Check Your Boots

[santaman2000]

This one's a just harmless Garter Snake. But not all of them are.

 

[Angry Pirate]

Blimey!
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wlMuBSkVuzE
Over here the worst I've encountered is a woodlouse or two.

 

[bushcraftkid2001]

Yikes! I had a (considerably less dramatic) experience lately. I was on a very soggy camp in Wales, and I got up to answer a call of nature. I put my boots on.Squish. I then realised I had forgotten to check for slugs. Yuck. Not the nicest thing I've trodden on.

 

[andybysea]

A mummified frog was my only real interesting find, had spiders etc, I went to put on a pair of wellingtons id not had used for ages felt this weird thing in there emptied them out and this dried up frog fell out. I can only assume it got in there some how couldn't get out and because they had not been used for a long time it had dried up.

 

[British Red]

I agree we should all check our boots.,,,and if we find ourselves wearing pointy toes with high heels like those.....

 

[Retired Member southey]

Not just your boots. This was in Guyana 2004. My hat was hung inside the mosy net

Now I only use zipped nets

 

[santaman2000]

I agree we should all check our boots.,,,and if we find ourselves wearing pointy toes with high heels like those.....

Oddly enough, the ones pictured are (relatively) square toed and short heeled. True riding boots have higher heels and pointier toes.

 

[santaman2000]

Not just your boots. This was in Guyana 2004. My hat was hung inside the mosy net

Now I only use zipped nets

That looks deadlier than the Garter Snake TBH.

 

[British Red]

Oddly enough, the ones pictured are (relatively) square toed and short heeled. True riding boots have higher heels and pointier toes.

Not here - these are riding boots (in England) Cowboy boots are for girls when line dancing here

 

[santaman2000]

Not here - these are riding boots (in England) Cowboy boots are for girls when line dancing here

I've seen boots like those. The gut wearing them was turning tricks outside the Blue Oyster bar.

 

[British Red]

Pretty much the same for cowboy boots here. Weird how it varies huh?

(BTW - why were you in the Blue Oyster Bar?)

 

[Angst]

yup weird....dunno what it is....cowboys are kool....in my younger days huge fan of sir eastwood and the spaghettis....etc etc....but whenever i see someone wearing cowboy boots...however butch, trailhardened, weatherbeaten and tough they may be....i always laugh....i've absolutely nothing against cowboy boots, nor do i have any deep seated reason or experience that makes me find them so funny...i simply find them funny looking and hilarious and i've no idea why....

maybe i need professional help about this. sorry.

s

ps southey, a real bushcraft instructor wouldve got a mate to grab a camera, then put that back on his head and made a film about what to do in an instance like that....wuss.

 

[Macaroon]

Pretty much the same for cowboy boots here. Weird how it varies huh?

(BTW - why were you in the Blue Oyster Bar?)

I expect it was purely for purposes of academic research

 

[santaman2000]

Pretty much the same for cowboy boots here. Weird how it varies huh?

(BTW - why were you in the Blue Oyster Bar?)

Waiting for my sister. She needed a ride home.

 

[santaman2000]

yup weird....dunno what it is....cowboys are kool....in my younger days huge fan of sir eastwood and the spaghettis....etc etc....but whenever i see someone wearing cowboy boots...however butch, trailhardened, weatherbeaten and tough they may be....i always laugh....i've absolutely nothing against cowboy boots, nor do i have any deep seated reason or experience that makes me find them so funny...i simply find them funny looking and hilarious and i've no idea why....

maybe i need professional help about this. sorry.....

If you really want a laugh, watch somebody wearing them for the first time try to walk.

 

[Angst]

lol...especially with their thumbs hooked through the belt-loops of their jeans

If you really want a laugh, watch somebody wearing them for the first time try to walk.

 

[lou1661]

Check your boots, your hat and your bed.

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ps. that was after stinging the person who was not paying enough attention to the task in hand!

 

[georann]

Put my boots in the garage overnight and came back to find a mouse curled up in the toes!