So I had something weird happen to me and my best friend this deer season and I didn't realize how odd it was until later on.
We have been backpack hunting a section of the allegheny national forest the last couple years. We camp against a huge boulder with a small overhang to shelter us from the december weather. Now we have been to this spot multiple times and spent a lot of time pre season cutting firewood, setting up stands, camping, ect. Right beside where we camp is a small crevice under another boulder that we planned to keep gear or wood in to stay dry when we weren't there, and have examined this space several times.
This season after I had been up there for 3 days and he had been there for 2, we ran into another hunter and bs'd for a while. My friend stated that we needed to bring a shovel up for cat holes after the other hunter walked off. I shit you not, I turned around and something yellow caught my attention in that crevice. I reached in and grabbed a full size fiberglass handled shovel. There were no signs of anyone camping there before. We never took a shovel up. Had cleaned leaves and debris out of that crevice multiple times before and there it lay. It literally appeared out of thin air, I don't have any way of explaining how it happened or how we could have missed it before. Probably the most bizarre thing that's happened to me in the woods.
This red arrow points to a moss covered rock, the crevice is just behind it.
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