bushwhack

verb3

1. •
   To travel through thick wooded country, cutting away scrub to make progress.

   • For hours we bushwhack through a study section of Jatun Sacha in search of Minquartia, sliding down muddy draws. — 1990
2. •
   To ambush.
3. •
   To fight, as a guerrilla, especially in wooded country.