alone in the woods

[Silver FoxParticipant 2766]

Never had a “strange” encounter, but I have seen quite a few interesting things in the woods.

A couple years ago, I was hunting for deer/elk and when it was getting to be about twilight, I turned to hike back to my truck. I found fresh wolf tracks crossing my own tracks a few hundred feet back. Easily as big as my palm, and I have large hands. No mistaking it for a coyote.

Hunters around where I live have regularly taken wolves that weigh over 200 lbs. I recall one that made a local sensation when it was weighed at 245 lbs, if memory serves.

If left to themselves with plentiful food, wolves can grow incredibly big and strong, a lot bigger than the media would have you believe. Anyway, whatever your opinions about wolves are, it is kinda cool thinking that there could be “direwolves” like from Game of Thrones out there in the woods. 🙂

"Are you loosed from a wife? Do not seek a wife." --Apostle Paul

[AutoliteParticipant]

Anonymous wrote:

But alone in the woods?
Some one hold my hand!! Hahah

I had winter survival training that meant three days and two nights alone in the woods. It’s suppose to be a simulation as the sole survivor of a plane crash. They show you how to make a ‘lean to’ shelter out of fir tree branches and a bed and everything.

They also grade you on building signal fires and stuff. There’s nothing scary about it once you’re shown what to do and how to do it…

[Anonymous 54]

Autolite wrote:

Old Sage wrote:

But alone in the woods?
Some one hold my hand!! Hahah

I had winter survival training that meant three days and two nights alone in the woods. It’s suppose to be a simulation as the sole survivor of a plane crash. They show you how to make a ‘lean to’ shelter out of fir tree branches and a bed and everything.

They also grade you on building signal fires and stuff. There’s nothing scary about it once you’re shown what to do and how to do it…

Ok..but you have to go with me! Hahah

Ive been watching bush crafting vidios latley.
Its something I would like to do.

[Anonymous 43]

riding on a bike trail outside Chicago…Mid spring. A coyote was watching me ride by from 50 feet away.

Having a predator track you as you pass by is unsettling to be sure.

[AutoliteParticipant]

Anonymous wrote:

riding on a bike trail outside Chicago…Mid spring. A coyote was watching me ride by from 50 feet away.

Having a predator track you as you pass by is unsettling to be sure.

I knew a guy who was chased by a wolf pack while on a snow machine. I’ve also heard about a woman who was attacked by a pack of coyotes but I really don’t understand how it happened. I’ve never even been able to get close enough to a coyote for an attack to happen. They just run off.

A few times I’ve gotten too close to a black bear than what would be considered safe but I never felt threatened. They say that if a bear wants to attack you won’t see it coming first…

[FrostByteParticipant 19005]

Autolite wrote:

. I’ve also heard about a woman who was attacked by a pack of coyotes but I really don’t understand how it happened. I’ve never even been able to get close enough to a coyote for an attack to happen. They just run off.

I walked into a pack of 8 coyotes with pups just outside the city, they just ran off the other way. Coyotes will run. So yeah I don’t think she knew what was chasing her. Javelina are more dangerous where I live. If it had been wolves, I would have been killed.

If you rescue a damsel in distress, all you will get is a distressed damsel.

[SamsquanchParticipant 4226]

I have only heard the native animals where I’ve camped. Owl’s, coyotes, deer and ‘coons. There are bobcats in Ohio but I’ve never seen or heard one.

I actually am gearing up to do a lot of solo backpacking when the weather gets nice, so I’ll keep you posted on any weird happenings I come across.

I think that out of all of the conspiracy theories going around, Bigfoot seems plauseable. Lots of empty space up there in the Northwest.

However I think inexperience contributes to people getting lost or dying in the woods. I’ve been studying survival techniques and the areas in which I plan on backpacking, just in case I do happen to get lost. I’m not an expert but I know enough to be prepared and to not underestimate being in the elements for a few days.

[AutoliteParticipant]

FrostByte wrote:

Coyotes will run. So yeah I don’t think she knew what was chasing her.

The incident that I recall was about some young female who was attacked by a pack of coyotes. The only way I could see it happening is if she dropped to the ground screaming and crying or something.

The coyotes probably attacked just to shut her the f~~~ up…

[RennieParticipant]

Do have to be careful in the forest at night. Bears and big cats like Cougars are not nice to stumble onto. Moose can be aggressive too. Read the book Death in Yellowstone: Accidents and Foolhardiness in the First National Park

Though I once did a “24 hour/overnight challenge” (2:30AM-6AM) in the local forest. It was early March, still kinda cold and it was raining lightly. I didn’t see any animals, or find anyone else in there(I did hear a human woop in the distance, at one point). It was great having the whole place to myself.

It wasn’t a really big forest, you could walk from the east to the west side in about 15 minutes and north to south in about 10 min. It was all bordered by civilization on it’s edges – with fences. Only way to get in or out is through the opening in the waist high fence on the west side. Small airport on east side, golf course on north side, large field on west side, subdivision on south side.

Biggest concern I had was getting inside undetected, since the entrance is across the street from houses that face it. After 10 minutes no cops showed up, then the concern shifted to the cursed helicopter, which fortunately wasn’t flying that night. Then I had free run, explored thoroughly and left before dawn.

