Checking the surveyed maps in advance. Some bogs are impossible see just how waterlogged and deep they can actually be by sight, some parts are just huge lakes covered by surface vegetation. Keeping light is important, you dont want to get sunk in
Keep light, move SLOW, and keep a stick to constantly test the consistency of the ground in front of you. When I was a kid, I sunk waist deep into a swamp taking a step into what looked and felt like normal ground. Lost both my shoes and would've died if my grandpa didn't pull me out.
I was in the Norwegian Fjell once, above the tree line, there where theese small redish moss like plants that indicated where the ground was basically liquid, too 1 misstep off trail and my leg was instantly down to the upper thigh
Now being a Danish man, I can only advise high rubber boots, really really take your time and don't do it in winter
I frequently hike an area that is similar to your pic.I typically navigate through it by following game trails.Also,I wear footwear that drains,and dries quickly.
once i almost drowned in bog while taking a shortcut trough a swamp, would have died too but my foot found old rotten tree trunk on the side i used to get myself up
i learned my lesson mainly because i already made my peace while sinking
Watch the vegetation. Dry grass means less bog, greener grass means more bog. Trees and shrubs growing also indicate less bog. With this in mind you can usually pick a route from one vegetation spot to another. You also need a stick obviously.
If you are going on a dayhike definitely take rubber boots, if hunting consider hip waders, if you are hiking through you should have shell boots.
it may sound stupid but at least up north where i am if you're serious about bog travel snow equipment works really well. slap those xc skis on or snowshoes and just kind of waddle your way through the slowly sinking bog plants. this only works in the northern bog/peatland type wetlands though and if you are talking more like southern swamps i have no clue other than everything gets wet.
I worked in the foothills of the rockies in the good old alberta muskagg and I can tell you that for sure some areas are winter only access. People have mentioned vegetation being a good sign, in Canada you can usually tell the really wet areas because they will have nothing or very small stunted black spruce as the main species. Sure some trees do grow well in wetter areas, but eventually they will get so big that they pull themselves out of the ground from wind, so more than likely that willow is growing in an area will perennial flooding, but not a standing water zone.
Some of the hardest ground to move quickly in. I remember being on a winter road in the summer ie its like walking on a grass trampoline with water under the grassmat I decided to run my strava and see how far I could actually get running for my life as if a bear was on the case. The answer is about 200m, the ground really saps your energy.
If you are wading don’t stand in one place too long
The meta is a kayak of sorts, even if there is grass you can still pull you self over most of it with ease without leaving the kayak
Get a nice bug net for your face, and clothing that covers all your skin but isn’t too thick so you don’t overheat
Water moccasins are fricking scary, ive shot some that are taller than me, I recommend a inexpensive revolver that you don’t mind losing to the swamp at some point, and load it with ratshot, it generally doesn’t cycle through auto loaders very well but do what you will
And remember the snakes are faster than you are, if it’s already seen you and is coming for you there’s no point in running
When I was a kid we were swimming in the river, and I swam at to a little island to frick around with rocks. My dad was getting drunk while my mom made lunch. I hear my mom scream and my dad came rushing into the river like a drunk bear, I shit you not, he grabbed a water moccasin that was about 7 feet from me and headed my way and ripped it's head off and went back to drinking. I shoot them on principal now, aggressive fricks.
What about gloves? You said cover everything or am I being too autistic about that interpretation?
Also do the water moccasins actually bite or are they just curious? I've never heard of snakes just straight up biting people unprovoked barring cases where a reticulated python ate someone or something.
They are very aggressive and will chase you. Went fishing with my great uncle as a kid and one chased me back to land until he cut its head off. They are bastards
You go the frick around. Hell even in dead winter they are treacherous. Ive tracked deer through a bog and that is no fun. Frick that bullshit. Don't follow the lights either.
Checking the surveyed maps in advance. Some bogs are impossible see just how waterlogged and deep they can actually be by sight, some parts are just huge lakes covered by surface vegetation. Keeping light is important, you dont want to get sunk in
Keep light, move SLOW, and keep a stick to constantly test the consistency of the ground in front of you. When I was a kid, I sunk waist deep into a swamp taking a step into what looked and felt like normal ground. Lost both my shoes and would've died if my grandpa didn't pull me out.
