Last night, stumbling around in the dark, my headlamp picked out a glint in the rocks that make up the campfire surround. When I went to investigate, I found a Pilot pencil, just like the one I lost in February some 2½ miles away near the stock pond on the Lake Trail.

Cue the Twilight Zone music.

The only reasonable explanation is that someone who read this blog found it and very kindly put it here.

Thank you! It was a bit spooky finding it in the dark like that. Send me a message if you read this!

It case you’re thinking, ‘Nah, he just dropped it there.’ Nope. I was writing notes in my trail journal on the way out, and the last entry was for reaching the stock pond:

1549 @Stock Pond

With an extra note (added later):

— Lost my mechanical Pencil — it wasn’t in my journal when I got to the TH.

Now I’ve got to work out how to get the dent out of it where someone — probably me — maybe trod on it where I dropped it on the trail.