Post the strangest things you have seen in the woods!!

At Salt Springs Park in PA, there is a rock that hikers like to stick pennies on. Over time the pennies end up melting on the rock. It looks like a Dali painting...

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that is so weird, I wonder why some bend up? or why they melt in the first place, could it be just acid from the rain dripping though the pines?
 
My wife (GF at the time), and brother were hiking in Prescott, AZ a few years back, and this particular trail lead to a cool scenic view point. While wondering around for a few minutes looking for a good spot to tap a kidney we saw a huge rock covered and I mean COVERED in thousands of ladybugs. it may have been some kind of mating season, but that was the only rock with the ladybugs on it.
 
In regard to old cabin remains with not much left but stonework one occasionally stumbles on. Don't forget, in the old days of westward expansion, people would burn their cabins when they were moving on and recover the nails by sifting through the ashes. Nails were a valuable commodity and hard to come by 'way out there.'
 
As Johnny Carson used to say: "I did not know that!"

Very interesting. I'm surprised it didn't render the nails too brittle.

DancesWithKnives
 
i've found a few strange things, none particularly interesting, but i did once wlk in on about 6 guys having sex in a clearing, i walked back where i'd come from pretty damn quick
 
James_Terrio said:
If anything it would make them softer. ;)
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Yes, it would anneal them.

I have told this before, but it comes to mind every time someone puts up a thread like this. The weirdest thing I saw in the wild was not something I saw, but rather something I smelled.

I was solo hiking Mokelumne Peak in Mokelumne Wilderness in the Sierras, in an area that sees very little human presence. About five miles from the trailhead (which was at the end of five miles of dirt road so narrow that brush was scraping both sides of my car, which was at the end of maybe 10 miles of gravel road), I came to a large deadfall with a lot of trees in a jumble.

I was suddenly hit by an overwhelming smell. The only thing I can compare it to would be if you took a hundred stinky dogs that hadn't had a bath in years, got them all damp, and put them in one cramped room. I could taste it in the air. I walked by the deadfall area, paying very close attention to it. After summiting Mokelumne Peak, I returned the same way. When I got to the deadfall, there was no trace of any odor.
 
Weirdest things I ever saw were some of the aforementioned chimneys when I lived in New England. Pretty cool, actually.

I think some of the weird things people claim to have seen in those woods were just me. ;)
 
Not really strange but a bit creapy. I was hiking on the Helderberg escarpment outside of Albany, NY and came across this sign...
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When I got near the cliff edge I saw this. Seems like someone didn't heed the sign's warning...
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lambertiana said:
I was suddenly hit by an overwhelming smell. The only thing I can compare it to would be if you took a hundred stinky dogs that hadn't had a bath in years, got them all damp, and put them in one cramped room. I could taste it in the air. I walked by the deadfall area, paying very close attention to it. After summiting Mokelumne Peak, I returned the same way. When I got to the deadfall, there was no trace of any odor.
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You probibly came across a bear and didn't see it. they can stink something awfull.
 
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