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.
Did another walkabout yesterday and took some more pics.
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.
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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.
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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...