I know you like pics and I was walking about, so...

I was walking a dog, and looking for a good mast for my next boat project. I needed a round, straight and right thickness at right heights kind of spruce with very little branches. Hard to come by. So, with the mast searching and dog walking I took some pictures too, and thought to share them with you.

Took this with me for field testing.
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Just leaving the yard, spring sure is coming.
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On the road, soon I'll turn in tho the forest.
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The dog decided that we should go through there.
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The woodland is less snowy than the fields.
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I set the camera on timer and took some photos of my own ugly face! With the dog in the pics too.
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With no potential masts on that trip, we begin to return home, and go past this little stream and a nice little lake.
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Dog heard something.
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It was a nice little walk in the "backyard" with the dog, camera and knife. (and space blanket, matches, fire steel, colt lighter, mobile phone, dry tinder and a small roll of 0.6mm iron wire.

Nice pics. Any mast candidates?

Few possible(found today), nothing for certain, but there is a lot of trees in the forest...

that's your backyard ?

looks like heaven to me

How did the Sissipuuko hold up?

Why do I only get boxes with RED "X" inside and no photo......?

Nice picture. So what kind of knife was that , it looked like a mora ?

Still dial up? It might be downloading the pictures.

Nice looking dog and a nice backyard.

Oh yeah - I almost forgot. What's all that white stuff?

@Sourdough. I sometimes get the little boxes with the red x's too. Sometimes when I look at them later, the pictures are there. I don't have an explanation - just wanted you to know it's not just you.

Looks like some great country. Thanks for sharing!

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Originally Posted by Sourdough

Why do I only get boxes with RED "X" inside and no photo......?

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Sometimes on slower connections that happens. You can right click on the X and it should show an option to load picture or show picture then it should come up.

very nice,,,,,,,,, brrrrr,,, but nice :) thanx

Cool pic's, thanks for taking us along, looks like northern Wisconsin.

That must be planted forest, "tree farm" as we call 'em around here, managed, thinned?????? Would love to have some of that to get out and about in. It's starting to get more that way here, finally, hope I can still get around in the woods when they start to mature.

Thanks! NCO! great pics...My turn to cut loose now I have a weeks vacation!

Thanks for the pics, I grew up around woodland like that, sadly no snow though. I like your friend!

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Originally Posted by Canadian-guerilla

that's your backyard ?

looks like heaven to me

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Well, it's less than one km from where I live.

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Originally Posted by Winter

How did the Sissipuuko hold up?

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Very well!

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Originally Posted by crashdive123

Oh yeah - I almost forgot. What's all that white stuff?

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We call it snow....

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Originally Posted by hossthehermit

That must be planted forest, "tree farm" as we call 'em around here, managed, thinned?????? Would love to have some of that to get out and about in. It's starting to get more that way here, finally, hope I can still get around in the woods when they start to mature.

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Not planted, since the last logging they left what we call seed-trees, those trees make some baby trees that grow to big trees... lol. Yes, its privately owned forest that is managed and thinned. This is true with most of the forests in this country. Where I was is our neighbor's forest.

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Originally Posted by welderguy

Nice picture. So what kind of knife was that , it looked like a mora ?

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Ouch, it's Sissipuukko m95! Could you imagine any sensible person using a Mora! No way!

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Originally Posted by Winnie

Thanks for the pics, I grew up around woodland like that, sadly no snow though. I like your friend!

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Snow is cold and wet, it's over rated, especially after long winter. But I do love the woodlands.

Fantastic pics and it must be great having that as your back yard.

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Originally Posted by NCO

We call it snow....

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Oh. We've got that in South Florida, but I'm pretty sure it's illegal.

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Originally Posted by crashdive123

Oh. We've got that in South Florida, but I'm pretty sure it's illegal.

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It's good to live here in free and liberal Europe...

These first are from when I dropped my beloved GF to work. Some of the storm damage from last Fall. Most of the trees have already been cleaned off, but there is still plenty laying around.

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Heres from the walkabout.
I haven't gone up this logger road earlier, so it was like a mini-adventure too. This is about a mile from where I live.
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After maybe half an hour of walking on the road I turned in to the woods. Immediately found an old, possible, bear track and some moose droppings. Since I found no moose tracks I assume that the moose had been there months earlier.


Bear track, maybe... The picture is a bit bad, but the claw marks are there and the shape is from a right back paw.
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/_Z...0/IMAG0833.jpg

Moose droppings... AKA, signs of pray in the area.
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Some burl on birch tree.
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And another burl on another tree.
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I kept going, and saw a lake on my right side.
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/_Z...2/IMAG0841.jpg

And then I found this spruce tree near the shore of the lake, maybe three meters from the shore.
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I put my backpack next to it to give a size comparison. That's one big and old spruce in a managed forest!
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I decided to "camp" under the spruce and started to build a fire. Under the tree, on the ground there was good amount of relatively dry branches. I used a firesteel and cotton balls to make the fire. And some birch bark I carry in my fire kit.
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I thought to make some tea..
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I had a poncho under me to keep my @$$ dry while sitting on the wet ground.
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I'll add more pics from the walk back home soonish...

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Originally Posted by Sourdough

Why do I only get boxes with RED "X" inside and no photo......?

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I didn't get no red "X". But, I read there was a lake in one of the photos and all I saw was snow. LOL

Nice pics, it looks just like South Florida only completely different. ;)

Thanks Batch.

Here are more pics, as I promised.

Time to put out the fire.
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The place where I was is used to be a road back in 18th-century. It went around the lake. Not much left of it these days. I took a picture to both ways.
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/_Z...2/IMAG0857.jpg
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I packed my stuff, made sure the camp site is clean and too off, I always leave a clean campsite.
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/_Z...2/IMAG0862.jpg

Sun was getting lower, about 4h of day light left. The trees made the forest a bit dark in places. But very pretty...
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/_Z...0/IMAG0863.jpghttps://lh5.googleusercontent.com/_Z...2/IMAG0859.jpg

After a short walk I found more signs of dinner!
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/_Z...0/IMAG0866.jpg

And once I got up on a small hill just next to the road, I found even better signs, though from before the snow... Moose tracks!
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On the road, walking back home.
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Found some fungus on a rotten birch.
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/_Z...0/IMAG0873.jpg

Spring sure is coming, there is water on the road.. Looks nice with the sunlight though...
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Got to the crossroads. Now I'm about 300m from home...
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It was a good trip.
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Thanks :) I really, really enjoyed those :)

Fantastic pics and description.

Thank you

Looks like a great time and a great place to take a walk.

Thank you all. It sure is great to have such a place to escape to. Glassing you enjoyed the pics.

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