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Wierd things you have seen in the woods.
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[quote:Anonymous Coward 1486940:MV8xNzM3MDUxXzI4NzkwMzU2X0U3M0JCMjEy] It will take a while for me to pick my 44 years of memories to come up with a good one. One of the closest things we had to "woods" near our home when I was a child, tho, was the huge, Golden Gate Park in San Francisco. You could get lost in there. Now and then you'd come across some signs of animal sacrifice, which was kind of creepy. San Francisco was the mecca for Satanism and I remember my parents always pointing out certain places where supposed Satanists covens resided. We were a church-going family, so that kind of thing got everyone's attention, I suppose. When I was a bit older, we moved to Santa Clara. I used to feel safe wandering through town on my own, although I don't think that was always the case. Walking to school there was a shortcut through a wooded park that included a creek, where we liked to go play on the rope swing a lot. It was pretty secluded, and if you went down into the dry creek area, it was about 20 feet deep, so there was a limited number of spots where you could climb back up to the top and walk along the edge. One day I was really glad I was walking up top, rather than down below, because I looked down and saw a slightly chubby light haired man quickly undressing in a depression in the wall of the creek bed, most likely hoping to surprise other middle-school kids were walking toward him on their way toward school. Was so glad to miss out on that awkward flasher moment (although there were others to come). I went and reported it to the office and they had me make a police report. Needless to say, I didn't walk that way again. Weirdos abound, no matter where you roam, it seems. [/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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