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[ski3pin]

....................especially if it involves high mountains?

 

Decades Old Human Remains discovered on Mount Williamson

 

another article with more details

 

Skeleton unearthed beneath California peak

 

[ski3pin]

If you'd like to look at Williamson Bowl on Google Earth -

 

36°39.207'N 118°19.486'W

 

these are not the coordinates of the location of the body.

[Taku]

Mysteries abound. Likely an interesting story if it ever gets figured out.

[ski3pin]

Mysteries abound. Likely an interesting story if it ever gets figured out.

 

The remains are old, possibly decades. It looks like a burial. It doesn't match a missing person case. A fractured skull. "No foul play is suspected." Who is it? Who did the burial?

[pvstoy]

My gal and I have climbed Mt. Williamson years ago, I often think about discovering something or body out there. We use to make 9 day backpack trips completely off trail and thought how would anybody find us.

I lost my favorite doctor, he went solo from the rest of his group and fell after summiting a peak. Took days to find him.

Modern day tracking devices now help, but my PLB only works if I'm alive and can activate it. The ones that long track and send out coordinates updating regularly intervals is what I would like if we were still doing these off the grid routes.

 

 

Edit to enlarge text...Tablet makes it too darn small!!!

Edited by pvstoy, 20 October 2019 - 04:05 AM.

[ski3pin]

On of the saddest but enlightening death in the mountains -

 

The Mike Turner Story

[PacingTheCage]

Wow! Truly sad but also enlightening as you sad.

[Foy]

Looks like mystery solved.  The body found in Williamson Bowl is believed to be that of a Manzanar internee who was part of the "Manzanar Fishing Club".  A group of 10 or so took shelter overnight from a snow squall on July 29,1945 and the next morning one member of the party was missing.  His body was subsequently found and was laid to rest at the scene.

 

Authorities are awaiting the return of DNA testing to confirm the identity.

 

Full story just posted by the Associated Press outlets.

 

Foy

Edited by Foy, 23 October 2019 - 09:18 PM.

[ski3pin]

Wow, such a historic and unexpected twist to the story. The guys in the Manzanar Fishing Club were darn tough to climb up to that fishing hole. Foy, thanks so much for posting this!

[Foy]

Wow, such a historic and unexpected twist to the story. The guys in the Manzanar Fishing Club were darn tough to climb up to that fishing hole. Foy, thanks so much for posting this!

 

 

Whoa, I'll say they were some tough individuals to get up there from the internment camp!  If I'm seeing the grounds correctly, the lowest lake in the bowl and the one directly feeding Williamson Creek has a pool elevation of 11,600'.  The lower end of the Manzanar footprint on the same digital topo is at 3,880'.  So 7,720' of elevation gain in around 10 miles!  That's Mr. Ski3pin style hike-in fishing!

 

Foy