Remote memorial stone

[Frog]

I went on a hunting trip with son and friend last weekend. They didn't get any shots but I got over a 150..ha ha.
While exploring a ridgeline I was trying to get some shots of an old fence line without much success. As I walked along I spotted a bottle sticking above the weeds and went to investigate. I discovered it was part of a memoial marker. I don't know if its a whiskey or wine bottle but if you look you will see his old crumpled hunting hat on the left and at top right of marker is a goose call. There are also several cartridges of various calibers that are not easy to see in photo. I wish I would have had a wider lens on,(was using sigma 70-300) and I could have got a closer shot looking down on it.
I was amazed the site was not desecrated or that the goose call wasn't stolen. Its very remote but I'm sure I'm not the first to have stumbled across it. I'm guessing this was one of his favorite places to hunt.

[another view]

I don't know if its a whiskey or wine bottle

Crown Royal.

Must have been his favorite place and being buried there may have been his wish. That's really kind of neat, not the "normal" way. I know of a burial on an island in a National Park - haven't been to it myself but I'd like to find it one of these days. I think that man died in a war - before it was a NP.

[Didache]

That's what's great about coming across things like that - it makes ytou curious about the story behind it. Who was he? Is this a burial site or a memorial marker? Why here? Does anyone still come to pay their respects?

Great find!

Mike

[Frog]

I'm guessing someone comes up to pay respects as I notice there's no grass or twigs on the marker. I did find some people with the last name had been buried in a cemetary in a nearby town.

[Old Timer]

Some accidental find. Never ceases to amaze what we can stumble across when we get of the beaten path. Great find, hope others that come across it are as respectful as you were of the site.