Things you don't want to see when in the great outdoors.
I've been off work for 2 1/2 months because of rotator cuff surgery. So to try and keep the rest of my body in shape, I've been doing walks, hikes, and some running. On Fridays I've decided to do a hike in the morning, because my wife does some volunteer work during that time. Anyway for the past two weeks, I've headed up to Butterfield Canyon. The gate is closed at the bottom, so I've been parking there, and then walking up as far as I can go in my time limit--this morning my limit was three hours, so I went up for an hour and a half and then came back down.
Anyway, before I began my hike/walk as I pulled near the gate to park, I saw a truck parked there. That truck was the only vehicle there besides me. When I got out and began strapping on my pack, I noticed the truck seemed to be running, but I couldn't see anyone inside. I was a little suspicious, but since one of my cars has a fan that kicks on after I've been driving it for a while and shut it off, I thought this truck might have the same kind of thing--a fan that kicked on to cool things down. I almost went and looked in, but didn't.
So then I went on the 3 hour hike. When I came back, there were cops around, and one of them came and asked me some questions and told me that a guy had killed himself in the truck. I told the cop that I'd thought about looking inside because it sounded like it was running and the cop said, "Well, it's probably better that you didn't."
Anyway, that wasn't what I was expecting when I began my hike this morning and it has kind of stayed with me all day. Freaky.