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This happened in early fall of 2011 when I was 21.

I just bought a new set of night vision goggles and I had to try them out.

I went off to an area that I usually hunt.

The trailhead is only about a 45 minute drive from town, but the area I hunt is about

a four to five hour hike.

I got to the place about 5 p.m. giving me a bit of time to start the hike before it got

dark.

I noticed an old beat-up green truck park there, which to me was odd.

This trail isn't maintained at all, and I've never met another person in this area in

the last ten years of hunting this place with my family.

Just ignoring it, I grabbed my pack and headed out.

About an hour into the hike, I came to a narrow path with thick trees on either side,

but maybe fifty yards past was a clearing with a lone mass of cottonwood in the center.

I was going to close her, I heard crying, like someone was experiencing the end of the

world-type whaling.

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