Hey Neil, found that lean to!

[Lowbatts]

You forgot to mention the skull collection in it...Hmmm, I've seen movies about sites like that before, and cartoons! They never end well.

Mayo and I went ahead and sloshed in today. Waited until the drizzle lightened up and hit the area where you and Mark were yesterday. By "area" I am talking geographically loosely of course. After talking to Mark this morning, he told me about where it was, then it went through the Lowbatts Scrambleometer (my mind) and of course when there's a trail to a spot and a thicket of brambles, I almost always choose blood loss and difficulty over common sense.

And from Mayo the unspoken thought, "Why oh why would we go into there? No one would go there, 'Batts?!?"

And from me, his guide, "Sounds like a right good reason, let's bleed!"

Anyhow we wound up far and away from the spot. Did manage a wheatie today, a '27 and a cookie pusher's pin. In one remote spot, someone had left some cultivating tools and what looked like a recently worked spot. No guesses on what someone would wnat to grow in a remote, physically demanding area to make it too out in the woods there, but I snatched them tools. Got some rusty thing, maybe a tool, maybe an old iron toad whacker, who knows? It's about a foot long.

Mayo scored the shiny today back in a remote clearing. Tomorrow is of course doubtful for me, but I'll give it thought and sleep on it! Signing off for daily dose of dammitol for now.

[kimsdad]

And from me, his guide, "Sounds like a right good reason, let's bleed!"

Geez, I hate buckthorn! You didn't tear up my crops, did you? I want my tools back!

Glad you got out there Tim, even though it was a crappy day! Nice finds, too!!!

The picture doesn't do the size of that shelter justice, does it?

We're going to head back there today and get torn up some more!

[treasurefiend]

Hell yea, I love hunting in the thickets!!!! Thats like the last undisturbed places to hunt usuially with a few goodies to be had (but yea you need to be a lil disturbed to hunt them)....

[watercolor]

That area can be brutal! Now I know why it was probably never hunted too thoroughly

Neil & I are heading back out there this morning so, if you two are inclined. . . maybe we'll see you.

Take care,
Mark

[litefire56]

Nice finds Tim! Too bad somebody bent the handle bars on that cultivator..

[d-dub]

Great hunt Tim. Funny you should bring up cookie pushers. My dads gym teacher in high school used to call him one!

[Olderactor]

Guess my pot crop won't be coming in!!!

What else would anybody plant that far from anything!!

[Mayo South Elgin]

The weirdest thing about that cultivated area was there weren't even any roots left in the ground or any cuttings or clippings or debris at all. And yet they left the garden weasel and the other cultivator.

Maybe it was ginseng. Or garlic. Yeah that's it... a boy scout merit badge project in agriculture.
My first guess was weed also. I'm just glad it wasn't a big enough operation to warrant booby traps being strategically placed all around it.

Maybe they were just planting fall bulbs.