Bones, Pesos, and More Found at Breckenridge Mountain Cleanup
Now that most of the snow has melted in Summit County, Colorado, the ski areas’ slopes have become a treasure hunt for all the weird and wild things folks lose throughout the winter.
Breckenridge Mountain held its annual mountain cleanup day last weekend and unearthed all kinds of fun things from the slopes.
Of course, there’s plenty of your usual suspects: ski poles, AirPods, lift tickets, Mardi Gras beads, GoPros, vapes, and a concerning number of iPhones, but it’s always the objects that leave us scratching our heads that are more fun to find.
In this case, folks dug up several animal bones (not human), a pair of flip-flops, an entire snowboard, a gator-skin leather hat, and a bit of foreign currency. A few ski area relics, like signage, a bamboo pole, and a lift ticket to Snowshoe Mountain in West Virginia, even managed to find their way under the snowpack.
Tap or click below to watch Breckenridge’s full cleanup video.
If anything, these annual mountain cleanups are a great reminder that dropping one small thing off the lift can really add up.
Anecdotally, you also never know what could find its way back to you. In the early days of the iPhone, my older brother lost his out of his pocket while skiing and thought it was forever lost. One full summer season passed, another winter passed, and the following summer, a woman hiking on the mountain found his phone, plugged it in, and found his contact info.
She mailed the phone back to him, and while it had seen better days, it still worked. At that point, it had long been replaced, but it’s still wild to think how long that phone sat on the mountain before someone found it.
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