A botanist lost her keys at Tilden Park and we helped to recover them!
Bay Area Ring Finders: Brendon Chapman… Metal Detecting Service/Call ASAP 925-580-2590
I have fallen victim to misplacing my car keys just at my home, panic set’s in quickly once you realize…. I can’t imagine how hopeless it would feel to loose them out in nature while on a hike.
Meet Cody, a botanist who spends a lot of time working outdoors. Recently, while working at one of our local regional parks, she did just that. Her vehicle parked merely feet away from her task, locked out from access and unable to move off of the trail. Her work had her bushwhacking amongst the park flora investigating if rare species existed around a 100′ circumference of a work point. Think tall grass, twisting berry vines and poison oak, thick brush and tree’s. To make matters worse thick duff and leaves and remnants of old building materials litter the ground. At some point her keys slipped from her possession lost to the wild.
Lucky for Cody, a spare set of keys could be driven from her home not to far from the site and she would not be forced to abandon her vehicle at the location. She spent a healthy amount of time searching the area before deciding she might need additional help in order to recover the lost keys.
I was away on a camping trip with the local cub scout pack when I received her request for help, but she graciously waited a full week for our schedule to align. We met early the following Saturday and headed out on the trail to the location. I might have been a little overwhelmed when I saw the search zone, but we quickly got to work bushwhacking our way through the overgrowth. We did find some oddities along the way and trash definitely made the metal detector chatty. I found a neatly made bird nest nestled on the ground with four little eggs. It was not the item we were looking for, but it was a treasure non-the-less.
We were under a grove of tree’s searching and as we moved off, there on the ground were the keys we were looking for…We made the recovery!
Cody and I celebrated that we had located them and that we would not be trudging along the overgrown hillside any longer. All that remained were a few quick photos and a short walk back to the trailhead.
Thank you Cody for taking me on an early morning adventure in the hills. I won’t soon forget our time on that search.
Bay Area Ring Finders: Brendon Chapman… Metal Detecting Service/Call ASAP 925-580-2590
