Forgetting your only pair of shoes? That's gotta be a first eh?

I've run ports barefoot and even once forgot my shoes, but never forgotten long enough to have shoved off and left them behind.  My shoes do cost $500 more than the average person's, custom orthotics.

There's something truly awesome about being barefoot out there.  It makes me feel like this:
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Can't believe anyone with even half a brain would take shoes and a portage yoke left behind at the end of a portage.  That's two things that are very likely to be worth a return trip by the owner to retrieve.

I've had kids forget a thing or two over the years during daytrips or portages.  Nothing of great consequence.  But I agree with others as to why someone would take something as critical as a portage yoke and shoes...

I recall a couple years ago on a solo, I was just getting ready to push off on the last of a 10-portage day in July with temps mid-80s.  I was bushed.  As I put the last pack into the canoe and looked for my rods/reels, I realized I had left them at the end of the end of the previous portage.  Arrgghhhh!!     So I had to unload the canoe, carry the canoe back to the pond, paddle across the pond to retrieve my rods and then return to the end of the 10th portage.  Now I was really bushed.  Thankfully, the rods were still there.  Not sure what I would have done if someoner had picked them up.... 

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I'll vote for this explanation
Still we've had discussions about people taking items that others left/cached for whatever reason. Maybe whoever took those items was carrying that to the extreme or even worse they saw an opportunity and took it.

You would think something as obvious as a portage yoke/shoes would be left but then again how many times have you heard people say " Finders keepers, losers weepers" in regard to others property.