Started out the night with a massive meal, 1/2 pound of Serrano peppers and a 1/2 pound of aged cheddar, and fresh baked bread. One of my favorite snacks!

Loaded up the backpack with knives, total weight about 20lbs of knives.

hit the road jack! the wet road, the rainy road! [censored] that rain was coming down hard!


parked the truck, disabled the engine, and hurried into the woods, eager on vanishing quick before anyone sees me. After all........man with backpack full of massive knives, late on a rainy night.............there is no getting around the fact that this is not a normal societal thing to do.....

but i have never really been a part of society........

I dive into the woods, crouching behind bushes as the Ranger truck passes by. I tripped the camera in the trees when i walked pass the gate......Ranger looks around, 5 feet form me, walks back to his truck and waits. [censored]. If i move he will see me. I lie prone and wait. I piss out the evenings coffee to my side, steam mixing with the rain mist. Ranger drives away, i "carpe diem" and vanish into the dark wet woods.

bang my shins on a log, miss step into a puddle, but i dont dare flick on the TK11 or the 7060 flashlights...not yet, gotta hit that ridge outta sight of the service road.....

rain coming hard, the trail is thick with mud and water.

step into space and freefall. ****! catch myself sliding into darkess. pause. Take a chance and light up the TK11, shielding the beam. Oh. oops. theres a stream, i'll go that way. Hit the ridge and light up the TK11 in high setting. Disappear into the woods. heart pounding.

Hike for 30 minutes until i'm way deep into the woods and away from prying eyes.


Suddenly!!!!


HE WHO WALKS THE WET WOODS AT NIGHT WITH KNIVES is spotted!!!!!!!!!!





its ok though, for he and I are fellow knife collectors!

I get these shots of knives in use:

the knives:


Kabar Khukuri VS a fallen douglas fir:


Becker BK7 with modded micarta slab scales:


SOD!


Becker/Kabar BK9:


Kabar MULE folder, slicing a branch:


Spyderco sprint run large MANIX:
[img]http://i491.photobucket.com/albums/rr274/Bushman5BFalbum/DSCF0484.jpg[/img]

Handley Bladesmith TAC EDC fixed blade:
[img]http://i491.photobucket.com/albums/rr274/Bushman5BFalbum/DSCF0485.jpg[/img]

Micheal Morris SAR File Necker:
[img]http://i491.photobucket.com/albums/rr274/Bushman5BFalbum/DSCF0486.jpg[/img]

the sounds of tools chopping wood echo in the wet night woods. I kill the lights and look around, heart thumping. Whats that? foot steps? rain? wind? i spin in a circle with the lights, looking for someone.....no one....its my own psyche working overtime.......

I sit for a bit, listening to the rain in the woods....

hike back to the truck.......

see 3 shadowy figures by my truck....WTF? i stop, hidden in the dark. They rooting around in my truck bed. I get pissed off and walk out onto the road, TK11 in one hand, 7060 light ion the other. Click both switches and pit lamp the ******** teenagers by my truck. They freak out and think i'm the cops and run to their car. I run towards them two lights blinding them. They peel out and leave most of their quarter panel behind when they strike a massive rock placed by the rangers as a decorative rock. I look at my truck, i'm missing 10 liter of gas out of my jerry can. &*^*$#$$&*^*&(&*(&%^$^ special place in hell for thieves....

that was my short but sweet little woods hike tonight!

Fascinating! A little creepy, but fascinating! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

You didn't bring you fire kit? Getting a fire going in the monsoon would have been impressive.

(Oh, and fresh home-baked bread is amazing; the stuff you can buy in shops is not even in the same food group)

what? you find someone with a backpack full of sharp choppers, late at night, walking thru the woods......creepy?

hehehehehehehe

Sounds like you had fun through all that.

What really freaks me, is that there were 2 of you <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/ooo.gif" alt="" />
with the same idea on the same night in the same area!
Wow! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/ooo.gif" alt="" />

If I were a mental health expert, I'd say you need therapy, Bushman. But since I am only a 61 year old Viet Nam vet, I say, "Go for it". Sounds like some things I did in my youth, like discreet night hunting. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Woods at night are fun as hell!But I always take my sawed off Mossberg 500.

becareful you could cut yourself in the dark.....lol. The thieves got what waas coming to them - more money in damages than what was taken, <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" /> and a sleepless night!

Cool!!! Looks like fun. I've never done that exactly, but I've always enjoyed going Blackberry picking in the summer time real early when the dew is still covering everything or right after a good rain. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

ah my fellow Dawg! night walks int eh woods are my therapy! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Wow, great gear!

Gripping story! I'm hoping for chapter 2. The pics are perfect.