Lots of cord & tent pegs always found on every trip.  I keep 'em.  Usually found on the daily find-10-things camp clean up.

Stove in an army style satchel.  Found on a portage.  Likely forgotten after lunch.  Left it in plain view in case the owner came back for it.

4 sleeping pads found at one end of Batchewaung Bay.  Rolled up and bundled for transport.  A couple had been nibbled by critters.  No portage near.  No evidence of anyone having been around.  There had been wind storms a few days earlier.  I assumed they were lost and carried them to the Nym portage where I promptly forgot about them.

Found a map after losing mine.  I wasn't going anywhere I needed a map for.

Once I found an awesome Gransfors Bruks axe, I beleive it was the American Felling axe at a campsite we were investigating.  Unfortuantely after about 5 minutes, the owner, who was set up in the adjacent camp site, came to claim it. 

An old weather worn Sawyer paddle coming out of the Man chain.  It was floating near the shoreline and had obviously been wandering around the wilderness for a good while.  Very heavy compared to today's paddles....could be ash.  It made it's way into my paddle case and came home for a life of leisure.

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I stopped to pick up someone's discarded worm container (one of my least favorite things to carry out for someone else) and there was a beautiful Browning lockblade knife underneath it.  Karma!  Somewhere on the end of a portage up near Kawnipi, I think.  For some reason, I find abandoned sandals often.

In the Wabikimi Park, on a wood plaque attached to a tree at a lunch site at the bottom of a long rapids, commemorating the life and death of a young man who drowned in the rapids. 

Written by his mom.

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