Fortunately for us, we didn’t have anything here except a small agricultural storage building. Lots of homes were destroyed, because this was the convergence of two fires. “The fire came up over this (ridge) and burned through the valley. “We bought the property in 2007 and closed escrow two weeks before the Witch Creek fire,” Lynn Robinson told me on Friday. 20, Robinson and her husband, Mark, will open the newest tasting room - Domaine Artefact - to the public, with their first bottles of wine made from grapes grown right here, in the hills between Lake Hodges and Ramona. In all, there are at least five relatively new vineyards in the valley, and that’s not including the sprawling Orfila Winery that lies a few miles to the northwest.
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She pointed to the neighbor’s vineyard, smaller but older, and another one across the valley. So it was a century ago, when Highland Valley produced some of the finest fruit around as a major contributor to Escondido’s booming grape-farming industry.Īnd so it will be again, Robinson assured me. The man who was found at the creek claimed to have been at the Tomorrow World Music Festival days beforehand.On a spectacular morning in Highland Valley last week, Lynn Robinson climbed the hill where her front porch will eventually be built and looked back toward her vineyard, 30 acres of grapes and horse corrals nestled in a valley that will soon be widely known for the fruit of its vines. And at least for a little while, he will be bringing someone with him when he goes. However, Sanders admits, not all hunters are as diligent about that procedure as he is.Īnd while he was too shaken up to continue his hunt that day, he will be back out there again soon. He says, there is little chance he would have shot the man because he would have waited to identify the source of the noise before preparing the fire. His bow was several feet away when the encounter began. Sanders was armed with a knife at the time. I want to assess the situation for my safety and for his because if he would have just started running at me, just needing help, I wouldn’t have known what to do.
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“I’m not just going to run up and approach, no questions asked. Why wouldn’t you just run up and help him,'” said Sanders. “A lot of people were saying, ‘You’ve got a weapon. In just a few days, it has been viewed more than 1,000,000 times on YouTube. Little did he know, the video would spread like wildfire. “I had told it 10 times in two days and I was just like, ‘I’ll just put it on Facebook, everybody will see it, and it is a cool story,'” said Sanders. It was the end of his strange encounter, but only the beginning of a wild tale. “I got something to eat for you, just don’t do nothing stupid right now,” said Sanders.įor the next hour, Sanders helped the man out of the woods. He then asked the hunter if he had anything to drink.Īt this point in the video, Sanders is somewhat satisfied that the man isn’t going to attack him and does need help.
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Not sure if the man was alone or if he was a threat, Sanders began recording the encounter with his cell phone.Īfter a couple of minutes questioning the man, trying to determine if his mental state was stable enough to approach, the man told Sanders he had been drinking creek water and eating rotten crab apples. He’s not wearing anything at all,” said Sanders. “I hear, ‘I’m naked,’ and I looked down and he’s standing there in the middle of the creek. Sanders’ shock turned to confusion when he realized where the voice was coming from. “Of course, me being by myself in the woods not thinking anybody else is anywhere around, it startled me, shocked me.” “On the way to the game camera, I hear a, ‘hey’,” said Sanders. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated.Ĭarrollton, GA ( WGCL) - A Georgia hunter had a bizarre encounter in the woods in south Fulton County and caught it all on camera.Ĭasey Sanders had just arrived at his hunting stand and set down his gear when he heard a sound nearby. This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.