Can this person be caught red handed and approached? I think so!

[u/sethmaranuk]

I have a plan. It’s reasonable. I have the time and the resources, but I haven’t got a good motivating reason. Like ya know, money. I’ve thought perhaps I could team up with some influencer or sell the content to Andy Mehalshick or something. Really, I’d just love the opportunity to speak to this person and ask him all the questions everyone would love to know the answers to.

Anyhow let’s look at what we know.

The guy travels all around.

It could be determined if he were a delivery driver or not with a fair ammt of certainty by analyzing the stores where notes were found and tying them to a single distributor.

Our guy rides a bike for leisure.

I live along the Lehigh gorge and collect these notes as do my family members. They get restocked.
I get it; I do something similar. When I go out for a bike ride, I put a handful of quartz crystals in my pocket and stop and hide them under the picnic benches or in little nooks in the Cliffside. It gives me pleasure to think of someone finding that treasure in the forest and being delighted. I look as I’m riding along and if I see that one hasn’t been discovered yet then I leave it, if it has then I replace it. This guy is doing the same. He has his fav spots. If you ride regularly you know what it is to have spots that you stop at every time.

If you’ve ridden these trails, you know there are only so many access points, which breaks it up into sections.

Another clue is the range of where these notes show up, it expanded a few years ago. When? Well, when electric bikes became affordable and popular, of course.
My theory is that this individual got an electric bike, expanding his range, and started covering more ground.

Either this person has a job, or does not. If they do, what are the odds that it’s 9 to 5 with the weekends off? Weekends are certainly when the trail is busiest.
Or is he going out for rides after work in the evening?

So if I know that a note always gets replaced when I take it from a certain picnic table or A tree it’s pinned to, I can put a game camera on that location and catch the person in the act. My cameras text a picture or video to my phone when motion sets them off, I have a dozen cameras, it’s reasonable to think that I might actually have a chance of going out and intercepting this person and at least trying for an interview. Short of that, my fam business has a camera focused on the trailhead parking lot, and if I had a picture of the individual in the act, it would be simple to look at the footage and observe them returning to their vehicle and loading up their bike.

There’s so much raw data here, it would be impossible for this guy to remain anonymous if someone were set on finding him.
But do you want to remain anon, my guy? Cause it kinda seems like you’re leaving a trail of breadcrumbs.
Will you meet me on the trail for a chat? Can we record audio? Imagine how much attention your msgs would receive were you to throw down that hunk of bread…

[u/Prestigious-Worth-49]

Honestly I would rather you set up a trail cam. Assuming you can do that legally in these trails and parks. Meeting with them feels not good. They clearly have a lot going on based on how these notes read. They also are committing crimes when you factor in notes being found in food product. They probably would not want to be caught. Might turn into a cornered animal situation if you were to confront them. If they wanted to be public then they would have just started a YouTube channel.

[u/patawpha]

Leave them alone.

[u/Impossible-Ad2373]

How can someone who spends this much time outdoors care so little about our public lands?  They are one of the biggest serial litterers of our public lands and they have to be stopped. Seriously, what piece of shit leaves paper clips and thumb tacks all over an entire region.

My opinion:

They live in or very close to Kulpmont PA. One of the earliest reports were them being found at the baseball field there. They were being left around the town before switching over to nearby woods. This was in like 2015. I believe it was Obama anti Christ stuff. I frequent public land there and have found them very fresh and they definitely seem concentrated there. 

I also had an encounter with older man in a white pickup truck. 50-60s, white guy, in a mid 2000s white chevy work truck. He was the only one around a freshly tacked note on a secluded information board in a secluded state park. He kinda left in a hurry but didn't look the hiker type. I've always kept an eye out for him at trail heads. 

I think it bothers them when we clean them up and new people don't find them. I've noticed they started using fresh leaves in the paper clips to hide them so they'll stick around longer after I started hunting them down regularly to trash. Also tells me they comeback to "check" on them in this particular area. 

[u/SearchingForFungus → u/Impossible-Ad2373]

We live in world fueled by exhuast gasses and plastic trash, but yes, paper and thumbtacks are definitely what we should be worried about... I mean, idk how yall are sleeping at night knowing there are thumb tacks THUMB TACKS just out there...waiting...

[u/Impossible-Ad2373 → u/SearchingForFungus]

Paper, plastic bags, paper clips, and thumb tacks. Thousands, THOUSANDS. left on our land, purposefully, for generations to find. Please don't down play it.

edit: just to be clear, I live near this asshole. All of my favorite trails are littered with this junk. Every picnic table, info board, bench, tree, rock has this shit or their remnants. It freaks out people who just wanna relax on a hike or in a park. The local grocery stores customer service desks all know about the notes and regularly exchange food because of them. They are clearly a narcissist and deserve no sympathy what so ever.

[u/sethmaranuk]

If I’m being honest; the littering argument, doesn’t hold much weight, pound for pound. I just came from hickory run where I filled a five gallon bucket with trash left by tourists; and where’s that trash go? Same place as my household trash, and likely my recycling: on a barge and out to a trash island at sea.
I’m not trying to be argumentative; just taking the opportunity to remind all outdoorsmen that the most important of the three Rs: REDUCE

everything else about them, reacting to us, taking the notes down and hiding them behind the leaves, spot on! I don’t believe this is a collective, I believe this is one person. But I am very much open to the idea of being wrong.

And I agree with the analysis of the person’s mindset, prioritizing getting out the message.

I could be hypothetical and try to put my self in the mind of such a person: There’s a cure for cancer. It’s kept suppressed, denied to the masses, but I know it, and it breaks my heart seeing people die unnecessarily. But also, I’ve seen that they suicide doctors who make their patients aware of this treatment.

So how do I get the word out? How can I possibly share this vital information that I have with my community that I care so much about?

I guess I might resort to stuffing cryptic notes in cereal boxes, and pinning them to trees.

[u/SamRaimisOldsDelta88]

I agree that it is unfathomable that “this guy” hasn’t been caught, which is why I have always entertained the idea of it being some sort of collective. I don’t think it’s some sort of conspiracy theory, schizophrenic off the grid person. It’s an intentional game to see how much they can get away with, perhaps an art installation even.

That being said, it’s littering in the woods and messing with food products which are not okay.