Crap/junk you have found in the back country?
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Re: Crap/junk you have found in the back country?
Does this count?
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Re: Crap/junk you have found in the back country?
Nothing quite as spectacular as a helicopter, but along with the usual cans, bottles, balloons, etc. I did come across a full set of bed springs at a campsite in the Minarets many years ago.
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Other than normal bits n pieces I did have one lucky find, two faded but full cans of beer.
I've often thought of returning the favor and packing in a six pack to stash a can at a time
for some other lucky hiker.
I've often thought of returning the favor and packing in a six pack to stash a can at a time
for some other lucky hiker.
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Speaking of beer,
In the early 70s a friend and I hiked in over Cottonwood Pass, down to Whitney Meadows. In the middle of the meadow we found an old glass jar filled with Malt (though an ingredient of beer that is not the connection). Later in the day we got near where the map indicated a gauging station along Golden Trout Creek. I told my friend if we went down close to the creek it was likely we would find a decent campsite. We did. Then as I usually do I started poking around along the stream and shortly came back to camp with 5 bottles of Brew 102. Not the best but beggars can't be ..... The bottles had cork inside the caps and a couple were rotted out so some of the beer was spoiled. But all in all it was a great find.
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In the early 70s a friend and I hiked in over Cottonwood Pass, down to Whitney Meadows. In the middle of the meadow we found an old glass jar filled with Malt (though an ingredient of beer that is not the connection). Later in the day we got near where the map indicated a gauging station along Golden Trout Creek. I told my friend if we went down close to the creek it was likely we would find a decent campsite. We did. Then as I usually do I started poking around along the stream and shortly came back to camp with 5 bottles of Brew 102. Not the best but beggars can't be ..... The bottles had cork inside the caps and a couple were rotted out so some of the beer was spoiled. But all in all it was a great find.
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Re: Crap/junk you have found in the back country?
Thats a good find! There's a lot of junk in big whitney meadow isn't there? Oil drums, tools, old fence and the like.
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Re: Crap/junk you have found in the back country?
In 2007, i did find two Garcia bear canisters full of food and a gallon of coleman white gas at Upper Mattie in Yose in early october. No one around but our party. Oh yeah, and the gill-nets.
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One thing does bother me about picking up "abandoned" items, am I positive they are
actually "abandoned" and not a pre-positioned "Cache" that someone is depending on?
actually "abandoned" and not a pre-positioned "Cache" that someone is depending on?
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Yeah, we just found them and looked at them. We didn't bother them. It was clear they were a cache for the following year's net haulout.. I'm not saying some in my party didnt have ideas, but the permit was under my name and they knew where i was going.frediver wrote:One thing does bother me about picking up "abandoned" items, am I positive they are
actually "abandoned" and not a pre-positioned "Cache" that someone is depending on?
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Re: Crap/junk you have found in the back country?
Russ,
Russ, I think I would have moved the canisters and white gas far enough to shake up the owners but not so far that they couldn't easily spot them. But that is just my perverted sense of humor.
Mike
Russ, I think I would have moved the canisters and white gas far enough to shake up the owners but not so far that they couldn't easily spot them. But that is just my perverted sense of humor.
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Re: Crap/junk you have found in the back country?
we moved nothing. it was sad enough to see what they did, without advertising it.
i better not find another lake not advertised for rehabilitation.
i better not find another lake not advertised for rehabilitation.
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