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Magellan Brutally Handsome
Joined: 26 Jul 2006 Posts: 13116 | TRs | Pics Location: Inexorable descent |
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Sat Oct 29, 2011 10:43 pm
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I remember when the story came out. They were having a hard time convincing any military personnel to come out and look at it.
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peltoms Member
Joined: 13 Jul 2006 Posts: 1760 | TRs | Pics Location: Worcester MA |
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Sun Oct 30, 2011 8:29 am
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There was a plane crash near the east summit of Mount Daniels. Bill Prater showed me some parts from this accident back in 1986.
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williswall poser
Joined: 30 Sep 2007 Posts: 1963 | TRs | Pics Location: Redmond |
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D McCurry Member
Joined: 27 Oct 2011 Posts: 11 | TRs | Pics Location: Pasco, WA |
Does anyone have any crash site photos of the Mt. Constance C-141 in the Olympics that I could use in a book story?
Thanks,
Dave
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Sloman Member
Joined: 15 May 2011 Posts: 21 | TRs | Pics
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Mon Oct 31, 2011 6:38 am
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Last June while Geo caching I came across what appeared to be plane wreckage in a area north of Dayton. At the time there was road construction going on and thought that this wreckage was exposed as a result of that construction. The GPS coordinates are N 47*19.297 W 123*19.668.
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Phil Member
Joined: 02 Jul 2003 Posts: 2025 | TRs | Pics Location: Shoreline, WA |
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Mon Oct 31, 2011 8:22 am
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Deereguy wrote: | Seems like I remember some airplane debris on the West slope on Mt Washington (ONP). Near the bottom of West Face. |
Interesting. Is there a known wreck in that area? And is that part of a climbing route? I thought the climbing routes were east side.
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BBB Member
Joined: 28 Oct 2011 Posts: 11 | TRs | Pics
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Mon Oct 31, 2011 1:22 pm
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N 48.24677 W.121.12817 The engine was no where to be found. It was a little bigger than a cessna
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Deereguy Member
Joined: 22 Sep 2010 Posts: 65 | TRs | Pics
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Mon Oct 31, 2011 2:37 pm
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"Interesting. Is there a known wreck in that area? And is that part of a climbing route? I thought the climbing routes were east side"
Phil, not on one of the climbing routes. It's on the West side. It's been a number of years since I was there. It's on the way to Lake Ellinor on the West side.
By the way, I picked up (garage sale) an interesting map from early 1940's. (Metsker's map of the Puget Sound Country). This map showed some abandon trails and shelters that I was unaware. You might be interested in looking at it. rick
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Backpacker Joe Blind Hiker
Joined: 16 Dec 2001 Posts: 23956 | TRs | Pics Location: Cle Elum |
I heard about an Army Air Corp transport that crashed into Mt. Rainier during WW2 and they left it there with all the bodies inside. Later I think it becamse some kind of momument.
"If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all time or die by suicide."
— Abraham Lincoln
"If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all time or die by suicide."
— Abraham Lincoln
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gb Member
Joined: 01 Jul 2010 Posts: 6303 | TRs | Pics
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Mon Oct 31, 2011 8:24 pm
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Schroder wrote: | [-url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Canada_Air_Lines_Flight_810]Trans-Canada flight 810[/url] that crashed into Slesse Peak |
There is a pretty good story about this one:
In 1978 we climbed the NW face of Slesse and encountered another climber on the summit who knew the somewhat involved descent route but asked if he could rappel with us. His name was Jack Bryan from the Vancouver area. He had been competing with Fred Beckey to do the NE buttress of Slesse in the early 60's but lost out to Fred on that route. Jack then went on to do the first ascent of the NE(?) peak of Slesse via it's east side. He was certainly the first to come upon the wreck of Trans Canada flight 810 which flew directly into the subpeak of Slesse (I believe in 1963). He (Jack) said that the nosecone of the aircraft was embedded into the rock near the top of the peak. And on a ledge below the nose of the plane, Jack found a women's watch with a broken crystal but looked otherwise to be OK. He took the watch to a jeweler and had the crystal replaced. The watch was in perfect working order and he gave it to his wife.
On a later approach to the NE buttress with Jon Tarver also in 1978, we walked by numerous plane parts including an engine with the front two cylinders mashed and missing but with the rest of the engine largely intact.
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stevefromdodge Member
Joined: 29 Jun 2007 Posts: 140 | TRs | Pics
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Roald Member
Joined: 06 Aug 2007 Posts: 367 | TRs | Pics Location: Seattle |
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Tue Nov 01, 2011 5:32 pm
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Ditto for the crash on the east peak of Mt Daniel. Also, there's a crash of a small plane on a sub-peak of Gunn Peak.
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Riverside Laker Member
Joined: 12 Jan 2004 Posts: 2818 | TRs | Pics
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The small plane crash near Gunn Peak (locally known as Wing Peak) happened in the 60's.
From http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=2047
Quote: | Wing Luke and two others died on May 16, 1965, while returning home from a fishing trip in north central Washington. He was 40 years old. The small plane he was in crashed in the Cascade Mountains. It was three and a half years before the wreckage was found and recovered. |
The Seattle Asian Art Museum is named after the Seattle City Councilman.
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Sky Hiker Member
Joined: 03 Feb 2007 Posts: 1469 | TRs | Pics Location: outside |
The plane wreck near Merchant and Gunn Peak
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huey Member
Joined: 06 Oct 2007 Posts: 68 | TRs | Pics Location: Lake Stevens |
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Thu Nov 03, 2011 10:33 am
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There is airplane wreckage on the south side of Mt. Pilchuck and wreckage on the SE slope of Devils Peak. Don't recall ever hearing the stories of either of those.
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