Just in the tent bag which, was kind of a backpack affair that the manufacturer describes as water resistant but not water proof. Seen here. https://www.rei.com/media/ae0086eb-ad38-4a23-817d-53e283d19e94?size=784x588
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Just in the tent bag which, was kind of a backpack affair that the manufacturer describes as water resistant but not water proof. Seen here. https://www.rei.com/media/ae0086eb-ad38-4a23-817d-53e283d19e94?size=784x588
The tent mystery is solved! Long story short, the folks who retrieved the tent left their name at Caribou (as it turns out, one is a friend of forum member yellowcanoe). Anyway, I emailed them and with permission I am posting the story with names removed. Those who guessed someone may have tested out the tent were correct:
"[Name deleted] and I discovered your tent soaking wet and half stuffed into its bag on Friday the 28th [editor's note: the tent was lost on the 12th -- sixteen days earlier]. It was left on a picnic table in the up-river cell of the Boom House campsite. You may recall passing it by the tall white birdhouse, on the right side of the river, a mile or two beyond the Pine Stream Campsite, and just past 4-5 of those rock & log piers in the middle of the river that anchored the logging booms of yesteryear.
"So we found it 16 days after you dumped.
"At first we thought someone was claiming the site and would return, so we just thought it was a huge tarp. We set up supper in the other cell. But the weather was dry and sunny, and I discovered it was a tent, so I dried it out and set it up. We speculated that it was left by one of the large groups who we heard had passed ahead of us by a few days. We had torrential rains on the 26th, and thought maybe the group had left in a disorganized hurry, mistakenly leaving the large soaking wet tent behind.
"Instead of setting up our small tents, we decided to sleep in your tent, as I had set it up out of curiosity and to dry it anyway. Luckily, [Name deleted] did not snore too bad.
"There was seagull turd along the bottom which I tried to scrap and scrub off, without complete success, but good enough.
"The next day I dried it in the sun and packed it up. We were a little irritated that you didn't leave us the tent pegs that go with it.
"The river was very low this year, which explains the rapids. We were surprised to see the long stretches of mud leading down from both former banks of the river, down to a much-narrowed current. This was most apparent in the stretch leading up to Pine Steam Campsite and then on the way out and around to Chesuncook Landing.
"Anyway, I hope you had some way of picking up the tent from the Caribou Gate. The postage would be rather expensive, I'll bet."
"So we found it 16 days after you dumped.
"At first we thought someone was claiming the site and would return, so we just thought it was a huge tarp. We set up supper in the other cell. But the weather was dry and sunny, and I discovered it was a tent, so I dried it out and set it up. We speculated that it was left by one of the large groups who we heard had passed ahead of us by a few days. We had torrential rains on the 26th, and thought maybe the group had left in a disorganized hurry, mistakenly leaving the large soaking wet tent behind.
"Instead of setting up our small tents, we decided to sleep in your tent, as I had set it up out of curiosity and to dry it anyway. Luckily, [Name deleted] did not snore too bad.
"There was seagull turd along the bottom which I tried to scrap and scrub off, without complete success, but good enough.
"The next day I dried it in the sun and packed it up. We were a little irritated that you didn't leave us the tent pegs that go with it.
"The river was very low this year, which explains the rapids. We were surprised to see the long stretches of mud leading down from both former banks of the river, down to a much-narrowed current. This was most apparent in the stretch leading up to Pine Steam Campsite and then on the way out and around to Chesuncook Landing.
"Anyway, I hope you had some way of picking up the tent from the Caribou Gate. The postage would be rather expensive, I'll bet."
And this from the other gentleman who explains how they knew to leave it at Caribou point:
"We slept in it that night. We found it partially out of the bag and wet on a picnic table. No idea who put it there. We thought someone inadvertently forgot it when they broke camp. There was an error on our "bill" with NMW. We went in to straighten it out and saw a hand written sign about the tent. If it hadn't been for that happenstance event, we never would have known to give it to the gatekeeper."
I called NMW nearly 2 weeks after the mishap on a lark. So it was very timely that they came out when they did. If the earlier group had taken it, there would have been no note at Caribout point.
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