Thread about interacting with the woods.

[cooly]

i go to the woods like 3 times a week now because being alone there feels kind of cool but being alone in my apartment feels like shit

[chimp_]

you've taken your first step to full time living in the woods

[king ding-a-ling]

got to see some giant sequoia's close-up at Yosemite over Memorial Day weekend, shit was awesome

[cooly]

[Juggly D, The Posting Maniac]

FUCK nobody told me there'd be a spooky picture of a ghost in this thread!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[waldojeffers1]

cooly I want you to know I have one of those moles too

[cooly]

board from the woods every day

[Sharmoota]

[cooly]

waldo it's like we grew up in the same house, but i walked out the back door, and you walked out the front

[blotter]

one time I was walking around solo in the woods and this complete stranger I passed had a 4 pack of SPARKS which is like a energy drink with booze in it
so we shared them and then smoked a bowl which was crammed full of the last of my weed
and basically tried to walk the trails but ended up in a rage running blindly together and we somehow got off the trail and jumped out onto the beach, surprising a pack of girls with crazed the looks in our eyes

also psychedelics are really fun to do in the forest. this is how i found out that gnomes and fairies are real but you can't see them normally because they're magic and shit

[waldojeffers1]

are you implying that I'm not as hard as you

because if you are man

that might be a thing

[Bartatua]

a lot of people are immune to poison ivy

i am. you can rub that shit all over me and nothing happens.

my brother was in summer camp with this kid that claimed immunity to poison ivy

to prove it, he rubbed it in his eyes and chewed on a bunch, so he woke up in the middle of the night and his eyes were swollen shut and he couldn't breathe

[raskolnikov]

not woods interactions per say, but my dad and I were talking about this again because there's been a few drownings around here lately.

he used to be a park ranger near a reservoir here. saylorville, nefarious.

when they first built the spillway from a smaller reservoir to the large one, it was really popular to slide down it, and as you can imagine, that's a horrible idea because they have those concrete blocks at the end to prevent erosion which creates kind of a current that could trap someone against the blocks under the water. it did a few times and people drowned and the activity was obviously banned, but people still do it anyway. one of my dad's jobs was to drag for the bodies when it became a recovery mission.

another time some young guys were out canoeing and drinking at night and accidentally tipped the canoe, so they decided to swim to shore. one of them didn't make it, and he had to recover him too.

rangers also usually ended up being first to respond to vehicle accidents, and I guess there was a pretty horrific one where a drunk guy flew off a bridge and hit a support.

they also were responsible for cleaning up road kill. they were lifting a deer onto a truck once, and when they tossed it into the bed, it loosed its bowels all over them.

the best story though is when he was driving by boat ramps and night and saw headlights shining out from under the water at one. when he went to go investigate, a young man and woman, naked as the day they came into this world, were coming out of the water. they decided to park at the boat ramp and have sex, but they forgot to pull the e-brake on their VW bus.

some pretty shitty moments, but overall he loved that job.

[raskolnikov]

I'll have to ask him about his stories from forestry camp again sometime because those were some good ones too.

he was camping out somewhere around lake superior with his brother and uncle one summer, and he woke up to his uncle yelling because he was scared shitless when he woke up to a deer standing over him with its face inches from his.

we were hiking in colorado one summer, and there had been reports of a mountain lion in the area. the bushes started rustling a few feet from us, a beaver waddles out, and my mom screams. it startled us all though.

I've been chased by three raccoons. one by the dumpsters at the summer camp I worked at when I was tossing out garbage after a camp dance, another at the center I worked at in mexico when I surprised the mom leading her children across the patio early one morning, and the last in my front yard because I was trying to get a picture of it to prove that it comes out of the storm drain to eat from the bird feeders.

