Coolest Find While Hiking

[Ebenton]

The arrowhead is exquisite. I wonder if they had to be perfect to be used or if a few defects we're permissable. ATB

[rgsaxman]

This probably ranks right up there... remnants of a plane crash in the mountains upstate NY.

Was this in the Catskills?

[boudreaux]

Found a birthday balloon on a sub peak of St Charles Peak in the Wet Mountains.

[Veory]

I found a crisp $10 bill while hiking Tenny Crags, great coincidence.

[Alpine_Iris]

Not really a spontaneous find, but I found $500 hidden by a small youtuber on rosalie peak, who must have thought his riddle was much harder than it was, or thought that $500 was less money than it is. I retrieved the money about 18 hours after he posted the video and he later deleted the video, but he did do some more scavenger hunts in the $50 range.

[nyker]

This probably ranks right up there... remnants of a plane crash in the mountains upstate NY.

Was this in the Catskills?

Further north in the 'Daks

[grand slam quad]

It has to be a tossup between an antique 3-foot tall wooden ice ax and seashell fossils found at 14,500 in Bolivia.

[Istoodupthere]

Projectile Point.jpg

A Ute projectile point. Found around 12,000' on a game trail coming down King Solomon Mountain (outside Silverton).

Wow that’s cool. I’ve been watching this documentary series on PBS about the evolution of humans. This almost looks like an ornamental arrowhead they spoke of that was too nice to use.

[HikerGuy]

I found an Estwing rock pick hammer on the Twin Peaks ridge coming down from Rinker Peak.

[mtree]

A Halloween one!

Although I was only in my pre-teens, the graves of several people who died of smallpox(?) in the 1700s. Their whereabouts were lost for centuries as back then they were considered contagious and not to be visited. Lost over time, me and a friend stumbled across several pile of rocks while hiking in the NE woods. It was odd how the rocks were mounted in rows and dug from a nearby cliff. We thought it might be an old copper mine worth money! We told some teachers and one of them was also the librarian. After some research and more investigation it turns out they were the long, lost graves.

As young kids we were not impressed.

I also discovered a single gravestone in the woods from the 1700s. I even made a rubbing from it (illegal these days) and think I still have it. It was inscribed about the guy who got run over by a cartwheel. No kidding! I should look for it and post a pic. Many years later I searched and found it again. Someone else had discovered it (or I told too many people) and it was cordoned off with a small chain link fence.

[9patrickmurphy]

It has to be a tossup between an antique 3-foot tall wooden ice ax and seashell fossils found at 14,500 in Bolivia.

I see Nautilus shells all over the place in Colorado, mostly in the Elks but in the Juans as well.

[Kiefer]

Projectile Point.jpg
A Ute projectile point. Found around 12,000' on a game trail coming down King Solomon Mountain (outside Silverton).

Wow that’s cool. I’ve been watching this documentary series on PBS about the evolution of humans. This almost looks like an ornamental arrowhead they spoke of that was too nice to use.

At first, I thought it may have come from an atlatl weapon. But the point is fairly thin and I think, schist? So it would have made for a lousy point. You may be onto something about it being more ornamental than anything else.

It has to be a tossup between an antique 3-foot tall wooden ice ax and seashell fossils found at 14,500 in Bolivia.

I see Nautilus shells all over the place in Colorado, mostly in the Elks but in the Juans as well.

Coopers Rocky Mountain Snail!