Weirdest thing you have found while backpacking

[William Hanson (live2hunt)]

Ya the story is something I've joked about but NEVER expected to encounter in the woods.

 

[William Hanson (live2hunt)]

I'm hoping the ride home wasn't a long uncomfortable silence ...

No no no.

 

[Mad Mountain Mike]

I bring this up because I found a female "pleasure device" in a small camelbak a least two miles from the road. So what have you found that make you scratch your head??

I hope you didn't touch it, it may have been intended for the ladies but it may have been a dude that lost it.

 

[Colo4x4XJ]

While live2hunt types his story I'll play. Found a WWII era blast cap on the side of a hill miles away from the old artillery ranges. I think it came from a mortar shell as it's only 1.5" across but man is it heavy! Also found a cabin complete with wood burning stove on that same hillside. Not necessarily weird but a pretty cool find nonetheless.

 

[El Gavilan]

Archery elk hunting many years ago up near Flagstaff, AZ, when my buddy and I come across an old, very deteriorated log cabin on the edge of a mesa. As we are looking around he finds a small tin container, maybe 3"X3", green, partially rusted, with a removable lid. As he is trying to pull the lid off he notices that whatever is inside will rattle some, so he puts it up next to his ear and shakes it pretty hard to make it rattle, attempting to ID what is inside. As he works at it the lid finally comes off and to our surprise the can contains 20 to 30 old unused blasting caps. We both do an "OH CRAP", he sets it down and we slowly back up away from the can. Close one right there!

Mike

 

[Shrek]

No no no.

I wonder how many of the young guys get the references ?

 

[William Hanson (live2hunt)]

Here is the story

http://www.rokslide.com/forums/showthread.php?t=22454

 

[Beendare]

Not so offbeat

Backpacking is a fairly common activity here in Ca for lesbians....plenty of butchy and decent looking lesbians out in the woods and I've come across 2 gals going at it off a Mt Tam trail. Kids were young at the time so I didn't gawk.

One of the most disturbing things I've seen was on a Co bowhunt- found an old gold mine with big rusted steel barrels of Cyanide and Sulfuric Acid leaking onto the ground above a beautiful mtn stream that goes right down into one of the major cities water supply. Whats wrong with our country when guys responsible for that skate without responsibility [epilog; I researched it and called the owner- held as a corporation and he BK'd it...and laughed that it will eventually be on the superfund list]

 

[dangerousD]

Back when Polaroids were used some may be too young to know what they are, my partner and I found a photo of a lovely very bushy lady posed appropriately for her honey with a note on it wishing her honey good luck taped to his apparent favorite tree on a ridge. We thought about taking it but took a close look and moved on to our elk hunt.

Polaroids and hairy bush. Boy that was a long time ago...

 

[Bighub1]

For more story's like this try survivalistboards.com. Look under survival preparedness then wilderness survival. There are close to 3K threads about these things. Some are weird, dome are funny, some make you go hmmmm.

 

[Bmcox86]

Not really the wilderness but the woods behind my buddies house growing up we found a small shed about a mile from any road with a saddle on a stand and about 100 porn magazines. I remember he ran around calling himself the porn fairy and ripping out the pages around the woods. The next week it was completely gone.

 

[justin davis]

On a hunt when i was in high school. I came across a human skull with a bullet hole in it! Yikes

 

[cody covey]

Found a bike about 15' up in a tree that had grown in many many years ago.

 

[TEmbry]

6-7 miles from the trailhead in a drainage so thick and nasty there is 0% chance a vehicle of any kind made it up in there... We found a wiring harness wrapped in aluminum foil with 3-4 plugs and a headlight bulb on it. Fell off an airplane? Who knows, it was weird.

 

[brewer427]

Not while backpacking, but last year I was fishing the Clark fork near deer lodge and came upon a woman's body in the middle of the river. Had to hike back to the truck to call police then show them where she was at. Deffanently the weirdest day I've ever had. Pretty sad what humans will do to each other.

 

[cody covey]

On a hunt when i was in high school. I came across a human skull with a bullet hole in it! Yikes

That is, yikes. Did they ever identify the skulls owner?

 

[Ray]

I haven't found anything odd. Still hoping to stumble upon an old cabin that has not been gutted.

My dad, however, did find something in the AZ desert the year I was born (long long ago) he was quail hunting south of Prescott. One of his buddies took a lunch break under a tree. While sitting there the guy noticed small bones. There were several small round bones that tapered. He showed one to my dad, then dad went over and scratched around in the dirt where he found larger bones deeper as he scratched up the dirt. In a minute he had the remains of a human hand exposed.

Off to the sheriffs office they went. Turned out to be a missing bank teller from an armed robbery a few years before. Maybe 1960. I don't recall from what town or bank she was taken.

 

[justin davis]

That is, yikes. Did they ever identify the skulls owner?

Yea I hiked authorities back in there and they identified it as a kid who had been missing for 9 years. Prior to me finding the skull I had a little excitement. I was planning on waiting in this spot hunting until dark. So I got comfy by a big tree. I heard a large branch snap right behind me.
I turned and could see nothing. I had that weird hair on neck standup feeling that something was watching me. Had this gut feeling that I needed to leave that spot. So I left and as I hiked over the hill goin. Back towards my camp I found the skull. I don't scare easy in the woods, but whatever it was spooked me and in turn I left earlier than I planned and found the skull.

 

[cody covey]

Man thats spooky stuff. Weird how things work out sometimes. Probably gave his family some closure i would imagine as well.

 

[realunlucky]

Glad I don't find those kind of things when I'm out