, we hear a voice hollar out of the desert..."hello". We paused and looked at eachother like...."who said that?"

This guy walks towards us out of now where asking for a ride. Wearing cowboy boots, a light jacket and no gear, and we're a solid 80 miles from anything................

He told us a story full of holes. first he was helping with cattle and lost his horse(no cattle in the area), then he was looking for artifacts, then he was just out for a walk and got lost(what happened to the horse?) and we became real weary of what he was up to. We declined to give him a ride.

We were in the neck of the woods where some Idaho F&G officers met an untimely death some years back and we got real weirded out by the whole thing.

What would have happened if we gave him a ride? No chances with this dude......

Still get the willys about it.......

Mark
 
How goes it,
About 6 years ago while Archery Hunting I saw something that hit me pretty hard. On one hand it completley shocked me...yet on the other hand, I still laugh very hard about it to this day.

While on a stalk, I noticed something moving on the hillside to my left about 300 yards away. At first all I noticed was the light color of the animal...instinctivley telling me that it was a deer or an elk. I stopped moving and watched a little closer...after a look through my binoculars, I was un-pleasantley suprised. It was a NAKED man!!! All he was wearing was a White cowboy hat, a red fanny pack & boots. I tried yelling at him, "are you okay?"...but all he did was turn around and stare at me for about 2 minutes...then he turned around and kept on hiking up the mountain. Completely baffeled by this I watched him walk up the side of the hill until he disapeared over the horizon. I never heard anything come about him...maybe he just lost a bet or something...I don'tknow. But that was by far the craziest thing I've ever seen in the mountains.

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I feel left out, I have never found anything cool in the woods :( I need to get out more.....
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257 Tony-

I'm not too sure seeing naked dudes in the woods is cool, but if it floats your boat.......what the hell.

ha ha

Mark
 
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>I'm not too sure seeing naked
>dudes in the woods is
>cool, but if it floats
>your boat.......what the hell.
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>ha ha
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>Mark

i can definitly agree with you here.

while duck hunting out towrads the great salt lake me and my buddy were puddle jumpin and shooting ducks when we saw a few deer. kinda weird but not really, but then we heard a really big noise and up to the deer walked a cow elk.
didn't think they would be that far out of the mountains.



beat this
 
"Bath tub" all by its self, and yeah I used it, but so did them cows. Several disabled hunters from injuries. Antique stuff, old carvings and writings. One huge pile of antlers (elk and deer). But the craziest is when I came back to camp after along day to see an elk herd bedded in my camp, the herd bull was bedded 5 feet from my tent. Now that hurt!
 
Quite a few years ago, we were boating on Flaming Gorge (Utah). We were camped in Jarvis Cove/Canyon. All of a sudden from across the cove we could hear what sounded like sheep going crazy! When we finally spotted the animals, it was two Big Horn Sheep. After a few minutes of this, one of the sheep jumped into the water and swam about 200 yards over to our camp! He walked up on the shore not 3 feet from our boat. The other sheep was still on the other side pacing the shore going crazy! The sheep that swam across came up on shore, took a good look at us, and walked off.
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Fun topic. Best I can do is an old wrecked plane on the west face of Carizo Mountain in NM; airplane parts scattered everywhere and a huge burn mark on the rocks. Tried to look it up on the web--if it's the right wreck, according to website, was some 15 years earlier, and the pilot actually survived.

About two weeks ago I was driving up a seldom used FWD trail when I passed a guy walking out the other direction wearing what looked to me to be a chain gang vest. Seemed to be very unusual garb for the terrain. Didn't see anything either coming or going that would indicate that he hadn't been hiking a heck of a long ways. I flipped on the news that evening to see if there were any reports of escaped convicts, but never did hear anything about anything like that...

Here's hoping I never come across a naked guy or a dead person... ;-)
 
In Ely NV. Watching a long deep canyon for elk we saw a mountain lion with a cub following it .It crossed from east to west across a small stream .From treeline to treeline .The entire time the momma had a doe in its mouth dragging between her legs .Crossing the stream the cub had a heck of a time getting up the bank ,momma sat on the deer and waited for her baby ,when the cub finally got to the top of the bank momma picked up the doe and walked off like it wasnt even there.
 
Back in the early '70s me and a buddy were duck hunting up by Tule Lake Refuge on the season opener. We were on this dike that bordered a very exclusive and private duck club. We noticed a blind that was getting plenty of shooting. Looking through my cheapo binos I noticed their bird retreiver was a young gal wearing only hip boots, and nothing else! I would have traded my shotgun for a 60X Swarovski spotter that day!

Eel
 
My grandfather used to tell a story about drivng up American Fork Canyon in Utah. Just past Tibble Fork headed up to Dutchmans there is a canyon that if its rained anytime lately there is a nice little water fall. Apparently some dude thought that his girlfriend or wife and her friend would look semi sexy naked under the falls. Grandpa said he had to investigate and while the girls seemed shy, the dude chatted it up with Grandpa for a minute or two.

Honestly, I think Grandpa was full of chit, but that was his story.
 
Was in Hells canyon on the Or. side hunting elk and came across a guy on a ridge with a spotting scope set up looking across a canyon at the top of another ridge at another hunter walking along the top of the ridge and about 75 yards behind the hunter moving along at the same speed was a very large cougar.
The cougar was tailing this guy step for step until they went over the edge and out of sight.
I have been watching my backside ever since.

John
 
Eel,

Was the young gal in hip boots well trained..........and also could she retrieve birds very well???

YEAH BABY!!!
 
I was javelina a few years ago over by Queen Valley here in AZ. We pulled off the road and drove around this ridge that paralleled the main road and started to glass for pigs. Well it didn't take long to come across a young man with his pants around his ankles and his girlfriend kneeling in front of him. That is about the craziest place I have ever seen anything like that happen. Apparently they didn't think anyone would drive around to the backside of that ridge. They never did know that we were there.
 
