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!

 

[nomadicbohunk]

I used to do a lot of field work as a biologist. My wife did too. Both of us strung it out as long as we could. The coolest thing either of us found: I've "found" a lot of native american archeological areas. This one in northern Arizona was wild. The ground for a 50 yard area in a circle was just basically solid broken pottery pieces in various designs. I told the archeologist at the office about it and he wasn't aware of it. It was next to a very old ag field.

Now that I'm thinking about it, I also found a fresh sinkhole once that opened up to a cave. The regional cave scientist there went and explored it. He let me name it.

The funniest: During my masters I was super good friends with two girls that did undergrad together. I had keys to their house and they had keys to mine for us to just hang out type of friends. They had all their lady friends come from all over the US for a visit to hook me up with one of them in particular. One of the girls owned a boat, so imagine this overloaded crappy flat bottomed boat in a small lake in the midwest with my guiding for big bluegill. It was me and 9 women. I had to pee, so they were holding onto bushes as I hopped off. When I was out of sight, there was a pile in a bush with like 10 very not classy and graphic porn DVDs. Think south park type porn titles with images on them.

I picked them up after I was done doing my business. When I hopped back into the boat, I handed them to my one friend. I said in my best deep sexy voice to be ridiculous, "I got you ladies something from the gift shop."

We ended up having a fish fry, getting way too drunk on Mountain Crest, and watching 6 hours of porn. Kind of hilarious and part of it: I recently visited one of them about 20 years later. She lives on one of the ferry only islands in Maine. She was in her bedroom and yelled at my wife and I to come up. She'd saved one of the DVD's that entire time and had it in her jewelry box. My wife was like, "WTF" as my friend and I were laughing so hard we couldn't talk. The one she'd saved had a photo of a male genitalia entering a butt and accordinng to the title was #8 in the series.

 

[Upstatepe]

A poachers shoes made from old tire tread and rope. I am thankful that is not the flip flops we have to wear in America.

 

[Muleyczy]

Found this model 1876 in the White Mountains of California.

 

[Warrior4Christ]

There are a few things that ive found, a shirus moose dead head, I had him alive on my trail cam then found him dead the next year. I've also found a couple of cabins. But the to me the coolest thing is something I find every time I go into the backcountry and that is the peace of God! There is just something healing about being way back in the mountains. You can unplug from life's business and just rest in God!

 

[JGRaider]

I used to do a lot of field work as a biologist. My wife did too. Both of us strung it out as long as we could. The coolest thing either of us found: I've "found" a lot of native american archeological areas. This one in northern Arizona was wild. The ground for a 50 yard area in a circle was just basically solid broken pottery pieces in various designs. I told the archeologist at the office about it and he wasn't aware of it. It was next to a very old ag field.

Now that I'm thinking about it, I also found a fresh sinkhole once that opened up to a cave. The regional cave scientist there went and explored it. He let me name it.

The funniest: During my masters I was super good friends with two girls that did undergrad together. I had keys to their house and they had keys to mine for us to just hang out type of friends. They had all their lady friends come from all over the US for a visit to hook me up with one of them in particular. One of the girls owned a boat, so imagine this overloaded crappy flat bottomed boat in a small lake in the midwest with my guiding for big bluegill. It was me and 9 women. I had to pee, so they were holding onto bushes as I hopped off. When I was out of sight, there was a pile in a bush with like 10 very not classy and graphic porn DVDs. Think south park type porn titles with images on them.

I picked them up after I was done doing my business. When I hopped back into the boat, I handed them to my one friend. I said in my best deep sexy voice to be ridiculous, "I got you ladies something from the gift shop."

We ended up having a fish fry, getting way too drunk on Mountain Crest, and watching 6 hours of porn. Kind of hilarious and part of it: I recently visited one of them about 20 years later. She lives on one of the ferry only islands in Maine. She was in her bedroom and yelled at my wife and I to come up. She'd saved one of the DVD's that entire time and had it in her jewelry box. My wife was like, "WTF" as my friend and I were laughing so hard we couldn't talk. The one she'd saved had a photo of a male genitalia entering a butt and accordinng to the title was #8 in the series.

You should be real proud..........