05/22/2026
Saturday, May 23rd, search meeting location. The road is not very wide. Car pools are recommended to minimize the number of vehicles. We have to keep the road passable for other vehicles, although traffic there is minimal. The staging area will be the camping location, where I'll set up a tent. I have water and some Mtn Dew, a few 8" leaf rakes, and a metal detector. I will be bringing Ziploc bags, driveway marking sticks (to use while searching to poke and move brush) and utility flags to mark items or areas of interest. Everything must be removed afterwards. Make sure to turn Location Services "on" your phone and make sure the Camera app has it turned on. This will put GPS data in any photographs of anything of interest.
Ticks are out and I have 4 cans of repellant. Wear long pants. Forecast is for a light shower with minimal precipitation in the AM with overcast showers.
Metal detectors may be helpful. I only have one. Anyone who can bring one...or if there are those who can loan one, that may be helpful.
The land being search is public land. We must care for it as we would our own.
I will have more information to share prior to beginning the search effort.