The Biplane Fire Traditional Cache
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If you park on the top of the saddle at N 38° 11.788 W 105° 05.400, you can walk to both this cache and GC28Q5P.
Access by Forest Road 388, which may be icy in winter.
Cache is a wide-mouth plastic water bottle with room for swag.
BACKGROUND: On July 3, 2011, a 1941 Stearman Model 75 biplane crashed near the cache site. Aboard were the pilot, Oklahoma City businessman Sidney Emmert, and Robert Hamilton, MD, who owns a ranch just east of the cache site.
Dr. Hamilton walked away with minor injuries, but Mr. Emmert died. The antique aircraft was totally consumed by fire.
That fire spread up the ridge to the west, ultimately burning 154 acres.
It was fought by local volunteers, two Forest Service Hot Shot hand crews, and aerial tankers, who brought it partially under control by nightfall the first evening. It did not spread significantly after that.
This fire was officially called the "Mason Fire," but because of confusion with the larger Mason Gulch Fire of 2005 (GC28Q5P), locals often call it "The Biplane Fire."
FTF: Hartsdale, April 28, 2012.
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