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

[AHayes111]

I've found several shot-up cars and trucks from the 40s and 50s miles from any trail or road. Makes you wonder how is the hell they got back there and why.

Was this on the Custer?

 

[Bolt]

Depending on you past experience with split tail at the time, you could also post this experience in the thread, "things youve lost in the back country"

That would have been a first for sure but wasn't. I may have missed the opportunity if I didn't know any better.

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[realunlucky]

Found this in nevada far far away from anything that even loosely resembled a road

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[go_deep]

Found this in nevada far far away from anything that even loosely resembled a road

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Was the bottle of moonshine yours?

 

[RockAndSage]

Was the bottle of moonshine yours?

Pretty sure that's a Clorox bottle. You find them a lot around old remote Nevada mine sites, largely used for water purification as I understand it.

 

[JJOutdoors]

My soul

 

[Fireman03]

 

[Rotnguns]

Way way back in the day, in the mid sixties, there actually was sort of a "back country" in the hills of Castro Valley, California. While exploring as a ten-year old, I found a femur that was later identified as belonging to a camel. Turns out that there was a short-lived population of them stemming from a brief experiment by the US Cavalry; didn't work out and many were turned loose.

 

[loganwayne]

I've found several shot-up cars and trucks from the 40s and 50s miles from any trail or road. Makes you wonder how is the hell they got back there and why.

you'd be surprised at how fast nature will take back old road beds, two tracks, and rail road lines and you'd think they were never there.

Here in the southern Appalachians you'll find old logging train tracks in places you'd never think a train would get to. I found a winch that was probably 10+ tons bolted to a huge rock outcrop. cable on the drum was probably an 1"+ thick. did some digging and they used it to control a train going back down the mountain fully loaded because it was so steep in sections. but the train, tracks and everything else is gone and no signs of it.

 

[Steve300xcw]

you'd be surprised at how fast nature will take back old road beds, two tracks, and rail road lines and you'd think they were never there.

Yup, pretty impressive how fast nature takes it back

 

[Wiley coyote]

Way way back in the day, in the mid sixties, there actually was sort of a "back country" in the hills of Castro Valley, California. While exploring as a ten-year old, I found a femur that was later identified as belonging to a camel. Turns out that there was a short-lived population of them stemming from a brief experiment by the US Cavalry; didn't work out and many were turned loose.

I had permission to hunt Palvarosa ranch and family friends with the Soares. Great hunting back there. There are bluffs made of seashells back there

 

[Rotnguns]

I had permission to hunt Palvarosa ranch and family friends with the Soares. Great hunting back there. There are bluffs made of seashells back there

Back in the mid 1960's that area was quite remote. I remember a very large ranch nearby; perhaps that's the one you mentioned. I'm sure much of the area that my brother and I explored is covered with houses and streets by now.

 

[Rotnguns]

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Beautiful chert arrowhead! Looks like it's darn near opalized from the light. What a find!

 

[Wiley coyote]

Back in the mid 1960's that area was quite remote. I remember a very large ranch nearby; perhaps that's the one you mentioned. I'm sure much of the area that my brother and I explored is covered with houses and streets by now.

The big red barn on Crow canyon Rd.

 

[Bachto]

One time on a high ridge where a fire had burned 2 or 3 years prior we found 3 firehoses left behind from fire fighters. we packed them back to the truck.

 

[Rotnguns]

The big red barn on Crow canyon Rd.

We lived on Highwood Road, near Cull Canyon. I see that there is now a Cull Canyon recreation area - nice to see some of that area is preserved!

 

[Blowdowner]

Interesting. I will do that, thanks. Got a trail cam near it.

Follow up?

 

[Carr5vols]

Found this on a random tree a mile or so from a trail in colorado this year...my guess was he liked to hunt this spot.

 

[wavygravy]

Exploring around a swamp in SE VA as a kid and came across a roostery? rookery? of white egrets. There were thousands of them in the trees with their chicks making noise, a bunch of dead ones all over the ground and poop / feathers / bones / skulls from prior years spread everywhere making the entire area almost white. Pretty cool to see, probably 25 years ago and I've never been back

 

[danwolf]

I’ve found some neat things over the years, but the coolest find was a cliff dwelling in Arizona. Picture is through my spotting scope, unfortunately I didn’t go check it out. I watched too many Indian Jones movies.