Wildest things found on Breckenridge cleanup day.
Wildest things found on Breckenridge cleanup day.

It’s surprisingly easy to drop something off a chairlift or forget to zip your pocket while you’re out skiing or snowboarding, and people tend to lose quite a few random objects while out on the slopes. Especially when our hands are getting cold it can be very easy to fumble your belongings, and finding said belongings again when the snow is deep can be next to impossible.

As such, when ski resorts do their annual mountain cleanups once the snow is melted, they frequently find a wide range of interesting lost objects. This year’s cleanup at Breckenridge Resort in Colorado was no different.

Things like IDs, season passes, missing skis, and poles aren’t all that surprising, but an iPhone with a button is pretty wild as is a bottle of champagne, if it was empty. There were a lot of phones found too, and an entire snowboard doesn’t make a ton of sense (how’d you get down?). The wildest object is probably the old Snowshoe Mountain lift ticket though. That one came a long ways from Virginia.

Nolan Deck is a writer for Unofficial Networks, covering skiing and outdoor adventure. After growing up and skiing in Maine, he moved to the Denver area for college where he continues to live and work...