A few weeks ago a friend of mine Tom Tanner asked for some assistance in finding a lost ring in Nisene Marks State Park. I am very familiar with the location as my experience and love for the rugged mountains in this park was one of the reasons I moved to Santa Cruz now ~25 years ago.
We met the couple Maddie and Jace who unfortunately lost their ring and, hiking in two miles, they led us to each of the places they believed they stopped where they could have possibly dropped their ring. Interestingly, on the way back and feeling somewhat defeated, as we were talking about all the other places it could be, Jace said very convincingly, “I think it’s here in the park.” So of course we kept searching, going back over some of the places we had already searched.
Amazingly not more than 200 yards from the cars, I heard a bunch of excited shouting ahead of me and Jace turned around as I was searching and yelled, “Tom found it!”. Sure enough, after a 4 mile adventure, Tom had found Maddie’s beautiful diamond solitaire ring, buried under no more than 1 inch of leaves and redwood duff, right in one of the spots where they thought it might be.
My first assisted ring find was truly a great adventure and even better reunion, and motivated me to join the Ring Finders myself.
Ring Recovered Santa Cruz Nisene Marks Park
Hey Dan, thanx for helping with the Santa Cruz area hiking trail ring recovery that you reference ^ ^ And I see that’s inspired you to sign up to help with other such recoveries. Welcome aboard.
And for anyone checking : Dan is good with his machine, loves any excuse to hunt, help people, etc…. He’s in striking distance of San Jose and Santa Cruz area. For lost rings, jewelry, suspected stashed items, or any other thing that a skilled metal detector user might be able to help you with.