Mountain cleanup yields 780 pounds of lost items and strange finds in popular resort town

A new annual cleanup at a Colorado ski resort turned into something of a treasure hunt as staff uncovered everything from outdated apparatus to a hamburger flipper Earlier this summer Breckenridge Ski Resort in Breckenridge Colorado informed that its staffers had teamed up to remove a whopping pounds of trash Much of the garbage came from patrons who accidentally dropped things off the ski lift The resort commented the effort required employees and yielded selected remarkable finds VISIT THESE NEW ENGLAND SKI RESORTS THIS WINTER FOR BREATHTAKING VIEWS SLOPES FOR BEGINNERS EXPERTSThe oddest find was a message in a bottle prompting specific speculation about what it might contain A spokesperson for Breckenridge Ski Resort informed KDVR that it wasn't a romantic love letter from decades past however It was really just an old COVID- vaccination card Staff members also spotted a cracked iPhone and an iPod Nano along with a Canadian coin Other strange finds Plenty of vape cartridges along with an inexplicable hamburger flipper TOP AFFORDABLE SKI RESORTS IN US FOR HITTING THE SLOPES THIS YEARAs expected the cleanup also turned up lots of empty bottles and general trash The resort's senior communications manager Max Winter notified Fox News Digital in late July that surprisingly the staff s favorite find didn t make the video of the efforts It was truly believe it or not a family of moose Winter announced A couple of our employees stumbled across the family while searching for lost and discarded items CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR OUR LIFESTYLE NEWSLETTER While our unit kept their distance and didn't take any photos their encounter serves as a great reminder that our natural spaces are a shared home and it is up to each of us to do our part to take care of them he added Though multiple of the items were trash Winter noted that the majority of the -pound weight was made up of larger items that were recycled or upcycled In specific very rare cases we've even been able to reunite items with their previous owners he recalled For more Lifestyle articles visit foxnews com lifestyle For example a scant years ago at our sister resort Keystone our teams were able to match an engraved engagement ring with a guest months after the person's visit The spokesperson added that the effort called Mountain Clean Up Day is one of the staff's favorite annual events It gives us a chance to give certain love back to the mountains we call home Winter declared In addition to being the right thing to do for our mountain it's also a fun paid event to connect with our teammates see what wacky items may have been lost in the season's powder days and of program enjoy a free lunch on the mountain