Re: Boggy Man's Dramatic Sink Vids! Updated Oct 20'th, 2013!
Posted: Sun Oct 20, 2013 8:47 am
On Thursday, August 22'nd, I had my fourth outing of the season, where I not only visited my Crescent Road pond, but also another pond off Crescent Road on the way there, which was hidden in the woods, and full of sticks/branches and liquid mud, which I would check out on the way to my Crescent Road pond from time to time. My original plan was to pick up a large black bucket that I saw laying around the trail entrance, and take it to my Crescent Road pond, which I would then use to transfer mud from surrounding locations to my sinking spot, raising its level enough to get it to become exposed and thickened earlier in the season (just raising it by one inch can make it exposed a week or so earlier than if nothing was done)! I was debating about whether to have a sink before or after the mud transfer, although I needed to go in after anyways, to mix in and redistribute the newly added mud.
But, this time when I visited the liquid mud and sticks pond, I noticed a fair bit of mud exposed, and I just couldn't resist the temptation to try it out! So, I wound up spending the morning there (most of the mud exposed was actually thicker, since the thinner stuff was still submerged), and the afternoon at my Crescent Road pond, where the mud had thickened nicely since my last sink there. So, I never had enough time to do any of my mud transfer, having to leave it until the next outing. But, I am happy to say that this outing yielded footage for my final, but most entertaining, 2013 submergence sink video! Enjoy!
People have been warned to stay away from this treacherous area, where people have mysteriously vanished without a trace! But, one hiker decides to disregard the warnings, going there anyways. Determined to find a point of easy access to the water there, he winds up discovering, to his horror, just how treacherous the area is, specifically the Forbidding Shorelines!
***UPDATE*** Dave has been kind enough to host the above video, "Forbidding Shorelines", which YouTube had removed (best to download it and then play it, because it is a huge 1.58 GB file):
http://www.mpvstuff.com/misc/Forbidding_Shorelines.mp4
This patch of disturbed mud looks soooo innocent. But, click on the picture, and then you will see it churn, heave, bubble, and briefly become still, as it slowly smothers a 6' 2" man within its batterlike, doughy depths! But then, he manages to fight his way back up to the surface where he gasps for air , and then slowly begins working himself up high enough to reach for solid ground, and pull himself the rest of the way out, wiping away the sticky slime coating his body as he slowly escapes!
But, this time when I visited the liquid mud and sticks pond, I noticed a fair bit of mud exposed, and I just couldn't resist the temptation to try it out! So, I wound up spending the morning there (most of the mud exposed was actually thicker, since the thinner stuff was still submerged), and the afternoon at my Crescent Road pond, where the mud had thickened nicely since my last sink there. So, I never had enough time to do any of my mud transfer, having to leave it until the next outing. But, I am happy to say that this outing yielded footage for my final, but most entertaining, 2013 submergence sink video! Enjoy!
People have been warned to stay away from this treacherous area, where people have mysteriously vanished without a trace! But, one hiker decides to disregard the warnings, going there anyways. Determined to find a point of easy access to the water there, he winds up discovering, to his horror, just how treacherous the area is, specifically the Forbidding Shorelines!
***UPDATE*** Dave has been kind enough to host the above video, "Forbidding Shorelines", which YouTube had removed (best to download it and then play it, because it is a huge 1.58 GB file):
http://www.mpvstuff.com/misc/Forbidding_Shorelines.mp4
This patch of disturbed mud looks soooo innocent. But, click on the picture, and then you will see it churn, heave, bubble, and briefly become still, as it slowly smothers a 6' 2" man within its batterlike, doughy depths! But then, he manages to fight his way back up to the surface where he gasps for air , and then slowly begins working himself up high enough to reach for solid ground, and pull himself the rest of the way out, wiping away the sticky slime coating his body as he slowly escapes!