Boots on the Lakebed: Why She Left a Note and Matches
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Boots on the Lakebed: Why She Left a Note and Matches
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The boots were tied in a double knot and sat eighteen inches below Ansel Lake’s surface, four miles from the nearest road - and one contained a Post-it directing anyone who found them to a lightning-scarred ponderosa. A fisherman saw them through glassy water before seven a.m.; inside the other boot, a single wooden match and a square of emergency blanket. Who left them, and were they left as a trail to rescue or a last message?
In this episode, we follow the sequence of decisions and small preparations that led from a broken snowmobile to a deliberate walk into the northwest woods, and we trace the single notation in a field notebook that may explain why. What did the note mean to its writer, and did those three matches and a root-chambered ponderosa change the outcome?
Person: Crystal Norris
Date: Third week of July 2021
Location: Ansel Lake, northwest shore
Event: Snowmobile broke through shelf ice into eleven-foot water
Item found: Size seven work boots with Post-it, emergency blanket, and one wooden match
- The boots were standing upright eighteen inches below the lake surface and were visible through the water before seven in the morning.
- The boots were size seven, laced in a double knot, and located four miles from the nearest road.
- Inside one boot was a folded square of silver emergency blanket and a single wooden match; inside the other was a Post-it written in blue ballpoint pen reading "NW shore, big pine with the lightning scar, look down."
- Crystal had three waterproof matches on a card and a folded square of silver emergency blanket before the incident; her phone was submerged and inoperable.
- Crystal swam approximately forty feet through fifty-two-degree water, then walked northwest for twenty-two minutes to the ponderosa she had noted three summers earlier.
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