Wes Coffey
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
I could see it.
It was a green mystery ranch.
I knew every strap and pouch on it.
The pack in the middle of the clearing was Cole's other pack, the one he used for day hunts.
The one he'd left in our camp that morning.
Our camp was over three miles away.
I said, Cole.
He saw it.
He stopped walking.
He said, don't go near it.
He didn't have to tell me.
We stood at the edge of the clearing.
We shone our headlamps across it.
The pack was unzipped.
The contents were spread out around it in a neat half circle.
his spare gloves his headlamp his lunch still wrapped his water-bottle his first-aid kit arranged not dumped arranged past the pack on the far side of the clearing there was a game trail leading into the timber
I'm telling you this because I need you to understand what I understood in that moment.
The pack was bait.
The arrangement was a display.
They were telling us they'd been in our camp.