I was in the Norwegian Fjell once, above the tree line, there where theese small redish moss like plants that indicated where the ground was basically liquid, too 1 misstep off trail and my leg was instantly down to the upper thigh
Now being a Danish man, I can only advise high rubber boots, really really take your time and don't do it in winter
Don't muck about anon. You need to get serious in these situations
I frequently hike an area that is similar to your pic.I typically navigate through it by following game trails.Also,I wear footwear that drains,and dries quickly.
once i almost drowned in bog while taking a shortcut trough a swamp, would have died too but my foot found old rotten tree trunk on the side i used to get myself up
i learned my lesson mainly because i already made my peace while sinking
terrifying
Don't follow the lights
Watch the vegetation. Dry grass means less bog, greener grass means more bog. Trees and shrubs growing also indicate less bog. With this in mind you can usually pick a route from one vegetation spot to another. You also need a stick obviously.
If you are going on a dayhike definitely take rubber boots, if hunting consider hip waders, if you are hiking through you should have shell boots.
>Trees and shrubs growing indicate less bog
This isnt entirely true. Tamaracks and diamond willows grow great in bogs even deep ones.
it may sound stupid but at least up north where i am if you're serious about bog travel snow equipment works really well. slap those xc skis on or snowshoes and just kind of waddle your way through the slowly sinking bog plants. this only works in the northern bog/peatland type wetlands though and if you are talking more like southern swamps i have no clue other than everything gets wet.
I worked in the foothills of the rockies in the good old alberta muskagg and I can tell you that for sure some areas are winter only access. People have mentioned vegetation being a good sign, in Canada you can usually tell the really wet areas because they will have nothing or very small stunted black spruce as the main species. Sure some trees do grow well in wetter areas, but eventually they will get so big that they pull themselves out of the ground from wind, so more than likely that willow is growing in an area will perennial flooding, but not a standing water zone.
Some of the hardest ground to move quickly in. I remember being on a winter road in the summer ie its like walking on a grass trampoline with water under the grassmat I decided to run my strava and see how far I could actually get running for my life as if a bear was on the case. The answer is about 200m, the ground really saps your energy.
Wesr brogues since they dry faster, and tie the laces around your ankles so they don’t slip off in the muck
If you are wading don’t stand in one place too long
The meta is a kayak of sorts, even if there is grass you can still pull you self over most of it with ease without leaving the kayak
Get a nice bug net for your face, and clothing that covers all your skin but isn’t too thick so you don’t overheat
Water moccasins are fricking scary, ive shot some that are taller than me, I recommend a inexpensive revolver that you don’t mind losing to the swamp at some point, and load it with ratshot, it generally doesn’t cycle through auto loaders very well but do what you will
And remember the snakes are faster than you are, if it’s already seen you and is coming for you there’s no point in running
t. Swamp boi
When I was a kid we were swimming in the river, and I swam at to a little island to frick around with rocks. My dad was getting drunk while my mom made lunch. I hear my mom scream and my dad came rushing into the river like a drunk bear, I shit you not, he grabbed a water moccasin that was about 7 feet from me and headed my way and ripped it's head off and went back to drinking. I shoot them on principal now, aggressive fricks.
What about gloves? You said cover everything or am I being too autistic about that interpretation?
Also do the water moccasins actually bite or are they just curious? I've never heard of snakes just straight up biting people unprovoked barring cases where a reticulated python ate someone or something.
They are very aggressive and will chase you. Went fishing with my great uncle as a kid and one chased me back to land until he cut its head off. They are bastards
This sounds based. I'm near the everglades and have some boots but haven't really gone in where it's wet.
That's a picture of a Fen not a Bog
>Bogshoeing
because every activity needs a gay citygay name
What would be a more heteronormative name?
>heteronormative
The fact that you even use that made up gay word is a dead giveaway
>doesn't get he's being made fun of
This is why it's important to beat autists when they act out.
The frick are you talking about moron? By that logic snowshoeing is also a "gay citygay name".
You go the frick around. Hell even in dead winter they are treacherous. Ive tracked deer through a bog and that is no fun. Frick that bullshit. Don't follow the lights either.
>Tips
dont look into their eyes. dont follow the lights.
If there aren't any snakes then you can let your dog go first