Plastic hard-hat chewed by something with large teeth and strong jaws. Found among the rocks at the summit of The Peak, W4V/SH-015, which is seldom visited and only accessible by a tough bushwhack through thick woods. Very odd. No other artifacts found. (Didn’t take a camera on that activation.)
Model log house and wagon built from neatly cut stalks on the deserted summit of Smoke Camp Knob, W8V/PH-037.
A half-eaten watermelon on the summit of Little Brushy Mountain, W4V/RA-045. It was clearly opened without utensils not long before I got there. Suspect a bear had absconded with it from a nearby garden – there is a wooded residential area on the side of the mountain – and ran off mid-meal when it heard me coming.
Not quite at the summit of Patterson Mountain, W4V/FC-047, along the trail in empty woods with no sign of habitation around, I came across a painted metal compartment, neatly embedded in the ground. It looks vaguely like an old refrigerator/freezer chest but otherwise a mystery.
No scale so hard for me to do more than my guess. The bright colour I associate with military training aircraft but there don’t seem to be any of those that have crashed anywhere near that peak in recent times.
Several sightseeing flying machines have gone down on flights to Milford Sound so it could be from one of those.
An AI-based image analysis says it is a piece of debris from Air France Flight 447? Given the summit reference it surely can’t be. Good old trustworthy AI!
I thought it was a piece from a traffic cone. Stark contrast.
An upright vacuum cleaner in a flat spot on the trail to a summit. Sadly, many mountains in Kentucky have areas where folks have dumped their garbage off the side of the road. This vacuum cleaner wasn’t near any garbage on that trail and just sitting there as if someone was getting ready to clean up.
Last weekend I found a horse skeleton and a couple of crystals on Polvadera Peak in the Jemez Mountains of New Mexico. A month or so I found some pottery and an arrowhead on nearby Chicoma Mountain:
