Finding Weird Stuff While Hiking

[SweetSassyLady]

I thought I would tell you all about this. We were hiking last year and found a log chain that was wrapped around a tulip poplar but it was 15 foot off of the ground and it had grown into the tree. We thought it was pretty funny at the time. Now I wonder how it got there, it obviously grew with the tree but I wonder why someone didn't come back and get their chain. These things aren't inexpensive. Some of the things you find when you're hiking are sure puzzlers.

[CozInCowtown]

Found a 1930s model Ford pickup once way back off the beaten trail.
Absolutely no way to drive it up there, I have no idea how or why...
DC

[steves]

Found this about 3 miles from the nearest road, a quick search of the area didn't show any other signs of an old mill or anything

[wvbreamfisherman]

Hiking up on Shaver's Fork in Randolph county, WV, we came across an old logging camp in a little hollow off the main river. There were lots of discarded pots and pans, but the most interesting thing we found was a stack of horseshoes. There must have been 50 of them- all huge! I'd say they were a good 8-10 inches across. They must have been for big draft horses like Clydesdales or Percherons.

This was way before the era of small cheap cameras, so I don't have any pictures. We stumbled on the place when we were bushwacking across Cheat Mountain, and I doubt if I could ever find it again.

[BirdBrain]

Wow guys! That's awesome! I would love to have that huge saw blade. My wife is a collector of stuff like that and she would love it. We used to go bottle hunting when we were out sometimes. We have found some awesome cork capped bottles that were thrown away probably in the early 1900's.

[oldsarge]

Originally Posted by steves

Found this about 3 miles from the nearest road, a quick search of the area didn't show any other signs of an old mill or anything

I can make a bunch of knives out that saw blade. Man, I never find anything that good!

[Michael]

About 50 feet off the beaten path, I found the foundation of a little cabin, with the chimney pretty close to intact. Behind it was a mostly filled in well that looked just like the one in the Ring, which I'd just seen recently.

In the same area, I was hiking a back trail that's sort of hidden, so it doesn't get used much. On one side is steep hill going up. On the other is steep hill going down. The path is not wide enough for a car, but a third of the way down the downhill side, there's an old rotted out car frame. I think it was rolled down from the fields at the top of the hill.

Not so much weird as lucky, I found a brand new Victorinox on top of a mountain. I asked everyone I saw for the next 20 minutes if it belonged to them, but everyone said no. So I'm free and clear with no guilt. A while later I gave it to my nephew for Christmas. No excuse for a boy of 13 not to have a good knife.

[wvbreamfisherman]

Found a nice DuxBak camo jacket hanging on a sapling along an ATV trail when I was squirrel hunting a few years back. It was soaked by the rain we'd had the day before so it had been there a while. I guess it was snagged off the back of some 4-wheeler and the guy never went back.

Still wearing it. :-D

[Grandpa]

While backpacking along the Middle Fork of the Salmon River, deep in the River of No Return Wilderness, came upon a near new saddle and frypan hanging from a tree. The cinch and stirrups had been removed, probably to keep someone from saddleing up and riding it out of there. I can only assume someone lost a horse back in there and left the saddle until they could return with another to carry it out.

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[limbs]

The strangest thing I found was a garden gnome. It was the strangest thing and about 2 hours out in to the woods. All I could think was, "Why would someone carry a garden gnome this far out in the woods?" The only thing I could think is that it was for a joke and to make people like me wonder, so I just left it. Garden gnomes have always freaked me out anyway.