"Al G" wrote in message
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Dark shots sometimes work...

Once upon a time, I was skiing in the sierras. I crashed and lost my
glasses in the snow. The
following spring a girl scout came to my door with the glasses. They had
been found in a creek bed a good 15nm and 4000' vertically from where I
crashed. They had evidently been carried in a piece of ice, as they
weren't damaged. They had my name on them, and the scout who found them
new us personally.


Indeed. I was hang gliding about 1500' above a ridge line 7 miles long and
about 1/2 mile wide and was about 3 miles from the launch ramp, in a dense
forest, when I watched my wallet slip from my harness in to the summer
foliage. I didn't even consider trying to look. The rising terrain was also
averaging about 30 degrees.

Thanksgiving weekend, some 5 months later I received a call from the local
forest ranger. His brother had shot it down from hanging 20 feet high in a
tree by the plastic fan folded photo strip. Every corner had been chewed by
squirrels, but it was mailed back to me with all the cash except postage. He
happened upon it while deer hunting.