06/06/2026
🏕️ Event Highlight: Team New England
Six veterans laced up their boots and headed deep into the Green Mountains of Vermont for a two-day overnight adventure — and what they brought back was far more than just relics.
The mission kicked off Saturday with a deep dive into history, combing old homesites using 1800s maps as their guide. The ground gave up its secrets slowly — buttons, an Indian Head Cent, and a colonial-era rifle trigger guard among the finds. When midday rolled around, the team pivoted to some old-fashioned door knocking and struck gold: access to an 1850s church in town. The front yard yielded a beautiful silver signet ring, a piece of personal history quietly waiting to be found.
Rain couldn’t dampen the spirit. As the wet Vermont evening settled in, the crew gathered around a wood fire — stories flowing freely alongside a spread of venison and wild duck. A few of the guys slipped away long enough to hit the brook trout and came back with proof that the fishing was just as good as the detecting.
Sunday took the team off-trail and up into the mountains, bushwhacking toward a super-secluded homesite. They found it — but the site had other plans, with ground trash making clean signals nearly impossible. Sometimes the mountains keep their secrets. No matter — the mission was accomplished long before the last shovel hit the truck.
Team New England is already looking ahead to the next one. The mountains are waiting. ⛰️
Living our dreams, because they gave up theirs
