Stopped looking down and started looking up for gnomes
Was hiking Bald Mountain last weekend. Spent an hour scanning bushes and rocks. Nothing. Sat down to eat my sandwich and noticed a tiny red hat wedged in a tree branch above me. Someone had wedged a gnome up there like 15 feet high. Now I always check overhead. Anybody else find gnomes in weird high places?
Last summer I found one on top of a fire tower sign near Lake Placid. Someone had zip-tied it to the metal pole about 20 feet up. Took binoculars to even see it. Now I always scan signs and trail markers too, not just branches.