I went to the eastern sierras this weekend to do some scouting and see if the sheds were dropping yet. Unfortunately all bucks still had their headgear. I was in a fairly remote area, especially for this time of year. I left my truck at the end of a dirt forest road and hiked up the mountain about a mile or mile and a half or so and tracked some deer before spooking them. I decided to do some glassing so I went up to a ridge line that overlooked a semi-trail up from where I left my truck. After looking back down the mountain, I saw a black object moving up the mountain so I put my binos on it. It was a guy, wearing a full length black cloak like the grim reaper. He was carrying a plastic shopping bag in one hand and dragging what looked like a wheeled suitcase. At this point, I was questioning if I was hallucinating, but I kept watching him and he stopped a couple times to do some weird prayer-like motions into the air and try to look ahead on the trail (maybe for me bc he would have seen my truck?). He was far enough off I knew he wouldn't have seen me yet on the ridge line. My weirdo / this doesn't seem right alarm is going off on full alert. This was a decent ways up the mountain and he was dressed as the grim reaper with a suitcase. Dragging a suitcase through the rocks and dirt wouldn't have been very easy, especially with the vertical climb. Could he be harmless? Sure, but this sure didn't see right. I immediately made sure I had one in the chamber of my sidearm, and slipped into a drainage adjacent to the plateau area he was hiking up to try and slip by him. I made it by him without him noticing and down to my truck. My truck had handprints on the dirt like he had been trying to look in it. He had two old, beaten up child strollers in the back of his old truck tied down. I got the heck out of there and went 10 miles away to a different area. That was one of the weirder scenes for me in the mountains in a while.
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...just giving you Californians a hard time.
Shrek
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Lots of creepy antisocial people like to head for the hills. Fortunately you managed to avoid him but you never know who's out there.
Matt W.
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Makes me want to dress up in odd costumes and mess with folks! LOL Problem is I live in Alaska and I'd probably get shot, buried, and never be heard of again!! 
Wonder what was in the suitcase???
Wonder what was in the suitcase???
ethan
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That is strange! There are a lot of crack-pots out there! Don't want to hi-jak your thread, but I've had a couple of weird experiences of my own!
Retterath
WKR
that is a little creepy. weirdo
Makes me want to dress up in odd costumes and mess with folks! LOL Problem is I live in Alaska and I'd probably get shot, buried, and never be heard of again!!
Wonder what was in the suitcase???
Haha, you'd certainly have people on edge.
I was wondering that too, but sure wasn't going to stick around to find out.
dangerousD
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Hope he wasn't burying bodies of children out there. You should have strolled over there to ask what's in the roller bag! Maybe he was in a plane crash.
Muledeerfanatic
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Everyone's always worried about bears and other wildlife. People are the ones that scare me.
Beastmode
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OK so it is a new trench coat from kuiu called the poser jacket. The wheeled suitcase is the new icon 2016. It's a prototype they are having me try out. They have decided to go with a new innovative industry leading pull behind you pack. The shopping bag was an extra large white kifaru pullout. See not so weird right? Hahaha. Guys like this is why I carry.
Seriously put in a report to the sheriff, that just sounds too odd. If your gut tells you something is off it's always better to report it. I found a car one time out in the middle of nowhere that i knew did not belong there and could tell had been there a while and sure enough, sheriff found a body not far away after they ran the plates and came up as a missing person. On a similar note I found a dead house cat next to an oven mitt in a sage flat around midnight coming down from a climb in the eastern Sierra once . To this day I'm not 100% sure it wasn't a figment of my delirium but weird folks seek out places like that to do whatever it is they do. Bears and cougars don't keep me up at night but dudes dressed up like the grim reaper might.
that's a smart idea. in my haste to get out of there, I didn't take down the plate number, which im kicking myself about now. I will give them a call anyway so they are aware.
That will make your hair stand up. Some weird folks out there. Good thing you had some personal firepower. Always makes things a little easier on the mind when your carrying. Good call on making your presence unknown. I could see things going south if y'all met up.
bobhunts
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I would have just stayed put and watch this weirdo! Things happen all of the time and sometimes I just watch. Never anything like you described!
NDHunter
Lil-Rokslider
Crazy story. People are weird.
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