Tuesday, December 30, 2014

Mt. Mou and the WWII plane wreck

Distance: 8.5 km.  Elevation low/high/total: 219/1185/1150 m.
Difficulty: 9.2/10.  Scenic: 8.8/10

The remains of the Dauntless SBD-3 (Tail 918) - click pic for album
Geotrack for the difficult hike is here
My friend Paul told me about this hike some months ago, and I finally convinced him to motivate a hike.  So, Paul, myself and Kincso, and Simon Nichol (SPC colleague) and his son Django hit the road by 8 AM to start the hike.  Make no mistake, this is a doozy of a hike.  It is straight uphill, through dry forest, red dirt desert, wet rainforest, etc. for 3.5 hours. If you do this hike, take a lot of water.  Take even more than a lot.  The history of this plane crash can be read here.  Sadly, there is less and less of the wreck remaining each year as bounty hunters strip away parts.  Paul has been here six or seven times over the past 15 years and attests to the plane's further destruction.  All in all, an exhausting hike that takes one through several different climes, highly recommended for the masochistic sporties out there.  We placed a geocache at the site, linked here.

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