What is your favorite thing to do in the woods?

Sesoku

Sesoku

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Assuming you are safe and sound after putting your survival skills to use and have some time to kill what do you do?
 
I like to do nothing.... enjoy the moment.

When the sun is out... and I have nothing to do... I lizard train. Try not to visualize this
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I take all my clothes off and let the sun kill all the bugs on my body. It feels sooooo good.

When the snow is on the ground, I build a big fire and enjoy its dance.

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Absolutely nothing is better than standing in a trout stream with the sun on my face listening to the sounds of nature. Don't spread this around or the government will ban this sort of senseless activity.
 
I agree, it is nice to just kick back and relax. I also really like it when I find a place that has a nice long view, you have to search a little in Michigan for places like that.
 
Hey Greg! Why are you standing naked in my trout stream?

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Listen and watch. There's always so much going on that we never take time for..
 
I do tai chi forms and meditate.

sometimes make art or make a list of how I can do better next time.

 
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Sesoku, Yeah... microorganisms... a sun bath
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Barry, it wouldn't be the first time I was caught bathing in a stream. Happened once when I was aggressing students while in the military. Found a stream, ahhh... nice day... I stink... why not. While cleaning my back side
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... Looked up and there... in the bushes... is it a bear?... nahhh, just another camo'd student trying not to be seen. I acted like I didn't see him, finished up, got dressed, and left. Of course, I told one of the other aggressors who captured the guy five minutes later. We interogated the hell out of him
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Greg Davenport
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My absolute favorite thing to do is be in the woods before daylight comes close to breaking. Then sitting quietly and watching the woods wake up. Naturally there are night creatures, but the woods is so much more active during the day, it is fun to listen and watch.

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Lee

LIfe is too important to be taken seriously. Oscar Wilde

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Early in the morning nothing beats a walk through the woods when everything is moist, listen to nature later on sit and read a good book.
And I must tell you doing some close quarter combat moves with my wife, well I was younger then also was nice
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Cheers, Bagheera


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I like to chase bugs, watch birds, key out plants, etc. General biology study.

For instance, have you ever watched robber flies hunt insects from their perch on a sun dappled leaf? Or see antlions make a pit for hunting? Or watch a buck stick it's nose straight up in the air, testing for scent or get on its hind legs and rug its eyes on twigs above a scrape? Or watch a backswimmer gather oxygen at the edge of a pond? Have you ever noticed that the "bees" pollinating flowers have only two wings because they are really flies that are mimicing bees?

I can sit for hours and watch leaf cutter bees make chamber after chamber to store their eggs (got paid for a whole summer doing just that!). You can watch them cut their leaves and carry them off between their legs to line their nests. You can also see them battle parasitic wasps that hover around their nest, waiting for them to lay that single egg that the wasp will then rush in and lay thier own egg on.

It's an endless story and an endless adventure. I've been lucky to make it part of my job as a biologist. I've never been bored in any woods. There's just too much drama going on everywhere you look if you take the time.

It just goes on and on.

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Hoodoo

No, I do not weep at the world--I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
Zora Neale Hurston

Oversharpen the blade, and the edge will soon blunt.
Lao Tsu
 
I like to:

See the beauty of the woods.
Hear the music of the forest.
Invoke the spirit of the outdoors.
Take time to read.

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~B.


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Suburbia: Where they tear out the trees, then name streets after them.
 
I love to sit by a big tree and close my eyes and just listen!
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The woods have a song all their own and once everything is active normally then it really sings.

Usually this leads to one of two things:
1) I take a VERY RELAXING NAP!
2) Some animal gets active and refuses to let me sleep, so I spend an unknown amount of time watching it!

Either way, I enjoy myself!
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Plainsman :)
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You use what you have on you, then you improvise! :)
 
It sounds like a lot of you backpackers would like to do what the bowhunter does every trip. Sit and watch nature. How anyone could go into the wilderness with the sole intention of going from point A to point B and miss all the education and entertainment in between is beyond me.
 
In no particular order of preference: photograph, read, nap, observe, listen, hike, sing, play guitar and day dream.

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well it is not my favorite thing to do, but I wind up having to do it though, check and fix the fence (since the city folk that live next door don't fix there fence) but sometimes when I'm walking alone I could sneak up on a few animals or get within 30 feet or so before they notice me.
 
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