Why do you go out into the woods?

[wildWoman]

People on the forum seem to be doing quite a variety of things in the outdoors, but I kind of wonder if the actual reasons for going into the woods might not be similar...
So what is it that you like so much about being out there?
What's the longest stay or trip into the backcountry you've had, and if you could, for how long would you like to go ideally?

[Rick]

To sharpen the saw. To practice new skills I've either read about or otherwise researched. To enjoy nature and just spend some quality time. Quiet time (that might be a shocker to you). I only do a couple of days at a time. I think a week would be about my limit. I have other things I love to do, too.

[FVR]

To kill animals and make a cup of tea.

[Rick]

Nell, that hug didn't work.

[mitch.chesney]

To get away from people, work, and civilization. I could stay out indefinitely if the rest of my life wasn't so revolved around money and work. Even taking a weekend here and there makes it so much easier to go on the tedious work I do (programming... not fun let me tell you... think Office Space). Winter is the toughest for me since I really do hate winter camping/surviving, though in the spring/summer/fall I get out at least every other weekend.

[nell67]

Nell, that hug didn't work.

Oh well,I tried,LOL your turn...run FVR!!!!!!

[Tony uk]

Oh well,I tried,LOL your turn...run FVR!!!!!!

Have i missed something ????

[nell67]

Have i missed something ????
No hun,not really ,LOL

[corndog-44]

Cause I can't stay away from home.

[Elkchsr]

I belong there

[Tony uk]

No hun,not really ,LOL

Hmmmm, Suddenly Rick starts offering hugs or taken hugs and FVR is involved somehow ???

I thought this site was confusing enough but this is just another stage :eek:

[nell67]

Hmmmm, Suddenly Rick starts offering hugs or taken hugs and FVR is involved somehow ???

I thought this site was confusing enough but this is just another stage :eek:
LOL you gotta go to the "This Reminds Me" thread to get it!

[Tony uk]

LOL you gotta go to the "This Reminds Me" thread to get it!

Thanks for the tip :D

[Sarge47]

They draw me to them, I don't really know why. The smell of leaves or the feel & sound of the wind blowing through the trees or the ripples it forms on a pond or lake. A fish jumping, a squirrel chattering, or the birds chirping. Then all is right in the world. This is my world.:cool:

[RBB]

Get tired of plastic. Like dealing basics; where will I sleep, what will I eat, can I get over the portage and into the next lake before night falls, etc.

There is also the spiritual aspect. Too many things coming at me in civilization - keeps me from thinking deep thoughts.

I like the real world - unlike this box. Virtual reality? Rather go for the real thing.

[Nativedude]

Cause I can't stay away from home.

Couldn't have said it any better myself Corndog!! :D

[Catfish]

Because it's good to be reminded of what's really important. For me, being in the woods is real life. The rest is just filler.

[carcajou garou]

Because the city is way to scary to be in, I like my comfort zone :D

[Jay]

Ever since I was a kid I've always liked wild places. Now I work part time as a wildlife research assistant and part time as a survival instructor. both jobs require a lot of time in the wilds.

Then come vacations with my wife. Strangely enough most of our vacations seem to be in jungles and national parks. I guess we just like the wilderness.

[WildGoth]

i don't know why i love the outdoors so much just been that way hate being stuck in doors and if a i could gather up enough cash i would stay out there for as long as i could till i had to resupply

[cyc79]

I've loved the bush all my life.Freedom,peace & quiet.It's where I'm happiest & where I feel the most alive.Went so far as to build a cabin & spend as much time there as possible.Would stay there forever if $$$ would allow.

[trax]

Cuz today's the day the teddy bears are having their picnic...what no one else remembers the song?

Seriously though, it's been said here already, it's where I belong (and if I want to have tea with Frank, it's where I have to go to find him, I'll just follow the path of carcasses :D).

[nell67]

Because I feel more comfortable there than anywhere else I go

[hopeak]

The wilderness accepts me without judgement. It does not care that I am fat, ugly, lazy, balding, old, half a' boubble off.....The wilderness is the place to get out of my mind; I do not judge the wilderness as I wander through it; I do not see a tree as defective, because it is bent, twisted or some limbs are broke. It is that, and it is perfect; It is what it is. The whole is perfect, and the parts are perfect.

I feel like a child at Disneyland, there is so much to see, that the eyes race from wonder to wonder. Drawn now here, and now wandering toward, what is that over there.

I am the mirror that the wilderness is reflected on; And the wilderness is the mirror that I am reflected on. And so we are "ONE".

There is only what is, and what is, is the pure bliss of being "ALIVE".........

[nell67]

The wilderness accepts me without judgement. It does not care that I am fat, ugly, lazy, balding, old, half a' boubble off.....The wilderness is the place to get out of my mind; I do not judge the wilderness as I wander through it; I do not see a tree as defective, because it is bent, twisted or some limbs are broke. It is that, and it is perfect; It is what it is. The whole is perfect, and the parts are perfect.

I feel like a child at Disneyland, there is so much to see, that the eyes race from wonder to wonder. Drawn now here, and now wandering toward, what is that over there.

I am the mirror that the wilderness is reflected on; And the wilderness is the mirror that I am reflected on. And so we are "ONE".

There is only what is, and what is, is the pure bliss of being "ALIVE".........

Even better hopeak,the wilderness does not judge us because we are not perfect.It accepts us in the way we are,it does not care about our past.

[hopeak]

rather thought that is what it say, But perhaps not.

[nell67]

yep its what you said,sorry,my ADHD got the better of me there for a minute :)

[Chuck]

I live there if you could blow up my avatar you would see my home. Almost 70 miles from the nearest road.

[Two Rivers]

Because it's where life is as it should be. Peaceful, at its own pace.

[toasta]

i go to chill and listen to the river and every now and again to hike

[LadyTrapper]

I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in. John of the Mountains:The Unpublished Journals of John Muir, 1938


And like so many have posted ahead of me......it's the feeling of going home. The smell of the woods after a light rain, if bottled, would be priceless..

[FVR]

I was out in the woods today, chasing bunnies with a slingshot. Think I met up with Bugs, killing a rabbit with a slingshot, yeh right, LOL.

And I'm a good shot with the slingshot.

[tracks]

To feel like Im part of something real,no BS no false represntation just
me and the wild and I am good at it.

[canid]

because it's my home. it's where i come from and where i feell i belong.