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

[Pony Soldier]

I can match you on that one. In my high school years, I fished my way into a early 1900s railroad logging camp. Narrow gauge, steam locomotives. It had been pretty well salvaged out but a few remnants remained.

I could hunt all the railroad beds on my honda 90 for 15-20 miles in many directions. That has all gone away with the california migrants locking everything up as they moved in the 70s.

It was a fun snoop. In my early years. I even picked up a set of log tongs from the horse logging chutes before they had chokers.

Thanks for reminding me. I had nearly forgot.

 

[Fisherman5000]

A giant pudding stone

 

[Muleychaser22]

Happiness

 

[eddielasvegas]

A giant pudding stone

Kewl and who knew? I sure didn't.

Info HERE.


Eddie

 

[CaribooBC]

Sasquatch…..

 

[SleepyJones]

Beaver skull my son found was neat because we can remove the 2 front teeth and re-insert them back into the skull. When in the skull the teeth stick out about 3/4 of an inch but when they pull out they are about 5" long.

 

[Old Hickory 45]

When my brother was 13 years old and I was 14, we found a human skeleton in the woods on the old Mississippi River bluff 3 miles from home. The back of the skull was crushed.

 

[Dos Perros]

When my brother was 13 years old and I was 14, we found a human skeleton in the woods on the old Mississippi River bluff 3 miles from home. The back of the skull was crushed.

Excellent bait post.

 

[Cherokeeguide]

I found a petrified scallop once while pig hunting on Fort Hunter Liggett.

I found a bunch of JATO (Jet Assist Take Off) bottles near the summit of a mountain on the Butler Peak, CA USGS map. Someone went to a lot of trouble to shoot a .50 caliber hole in each of them, lug them up to the near summit of that mountain, and stack all two dozen of them in a tidy pile. At the base of that same mountain, I found that the Forest Service used a Pratt and Whitney jet engine shipping container as a water source for wildlife, filled with water from a pipe that tapped into a spring. On the north side of that mountain, I found a locked Wells, Fargo and Co. Strong-Box of the type used during the horse drawn vehicle era. I went back with a shovel to dig it out of the ground but I could never find it again. On a different mountain summit on that same USGS map, there is wreckage from a Fokker Tri-Motor airplane.

I found a petrified shark's took while chukar hunting once.

The coolest thing to me was finding feral mouflon sheep in the Santa Lucia Mountains, with W.R. Hearst's "Castle" off in the distance. No closed season. No tag required. Best damn arrosticini I ever made.....


Actually, the coolest thing I discovered in the back country was that I didn't go there to "escape from reality," but, rather, to return to it.

 

[BC03]

You guys have found some wild stuff!