Hit and Miss

Three summers after graduation, Mike Park lost his Bingham High School class of 1981 ring. He was on Bear Lake with his family. “I hit a wake and it flipped us over and whoosh, away it went off,” he reports. “I was probably 200 to 300 yards from shore.” He knew he would never see the ring again. Thirty-four years later Neil Laser, an amateur metal detectorist (they also call themselves “diggers”) found it. Earlier this month Neil was combing the shoreline near Ideal Beach, three miles from the spot where Mike’s ring disappeared. He dug the ring up about eight inches from the surface. Neil posted a photo of the ring on a Utah metal detecting group page on Facebook. A member directed Neil to another group page for BHS class of 1981. Neil recovers four or five rings a year, but this is the first one (so far) that he’s been able to return to its owner.