RangerJoe224 - Aug 21, 2014 11:20 pm - Voted 10/10
New England B5s
Hey how about us bushwhackers up here in New England? We got your bears, black flies, mosquito hoards and the occasional bull moose along with spruce as thick as concrete! All the Bush Grade 5 you could ever want.
When my guy and I, Chris Goulet bushwack, I feel so tough! I hear from even young dudes that they prefer trails! This makes me feel so much tougher!! I often only have slight hint of sighting his jacket in the thicket and often lose sight for a moment! Then he hollers 'this way!'
A great idea- and along the same line of thinking that I have mused to myself for years.
Orienteering and creative routes have been part of my life, my entire life and as such, I cannot grant the existing or established trail in the same class as the acceptance of the pure offering.
That said, my aging body does no clamoring for the intense 3D world of tangled mass on horrific inclines, hidden rocks and wet logs hidden below the foliage. My spirit drives for its purity and seeks to forge through. One single mile can certainly be an intense athletic and patient adventure.
What body shells can endure the water loaded and ripping action of tangled manzanita or other high land and stout offerings? Piles of shredded torn and pierced body armor. The need for a new class of approach shoe that has logging cork spiked soles that seek traction upon slime logs and walking up and on top? (I have memory of walking out of a manzanita forest so dense that I stepped and climbed upon the top of the canopy with an average of 18' above the forest floor and world of spelunking hell below)
Earned brush passage of wisdom and skills are not often apparent until you take along a buddy that has not learned its ways... "How do you go through this stuff so fast?!"
"Flow and weave Grasshopper, Feel your way through with the path of least resistance. Become as water" ;)
Anyway- Love the scale and write-up.. Maybe a bit more clarification to each class?
RangerJoe224 - Aug 21, 2014 11:20 pm - Voted 10/10
New England B5sHey how about us bushwhackers up here in New England? We got your bears, black flies, mosquito hoards and the occasional bull moose along with spruce as thick as concrete! All the Bush Grade 5 you could ever want.
Laverna - Sep 15, 2014 10:04 pm - Voted 10/10
No wimping for meWhen my guy and I, Chris Goulet bushwack, I feel so tough! I hear from even young dudes that they prefer trails! This makes me feel so much tougher!! I often only have slight hint of sighting his jacket in the thicket and often lose sight for a moment! Then he hollers 'this way!'
trailken1 - Nov 10, 2014 9:01 am - Hasn't voted
Bushwhacking Scale and ValuesA great idea- and along the same line of thinking that I have mused to myself for years.
Orienteering and creative routes have been part of my life, my entire life and as such, I cannot grant the existing or established trail in the same class as the acceptance of the pure offering.
That said, my aging body does no clamoring for the intense 3D world of tangled mass on horrific inclines, hidden rocks and wet logs hidden below the foliage. My spirit drives for its purity and seeks to forge through. One single mile can certainly be an intense athletic and patient adventure.
What body shells can endure the water loaded and ripping action of tangled manzanita or other high land and stout offerings? Piles of shredded torn and pierced body armor. The need for a new class of approach shoe that has logging cork spiked soles that seek traction upon slime logs and walking up and on top? (I have memory of walking out of a manzanita forest so dense that I stepped and climbed upon the top of the canopy with an average of 18' above the forest floor and world of spelunking hell below)
Earned brush passage of wisdom and skills are not often apparent until you take along a buddy that has not learned its ways... "How do you go through this stuff so fast?!"
"Flow and weave Grasshopper, Feel your way through with the path of least resistance. Become as water" ;)
Anyway- Love the scale and write-up.. Maybe a bit more clarification to each class?
BrushandBog - Oct 15, 2015 9:48 am - Hasn't voted
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