What’s the coolest thing you found in the back country

[Prest0npage]

Been with buddies who’ve found arrowheads likely dating back over 1000 years.

 

[AK Troutbum]

I was in a micro burst in the crazies about 7 years ago. It was unbelievable. Trees you couldn’t wrap your arms around snapped off half way up. Dozens and dozens of them.

Sounds like something my wife would do when I come home drunk.

 

[505Wapiti]

I was in a micro burst in the crazies about 7 years ago. It was unbelievable. Trees you couldn’t wrap your arms around snapped off half way up. Dozens and dozens of them.

Well, you just ruined it for all the Bigfoot believers.

 

[PiperFM]

Found an OLD 280 Ross casing one time in Chicken, AK. Can’t find my picture…

 

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[Slickhill]

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That’s pretty awesome. My uncle ran an excavator digging pipeline ditch for years. He said several times out in eastern WY and western NE he dug into a herd of buffalo skeletons. He even had an intact skull from some kind of ice age bison he dug up, had horns 3 1/2’ wide.
We have a creek we walk after big rains and find buffalo skulls, they’re mostly the ones that were bigger than the current species but not the huge ice age ones. Always a thrill to find an intact one peeking out of the cutbank.

 

[PiperFM]

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My friend would find mammoth ivory and bones on cut banks out fishing, you’ll see an oil slick on the sand when it’s been eroded away to the mammoth, then start digging.


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[AKSandman]

Dead head dall sheep

 

[BAKPAKR]

I found this sign a couple of months ago.

 

[tuffcrk14]

In the 70s and 80s my dad used to pack an elk camp with his brothers and a few friends into a wilderness area that a particular Native American tribe has considered sacred to them for hundreds of years. From my understanding, they would frequent this large area for religious/cultural purposes. The campsite they almost always packed into was 30 miles into the mountains and tucked away in a narrow valley bottom between two small converging streams. One side note to this area is that it can get windy. Like 60mph or more at times. He said it would often times be blowing like a bastard on the trail and once they dropped down into their campsite a couple hundred feet, it would be calm with hardly even a breeze. The one particular time they camped there, he said he tasked himself with digging some holes in the ground for setting the lodgepole A-frame in so it made the frame of their wall tent sturdy. He dug down 16” and hit a rock on one of the holes just before he decided it was deep enough. He bent down and dug out what ended up being the top half of a flint spear point. He dug around some more to try and find the other half, but never did find the rest of it. He donated it to a museum along with some other neat artifacts he has found out around our farm/ranch and its surrounding area. In that same wilderness area on a different hunting trip, a friend of his was hiking on a mostly unused/beaten down hiking trail and found an old black powder cartridge (can’t remember the exact caliber) laying in the trail and a few steps after that found an arrowhead in the same manner. In the foothills leading into that same area, Native Americans would sometimes hide some of their extra tools or other small items under big flat rocks that they arranged under a distinct tree on a ridge top for safe keeping. He took me to one such spot just off of the trail that had been shown to him, but like you’re probably thinking; I had to check and see if there was anything under them. Of course there was nothing. You used to be able to access these areas on four-wheeler/motorcycle, but it’s all shut down to motorized vehicles now. This thread is by far my favorite to keep up on and I have enjoyed reading each story. Cheers!


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[WrightMomma]

Been with buddies who’ve found arrowheads likely dating back over 1000 years.

My brother passed away in September and left me these.. I just wanted to share them with someone. Arrowhead digging and making tools to do it with is the best memories I have of him.

 

[The Harbor Master]

My brother passed away in September and left me these.. I just wanted to share them with someone. Arrowhead digging and making tools to do it with is the best memories I have of him.

Sorry to hear about your loss. Those are very cool.

 

[wyroberts]

A partially buried cache of traps near a wilderness area in an old burn. I assumed the cache was up in the tree until the burn and then partially buried in the years after. I inquired with an old trapper and he thought based on trap size and location they were probably for mink.

 

[eddielasvegas]

My brother passed away in September and left me these.. I just wanted to share them with someone. Arrowhead digging and making tools to do it with is the best memories I have of him.

What a nice memory of your brother. May he rest in peace.

And let's orient these correctly given their extra special meaning.


Eddie

 

[tradman]

Rez find.

 

[bradyhunt]

Found a cabin in a Mountain creek canyon bottom that doesn't seem to get a lot of visitors. Full of trash and supplies from people who spent a decent amount of time in it. Newspapers suggested mid to late 80s.

Cleaned it out and found some notebook paper notes in the floorboards. Apparently a couple different people or small crews were taking turns in there looking for gold at the confluence of a couple creeks and would leaves notes for each other. The notes described where the dredge site was, where the dredge was hidden, latrine area, etc. I found the dredge site but haven't looked for the dredge. The operation was clearly outside laws/regs. I was able to determine the name of one of the people and even found a couple records of him but never been able to find him. He'd be in his 70s or 80s by now if alive.

 

[Blowdowner]

Not really back country, but walking some foothills where I like to hunt mule deer I saw the flash of a shed. It was just a little fork but when I picked it up there was an old knife on the ground underneath it with the leather washer handle rotted away. Still have it in the shop somewhere, someday I'll put it all back together.

I found one the same way, old timer stuck in the ground, leather rotted away. I made a deer antler handle and sharpened her up.

You guys BOTH found knives directly under antlers?

 

[HighUintas]

Found these old cabins. No trail system on any of my maps.

Was this west of Pinedale/Daniel, Wyoming? If so, I've also been there

 

[Nickofthewoods]

This elk skull was at the bottom of a canyon and almost completely buried in the dried up creek bed. I almost stepped on it and decided to pull it out of the sandy soil.

 

[HighUintas]

I only have pictures of some of these, but here's my list:

- Petroglyphs, pictographs
- Old caches, pottery sherds, corn cobs around ruins in SE Utah
- Two late 19th century mining shovels (separate mountains) at about 10k feet
- many logging cabins 100-150 year old
- fossilized buffler tooth in a creek on my family farm in southern Illinois

One of Cattle king Preston Nutter's cabins down in a canyon


Various ruins/caches, sherds, possibly a kiva