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Wierd things you have seen in the woods.
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[quote:Anonymous Coward 6311523:MV8xNzM3MDUxXzI4NzkwMDkzXzM5QTJCN0M4] Speaking of bears. I never saw one up close but I do have a scary bear/woods story from back when I was like 21. I was in the Pocono mountains in PA camping with my GF at the time and her family. We snuck off into the woods to get a little private time on a blanket. We left the spot and went back to the car to leave and she realized she had forgotten something back in the woods. I went back to get it and ended up getting lost in the woods. I was walking and walking and walking for hours and finally I see a clearing up ahead in the woods that I was sure was a property or road or something. As I got to the area I noticed it was not human property, but BEAR property. The bears had knocked down all the smaller trees in the area and you could see all the claw marks in the trees. I started to move away from the area but man was I scared I would take ten steps and stop and listen. This went on until I was far away from the clearing. I walked and walked and walked and finally came out to a road almost 12 miles from the campsite. I had to walk all the way back too and did not make it back to the campsite until after dark. I screwed up everyone's day because we were supposed to leave around 11am but did not get out until after 9pm. [/quote]
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I got a special wilderness permit to go into an area in the mountains in CA where they hadn't allowed foot traffic in, in twenty years. There were no trails. It was myself and two other Marines and we did it in exchange for seeing if there was a rare kind of trout in the streams up there. I guess the forest service didn't have anyone who wanted to do it. I'm not sure I was set up with this by a friend. Anyway we hiked for two days with no trails using just a map and compass and on the second day we walked around this huge cliff to find a full on cabin with a lawn and solar power and washer and dryer the whole nine yards all built into the rock face of the cliff. You couldn't see it from above so it had gone unoticed for years. We talked to the guy that lived there and he said we were the first people he had seen hike in, in 14 years. He was a retired helicopter pilot and he had flown all the equipment in by helo. He was squatting on federal land and knew it but didn't seem worried. He said he hikes out every two weeks for supplies by a different route then we came in and he showed it to us. We used that route to get back as he had a trail beaten down so the walking was easier. All in all it was pretty cool. The trout the forest service was looking for were in the creeks so it is still closed to foot travel and we never told the forest service about the old helicopter pilot so I would bet he is still out there.
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