met a guy in 2008 who had gone from katahdin to somewhere in NC the year before. In 08 he started at springer and was going back to where he had left off. The year before he buried a bottle of bourbon near the shelter where he finished, so that the next year he could dig it up to celebrate the completion of the trail. seemed like a cool idea to me, though not quite as fascinating as some people are making it out to be. It's just a bottle of whiskey buried in the woods, and as somebody else said, it would probably be empty following its initial discovery, knowing how many hikers like to celebrate.