[Anonymous 7]

I was up on the face of a cliff wall by myself on some private property in the Hill Country of Texas drilling some holes for bolt anchors. When I finished gluing in the bolts I rappelled down the last few feet. I grabbed my gear together to head out of the dry creek bottom. The sun was just setting and the creek was getting pretty dark. The only light I had was a Petzl E-Lite (emergency headlamp with one small LED bulb), so the going out was not as practical as coming in. I did not really plan on being there until dark. I was about 1/4 mile from the trail that led back to the house.

I’m stumbling and grumbling my way around the pits and over the boulders that were strewn throughout the creek. I was having to really pay attention to what I was doing due to the weakness of the light that I had.

All day the cicadas were filling the woods with noise. I set my gear down to readjust how I was carrying it. This is were I noticed the dead silence around me, until…

Have you ever heard a mountain lion making chatter very close by? One of the most freaky and terrifying noises you will ever hear. I was a bit worried, to say the least. They are ninjas and you will never know they are watching you or from where.

I went back the next morning to place the anchor chains, and at the bottom of the climbing route I had been working on I found a nice pile of scat. Guess the lion was making a point?

[AutoliteParticipant]

Bigfoot would be a once in a lifetime opportunity. F~~~ taking blurry pictures, I’d shoot his ass. Cut off his head, walk right into one of those jackass bigfoot finding meetings, drop it down on the table, and tell them all to go get real jobs.

[,Participant 1301]

I trail hike 100 – 150 miles a month.

Scariest encounter for me is definitely the left-footed veegan-vag and the simpmangina-smugga-drone.

I have pretended to break my ankle just to let them get away from me.

Otherwise, meh, I probably spent way too much time alone in the woods as a child.
welp- hill time. see ya.

with joy/without hate

[TicParticipant 4329]

Silver Fox wrote:

Hunters around where I live have regularly taken wolves that weigh over 200 lbs.

I read quite a bit about wolves. We even have a wolf sanctuary 60 minutes from where I live. Their biggest wolf is a giant…incredible.

Samsquanch wrote:

I actually am gearing up to do a lot of solo backpacking when the weather gets nice,

some people may disagree but personally, I always take a high caliber firearm with me to any serious hike or camping situation alone. just in case.

FrostByte wrote:

Coyotes will run

Yes, they do. Although, report is coming out that ours are getting a little too aggressive as their numbers have flourished. The deer population has helped that.

Anonymous wrote:

Have you ever heard a mountain lion making chatter very close by? One of the most freaky and terrifying noises you will ever hear

No, and I bet. I certainly would be afraid.

, wrote:

Otherwise, meh, I probably spent way too much time alone in the woods as a child.
welp- hill time. see ya.

Good luck, bro. Just be safe.

Rennie wrote:

Read the book Death in Yellowstone: Accidents and Foolhardiness in the First National Park

Should be a good read. I’ll check it out. More deaths have been happening lately in Yellowstone area due to careless human err in judgement.

Earlier this year in montana, a guy on a mountain bike took a bend at high rate of speed and slammed into a male grizzly. The grizzly tore him apart. The guy’s buddy ran off, that’s how they know what happened. What a f~~~ing crazy story. Wilderness is unpredictable, cruel, but incredibly beautiful.

God bless peace and freedom.

[RennieParticipant]

Tic wrote:

Should be a good read. I’ll check it out. More deaths have been happening lately in Yellowstone area due to careless human err in judgement.

Earlier this year in montana, a guy on a mountain bike took a bend at high rate of speed and slammed into a male grizzly. The grizzly tore him apart. The guy’s buddy ran off, that’s how they know what happened. What a f~~~ing crazy story. Wilderness is unpredictable, cruel, but incredibly beautiful.

And some guy walked into a thermal pond at Yellowstone. They never found him, since he dissolved completely.

The book covers stories in different kinds of dangers like geological and animals. Even a couple of stories about arrogant women who ignored warnings and paid a gruesome price – like the one that decided to go camping in the wilderness by herself and ended up being literally eaten by a bear.

[TicParticipant 4329]

Rennie wrote:

And some guy walked into a thermal pond at Yellowstone. They never found him, since he dissolved completely.

Yeah, I remember that one. It was recent. Morale to the story: Hiking around thermal water holes at night is not the best idea.

God bless peace and freedom.

[Anonymous 42]

If you’re ever alone in the woods at Jay Peak Vermont at the 3,700 ft. elevation you may ski across my northern most bumper sticker about 2 miles from the feminazis republic of C~~~ada. My friend sent me this photo shot a week ago, I spread them from north to south all the way to Mayan country in central America! C-Pig has one on his truck! I still have a few hundred left…

[sidecarParticipant 35837]

I’m not that into metal, but this is f~~~ing hilarious: SJWs attack metal band over “Bigfoot Lives Matter”

I think I’ll buy one of their shirts.

Tic wrote:

personally, I always take a high caliber firearm with me to any serious hike or camping situation alone. just in case.

That’s only common sense, and not just when you’re alone. Bigfoot may not be real, but bears and mountain lions definitely are. And humans can be worse than any bear.

The difficulty lies in picking something that’s good enough to keep you safe, but won’t get your ass busted by fish and wildlife for poaching. That’s why I also carry bear bells, bear spray, and all sorts of other s~~~ with “bear” on the label.

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