Wes Coffey
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
I called Travis that night from my house.
I told him what happened.
All of it.
He was quiet for a long time.
Then he said something that I haven't been able to stop thinking about for the last four years.
He said Dale Poole had stopped hunting that property in 2014.
He said the reason Dale gave was his knees.
But Travis had talked to Dale's wife once at a gas station in Ashland, and she told him Dale wouldn't even drive past the turnoff to that logging road.
She said he'd had a bad experience up there.
She didn't say what kind.
She said he'd left a stand in the woods and never gone back for it.
I asked Travis which stand.
He said it was the one on the northeast side.
The one on the ridge.
The one I'd been sitting in.
Travis went back to the property the following weekend with two other guys to get my bow and my gear.
He told me the bow was still on the platform.
The pack was still on the hook.
The jacket was still on the haul line.
Everything was exactly where I'd left it.