EISPIRATEN

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Girl Hiker wrote: ↑I was in Wrightwood this morning and I found this cool ass thingamagig in the snow.
20201230_071929.jpgNOW IT'S MINE! Haha!!!

I think you're supposed to show a photo of you using the found treasure.

Jeff- I probably would've fallen on my butt while taking a selfie lol

It's a toboggan sled! I find the cheap, plastic ones ditched around Wrightwood, but never the wooden ones.

I found a "Simply Fit Board" plastic exerciser along the dirt road northwest of Silverwood Lake, and NOW IT'S MINE

I have no idea how it got there, unless maybe someone was using it for snow? The lake is only 3400 feet elevation...


But here's what it's really used for, and no, I did NOT try out these exercises...

That's a great find. Maybe someone went up there for a little exercise and decided they didn't like the board.

Jeff found a glass bottle of Squirt on the Middle Fork trail. Now it's his!

Sean mentioned a few posts ago that he figured out how to keep from losing expensive sunglasses on the trail - he just stopped bringing them along. On this trip up Middle Fork he managed to go get himself some cheap sunglasses....

....and then later in the trip this hat was discovered along the trail. Not a keeper, it was left at the trailhead because we thought it might belong to the rapelling dudes.

JeffH wrote: ↑On this trip up Middle Fork he managed to go get himself some cheap sunglasses....DSC06569.jpg

And lucky me, I didn't even get pink eye from wearing someone else's glasses.

At Cedar Glen this morning. No. Just no. Not mine now.

Haha. Maybe we need a thread for underwear found in the forest.

Sean wrote: ↑Haha. Maybe we need a thread for underwear found in the forest.

LOL. Search the forum for posts about the infamous ice house canyon strap on, if you dare.

HikeUp wrote: ↑

Sean wrote: ↑Haha. Maybe we need a thread for underwear found in the forest.

LOL. Search the forum for posts about the infamous ice house canyon strap on, if you dare.

Ewww.

JeffH wrote: ↑I just got back from a roam through the Sierra Nevada, South Lake to North Lake and I found a few things.....

I kept some - actually used the 6-ft piece of line the next night to help tie down the tent on a slab. I did not keep either pair of shoes and I also passed up a bandanna, a couple shirts and a very large pair of shorts. Anyone here use a knife like this? It's a Morakniv brand, made in Sweden. Free to good home.

Trippy stuff to lose, some of it. Probably the shoes were out drying after a stream crossing, and they forgot...

No doubt the knife is long since spoken for (yes, I realize this is an old post), but if it's sitting in a drawer somewhere and you really don't want it...

I have a Morakniv already and really like it, but if I had an extra, I'd give it to my daughter. I'm trying to teach her more wilderness skills although, dumb dad that I am, I think that I've waited too long. She's entering the "years of dread and doom" (sometimes euphemistically called the "teenage years" by those lacking the courage to face the truth), and isn't showing as much interest in hiking and hanging out with dad as in the past. Sigh. Rumor has it that their brain switches back on again somewhere around age 25...

Interestingly, when I was in high school, I figured my dad was the dumbest guy ever. When I graduated from college and got out of the Army, I started realizing that my dad was pretty smart about a lot of things. Funny how he wised up when I was the one in college...

HJ

jfr wrote: ↑

@jfr , ya know, John, another decade or so, and you'll almost have gotten your money's worth out of that backpack.

HJ

Hikin_Jim:

Interestingly, when I was in high school, I figured my dad was the dumbest guy ever. When I graduated from college and got out of the Army, I started realizing that my dad was pretty smart about a lot of things. Funny how he wised up when I was the one in college...

HJ
The knife is long gone, I didn't want to carry anything that big around. I now use just a Leatherman CS, I have found that good scissors are much more useful to me than a large blade.

Reminds me of a Mark Twain quote:
“When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”

Yeah, I have a mini Leatherman too. I think it's the Squirt. The pliers came in very handy on Catalina recently.

Here's what happened:

• Good: A hiker dove into some bushes to get away from a charging bison.
• Bad: The bushes were cactus.

We yanked the spines out with the pliers. The poor guy was really in a bad way.

HJ

Hikin_Jim wrote: ↑

jfr wrote: ↑

@jfr , ya know, John, another decade or so, and you'll almost have gotten your money's worth out of that backpack.

HJ

Ha ha! That backpack just turned fifty this year! Are backpacks like automobiles, where fifty years old is considered to be antique?
This old Camp Trails full-frame pack is still doing duty as my "Daily Driver"

Someone dropped this Fiskars folding saw on the Idlehour Trail.



Now it's part of my collection.

I found an abandoned wildlife camera in Prairie Fork. Now it's mine!

A few weeks ago I was leading a group hike on the Mt Lowe road.

To my surprise in the middle of the road was a cool tripod. Who knows if it was dropped by a biker or hiker but it still had the carabiner on it.

I found this Arizona Diamondbacks cap in the Grand Canyon of the Gabes. Now it's mine!

Found these sunglasses at Jones Peak. Now they're mine!

Sean wrote: ↑Found these sunglasses at Jones Peak. Now they're mine!
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That's not all you found!

An entire backpacking lootbox with a working stove, fuel, Sawyer 1gallon tank, Sawyer filter, knife, hand saw, p i l l s, batteries, come coffee filters and a cone coffee Brewer, various mugs, a full mess kit, and last but not least a sleeping pad pump, AND a backpacking pillow, AND A WORKING HEADLAMP!

All of which were in a box that fell down a slope during rockfall so most of the stuff was wet. Also the pills expired in 2021 so it all was abandoned unethically.

I gotta start hunting around campgrounds more often. There be treasure in them hills.

Found this brick in Pacoima Canyon...

Now it's my brick, there are many like it, but this one's mine!

I found these in Desolation Wilderness. Odd, they were partially buried at Ropi Lake, about 8 miles from the nearest trailhead. I don't know what they are for, there is padding on the thighs and knees. MTB riding? I carried them out in the bottom of my pack.