[Kevin McCallister]

FUCK nobody told me there'd be a spooky picture of a ghost in this thread!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[j-ol]

i agree that we need to operationally define "woods"

I was running in the woods this morning and accidentally terrified this old lady. She obviously didn't belong in the woods.

i run through the woods and this happens sometimes, part of me feels guilty but i also consider them weaklings.

once i was shrooming pretty hard and walking through an uphill wood, and began imagining the rotting foliage underfoot was dead hooker remains. that was an unsettling time in the woods.

[dr. badvibes]

i object to the term interacting in the thread title

its more like inflicting yourself on the woods, and the woods being too tired and polite to just drown you in the creek as it ought

[Buddy Glass]

The last time I took shrooms, my friend climbed up in this tree and remained there, perfectly still, for a long time. Someone took a picture of him because we were all convinced that he and the tree had become one, and it seemed like even the camera had captured this new reality, but then of course the next day it was just a boring picture of my friend sitting in a tree.

[gallits]

My dad used to take me here quite often at about 5AM in school holidays caus it's a wicked place and he wanted to collect firewood when no one was looking. I obviously hated it 4/5 times because I was a dumb kid but I when I was up for it, it was the most exciting place.

[mites]

some pretty shitty moments, but overall he loved that job.

loosed its bowels all over them

[Nova]

sup cooly

[mcneil]

used to turn over a lot of logs because i was into finding the weirdest insects possible

[Dinosauria We]

i used to keep my various marijuana smoking tools in the woods, usually a bottle/bong thing in one spot and tinfoil in another

[wolfie]

when i was a youngster i took a walk in the woods once in an area that i frequented with my family

anyways there were these remains of an old camp, like pretty much completely overgrown and rotting structures, almost reclaimed by the earth. it'd probably been just sitting there for thirty years or something. i'm doing a bad job of describing it because i can't really conjure it in my mind right now, but anyways...

so there was that. and after going there i frequently had very vivid dreams about this spot. nothing crazy, but for some reason it was like burned into my subconscious or something. i remember the dreams about it being very plesant - like you'd be dreaming and saying to yourself "i know i'm dreaming, but i really should go take a walk here again". anyways several years down the line i did take that walk again, and there was no sign of any of these old structures. like nothing.

and for the life of me i do not know if they ever existed or if it was all in my mind the entire time. i mean i am completely unsure if this place existed, if i ever walked there to begin with, or if i just dreamed it to begin with and thought it was a recollection of reality, or whatever. it kind of bothers me because i want to see this spot again in the state i remember it, but it doesn't exist. at least anymore. i think.

[Petty]

I worked on a hostel/campground/farm last summer in the Scottish highlands in the middle of the woods. Every day was awesome.

A couple of times I just picked a direction and walked in it for a few hours. One time I found a huge flattened pile of old woodchips in what I thought was the middle of nowhere. Turned out it was 100 feet from a road but it was an amazing "WHAT THE FUCK??!" feeling to walk into a open space in the middle of a forest. It was from some saw mill from World War II

[shark week]

gonna take a long lunch break and play a round of disc golf in the woods today

[Mesh]

I used to ride a 26" 1970s Raleigh 10-speed out to the strip of woods and creek that was 6 miles outside town. One time, I parked the bike by a tree and walked into a clearing. About 50 yards in the distance, at the edge of the clearing, something began to emerge from say 30 or 40 feet up in a tree, in complete silence. Before my brain and eyes figured it out, a huge owl had passed just inches above my head. Man that shit was scary and impressive.

There's really nothing like watching animals silently in a clearing in the woods.

[Dr. Norm Thagard]

There's really nothing like watching animals silently in a clearing in the woods.

I'm about to start reading

[south pacific]

[murray st.]

wolfie's story reminds me of this weird abandoned summer camp area i found behind an old running gear shop in my hometown in 2008 i think. my girlfriend and i found a bunch of photo booth pictures of some girls goofing off and making weird faces and stuff, and an amazing early 90s-vintage mixtape that had h-town "knockin da boots" and the ugly kid joe version of "three little pigs" on it, and a really depressing postcard. i tried to go back there a few months ago but someone bought the property and there was a big gate and no trespassing sign.