I would like to know also. It seemed it was there for some time when I saw it. Yes, it looked like it was sitting there for a long time.
If that was the man in that kayak, then you may have indeed seen a ghost. You saw him kayaking two weeks after we saw the kayak and it was up there. Water level was lower for a very long time from that point. That area looked like you could go in for a hike and maybe find something interesting. We didn't have the time. I wonder if he dragged it up from the water and then went for a long hike. However, unless he's a beast of a man or my kayaks weigh much more than his that is an impressive feat although doable. I am not a weak person. After a few shots of vodka I can rip a tree stump out of the ground......true story. With effort I might be able to drag up a kayak that far up, but I don't know why I would bother to do that. At best I have dragged kayaks a few feet from the edge of the water. Unless this man is living in the Lake Powell wilderness for some reason. Or perhaps he wanted to go on a several day or week long hike and wanted his kayak out of sight. But if he dragged it up that high, then why anchor it? It was anchored at two points and not just one.
Maybe he came back after you saw it up there and drug it down to the water, before we saw him paddling in the lake 2 weeks after your picture. He could have left it there for all that time when the water was higher then had someone drop him off to get it ?? I’m not 100% sure but I think you can hike out to a dirt road from there? A mystery for sure, if it’s same kayak? The two of us feel that it is, it is a distinctive kayak. The timing and area line up?
Unrelated but somewhat similar thing.
In Alaska last year I met an old man in his 80’s who solo canoes to the same island near prince of wales every year, he has a stash of base camp items he returns to every year and climbs to the top with a pack full of gear, food and rifle. Far heavier than I would ever consider. After spending many days up the mountain hunting black tail deer, he then brings it and his deer down, less what he adds to his stash. Then loads his canoe that he stashes while up on the mountain. It’s an ocean (inside passages) paddle several miles to the launch point. He returns every year in the fall and repeats the trip. When I first saw him, my friend said we were going to swing by and check on this old guy he knew might be coming out that day. We see a pile of gear and old canoe leaning up against the trees. My friend tooted horn and hollered and the old man appeared from the forest a few minutes later. He offered him a ride since the seas were a bit rough, he refused at first, then accepted. He would not allow us to pick up one thing. He carried every item from the forest to the Rocky shoreline and the boat by himself including his canoe!! I pulled his pack and rifle in the boat and could not believe how heavy it was. It took him nearly an hour to move it from the trees to our boat. We took all his gear, stashed it in our boat and tied the canoe across the rear of the boat and hauled it and him back to the landing about 10 miles away. He had his truck parked there. He would not let us carry anything for him, he did it all. Spent some time with him later in the trip. He has had bypass surgery and more. He Lives in Idaho, returns every year and I think he figures one year he will not make it back down from his camp! He told me he has an SOS message preprogrammed that says “I’m done come get my stuff” ! By done he means done and gone!
Off track a bit, but an eccentric interesting man and it shows how people do crazy things!
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In pretty good shape and much younger than he, but I couldn’t and or wouldn’t do it.
I would love to figure out the story of the mysterious kayak!
