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went for a short hike in a river last week
gear: rubber boots from decathlon, whatever pants, whatever shirt, carhartt quarter zip, carhartt rain jacket, decathlon rain poncho, stoeger xm1 air rifle in 5.5mm, morakniv companion.
got off my car and started walking the river bed, it's kind of a river delta? a confluence of a big river with a smaller one that spreads over a large area. as result the area is undeveloped, no houses or roads, barely any trails with a patchwork of woody, bog/mashy and rocky river bed areas. it was raining on and off and at one moment cleared up a bit and was warm, but then it started raining again (nearly the end of winter here)
walked about a mile in and rested and ate my package sandwich. chilled for a little bit lying on the sand when some random boomer walked by with like 10 pittbuls, two of them started barking at me, got my knife and airgun ready just in case, boomer looked at me with a dumb face, carried on
decided to cut thru the forest, hard bushwhacking thru forest, bog, some awful fields of rotting giant rhubarb plants, when i connected a stream i followed it to get to the main river. at one point i slipped and fell and ripped a huge hole in my pants, which kinda capped the exp a bit, as i'd want to get tack to my car asap to avoid embarrassment. also in the area the small stream connected to the river, i got trapped in like quicksand or something and had to crawl in all fours out of it, getting sandy mud all over me. after that, walked midway back to the car, rested under a tree, ate my second packaged sandwich, shoot some cans i found with my air rifle, walked back to my car and went home.
