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Taken from CNN:
Wallet returned 27 years later with $37 still inside
Friday, October 11, 2002 Posted: 3:48 AM EDT (0748 GMT)
LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- A backpacker who found a leather wallet wedged between rocks on a slope in the Sierra Nevada mountain range returned it -- with $37 still inside -- to the hiker who lost it during a 1975 fall.
"It was kind of a little archaeological find," Glenn Rasmuson of San Diego said of the billfold he spotted last month while hiking near Independence. He told the Daily News of Los Angeles he used the Internet to locate the wallet's owner, San Fernando Valley resident Roy Huff, from what remained of a faded membership card.
Other ink on Huff's Social Security card and his driver's license had been obliterated by the effects of weather and sun.
"It's not much to look at. It's a miracle it's still in one piece," Huff said of the wallet Rasmuson mailed to him along with the $37 in mangled U.S. currency and a 27-year-old dental appointment card.
Huff said he and three friends cut short their attempted climb of University Peak, about 225 miles northeast of Los Angeles, as darkness approached. On their descent, Huff slipped on an icy stretch, taking his friend Alan Bockstahler down with him. Both suffered only minor bruises, and Huff's wallet was lost. But not gone.
Taken from CNN:
Wallet returned 27 years later with $37 still inside
Friday, October 11, 2002 Posted: 3:48 AM EDT (0748 GMT)
LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- A backpacker who found a leather wallet wedged between rocks on a slope in the Sierra Nevada mountain range returned it -- with $37 still inside -- to the hiker who lost it during a 1975 fall.
"It was kind of a little archaeological find," Glenn Rasmuson of San Diego said of the billfold he spotted last month while hiking near Independence. He told the Daily News of Los Angeles he used the Internet to locate the wallet's owner, San Fernando Valley resident Roy Huff, from what remained of a faded membership card.
Other ink on Huff's Social Security card and his driver's license had been obliterated by the effects of weather and sun.
"It's not much to look at. It's a miracle it's still in one piece," Huff said of the wallet Rasmuson mailed to him along with the $37 in mangled U.S. currency and a 27-year-old dental appointment card.
Huff said he and three friends cut short their attempted climb of University Peak, about 225 miles northeast of Los Angeles, as darkness approached. On their descent, Huff slipped on an icy stretch, taking his friend Alan Bockstahler down with him. Both suffered only minor bruises, and Huff's wallet was lost. But not gone.
