Hiking[views:25840][posts:75]___________________________________ [Mar 30,2009 11:44am - DYA NLI ""] Make sure you bring along 50 feet of rope, At least 6 torches, iron rations, and a ten foot pole for trapfinding. |
| _____________________________________ [Mar 30,2009 11:50am - arilliusbm ""] honestly, when I went to the Hockomock, I brought rope (there's something which resembles quicksand there), a compass, a map, a flashlight and some water. it's right in the heart of the bridgewater triangle. |
| _______________________________ [Mar 30,2009 12:45pm - Yeti ""] i guess its really difficult to get into Hockomock now, with all the attention its had there have been swarms of cops around. but that is only what i've heard. yeah i know Dighton Rock was moved, i'd like to see it. Burnt Hill intrigues me though. |
| ______________________________ [Mar 30,2009 1:14pm - Yeti ""] the thing i really want to see is the rune carvings that apparently say "Leif Erickson 1001" on a rock on "Noman's Land". i guess no one can get to it because the island was used as a bombing site for decades. |
| _______________________________ [Mar 30,2009 1:16pm - aril ""] hockomock? nah. it's huge and is literally in 4-5 towns. there are many entrance points; perhaps the easiest being near where the Raynham dog track was. it's intriguing nonetheless due to its rich history and rumors. people have claimed to see USOs (UFOs that land and go underwater), Bigfoot, giant turtles, giant birds, ghosts - you name it, it's been rumored. of course, who knows about any of that stuff, but it's a good hike if you don't mind going off of the trail for a bit. thing is, people have ventured in there and never came out. the natives were afraid of the swamp as well.. it's definitely a good experience for people that like hiking and/or paranormal stuff. |
| ________________________________________ [Mar 30,2009 1:17pm - DestroyYouAlot ""] LOL @ U guys going where natives won't and getting eaten by a shoggoth. |
| _______________________________ [Mar 30,2009 1:22pm - aril ""] how about making a real-life D&D trip to the hockomock with a couple of cameras, eh? weapons, monsters, experience, parties, it has it all! |
| ______________________________ [Mar 30,2009 1:22pm - Yeti ""] dude i'd love to explore that swamp, i've read about it for years. if i venture into a "haunted" swamp and don't emerge due to being devoured by a shoggoth or Mind Flayer or some kind of Lovecraftian style beast, then what a fitting end. "Mrs. Jordan, your son is dead" "how did he die??!!!" "he was eaten because he awoke a slumbering demon from the ancient world" "well, i'm not really surprised" |
| __________________________________ [Mar 30,2009 1:26pm - DYA NLI ""] JUST SAY "FUCK NO" TO LARP |
| _______________________________ [Mar 30,2009 1:28pm - aril ""] screw larping. I just want to hike, have an adventure and perhaps discover something unknown and awesome. DYA, since your dad was in the military and is a world traveller, think he could spare some night vision goggles? |
| __________________________________ [Mar 30,2009 1:32pm - DYA NLI ""] Hahaha... He could totally teach us CQC and then we can take over Shadow Moses. |
| ______________________________ [Mar 30,2009 1:32pm - Yeti ""] blasphemers. Larping is awesome. we should plan something out, i have no fear, i'd rather discover something sinister than not discover something sinister. |
| __________________________________ [Mar 30,2009 1:36pm - DYA NLI ""] For the record, I an beyond down for this. Need to get my gear together. |
| ________________________________________ [Mar 30,2009 2:01pm - DestroyYouAlot ""] aril said:screw larping. I just want to hike, have an adventure and perhaps discover something unknown and awesome. DYA, since your dad was in the military and is a world traveller, think he could spare some night vision goggles? DYA%20NLI said:Hahaha... He could totally teach us CQC and then we can take over Shadow Moses. RE: why this makes sense (and why I'm pretty decent at running around in the woods) Pretty sure I've talked about this on the site before, but my dad was pretty much IRL Solid Snake. (errr... or Snake, or Big Boss, or whatever the 60's version was. I mean, he wasn't a clone or anything. I think. LOL) I.e., his thing was infiltration, wilderness survival, "non-lethal kills", demolition, paratroop stuff, sharpshooting, etc. He mostly worked in the US doing security test stuff (i.e., hang out in a swamp for a few months, then break into an airbase or a sub base or whatever with no weapons or uniforms or anything, just to prove that it could be done, and they needed to beef up the watches). As he put it, "I don't know that I ever killed anybody, but I definitely put a lot of guys in the hospital, and I kinda feel bad about that." Make of that what you will. Then he spent some time training Marines in jungle survival for a little "police action" in SE Asia we were getting ready for. They eventually asked him to do some stuff he wasn't comfortable with (as I understand it, it involved dispensing with the "non-lethal" thing and going to Eastern Europe during the 60s - again, make of that what you will), so he dropped out and became a hippie. Headband and all. LOL I didn't even know ANY of this crap until a few years ago - growing up, I knew he was in the military, jumped out of planes, blew up a bridge or two, and that's it. I eventually asked him what the hell he did a few years back, and he told me the above. I kinda gather that he's not super proud of all of it, which is probably why I never heard about any of it, and also why I don't doubt the veracity of all of this (Dad's not the type to make up stories, he's got plenty of real-life weirdness to draw on). Kinda blew my mind - also makes me glad I never ended up trying to swing on him as a teenager. LOL Now he just travels around the world to weird 3rd world countries and hikes a lot, although he did spend some time a few years back driving around North America doing suspiciously well at long-distance air rifle competitions for a 75 year old man. Hmmm... |
| ____________________________________ [Mar 30,2009 2:14pm - arilliusbm ""] You said he went to China recently, right? Well, perhaps he is a spy. DYA's dad is a real life James Bond. and Big Boss? That's the singer from Root. Sweet |
| __________________________________ [Mar 30,2009 2:26pm - DYA NLI ""] Haha... I'll say this much, he does have a habit of leaving random remote places shortly before some crazy shit goes down (Jordan a few years back comes to mind). Again, make of that what you will. LOL |
| __________________________________ [Mar 30,2009 2:33pm - DYA NLI ""] Picture a guy that's a dead ringer for The Dude riding a zipline out of an exploding volcano base. |
| ___________________________________ [Mar 30,2009 2:46pm - dreadkill ""] larping is gayer than sucking a cock while getting fucked in the ass. |
| ______________________________ [Mar 30,2009 3:17pm - Yeti ""] hahahahahahahahahahaha |
| ______________________________ [Mar 30,2009 3:17pm - Yeti ""] fucked in the ass with a foam sword. |
| ____________________________________ [Mar 30,2009 3:18pm - RichHorror ""] Seeing Sports before Hiking makes me think of George Carlin |
| _________________________________ [Sep 9,2009 8:05pm - Archaeon ""] Smokey Mountains in Eastern Tennessee and shit. [img] |
| _____________________________________ [Sep 9,2009 8:29pm - swamplorddvm ""] Very nice. |
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| ______________________________________ [Feb 17,2016 10:45am - yes thanks ""] Alx_Casket said:http://www.onlyinyourstate.com/massachusetts/waterfall-roadtrip-ma/ my wife recently texted this to me. super pumped to try it this spring/summer. |
| _________________________________________ [Feb 17,2016 11:29am - In The Sticks ""] Glendale Falls in Middlefield is one of my favorite places around. Bash Bish is cool as well. Was once rated as the most dangerous tourist destination in the world by AOL travel. I believe it was based upon the amount of visitors divided by the amount of accidents/deaths that befell the aforementioned visitors. |