Gotta add my .02 here even though it was not in the woods.

One year a couple of buddies and me are fishing up the Dirty Devil river for bass in April on Lake Powell. We came out of the canyon headed back to camp and were surrounded by naked women water and jet skiing. Looked over to the shore and there was a camp of around 30 women whom were all naked. Needless to say buddy got out video camera and we got some sweet video of the whole thing. Had heard all those years about Lake Powell being a crazy kind of place, but to witness it first hand was great. :)
 
Came upon a sheep camp while hunting archery deer. Thought we would go look for a little info from the herder. You know "Donde esta macho burro grande?" when we notice this young ewe tied to the sheep camp. We we asked about the ewe.... all we got was..."das me beetch"
 
Ok I know there are some wierd things out there but I cant help but wonder how much of this is true and how much is bs.
 
Circa 1990. Washington State Desert "A" Unit. My brother was duck hunting out of his boat in the flooded sand dunes of the Potholes Reservoir. His boat was beached against a dune. He was daydreaming about Normandy because of the sand beach he was parked on. After a while he stepped out of the boat onto the beach and laying partially buried in the sand was a corroded but intact live hand grenade. The dunes were used during the wars for training. He took it home with him to Yakima. After looking at it on the table for a few days he went down to the Yakima Police department to turn it over. I guess this action caused quite a scene at the police department when my brother told them he had a live grenade with him in a brown paper bag. They banner taped off the department, and called the Yakima firing center to remove and disarm it.
 
Found an oxygen bottle on a ridge at 9500ft with no roads within 3 miles. I could have used a hit from it but the valve was broke off.
 
in '04 i was hunting area 10 archery in nevada and came across a couple queer deer. my buddy and i jumped these bucks and as they were trotting off, we observed one of the bucks jumping on and humping one of the other bucks.


Happy Hunting
 
The Coyote on the St. Joe.

I'd just returned from packing in groceries and propane on horseback with a 6-horse string from the trailhead downstream on the St. Joe River. We didn't have any clients in camp and it was about an hour or two before dark. I had unsaddled and fed all the horses. I was walking back to the lodge and saw a coyote in a large clearing on the way back to the main camp from the horse corral. The coyote was barking at the tree line and acting pretty agitated. About 500 yards to the left along the river a couple of horse campers had set up camp and had staked out their horses. I figured they were close to the coyote?s den and that's what had the coyote agitated.

As I walked closer to the coyote, it would look over its shoulder at me, then turn and look at the tree line and yip and bark. It did this three times. Each time it barked and looked away from me I moved closer. Pretty soon, I was 50 yards from this coyote. As it looked over it's shoulder one more time, a cougar came bursting out of the trees, after the coyote. The song dog just about turned inside out and ran to my right, directly through the Lodge compound, between the lodge and the clothesline, and out the front gate with the cat right on it's tail.

I was standing there amazed at what I had just seen. Two secretive animals had just been seen feet from where we slept each night. It was then that I realized that it was as wild and untamed a place as I might ever be, despite the 70-year-old log buildings we used as our headquarters.
 
Hey Thanks for all the stories.I too was fortunate enuff to see a 4 point in the northern utah unit also..LOL ..I guess you never know what you may encounter in the woods or on the pond...
 
Not really crazy, but kinda cool, I've seen carvings in the quakies dated back to 1901. Anybody seen any 1800's? or any famous names? When my dad was a kid they found Kit Carson's name, it's now in a museum in San Pete County.
 
once I stumbled upon a group of 9 dikes nude sunbathing out in the middle of nowhere.(yes!! I did ask.)
rm
 
I've also seen some odd quakie markings out on the So. slope. Numerous "cat faces", anyone from the basin know the history of them? They seem to be trail markers, Indian? Early Ranching?
 
My grandpa found a connon ball in the head of granite creek in the hoback river drainage here in wyoming in the 1950's.
 
>once I stumbled upon a group
>of 9 dikes nude sunbathing
>out in the middle of
>nowhere.(yes!! I did ask.)
>rm


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While hunting deer, I saw my buddies father hunting as well sitting by a tree as I looked with my binos I saw he was rubbing one out while looking at a playboy book. That was about 15 years ago. I have yet to tell either one of them. I'm saving it for a good moment.
 
I was with my scouts in the Wind Rivers, we hiked up from Big Sandy to Jack ass pass. None of the scouts wanted to hike down into the Cirque of the towers. They headed back to camp and I took off down the trail, one the way down I could see a waterfall. So I headed off towards the waterfall. After taking a few photos I hiked up over the top. On top of this small water fall was some open meadow pools. Out in the pools was a topless chick in her hiking type G-string. I stop kind of shocked, after 5 seconds of starring at her while she was doing the same thing back at me I noticed a guy stand up on the shore, he shot me the look of death. I was about to pull my camera out (proof that I saw her), the look on that guys face told me not to. When I got back to camp I had to rub this in the scouts faces, all the scouts told me that they knew they should have hiked in(ha ha).
This was the hottest chick I've ever seen in the woods, she topped the scales in looks. On the other side of big sandy my buddy was hiking down from Deep lake (in 2000) and hiked around the river and walked with-in 5 feet of a couple having sex. The girl was looking right at him, the guy never saw him. Crazy stuff people like to do in the wild! I did find a cool carving in a tree from 1909 muzzleloader hunting last year, it had the date with an arrow with wings on it.
 
Not sure about the basin, but I know the early sheep ranchers would pass the time by drawing on the quackies. Some areas look like a dang art gallery.

Found my Dad's name in a quackie tree once. That was pretty cool given he had been dead for ten years.
 

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