So….. I may have been on my way to the gym this morning and felt a strong urge to go to a park near my gym. This park does have some significance to me. It’s the park I trained to go to camping at a high adventure camp called “northern tear, and philmont trail. It’s one of the hardest high adventure camps the Boy Scouts has to offer.
There is actually a tripple crown achievement you can get by completing all 3 of them. Its “Sea base”, “ northern tier” and “ Philmont Trail”
I trained at this park for the Philmont Trail and Northern tier at that park. I decided to go there instead of the gym today. I decided to walk down the trail we would always hike with canoes over our head. And I decided to start just walking down this winding way, following the semi familiar trail.
Of course it’s been about a decade since I’ve been to this park. The path has changed and I started to get lost. Then I found something.
Someone had come into the park and spray painted a heart on the trail. Exactly where the northern tear trail we used to walk deviates. I was a little confused by it; I really do not like graffiti on nature even if it’s a heart. So, I decided to sit at the tree and remove the graffiti. Except it was so deep simply removing the tree bark would not be enough.
After that I realized it was going to rain and it would probably get the rest of it off. Imagine my surprise when I threw the pieces of bark and discovered something. I threw the piece of bark and to hit a hidden a piece of plastic that turned out to be a hidden geocache.
In the cache was two stickers, a note, and smiley face. The note read. “Through these woods we were made strong. May they service you the same.” I ended up taking the two stickers and I went back to my car and left 50 cents.
These were the two stickers:
(Sticker saying be kind to your mind with stars on it.)
(Sticker saying “you are strong as hell”)
It felt as though I was meant to find these items and it was just so surreal. I hope you all have excellent start to your weekend!
by Jb_PHD