What is the most interesting thing you have found while hiking?

[ghostdog]

Originally Posted by ppine

Ghostdog,
We are tuned to the same station. Sometimes it is the Navajo news and drums out of Window Rock.

I just remembered some old Dutch overn parts and human bones near Currant, NV on an old wagon road.

Yes, when you are scanning for radio signals and you hear drums and chanting you know you are back in Dinè country and the big rez.

Your discovery of the Dutch oven parts and human bones on that old wagon road harkens to a scene in Dancing with Wolves where the wagon driver see a skeleton with an arrow in the ribcage. He says to his companion, "Someone back home is saying; Why don't she write."

[IndianaHiker]

Peace for my soul and a path to sanity.

[Sagebrusher]

a hide scraper made of petrified wood. I left it were I found it, it's still out there. I won't say where, except to say somewhere in the Chinle formation

Edit: I have heard there is also a fairly complete cowboy tin cookset in the same general area...just sitting out in the open. I wonder what the story is of those items?

[Remp]

Once I found a really old leather belt bag while I was camping on top of the Dinaric Mountains near Makarska, in Croatia. It's a really small bag, it only had an old knife in it, which blade was engraved 1959

[oldsarge]

Interesting story! Hike Becomes Quest to Find Writer of Decades-Old Letter - Yahoo! News

[ladymtnwalker]

Whoa! I know a Tim Taylor who could be about that age. We were neighbors, and he and his family are local.

I read the story oldsarge posted above and should have replied to that comment.