The Big Woods and big govt are my neighbor

[greybeard]

Looking down my driveway, 60' from my front steps..see the little yellow/black sign just above the car roof?

Close up:

Fortunately, I've only seen any govt people out there once in about 40 years, and that's the day they came thru and re-blazed their property line--which is also my property line.
But, that is what the big thicket looks like up close, and that particular shot is kinda sparsely vegetated compared to about 100' south or north of this sign. Ya don't want to be walking around out there without a good sense of direction--and a little luck and maybe a compass helps too.

 

[Red Bull Breeder]

That the better part of our big goverment Grey Beard. I got them little yellow signs a joining me to. National Forest is a better bunch to deal with than National Parks.

 

[dun]

Ya don't want to be walking around out there without a good sense of direction--and a little luck and maybe a compass helps too.

Sounds like when I used to deer hunt in the Dismal Swamp. Any time we left the trail we flagged our way with surveyors tape.

 

[Jogeephus]

I pay taxes on some swampland that is very easy to get lost in if its overcast because the creeks run north south east and west and you just can't get your bearings. Several people have gotten lost on the property but never me. I've only been turned around for several hours but never lost.

 

[ALACOWMAN]

i lost my bearings once scouting deer.. just by walking around a tree.. i said no big deal, i'll come down the mountain one way are the other......... ........not before i walked six miles across it though :lol2: thank God for the bend in the mountain or ida walked all the way to TN..

 

[hillbilly beef man]

Several people have gotten lost on the property but never me. I've only been turned around for several hours but never lost.

My great-grandfather worked for the Pittsburg Logging Co. when they logged off the Laurel Fork track for the first time in the late 20’s and early 30’s. Laurel fork is an 8 mile long and 7 mile wide road less tract of timber, laurel thickets, rock cliffs, and mountains. I asked him once if he ever got lost up there. He said “Nope, I spent three days and two nights once wandering around not knowing where I was, but I was never lost.”

 

[TexasBred]

GB watch those indians down there. You know how bad they are about skipping off the rez. ;-) Get them out in that thicket and we may have another lost tribe.

 

[TennesseeTuxedo]

i lost my bearings once scouting deer.. just by walking around a tree.. i said no big deal, i'll come down the mountain one way are the other......... ........not before i walked six miles across it though :lol2: thank God for the bend in the mountain or ida walked all the way to TN..

Ida sent ya back...

 

[ALACOWMAN]

i lost my bearings once scouting deer.. just by walking around a tree.. i said no big deal, i'll come down the mountain one way are the other......... ........not before i walked six miles across it though :lol2: thank God for the bend in the mountain or ida walked all the way to TN..

Ida sent ya back...

had to hitch hike back to my truck... learned a valuble lesson that day. i thought i knew these mountains like the back of my hand...

 

[highgrit]

Sure a bad feeling when you realize your turned around.

 

[greybeard]

Sure a bad feeling when you realize your turned around.

Depends who you're with--if ya catch my drift. 8) 8)

 

[Jogeephus]

Several people have gotten lost on the property but never me. I've only been turned around for several hours but never lost.

My great-grandfather worked for the Pittsburg Logging Co. when they logged off the Laurel Fork track for the first time in the late 20’s and early 30’s. Laurel fork is an 8 mile long and 7 mile wide road less tract of timber, laurel thickets, rock cliffs, and mountains. I asked him once if he ever got lost up there. He said “Nope, I spent three days and two nights once wandering around not knowing where I was, but I was never lost.”

I was raised on the edge of the blue ridge mountains and if that laurel thicket is the same as what we called a "rhododendron he77", your great grandfather had a good way of toning down a situation cause I've been in these things and they are pure he77.

 

[hillbilly beef man]

Yep, a laurel thicket is the same thing. To get through one the best way I have found is to get down on all fours and crawl through them. Kinda un nerving to do though when you know timber rattlers are around. Luckily by hunting season it is too cold for snakes.

 

[greybeard]

as long as the snakes agree....

 

[cow pollinater]

Sure a bad feeling when you realize your turned around.

Depends who you're with--if ya catch my drift. 8) 8)

I have a buddy that took a gal quail hunting down in Kern County which is high mountain desert. They used the quad to go find quail and they'd get off and chase a covey around and then move on some and when they turned around to go back to the truck they jumped another covey. Long story short they wound up spending the night in San Luis Obispo which was about eighty miles away from their truck. At dusk an oil rig worker gave them a ride to town, which they were thinking would be Bakersfield.
He tried to call her a few times after that and never did get an answer but he did receive an unexpected gift in the mail shortly thereafter. It was a navigation system for his quad. :lol:

 

[cow pollinater]

That the better part of our big goverment Grey Beard. I got them little yellow signs a joining me to. National Forest is a better bunch to deal with than National Parks.

:nod: You don't even have to be that close of a neighbor to a park for them to be a bad neighbor. It's like having a nosy lib bigmouth at the other end of the block jumping on a trampoline just to look in your backyard and make sure that nothing that you're doing is against their rules.