Camping Fun

[Lark Bunting]

Went to the National Forest near my house for the weekend. Did some scouting, did some shooting, but the highlight of the trip was the practical joke I played on my seven year old daughter.

She is a Ghost Story freak! She loves a good ghost story around the camp fire at night. This time I set it up hours before dark. I had received some reflective dots we use at work for a 3D laser scanner to scan an object and turn it into a 3D model for our CAD program. Anyway, I had placed them in my hunting pack last year thinking I may use them to mark trees so the headlamps would reflect on them and we could find our way in the dark. I started placing these little dots on all the trees around camp like eyes. I then made up a story about haunted trees, etc. etc.

Well, she was questioning my story for an hour or more and just as it got dark, I had her turn on her head lamp and look for the trees with eyes...

Boo!

 

[Lark Bunting]

She immediately started crying and screaming for me to make the trees to go away!

While I meant to get a reaction...I didn\'t mean to make her cry, so I had to tell her what I had done and show her that they were just stickers.

The rest of the weekend went very well.

 

[cnelk]

Oh nice one Lark!
But remember that kids have a very good memory and that the world is round.
Meaning when something comes back to bite you, it\'s usually in the rear.

I\'m gonna remember that one tho

 

[Buglemaster]

Now why didn\'t I think of that! What a great practical joke. A few years ago we did a spike camp up in a long ridge a couple miles from any road. After our mountain house supper, we commented we should put the empty food bags away from our tent. I took off up the trail with the headlight beaming the way for me to go, slammed on the breaks when I saw a one eyed something right off the trail. After watching it for a few minutes without any movement, I approached it & discovered it was a tack trail marker someone had left. Looked around & discovered several on down the trail going back to the road we had parked the truck on. No one was in there besides us so I pocketed a half dozen or so thinking what a clever idea. Got a much better plan now! :wtf: if they are yours WW, let me know . I\'ll return them. You told me of that trail up to the mine.

 

[cohunter14]

That\'s awesome Lark! A dozen or so of those in between the tent and the toilet might be in order this year :clap:

 

[bnsafe]

oh thats priceless lark. im gonna do that to a couple buddies this year. they are from mo an will freak, lol. love it.
come to think of it, one might shoot first an ask questions later, hmmmmm

 

[bowhunter]

Several years ago my daghter was camping with a few friends near a creek in my north 40. I went down after dark and placed an electronic game caller near the bridge about 20yds from their tent. I then walked up to the back of the tent and scratched it with my fingernails a few times. I could hear one girl question \"What Was That\" my daghter said probably a mouse. As I was walking back to the house I pushed the remote and made the caller set off with some coyote howls. :shock: The tent filled with screams .LOL One girl said she didn\'t sleep all night. :twisted:

 

[Ol' Arky]

She don\'t need to come down here since where we hunt there is a lota trees that have EYES... Bright eyes is what they are call in our neck a the woods and folf use um to navigate in the dark... Most use GPS to navigate now but still a lot of the bright eyes left in the woods...

 

[Swede]

Lark, I like your ghost story idea. I will have to remember it for future use with grand kids. They are getting to the perfect age, 8-12, for these stories.

 

[bnsafe]

love the call idea to. gonna put that in my bag of tricks