"Bushwhacking" refers to traveling or navigating through wild, uncultivated areas, often off-trail, by pushing through dense vegetation like bushes and trees. It's essentially hiking or traveling where there is no established path, requiring you to forge your own way through the undergrowth.
Bonus: Bushwhacker Etymology： bush + whacker.
- (US) One who travels through the woods, off the designated path. - (Australia) A person who lives in the bush, especially as a fugitive; a person who clears woods and bush country. - (US, historical) A guerrilla (of either side) during the American Civil War. - (dated) Someone who attacks without warning. - A small, soft-floored inflatable boat (designed for use by one or two people).
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Went out hiking in Mt. Douglas last Friday morning.
With 225m elevation, Mt. Doug is more a hill than a mountain, but it has some big old-growth Douglas-fir trees, and plenty of second-growth forests. The ocean and (real) mountain views at the top is breathtaking.
Half way up, a big yellow dog jumped out from the woods next to the trail, then a young couple followed out. They both smiled when I was petting the dog, and the gentleman explained: "We were lost on the hill and bushwhacked our way down."
Hope you all have some nice outdoor times today.
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A few pictures taken during the hike by my iPhone:
1. wild berries (tasted one, very sour but I survied )
2. on the trail
3. near the top with view of Mt. Baker WA (we hiked there too a few years ago)
4. at the top
5. seats with a view (those kids were actully drinking, photo with their permission)
"Bushwhacking" refers to traveling or navigating through wild, uncultivated areas, often off-trail, by pushing through dense vegetation like bushes and trees. It's essentially hiking or traveling where there is no established path, requiring you to forge your own way through the undergrowth.
Bonus: Bushwhacker
Etymology： bush + whacker.
- (US) One who travels through the woods, off the designated path.
- (Australia) A person who lives in the bush, especially as a fugitive; a person who clears woods and bush country.
- (US, historical) A guerrilla (of either side) during the American Civil War.
- (dated) Someone who attacks without warning.
- A small, soft-floored inflatable boat (designed for use by one or two people).
- From online dictionary
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Went out hiking in Mt. Douglas last Friday morning.
With 225m elevation, Mt. Doug is more a hill than a mountain, but it has some big old-growth Douglas-fir trees, and plenty of second-growth forests. The ocean and (real) mountain views at the top is breathtaking.
Half way up, a big yellow dog jumped out from the woods next to the trail, then a young couple followed out. They both smiled when I was petting the dog, and the gentleman explained: "We were lost on the hill and bushwhacked our way down."
Hope you all have some nice outdoor times today.
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A few pictures taken during the hike by my iPhone:
1. wild berries (tasted one, very sour but I survied
)
2. on the trail
3. near the top with view of Mt. Baker WA (we hiked there too a few years ago)
4. at the top
5. seats with a view (those kids were actully drinking, photo with their permission)
problems in capativity, like dolphines, whales, have not heard of elephants mental health news.
Low intelligence animals would not. Like antilops, they are pursuited right after birth and run for life by instinct.