Unusual Items you've come across abandoned on trail.

**rocketbomb** · 07-24-2011, 02:14 PM

Whiskey I want to say that's a shocker but something doesn't look just quite right for that. Apart from that it looks like a really overcomplicated bar mower. You can see where there was a reel above the cutter bar--most of that has rotted away and fallen off as the spokes for those were made of wood.

Most interesting item I've found was this:

We left it as we found it.

**Mr.Black** · 07-24-2011, 02:18 PM

Originally Posted by One Legged Josh

I was hiking/flyfishing one of our local parks and found an enema bag with hose and "applicator" hanging about waist high from a tree.

Thats pretty weird.

tracks and marks of a BG fan...Saw it right off lol
M/BK

**GeorgeH** · 07-24-2011, 02:20 PM

I stumbled across an old foundation in Greece (Corfu, IIRC) while staying out in the field. Just a few stones at ground level forming a few small rooms. The site overlooked the sea and I sat there trying to imagine what mundane activities took place in and around where I sat. One of the best nights I ever spent in the field.

**justin_baker** · 07-24-2011, 02:22 PM

Not weird, but cool. Full bicycle innertubes. I used it for various things.

**TheProfessor** · 07-24-2011, 02:25 PM

Originally Posted by Whiskey

Around here, its your usual condom wrappers and beer cans. I did find a discarded Kansas City Royals T-shirt though... There is also an older piece of farm equipment I cannot ID.

I think this is what's left of a binder. A binder is a wheat or oats harvesting machine that cuts grain and then ties it in bundles to be threshed later. Nowadays, cutting and threshing are done by one machine, the "combine!"

**Mr.Black** · 07-24-2011, 02:35 PM

These were known but not to me light Bomber,B24 or 25 on Keller peak,and another light Bomber on San Gorgonio plus the Rescue copter that crashed on top of that the story goes.Lot of gear finds in the Training area enough to build a complete Airman lol
Small Journal of life at a Cabin...nothing too weird that I can recall

M/BK

**RangerXanatos** · 07-24-2011, 02:37 PM

Part of an old derailed train in my back yard. Foundations of buildings I believe had something to do with the railroad or granite quarries.

**Skrapmetal** · 07-24-2011, 03:56 PM

Unfortunately it's not as unusual as I wish it were... last year a buddy and I were hiking with his kids and came across a recently abandoned backpack containing the makings of a mobile methlab. Not sure if they heard us (we weren't being quiet at all with the young kids around) and split or not, but it hadn't been there very long at all.

A bit disconcerting to think that we could have run across someone in the middle of cooking that crap with the kids with us... God only knows how that would have played out.

**remington79** · 07-24-2011, 05:50 PM

It's not unusual but I thought this was pretty cool to see last summer on one of my hikes. I was just up there last Sunday and it didn't survive the winter. I didn't think it would but no one has replaced it. I did find the flag pole about 20 yards away.