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Wierd things you have seen in the woods.
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[quote:Anonymous Coward 13620656:MV8xNzM3MDUxXzMwMzkxMzc0X0U3NkJEQTM2] [quote:Anonymous Coward 9299561:MV8xNzM3MDUxXzMwMzg4NTc3XzNBODc5MTA0] When I was in the USAF I was stationed at George AFB Ca. It was in 1984 when I was hunting jackrabbits in the desert near apple valley,a couple miles off Muni rd.,I was near an odd rock formation,a kind of rock maze. A flash of light got my attention and I looked through the scope of my 30.06. It was a dog with tags on its collar standing outside the "rock maze" and it started barking at me. I started walking toward the dog, and the dog got more and more anxious as I closed the 300 yd. distace.When I was about 50 ft. away, the dog ran into the maze, and I followed its barking into the maze,and I heard another dog yelping pitifully. When I had tracked down the source of the yelping, it was a black collie with 20 ft. of chain jammed into a wedge of the rocks, the collie had been there for several days. The other dog was some kind of hunting dog,and was some loyal friend to that collie to stay there for however many days it were before I showed up and undone the chain from the collar of his friend. The dogs both jumped up and licked my face before running off across the desert toward Apple Valley. [/quote] Great story. :cool2: [/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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