moose head

I'm going to scout today, you'll see in the back there, go to part of the Trans-Canada Trail, see how far we can walk, I've been reading this book called Hiker Mike and it's really inspired me to do a little, I usually go to the bush and just kind of bum around how that's enough exercise for the dog. So with that in mind and with the new inspiration from this book, I'm going to see how many kilometers I can do today. Out of the city. I caught Jack's video the other day and he was in Kansas. Pretty much looks the same as that. There's a bit of trees up that way, but nice and flat. We've been walking for a while now. Here's the second sign I've come across. Here's a little bit of the scenery. Let's go, come. Just flat, flat farmland. That is where I live. A lot of people think Canada is all northern boreal forest, but we're good on the highway north of here. This is what it's like. My own piece of head. We have staghorn sumac. That's the buds that you can make a tea out of. Let's go. Come on. Get out of the farmer's field. Let's go. You can squeeze it to bruise up the bud a bit and then just boil it in water. A lot of people know that already. Actually, staghorn sumac is doable for the bow drill too, but it's defeated me on more than one occasion. Something a little bit different, a bend in the trail. I don't know if you can see it up there, but it bends slightly to the left. I've been walking for a good four kilometers just straight, like, as the crow flies. I'm hoping to come across some bush soon so I can stop and maybe have a fire and have a lunch or something. But we shall see. I've never been on this trail before. I've been back. I started at kilometer five. I've only been up to kilometer five before, so I drove to where I left off last time. We shall see. I'll keep you updated. I was mistaken. I said I was at least four kilometers in. Turns out I'm only now three kilometers in it's a kilometer mark there But the good news is I found a little patch of bush Tiny tiny wood, so I'm gonna try and get in there and get out of the wind for a minute I don't know if that's possible. I Want to cross on a log I think cuz I only got my fingers on my Soaked Six kilometers back so 12k We'll see get in the woods and show you but I almost wish I hadn't come in there's uh kids probably hang out here or something it's all trashed beer bottles and old piece of plastic an old school desk the word crunk spray painted on a tree somebody was getting crunk i guess oh what's this nice old chair that's been burned and a random plastic barrel the word crunk spray paint on it come here scout i think i want to try and find another patch of woods considering this is just mud and garbage that's disappointing Flying V can see it in there a little bush in a minute wow it's really wet first little sinkholes and it's pretty pretty scraggly bush but I'm gonna make the best of it and use it as a wind block because it's pretty windy on the trail I want to have a little snack and to stay dry I am standing on plywood that's alright it's an adventure I haven't been here before and that's uh that's what I'm liking about it so I'm gonna have a little snack and then continue on the trail Scott's gonna snack on some snow apparently there's a sign I've come across it's about uh talking about the fox the red fox or vulpes vulpes in latin um talking about how it eats moles and mice how about goes about doing that and that's uh I don't know if you can read it part of the trans canada trail sign so I'm figuring I don't know but I'm guessing that they have these signs all over it it's the first one I've seen so that's pretty cool this goat is patiently waiting to get on with the walk it's two hours now pretty cold I should have wore another layer a wind barrier only got my little wool I don't know it's like a wool blend sweater on and the terrains pretty much the same just right now there's some looks like sumac without the buds on either side I'll just walk past the golf course if that's something new Phragmites reeds there There's gonna be some different scenery soon maybe some good-sized bush or something. It kind of looks like it up ahead I'll see when I get there I guess. There's the 10k mark. Seems I've walked for 5k so far nice patch of woods but I'm gonna have to give up on that idea because it's... imagine all the woods around here are gonna be... considering I already got half a soaker on one foot I don't want to push it I'm not even gonna venture in there just gonna keep on trekking I think make today be all about just the walk but it's nice to know that this is here in a drier time of year I can come maybe do this walk and camp here come on let's go let's get to going to the straight and narrow I found like a cow burial ground the hoof obviously that looks like a sheep's head. Oh my god. That's a horse head or... I know it had antlers. That's a freaking moose head. We don't have moose around here. What the heck? Wait there. Oh my god. This is disgusting. How is there a moose head here? Look, the antler has been sawn off. Obviously that's not a horse head if it had an antler. And we don't have moose here. Oh my goodness. I don't think I should be here. What is going on? Stins and I think that's the skin of a cow. Bones. Oh my god. Come Scout. This way. Get over there. Come. Wow, this is not cool. I'm actually kind of tripped out. That was the patch of woods I was in there when I found all that stuff. No, it's not that strange obviously to have like a dead cow, a couple farm animals or something, but literally where I live there's no moose for a good, I don't know, six hour seven hour drive from here going north and for it just to be out in the woods like that moose head to be in the woods like that is just I don't know can't explain it obviously somebody killed it up north and brought it down here but why would they just leave a head in the woods maybe I'm just I don't know anyways that was weird I'm gonna probably stick to the trail now so this kilometer 12 I had only planned on doing up to 11 and then back so be 12 because I started at 5 so now I'm at 12 and if I turn around now that's 14 14 kilometers I think I will turn around but I just want to go up here to see what this intersecting road is so next time when I'm coming to do it oh the little shelter down there so next time when I'm coming to do it I can just pull up to this road instead of doing the uh the same part of the trail again the terrain has definitely changed this is more of like a swampy uh area i'm on a bridge right now the intersecting road is right up there the car about to pass it i don't know if you'll be able to see it or not but uh i'm pretty tired i haven't walked in all walks for this amount of time in a long time it's only been two just over two hours but straight walking other than the little moose head fiasco which i birds tripping which is pretty cool. Walk back, there's seven kilometers. There should be a site for sore eyes. So I did 14 kilometers. It took me about four hours, four and a half hours, but I did stop for about, I don't know, maybe half an hour total. Thanks for coming along, guys.