I Found it in the Woods

[BritKLR]

Found this old boy sitting at the base of a pine tree, in the Colorado Rockies, at about 9000 feet and off trail in the forest.....since pull tab beer cans disappeared in the 70's or close to 50 years ago, I suspect some good ole boys from the front range were camping out there and forgot to pickup their empties!

 

[NevadaLover]

Found this old boy sitting at the base of a pine tree, in the Colorado Rockies, at about 9000 feet and off trail in the forest.....since pull tab beer cans disappeared in the 70's or close to 50 years ago, I suspect some good ole boys from the front range were camping out there and forgot to pickup their empties!

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I myself Love to find that kind of history, too much is disappearing every day, that's why I travel backroads and consult my folders of ghost towns and historical places whenever I go somewhere, I want to see and visit it all before scum eliminate it all!

 

[robtbritn]

While exploring deep in the mountains up in Idaho I pulled the Jeep off to the side of the trail next to a small stream, walk up the steam a ways and decided some ice cold water splashed on my face would be refreshing. As I was leaning over I spotted something in the water, I reached in to pull it out but discovered in was mostly buried in gravel so stared digging it out. What I found was an old rams horn. It was covered in moss and just looked like another rock in the water, looks like it had been there for a long time!

 

[Ozarker]

Worse when it came and went years ago


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The 30th was 25 years ago!

And about that time I found true love in the woods.

 

[BritKLR]

Junk in the woods.....

We live in the ghost town of Tungsten, Co. The white tents up on the hill in the B/W photo is our land. Every spring I wander our property and usually find a neat piece of old steel that gets added to the "junk" pile. The "junk" pile is mining/milling debris that was once part of the tungsten mining industry and was mitigated in the 50's- 60's.

Except for the brick wall portion, that came from the old Red Crown Tavern/Inn in Kansas City, Mo where Bonnie and Clyde got into a shoot out with my old LE Agency in 1933. The site was cleared for construction around KCI Airport in the 90's so I rescued a piece.

 

[NOPEC]

Travel by water in remote areas in most of North America can give you a completely different slice of the non-mechanized history of travel, exploration at the time and above all, the fur trade. The shore and ancient campsites along these historic highways often produce some nice stuff made even more interesting by the ravages of time. Here are a few shots from a paddling trip in the East Arm of Great Slave Lake not too far from the village of LutselK'e in the Northwest Territories of Canada.

Bannock was a main stay of early water travellers, both indigenous and white, with good old Magic brand baking powder as a main ingredient. These old tins seem to last for ever, unlike the new plastic ones that UV to dust in a few years.




Of course with lots of Bannock and cowboy coffee, other considerations, like a John, are usually important...



Of course while you are out nosing around in the northern bush, the odd vistor might pop by to see what you are up to.....

 

[robtbritn]

Again in Idaho I stopped at this old cabin, took a walk across a meadow as I could hear the river a few hundred yards away. I walked upstream a ways and found this soaking tub, the black hose went upstream further and was used to fill the tub. Under the tub was dug out for a fire pit, nothing like a hot bath after a long day of hard work!

 

[dierkz]

Travel by water in remote areas in most of North America can give you a completely different slice of the non-mechanized history of travel, exploration at the time and above all, the fur trade. The shore and ancient campsites along these historic highways often produce some nice stuff made even more interesting by the ravages of time. Here are a few shots from a paddling trip in the East Arm of Great Slave Lake not too far from the village of LutselK'e in the Northwest Territories of Canada.

Bannock was a main stay of early water travellers, both indigenous and white, with good old baking powder as a main ingredient. These old tins seem to last for ever, unlike the new plastic ones that UV to dust in a few years.

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Of course with lots of Bannock and cowboy coffee, other considerations, like a John, are usually important...

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Of course while you are out nosing around in the northern bush, the odd vistor might pop by to see what you are up to.....

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Healthy wildlife there! And that can is so tough

 

[jgaz]

Both of these lard cans were found at the site of what was probably an old mining camp north of Cave Creek, AZ.

This can was found only partly buried, in the middle of a bush


This example, from the Armour Packing Co. was almost completely buried

 

[RDK13]

Found this out at Mott Lake on Fort Liberty (Fort Bragg) while hiking around with my dog.

 

[deserteagle56]

Found a complete bus near a spring in a very remote region of northern Nevada. Been there quite a while, the trees had grown into the bus.

 

[Ozarker]

Reminded me of a news story from years ago about a 132 y/o Winchester found leaning against a tree in Great Basin NP. Found this article about it on line.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/01/14/the-mystery-of-the-132-year-old-winchester-rifle-found-propped-against-a-national-park-tree/

Pretty amazing …

do you have a reference that doesn't require a membership to read?

pretty amazing that a tree would not grow in 132 years. think about it.....

 

[dstefan]

Best I can do is some screen shots. As far as growth, trees up there don’t grow much or fast. You’ll see its a scrawny cedar type tree. Maybe it was moved, but they didn’t think so. Who knows!

 

[deserteagle56]

At the altitudes in Great Basin Park, trees grow very slowly...and live seemingly forever. Some have been found that are nearly 5,000 years old - so 132 years is nothing.https://www.nps.gov/grba/planyourvisit/identifying-bristlecone-pines.htm