Whats the wierdest thing you've found while in the woods?

[Dan-o]

I was hunting a Western Wa clearcut and found a pair of binoculars..................... on the same stump I had left them about 5 years earlier.

[greg.elkslayer]

I found an old woodsmans saw that was about 7 or 8' long. Still leaning on the tree where he left it. I wished it could have spoken, the things it could say and the elk it had seen.

[Stickerbush]

Found an old yorkstown shovel bear hunting this year, all metal and real heavy. Also I was driving up a forest road and came up on over 1000 sheep! some clankin around with bells around there necks. A couple guys were there herding them around and some big mean dogs barking at me! it was pretty comical really, wish I had my camera.

[vfilbert]

shot a deer one time in archery season, he died right on a game trail, in mid gutting out of know where a marathon runner with spandex and numbers on flew by me, gave me a wave, and off he went. bizzar!

[DaveBTS]

On the way to Fawn Lake.

[halflife65]

Come to think of it, there's a memorial stone like that in the Naneum unit that I found.  Forgot about that.  It's a painted rock with a guy's name on it.  Seems like he died in his '60s.

[MikeWalking]

Also I was driving up a forest road and came up on over 1000 sheep! some clankin around with bells around there necks. A couple guys were there herding them around and some big mean dogs barking at me! it was pretty comical really, wish I had my camera.

August of 1988-89(?) I started out to do the PCT from Hwy 2 to I90. Got about 2/3rds, to Lake Waptus and spent 2 days there watching the rain come in sideways, got to feeling pretty bad and decided to hike out to Salmon la sac, well off my map. Spent the night  at the headwaters of Lake Cle Elum. Next day I started down a road, fingers crossed it was the right one.  Came around a corner to an acre of scat that I didn't recognize.  Decided it must be sheep, sure enough a corner later there he was, right out of a Basque travel brochure. He gave me directions that didn't sound right, so I went the other way. Looking at a map later he had me going miles out of the way over a very tall ridge..

[missinmt]

I ran into three guys in the Margaret Unit in the late 70's while on an elk hunt.  I had popped out of a some reprod, kinda turned around a bit, but after a few realized where I was, slung the rifle and started a 4 mile walk.  Came around a curve in the road and parked along side was an old studebaker pick-up with three guys just standing there.  No talking, just smoking and standing by the truck.  A shiver went up my 17 year old spine but I said hello in my deepest voice and they said nothing.  The oldest guys eyes burned a hole into me that I remember today.  No words were spoken, but those eyes clearly said "get the hell out of here", which I obliged as fast as I could without running.  Never so glad to get back to camp and am creeped out just telling the story again. 

[krout81]

In 2000 I was on a three wheeler archery hunting down in 673 near naselle and I when down a road that was 15 year old clearcut(wall of brush).  Anyway was planning and going to the end and getting to some timber.  When I got to the bottom to turn around and park a guy in full swat gear vest, ar, face paint, radio, the works came out of the woods and right behind him was a pacific county sheriff with a chrome pump action.  The sheriff came over and asked me what I was doing and explained to him while shaking and wondering what the hell was about to happen.  He said you need to get out of here so I pulled the ole string and off I went.  Come to find out 2 years later that they were in the middle of a Pot Bust.  Someone found a stash that was being protected by guys with AK's and the 2 I ran into were covering an exit point.  I am sure glad I found the police and not the guys with the AK's

[Lon]

Not in the woods but coming out, still count?
About 18 years ago 3 of us were hunting the hills near Twisp and coming off the mountain into a canyon full of houses we spotted a fight going on between 3 guys in orange and a home owner in a white blood soaked Tee shirt. We pulled off the side of the road pondering what we should do (3 against 1) and decided the best thing to do was to first pull off our orange and walked back to the fight hoping someone would come to their sense's. As we got closer we could see how bad the land owner was beatin but could also see his rage which in my opinion is what kept the fight going. The hunters would try and get in their truck but the land owner would do or say something and all 4 would be fighting again. I looked to my rite to see the owners wife (hadn't missed to many meals) running down their long drive way holding a cam recorder filming the hole thing, she even walked down to our truck and got a shot of our license plate. To make it worse I spotted a young 13 year old boy sitting in the front seat of the hunters truck with saucer size eyes, hope it wasn't his first hunting trip with dad! Anyway we herd sirens and jumped into out truck to leave, half way down we see this cop car flying up the road with a lone female cop driving. After a few jokes about that we were on our way home. A few weeks later my hunting buddy gets a phone call from the Sheriffs office wanting our side of what we had seen, turns out the 3 hunters were off duty cops of some sort from the west side. Don't know what started it, don't know how it ended...............................

[Lon]

Here's another one this time while in the woods hunting!
We were in the hills above Lk. Wenatchee coming off the mountain when we noticed tire tracks running off the dirt road over the steep bank. We stopped, got out, and looked over the edge to see a '46 Chevy 2 ton flatbed laden with fire wood on the back. It had gone over the bank and center punch a tree, good thing as it was another couple hundred feet to the bottom. We carefully walked down the cliff expecting to find a dead driver but no driver. A good thing as most of the wood had shifted forward from impact into the back of the cab pushing it and the seat forward almost to the dash. Looked like the driver had bailed before impact. Looked to be a nice truck before the tree kiss so we looked her over, on the left front rubber brake hose I found a C- Clamp and 2 nickles clamping the brake line off completely, looks as though the owner/drive had known it was on it's last leg!

[greg.elkslayer]

How about a cougar, hovering over its prey, protecting it and hissing at me during archery season, all within 20 yards of me
Well an arrow or two later the cougar was gone and I did not want to go in to the bushes to find it.

[Greg30-06]

In 2000 I was on a three wheeler archery hunting down in 673 near naselle and I when down a road that was 15 year old clearcut(wall of brush).  Anyway was planning and going to the end and getting to some timber.  When I got to the bottom to turn around and park a guy in full swat gear vest, ar, face paint, radio, the works came out of the woods and right behind him was a pacific county sheriff with a chrome pump action.  The sheriff came over and asked me what I was doing and explained to him while shaking and wondering what the hell was about to happen.  He said you need to get out of here so I pulled the ole string and off I went.  Come to find out 2 years later that they were in the middle of a Pot Bust.  Someone found a stash that was being protected by guys with AK's and the 2 I ran into were covering an exit point.  I am sure glad I found the police and not the guys with the AK's

Gotta love Pacific County!!!!

[thomasmx]

Found a picture of a chick giving a guy a b**w J*B. The guy getting the hummer was the one who took the pic. BETHEL RIDGE.

[spottedhand]

Back in the late eighties I was hunting on ft lewis in an area close to the Roy 'Y'.  I was driving through an area which was usually a dump spot from the road.  I glanced over and then did a double take.  I thought I saw a dead body naked with the legs bent up in the air.  I looked back to the road and was driving right into the brush.  I quickly made a loop back to the spot and just as I came around the corner.  There was this dude pulling up his drawers and the women was scrambling to cover herself.  All the while there sits rover with his leash just waiting to finish his walk.  I was laughing so hard, I almost ran into the brush again.  After finishing my evening hunt I was going back to main post when I was stopped at a DOD police checkpoint.  I related the story and they were all just about rolling on the ground, especially about the dead body with the legs in the air.