5 Marks On A Tree You Should NEVER Ignore In The Woods From a Retired Park Ranger

🌲 A tree does not move, it does not sleep, and it does not forget. Forty years with the National Park Service taught me to read five marks on a trunk. Four of them have reports on file. The fifth one I still cannot explain. 🪓 Claw marks with hair still in the sap. The dead crown over your tent. Ribbon that is not a trail. An old camp in the timber. And the one I found twice, a thousand miles apart, at the same height off the ground. 👇 Look up more often than you do. That habit is free, and it has saved more people than any piece of gear in your pack. 🔔 Subscribe if you want the next one. If forty years of somebody else's close calls keeps you out of trouble this season, that is worth more to me than the view count. Watch your back trail, and come home. — Walt Hargrove #nationalparks #survival #hiking