What’s the coolest thing you found in the back country

Arrowhead, cat faced pine trees, herty cups, McCoy cups, deer skulls, old S&W 22 revolver missing it's cylinder.
 
Probably my favorite from the past decade was exploring a new drainage just below tree line. I knew there was a old wagon trail and a decaying fallen in cabin at the base of the drainage. However after hiking to tree line I traversed the ridge I found an old mine that still had old powder kegs from the 1800’s decaying amongst other equipment. Turns out the whole hillside was full of a crazy number of mines. I’m still meaning to get up there to and explore more.
 
Probably my favorite from the past decade was exploring a new drainage just below tree line. I knew there was a old wagon trail and a decaying fallen in cabin at the base of the drainage. However after hiking to tree line I traversed the ridge I found an old mine that still had old powder kegs from the 1800’s decaying amongst other equipment. Turns out the whole hillside was full of a crazy number of mines. I’m still meaning to get up there to and explore more.
Was there still visible powder in the kegs?
 
Was there still visible powder in the kegs?
No powder. The kegs were just jumbled piles of half rotten staves and steel rings. They were all dumped at the mouth of the mine like a trash pile. One day I’ll go back and see if I can “safely” get a little ways in and see what I can find.
 
I had just started flyfishing (early 90s) and we did regular backpacking trips in the beartooths here in MT. Along a random lake found a box packed with hundreds of flies, no name on box, still have the box with some of the flies today. Sharpie your number on boxes in case this happens.
Trips later I found a fenwick rod in case (no info on it) on the trail that had fallen off someone’s atv and ran over. Returned to fenwick and they sent me a new rod, cool find for a 12yr old.
 
A body, rolled up inside a carpet and stuffed under a bush. I don’t know it was a body at the time until later a sheriff in the area informed us they discovered a body rolled up in a carpet under a bush in the exact spot. Yikes!

Not really cool at all, it definitely one I will never forget.
 
A body, rolled up inside a carpet and stuffed under a bush. I don’t know it was a body at the time until later a sheriff in the area informed us they discovered a body rolled up in a carpet under a bush in the exact spot. Yikes!

Not really cool at all, it definitely one I will never forget.
We find those all the time in New Orleans.
 
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