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Wierd things you have seen in the woods.
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[quote:Anonymous Coward 6311523:MV8xNzM3MDUxXzI4NzkwMTUyX0UzRDJBMjY1] And yet another creepy woods story. I do a lot of fishing so I spend a good deal of time in or near woods. I was fishing on Fry's Run Creek in Coffeetown PA, far up the creek deep into the woods. I was fishing for trout but kept catching these stupid eels which would not leave my bait alone. These are native browns in this creek and they are very smart and hard to catch. Well after catching like 10 eels I start chucking them behind me on land so the stupid things would stop biting on my line. Well, nightime creeps up on me and I break out my flashlight to pack up and leave. I hear this noise in the woods behind me and turn and shine my flashlight on the woods. BAM... sets of green eyes EVERYWHERE. It was like a scene out of scooby do. They were up in the trees on the ground, sitting on rocks. There must have been 25 Raccoons just waiting for me to leave so they could get their hands on those eels. Until my mind put two and two together that they were just coons there was a hell of a rush before that seeing all those eyes. [/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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