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The Half‑Hitch: A Trail Shoe Tied to a Reservoir's Secret
The Half‑Hitch: A Trail Shoe Tied to a Reservoir's Secret
The morning a fisherman hauled a trail-running shoe from Coplin Reservoir, the sole was almost unworn and someone had tied it to his trotline with a deliberate half-hitch knot - three miles from the nearest trailhead and a day before anyone reported a missing hiker. Why would a nearly new women's size seven shoe be anchored in a lake far from the route a meticulous, experienced hiker planned to walk?
In this episode, we tell the sequence of events recorded in official reports and witness statements: the discovery at 6:15 AM, the…
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