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Ever have something like this happen?

Anonymous Tue 09 May 2017 03:59:34 No.1011090 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>1011100 >>1011195 >>1011196 >>1011241 >>1011250 >>1011252 >>1011253 >>1011524 >>1011979

I was hiking along and I stepped on some upper meadow type of plants, they are all over, but these plants were hiding a mud puddle. You can see my leatherman for scale.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 09 May 2017 04:02:26 No.1011091 Report

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but I couldn't feel the bottom of the puddle and it made me think of the "what happens to the missing hikers" thread. Luckily I fell forward and was able to grab the "bank" or edge of the hole.

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Anonymous Tue 09 May 2017 04:05:50 No.1011094 Report

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This is what I was walking on

Kevin Van Dam !ZNBx60Gj/k

Kevin Van Dam !ZNBx60Gj/k Tue 09 May 2017 04:06:28 No.1011096 Report

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>>1011091
Somebody call David Paulides!

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 May 2017 04:08:53 No.1011098 Report

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In the South, these are sometimes called Sloughs, though I think it's an incorrect term. Regardless, you'd do well to pay attention to the terrain and plant life in that area. Sometimes larges patches of plant or fungal life will spread over what's effectively a forest sinkhole. Water's rise and fall brings just enough soil to the top, the water sits underneath, and it looks solid. Then you step, and down you go.

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Anonymous Tue 09 May 2017 04:11:50 No.1011099 Report

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Looks like a bog to me. I lost a nice boot to one a few years back when I wasn't paying attention to where I was walking. You gotta use a trekking pole or a stick in bog country

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 May 2017 04:12:30 No.1011100 Report

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>>1011090
This happened to me when I was hunting last fall. Tried to sneak up to a pond to jump sure ducks and all of a sudden half of my body is in the mud and I'm still sinking. Told my dad about it and he said that entire area is filled with sinkholes and shit.

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Anonymous Tue 09 May 2017 07:52:56 No.1011195 Report

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>>1011090
This is another reason I like my trusty hiking pole, for poking things like this

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 May 2017 07:53:08 No.1011196 Report

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>>1011090
bigfoot footprint

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 May 2017 09:56:48 No.1011229 Report

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Well that's pretty fuckin' scary.

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Kevin Van Dam !ZNBx60Gj/k Tue 09 May 2017 10:32:03 No.1011240 Report

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>>1011196
David Paulides pls

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Anonymous Tue 09 May 2017 10:34:44 No.1011241 Report

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>>1011090
Don't walk through bogs if you can avoid it. Otherwise go slow and do as >>1011099 says and use you pole to feel it out.
Or dress accordingly. Pic related.

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Anonymous Tue 09 May 2017 10:55:27 No.1011250 Report

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>>1011090
Should have brought a Mora instead

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Anonymous Tue 09 May 2017 11:07:23 No.1011252 Report

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>>1011090
Looks like the bogs we have locally (bottom left image). They are essentially death traps. Some of those watery muddy holes can be 15 feet deep. The boardwalk through one has pilings that are 25 feet to keep it from sinking, yet it just looks like a long floating dock-like walk way.

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Anonymous Tue 09 May 2017 11:12:53 No.1011253 Report

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>>1011090
when I was 12, I once fell waist deep into one of these fuckers. in wintertime too. shit was spooky.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 May 2017 13:07:25 No.1011417 Report

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floating_mat

Or bogs. Used to do conservation work in such areas. You'd be standing on a patch of grass only to suddenly find one leg balls deep into the water. Good thing we did the work in summer.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 May 2017 13:24:24 No.1011436 Report

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lil' background music for this thread

https://youtu.be/WxgmAwoqr4E

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Anonymous Tue 09 May 2017 15:36:20 No.1011524 Report

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>>1011090
Nice sphagnum moss you found. Those holes can go pretty deep, had a buddy who fell in one and was up to his neck holding on to some cat tails. Check out bodies they've found in those hundreds of years old beautifully preserved because everything takes so long to decay.

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Anonymous Wed 10 May 2017 02:02:40 No.1011898 Report

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>>1011100
>I was hunting last fall.
I actually was hunting grouse. From my pic the hole was only as round as the muddy part, everything else was solid ground as I was standing next to the hole.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 May 2017 04:34:05 No.1011979 Report

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>>1011090
We have a bog by where I grew up that is approximately 50 foot deep but has so much moss built up on the surface that there are full grown trees standing on it and they sway if you jump on the mat. I've heard stories about people falling through, but AFAIK it's never been confirmed and the park rangers keep it locked up pretty tight, so I doubt it.

Either way, you don't want to fall through the mat and have to try and fight your way back to the surface because 9 times out of ten you will loose that fight. Please be more careful where you are walking.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 May 2017 06:34:45 No.1012011 Report

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When you're in country like that, always keep hold of a nice walking stick
They're good at poking in front of you to check the ground, and in the case you do step into a deep one you can prop it across the hole on whatever mostly solid bits you can find to climb out, or at least not sink further.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 May 2017 07:22:16 No.1012024 Report

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>>1011979
I was hiking out in the par 40 at the local Boy Scout camp looking for a spot for a new campsite, and ran into one of those.
It just looks like the rest of the woods, but if you jump or stomp, the ground ripples.
It's like ten feet of moss and mat, but it's still bizarre. My walking stick saved my ass when I eventually fell in, it went sideways and I used it to pull myself out.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 May 2017 12:53:35 No.1012095 Report

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>>1011979
seconding this. I live next to a bog exactly like that and a few dozen people have been killed there hiking, picking berries or mushroom hunting.
>now you see me, now you don't

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Anonymous Wed 10 May 2017 13:03:08 No.1012101 Report

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just take a swim
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2s5jFFjncE

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 May 2017 16:40:50 No.1012201 Report

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Thanks /out/ now I have a new fear. For the better I guess.

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