Woods bumming/ hidden treasures

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lmalterna

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The thread about making a living in the woods got me thinking about my younger years and the time spent wandering the wilderness areas in SW Virginia. Many of these areas once held farms and homesteads & many of the trees that once made up their orchards have left their offspring there.

Walnuts, cherries, apples, dewberrys, currents, blackberries, pears-- all found growing wild. One of my favorites is wild strawberries- manywalks have been halted to sit in an overgrown hayfield and eat little wild berries.

An untapped resource in a time of need or just a pleasant break- watch for birds gathering in trees-- might be ripe fruit to be had.

2Door
 
Me and my wife(then girlfriend) bummed around and did a bunch of hiking in the northwest and rocky mountains back around the turn of the century. It is amazing how cheap you can live on the move. Of course, gas was about $1.50 then. We spend a lot of time in SW Colorado. there are tons of old homestead apple orchards that go untouched around there. Three adults and three kids with only one orchard ladder picked over 1000 lbs. of apples in a leisurely afternoon. Those were the best apples I have ever had, I bet I ate 20 or 30 of them in a day.
 
I spent my time between Vollney/Sugar Grove/Rural Retreat- every summer and long weekend. My parents lived in Roanoke and my grandparents had a farm outside RR. They were origonally from Troutdale and lived on Mt. Rogers before it was a State Park. Heard of Pound but have not been there.

2Door
 
Oh, I don't live in Pound, but I have spent some time there. My Mother used to live outside of Pound and now she lives somewhere up near South Fork. Picking up coal on the side of the road, carrying water, rattlesnakes, ginseng and squirrel - what a place!
 
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