 RCAF Crash Site
A cache by zanadian Hidden: 10/13/2006
Size:  (Small) Difficulty:  Terrain:  (1 is easiest, 5 is hardest)
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Late in the morning of October 18th, 1947 a B25 Mitchell Bomber
belonging to the Royal Canadian Air Force crashed into Plewman
Basin. The plane carried 7 crewman and 2 passengers, none of whom
survived.
During the second World War the nose of the plane was encased in
glass and had a gunner sitting behind a large gun which stuck out
the front of the plane. During peace time in Canada there was no
need for a front gun so the nose was painted over, the gun was
removed and it looked like the plane below.
This cache can be accessed by Hwy 3B - a little north from the
Old Glory trailhead, just outside Rossland. The co-ordinates for
the trailhead are N 49 10.121 W 117 51.459 You can't see the trail
from the road, look for a dead tree hanging down from up on the
bank - that's where the trail starts. (A big thanks to table/cache
for hooking me up with the co-ord's for the trailhead).According to
a GPS the cache is about 1.8 km. from the Highway, or if you're on
the Seven Summits Trail, the cache is about 1.2 km. down from the
trail.
The B25 Mitchell Bomber was destroyed during impact, so not much
remains. At the cache site you will find some shrapnel and a few
recognizable airplane parts including a wheel and both engines,
also there's a cross with the names of the people that perished in
the crash. About a hundred meters up from the cache site you will
find a part of a wing.
The cache contains the usual log book and trade items. I forgot
to label a small bag of white rocks which was put into the cache.
The rocks are covered with calcite and are only found in
underground caverns or abandoned mines.
Enjoy your adventure!
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Additional Hints (Decrypt)
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RCAF B25 Mitchell Bomber
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 September 20, 2009 by i_8abug4_dinr (271 found)
Decided to do a hike up here today with the boys. They haven't been up here and I hadn't been introduced to geocaching the last time I was up here. So up we went. LOTS of Huckleberries. Lots of people, too. Looks like we were the only ones caching though. Great hike. Great day. Great site.
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August 30, 2009 by m_roberts23 (1 found)
Wonderful cache my wife and I had a blast! I actually heard of the crash site prior to searching for a cache and it really just worked out well tat we got to do both. the coordinates to the trail head are excellent and thank you to whoever tied the flagging tape at the trail head made it really really easy to find!
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August 1, 2009 by igel (567 found)
Amazing location! Very sad piece of history, of course... This is the third WWII-era crash site we visit, all thanks to the geocashing. This plane is in the worst shape of all of them. The impact must have been at full flying speed... Took nothing, left geocoin.
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 July 28, 2009 by NINJASofNELSON (90 found)
Started a bit late in the day, ended up confusing all the coordinates that i had and then started to bushwack. ended up turning around after the forest closed in around us to try to get our bearings ad find the proper trail and then realized that we had to pick up my mom half an hour ago, sadly we had to abandon this one, but we will be back!
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July 12, 2009 by LiaG (232 found)
I can only talk my husband into coming with me if I choose caches that involve hikes, so I decided to attempt this one this afternoon. We parked at a spot that the loggers had gone in, about 300m north of the trailhead. Then we just bushwhacked up the mountain. Not the best idea. Never did see a trail, and Ringrats coordinates didn't help us at all. Ended up above the crash site, but caught sight of debris through the trees. Found the cache, signed log, and, YAY!, found the trail out! Much easier on the trail. I left a surveyor's ribbon tied in a bow around the tree where the trail starts, and then we walked along the slash line to where we left the car.
Probably the most work I've ever done to find a cache! But Mr. LiaG was happy to finally get to this place - when he was a Scout leader, they had talked about taking the boys on a hike here. That never happened, so it wasn't hard to talk him into this hike now.
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Current Time: 2/10/2010 12:26:23 AM (GMT-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) (8:26 AM GMT)
Last Updated: 9/20/2009 7:27:33 PM Pacific Daylight Time (2:27 AM GMT)
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Coordinates are in the WGS84 datum
