Fantastic you were able to locate it off pictures of distant mountains. I love your adventures spirit, reminds me of my long passed adventure friend Jim Mills.
Having been to a similar exotic-plane crash site, I agree that getting there and being there, in an otherwise very random remote place, is probably the biggest reward. Searching for stuff takes you places you'd otherwise not go. I think if I took 100 people to my favorite crash site one at a time, and turned them loose for a half hour of searching starting at the impact point, most would not manage to find even one item, much less the densest part of the debris field in that amount of time, maybe not even in several hours. But it varies wildly, depending upon conditions at the time. Stuff gets buried at times, and churned back up at other times. Places look completely different after drought vs after rain, too, so without good landmarks or GPS, it's sometimes confusing as to whether I'm back in the same place, or a similar place 1/4 mile away in any direction, with repetitive features in the landscape. It's pretty common to finally find a debris field, and realize you were 50 yards away or 500 yards away on a previous visit, when you found ieither nothing or maybe one thing you weren't sure was from the crash. When I find an old flare, I always wonder whether it was used in the search/recovery, or was just randomly dropped during exercises at a totally different time. You can't always figure out the answers to stuff like that.
Fantastic you were able to locate it off pictures of distant mountains. I love your adventures spirit, reminds me of my long passed adventure friend Jim Mills.
THIS is why i love youtube!
You are one cool father!
Nice adventure guys! And Ryan definitely enjoyed it more than you!
Having been to a similar exotic-plane crash site, I agree that getting there and being there, in an otherwise very random remote place, is probably the biggest reward. Searching for stuff takes you places you'd otherwise not go. I think if I took 100 people to my favorite crash site one at a time, and turned them loose for a half hour of searching starting at the impact point, most would not manage to find even one item, much less the densest part of the debris field in that amount of time, maybe not even in several hours. But it varies wildly, depending upon conditions at the time. Stuff gets buried at times, and churned back up at other times. Places look completely different after drought vs after rain, too, so without good landmarks or GPS, it's sometimes confusing as to whether I'm back in the same place, or a similar place 1/4 mile away in any direction, with repetitive features in the landscape.
It's pretty common to finally find a debris field, and realize you were 50 yards away or 500 yards away on a previous visit, when you found ieither nothing or maybe one thing you weren't sure was from the crash. When I find an old flare, I always wonder whether it was used in the search/recovery, or was just randomly dropped during exercises at a totally different time. You can't always figure out the answers to stuff like that.
Time to get a front hitch on the 3/4 ton so you don't have to keep molyhocking bikes into your camper!