Unusual Items you've come across abandoned on trail.

[uutuku]

I was bushwacking at the north end of Kassan Bay on Prince of Wales Island SE Alaska. and about a mile off the beach, in heavy timber I came upon a crashed and burned Hiller 12E helocopter. It had obviously fluttered down through the canopy and smashed into the ground. There were marks on the trees and broken limbs, and evidence of a fire. I eventually found out that it had had engine failure and auto rotated into the trees. The pilot and two geologists had minor injuries but were able to walk out to the bay I had walked in from. They had a camp there and a radio and called in a float plane that took them to Ketchican for treatment. The owners of the helo had salvaged the radios and other usable parts.
It was really weird looking for bodies then trying to get word out to athorities. I was 50 miles out of Ketchican, and had to travel by boat to Kassan village about 10 miles, where they had a radio. I described what I had found and the location and a couple hours later the state troupers radioed back a thank you and details of the crash.

[MedicineMan68]

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My girlfriend and I took a small "getaway" this weekend and i convinced her to go on a short hike with me yesterday morning. We spotted this sweet little hooch about a mile down the lonestar trail from 1375 in New Waverly, TX. They did everything using natural materials and built the frame around a downed tree. Since it got chilly the night before, we left them a mag bar and striker...just in case the bow drill didn't work. But either way, beautiful workmanship and it was a really cool find for her first hike! Thanks for looking.

[saustin1967]

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My girlfriend and I took a small "getaway" this weekend and i convinced her to go on a short hike with me yesterday morning. We spotted this sweet little hooch about a mile down the lonestar trail from 1375 in New Waverly, TX. They did everything using natural materials and built the frame around a downed tree. Since it got chilly the night before, we left them a mag bar and striker...just in case the bow drill didn't work. But either way, beautiful workmanship and it was a really cool find for her first hike! Thanks for looking.

Cool!
We were also in SHNF this last weekend.
Just down the road from you, should have come visited.
http://bushcraftusa.com/forum/showth...NF-Trip-Report

[JC1]

shouldnt those leaves have the stem side up?

[TrackerInTraining]

I've never found anyone else's stuff but i did find a piece of gear I had lost the year prior!

I had an old whistle that was my dads from when he was in the National Guard, I carried it as a distress whistle when i went hiking and such. When I was around 15 I was on an annual trip in the Idaho mountains. We'd set up a base camp and then do overnights and day hikes out of the camp. On the overnight we had camped in the woods next a meadow. The next year we go back to the same place and someone says "Hey guys, I found this whistle hanging on a tree." Imagine my surprise when it was mine haha!

[Seeker]

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My girlfriend and I took a small "getaway" this weekend and i convinced her to go on a short hike with me yesterday morning. We spotted this sweet little hooch about a mile down the lonestar trail from 1375 in New Waverly, TX. They did everything using natural materials and built the frame around a downed tree. Since it got chilly the night before, we left them a mag bar and striker...just in case the bow drill didn't work. But either way, beautiful workmanship and it was a really cool find for her first hike! Thanks for looking.

that's funny as heck that we were there too... wonder if it was a fellow BCUSA member, or an orphaned bushcrafter who doesn't know we exist...

[ccast]

uhmmmm...... broken bongs, cars folded in half, engine blocks, my friend was walking in the pond in our neighborhood and it was dried up and he found a rusty 22 cal ruger handgun. i knew a guy whos kids friends found a skeleton of a woman who was murdered in the woods in our neighborhood.

[Grillsgt]

My son and I were hiking in the back 18,000 acres of Barksdale AFB and saw the bones of a model T on the trail

[MedicineMan68]

shouldnt those leaves have the stem side up?

I think, brother, it was made just to be made... for aesthetic properties if you will.

[bulldogparts]

found this just off the trail recently, originally posted here
still have no idea what its original purpose is, really looks like a piece of a stove. so funny how i was thinking about how annoyed i was with myself for not getting my wood-gas stove running as nice as the ones i've seen here and on utube, and i looked at my feet and this thing was sitting there.
i think the smaller hole in the top is a pivot for a cap, gotta be a stove or burner of some kind. notice the handles on the sides.
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Looks like a vent cap that would cover a chimney or smokestack.