Author Topic: Furs and Nature Trails... (Read 2720 times)

Kos · « **on:** October 03, 2007, 01:27:04 am »

Just something I've picked up on from the furs I know in person and from posts here and there, many of us seem to hang out at local nature trails.

My household has three furs in residence, nearly every night we hit the trace when we all get home from class or work. Likewise we tend to drag our friends out to the trace any time we feel like hanging out without the whole coach potato syndrome.

Savaaha has so far managed to avoid this fate due to the interference of Halo 3, but what I am driving towards is that it seems to me that furs tend to get attached to nearby nature points.

I know the same can be said of mundanes with a fervor for the outdoors, but I like to think that time to be furry in nature is special for lifestylers.

For us it is the Longleaf Trace in Hattiesburg, does anyone else have a special place in nature to be furry?

Landrav · « **Reply #1 on:** October 03, 2007, 01:49:05 am »

I think my love of forest is more related to the geography of where I grew up. But I still love going to state parks and, my favorite, the Boundary Waters of northern Minnesota.

Arbutus · « **Reply #2 on:** October 03, 2007, 02:43:26 am »

I go hiking whenever I get the chance (not often at all! ':p'

) It's not because I feel "furrier" out in nature, though; I've just always loved hiking, plain and simple.

There are some amazing trails here in the Berkshire Mountains where I go to school... the Appalachian Trail is within hiking distance of my dorm, as is the summit of the tallest mountain in Massachusetts. So whenever I have a free weekend that does not try to CRUSH ME WITH READING, that's where I go.

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Tioa · « **Reply #3 on:** October 03, 2007, 05:08:35 am »

I also love the great out doors. I live in New Hampshire so I go to the White Mountains whenever I can, and hike the trails. For me its not really a furry thing, so much as a being outside of my normal every day routine and just getting back to nature. There is very few things that I find as enjoyable as looking out over the mountains from above tree line

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Traumerei · « **Reply #4 on:** October 03, 2007, 07:37:35 am »

Not many nature trails on the Jersey Shore, mind you. However, there are still some. At times I can find myself just wandering aimlessly through the woods. It all helps me think, almost as a meditation, ya' know?

Mange · « **Reply #5 on:** October 03, 2007, 07:44:48 am »

RI is too small for much forest, but the camel trail (BWA) Better known as the Bike trail is nice.

Also Fort Wethervill and Bevertail State Park are beauitful. Out of all of the places, we go to those two the most. =D

Mazz · « **Reply #6 on:** October 03, 2007, 10:46:38 am »

Colorado has so many trails in the mountain. I use to walk them a lot.
Since my surgery and cancer treatments though I have issues doing stairs, let alone a trail.
I miss it.

Kivva · « **Reply #7 on:** October 03, 2007, 11:09:58 am »

I love the nature trail behind my house. It has always served as my personal sanctuary.

Savaaha · « **Reply #8 on:** October 03, 2007, 11:19:32 am »

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Savaaha has so far managed to avoid this fate due to the interference of Halo 3, but what I am driving towards is that it seems to me that furs tend to get attached to nearby nature points.

*pats the halo* goood halo, remember our plan, you distract and I be teh lazy couch dwelling Zorsey.

I does not like teh woods, mosquitos suck, chiggers are horrid and theres snakes in there. Not to mention poison ivy. I am a domestic zorse, a creation of man, a farm dweller, not a wild animal. I stays in the barn.

Edward Vulpes · « **Reply #9 on:** October 03, 2007, 11:42:58 am »

I am mostly similar to Landrav in this- I grew up in a beautiful wooded area, and I certainly would like better to live in the forest than anywhere else in the world, but hiking is just not an option for me. My walking times are necessarily kept short due to a low stamina and a mild scoliosis that makes it impossible for me to stand erect for more than about 90 minutes without having extreme back pain. A shame... I really do love to go walking.

Mianame · « **Reply #10 on:** October 03, 2007, 02:57:15 pm »

I do like woods, but I can't say I hang out in them.

Probably has something to do with the fact that i live inf Florida and our forests aren't really forests. They're more crappy spits of land filled with pine trees that smell horrible(I know pine trees don't smell horrible, but smell it for twenty years of your life and you'll hate it) or are so close to the water that the sea salt has made them drizzled, nasty things that look like they'll attack you at any moment. Furthermore, the humidity makes it uncomfortable to go anywhere near foresty-like areas in my place.

The beach, however, is my absolute favorite place to be. Hot air, cool water, hours and hours of fun. I'm so tanned it's not even funny :3 I guess that would be my replacement for a nature trail XD

Holley · « **Reply #11 on:** October 03, 2007, 02:59:47 pm »

I don't hang out in any wild places now, used to a lot as a kid (mostly enjoying being on my own).

Kivva · « **Reply #12 on:** October 03, 2007, 04:08:30 pm »

Quote (Savaaha @ Oct. 03 2007, 11:19 am)

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Savaaha has so far managed to avoid this fate due to the interference of Halo 3, but what I am driving towards is that it seems to me that furs tend to get attached to nearby nature points.

*pats the halo* goood halo, remember our plan, you distract and I be teh lazy couch dwelling Zorsey.

I does not like teh woods, mosquitos suck, chiggers are horrid and theres snakes in there. Not to mention poison ivy. I am a domestic zorse, a creation of man, a farm dweller, not a wild animal. I stays in the barn.

That's why wood dwelling is best done in the Fall!

All those nasties don't like the slight chill and hide! ^_^

Kaikyo · « **Reply #13 on:** October 03, 2007, 11:22:41 pm »

walking in swan park during fall. all the bugs are gone and dead and i can enjoy the brisk taste of winter approaching. i absolutely love the feeling of being warm when surrounded by the cold

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Exottica · « **Reply #14 on:** October 04, 2007, 12:08:15 am »

Last year I lived on campus here and absolutely *had* to go walking at this little park nearby; now, when I feel that way, I go over to another park called "Lettuce Lake" and I just start walking. It helps me to clear my mind.

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WhiteFang · « **Reply #15 on:** October 04, 2007, 01:19:46 pm »

For years I've taken walks through the woods by my house. I truely feel like a wolf there, even have created a background of various spots and sites in the woods (dens, hunting spots, ext.) as well as a past (pack, pack members, history)

Recently Ive discovered another trail near my house, and have fallen in love with it. However, the smaller and perhaps less elegant trail still holds me in a tight bond due to all the years of memories.

Kos · « **Reply #16 on:** October 06, 2007, 01:23:31 am »

It's pleasing to know that forest walks are so popular with my fellow furtopians. I feel I have had some of my best conversations while happily ambling along the nature trails in my life.

It's instant points in my book to make it through one of our house walks, or even just a small solo walk.

Keeshanic Fox · « **Reply #17 on:** October 07, 2007, 01:43:00 am »

Hard to say for sure, really. I kind of grew up on them. Out in the country with no video game consoles (newer than Atari 2600) and a tv that got five channels, going out into the woods to make your own fun was mandatory

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