Strange Things are Afoot in the Magdalena Mountains
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- Опубліковано 16 січ 2025
- Today, check out the #MagdalenaMountains in #NewMexico and all the #odd and #strange things we found there.
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That cross and geocache seem a heartfelt and thoughtful way for someone to memorialize their deceased brother. I need to recover my own health to do it, and I don't plan to geo-mark the site, but I intend to pack my late parents' ashes into a spot in the Glacier Peak Wilderness Area where they enjoyed some backpacking trips in their early forties more than five decades ago. The nice thing about such a location is that no strip mall or other urban blight will ever be built over their resting place!
I agree, there are no better places to rest than the places we loved most.
I had an elk hunt in unit 17, which includes those mountains, a few years ago. I found a camping spot on the West side of them at the mouth of a canyon where no radio signals reached - no cell signal and no radio, not even AM radio at night. I stayed there for a week, detoxing from radio waves. If I walked up out of the canyon mouth, I had full bars on my cell phone. I found some really old homestead/logging camp/mining camp sites out there - almost erased by time.
It’s a great place to get away from it all!
Ah, the ole elk hunt.
I had a deer hunt years ago in 13, the other side of the HWY. Lots of interesting things to be found in the Bear mountains there as well. An old stone homestead that to this day I regret not marking on my gps. Found a memorial as well as a lot of airplane parts from a C130 crash in the 80's. That whole area is a lot of fun to explore and always a little eerie.
It's so interesting to think about the history of those places.
I’m thinking the blue coyote poop is the result of eating the last hikers tent.
Very cool! I've worked in the deep woods of the PacNW from MT to the west coast down to CA over and up. Such beautiful land and most people, especially outside America don't realize it's millions of acres, especially if you include Canada. So many ppl will never see this in person so thanks for posting. Also the scat should be a lesson not to leave anything out that's dangerous for animals. As a vet tech I can tell you fabric, plastic bags (anything plastic) ropes etc kill many animals if the eat them or get tangled up. Pack out everything you came in with and pick up any others trash! Keep America Beautiful!
Great advice!
I am a European, living in the S of France, where things are a little different, but watching other channels I have remarked that sasquatch love the colour blue. I know it's not one of them that ate blue fabric, but I wonder why there was any blue fabric there in the first place.
It was near a camp ground, I’m thinking it was someone’s trash.
First track Chupacabra
Cool! Thanks for taking us along
Our pleasure!
There is so much magic and mystery, so many stories still intact in that bit of land.
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Yeah coyotes, juniper berries make great gin, the leg bone hanging on the fence is a front leg bone, probably a deer, with the shin bone still attached
That stone pile: look how strange-shaped the large rock is. The pile is recent with not dirt buildup.
The blue fabric looks fuzzy like terry cloth, maybe a towel someone used to clean up a food mess and then left behind or it was taken from their camp at night
a closer look shows its single-sided.....so maybe an article of clothing then, like a sweater or pajamas
That’s a great theory!
look like big kitty tracks
The coyotes eat the berries and it makes them drunk.
And I always thought they were so vocal outside at night because of a fresh kill but now I'm thinking they were all at a kegger having fun in the bonnies 🤣🤣
Public intoxication?
@francisebbecke2727 Can't say I haven't been there a time or two so I'll give them a break. Shoot, I've even been known to howl at the moon an a few occasions 🤣🤣
No
@@_DB.COOPER ok so what is it. Smarty pants?
There are bears there as well.
Bring a telescope along; it will help keep you occupied at night. 😊
That is a great idea!
Piles of rocks may be land line "border" markers. The scat may also be a bears deposit after eating blue berries, maybe a side plate of road kill?
Thanks for watching!
The pile of rocks ma have been a grave marker,
Those are mountain lion tracks
The tracks where you can see the claws are not cat
I disagree with your tracking experts. Looks to me like a bobcat with its young laid down those tracks in mud featured at the start of your video. Canine tracks are usually more elongated, both in overall proportions as well as the individual toes. Canids have straight, fixed, not retractable claws and would have left substantial imprints of their toenails in such a soft surface as that ground was when walked upon. The following video presents a good synopsis of the differences between bobcat and dog tracks pointing out the features I mention plus one, the "negative space" shape, that I had never been taught before viewing the video: ua-cam.com/video/toEslwhLTIE/v-deo.html
In the real world that's how it works, the nail impressions not there and that's awful big for a coyote print anyway
Thank you for your input. It can be so tough to tell them apart!
0:46 you can literally see the nail marks at the end of the toe pads. The track is also vertically symmetrical which is a canine feature. Additionally, you mention the negative space marker: this track shows a rough X shape in the negative space, which is another canine feature.
@@maggie7744 That image is what, instantly, led me to cat. Felid nails don't always fail to register entirely, especially when their foot sinks so deeply into a soft surface. I see the possibility that even sheathed claws would produce those very stubby but vertical grooves as the foot sank into the mud. I don't see a distinct "X" formed by the negative space; rather, more of an "H" with splayed verticals, the lower legs of which help define a trapezoidal main pad that easily covers an area equivalent to two or more of the toe imprints (another felid feature), and those lower legs of a splayed H do not directly align with the upper legs of the negative space to form an X in my opinion.
I don't claim to be an expert, but my first impression, just like the videographer's, was "cat" though the apparent size swayed me toward Bobcat rather than Cougar.
If Tom Brown Jr. was still alive--sadly, he died last August--and was present on YT, I would ask his opinion. In the meantime, YT continues to frustrate by deleting my comment on another video wherein I asked a trained tracker to review the images here. I'll try later to reach them through their school's X account to solicit their opinion.
Rock pile a pet burial?
That’s a good theory
Geography 101, 180 miles of open border with I-10 and I-25 conveniently nearby...
I grew up there and didn't realize it until recently, black magic for sure.
Alien seeds be careful 😧
@4:30 So looking at the whole universe is not that interesting? Also, rule one when camping, no rain, no tent...
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14,000 years ago??? 😅
Definitely traditionally pretty mestizo territory...
Not many mescalero left to defend the largest natural gas deposit in AMERICA.
This is a great area to meet up with some space aliens, get abducted and hitch a ride on a UFO. Several probably flew over your tent while you were sleeping.
for a rancher or anyone else to hang a dead coyote from a fence is sick. twisted, and stupid. every other rancher already knows there are predators in the area so we can skip that for a reason.
other coyotes would still be doing there thing. barely noticing any dead animal.
so it comes down to weirdoness.
hanging just a bone like in this example is just dorky or someone being all blair witchy
We hung coyotes from fence posts in West Texas commonly in years past when there was a bounty on them because in order to collect the money, all that was needed were the ears. The last time I collected coyote bounty, it was $35 a set. The carcass on the post attracted other coyotes for easy kills. You seem to have a bleeding heart for the varmints that costs farmers and ranchers millions of dollars a year when overpopulated, so just stay in town and keep depending on the grocery store for your lunch and leave the wilderness for the real men to deal with cupcake 🤠
You must be a city dweller !
I think it is a terrible thing to do too.
@@KevinHolloway-r5v nope
grave
Don't bother watching. This was a total waste of my time
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Don't care to look at coyote crap.
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