Thought I'd post a couple of shots of my personal sinking spots.
001a is the north pond- better than 2 1/2 feet of sinkable swamp muck there.
018a is the south pond- same in the north end, but almost 3 feet of really sticky mud in the south end.
couple of bog shots (from General Discussion)
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Re: couple of bog shots
This shows the south pond better.
Edit: added a shot of the "bamboo" forest- actually an invasive plant called Japanese Knotgrass (and some more colorful terms.) Darn stuff thinks Roundup is fertilizer, and even gasoline won't kill it. Can regenerate from a tiny fragment of root.
Edit: added a shot of the "bamboo" forest- actually an invasive plant called Japanese Knotgrass (and some more colorful terms.) Darn stuff thinks Roundup is fertilizer, and even gasoline won't kill it. Can regenerate from a tiny fragment of root.
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Re: couple of bog shots
November 1-April 1 is considered "winter" here in upstate NY. October can be nice, but the bugs don't really die off until the first killing frost, so. . .
bart1997 wrote:That layer of thick vegetation and the millions of insects living in it is the reason why i don't visit my spots in summer. How do these spots do look like, from lets say october to march?
-> When you say there is a layer of several feet of snow then, i will feel both sorry for my inappropiate comment and relieved that the winters over here are not that cold in general.
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Re: couple of bog shots
nachtjaeger wrote:This shows the south pond better.
Edit: added a shot of the "bamboo" forest- actually an invasive plant called Japanese Knotgrass (and some more colorful terms.) Darn stuff thinks Roundup is fertilizer, and even gasoline won't kill it. Can regenerate from a tiny fragment of root.
Here in the North Okanagan valley of BC, while biking through the town of Coldstream on my way to my sinking locations in the mountains, I saw a clump of it growing beside a driveway many years ago. It was pushing shoots up through the asphalt of the driveway! I seem to remember seeing it gone several years later. Guess it was more trouble than it was worth. On the west coast, it grows rather prolifically and is considered a weed.
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Re: couple of bog shots
I thought my bogs were pretty well-covered with vegetation. You got me beat, though. In the shots I've taken of my bogs, there is at least some bare mud showing...I always have a visible clearing in the cattails and/or marsh grass.
So be careful. If you ever can't get out, nobody will ever figure out where you are.
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So be careful. If you ever can't get out, nobody will ever figure out where you are.
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Re: couple of bog shots
My Lady Wife knows where to look for me. She grew up in those woods.
Nessie wrote:I thought my bogs were pretty well-covered with vegetation. You got me beat, though. In the shots I've taken of my bogs, there is at least some bare mud showing...I always have a visible clearing in the cattails and/or marsh grass.
So be careful. If you ever can't get out, nobody will ever figure out where you are.
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Funny you should both mention that. I did manage to get a little bit stuck in that bog once.
I wanted to go in as deep as possible, so I went in knees-first- off a log- into a spot I had already sunk in. Not the brightest idea I ever had. The mud was so thick I couldn't shift my weight to get my feet under me, and I was in up to my chest. And my knees hadn't quite hit the bottom. . .
Gotta tell you, I got the full-bore "stuck and sinking" adrenalin rush. Took me some serious muscle power to lift myself out of that bog- if that log hadn't been there, I might have been in a bit of a pickle. But once I was out, I thought "Damn, that was a rush!"
I wanted to go in as deep as possible, so I went in knees-first- off a log- into a spot I had already sunk in. Not the brightest idea I ever had. The mud was so thick I couldn't shift my weight to get my feet under me, and I was in up to my chest. And my knees hadn't quite hit the bottom. . .
Gotta tell you, I got the full-bore "stuck and sinking" adrenalin rush. Took me some serious muscle power to lift myself out of that bog- if that log hadn't been there, I might have been in a bit of a pickle. But once I was out, I thought "Damn, that was a rush!"
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Re: couple of bog shots (from General Discussion)
I would enjoy seeing pictures of the bog in action! I can't really see the bog at all from those pics.
Where's the mud at?
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