going to a destination without using a trail or path.

In the vernacular of the backwoods, to travel off trail, to make one's own way. In the BWCA also includes canoe travel on lakes, and especially streams, not part of established canoe routes. Generally slow and mucky going not for the faint of heart. See also PMA.

from "bushwhacker", 19th C. Eng. for "woodsman" or "guerrillero"] To hike off-trail, especially through underbrush. Carries a negative connotation.

to lie in ambush for, lie in wait for.

Ambush [1866

wait in hiding to attack

to live in the bush as a fugitive or as a guerilla.

to cut one's way through the woods or bush.