Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/05/02/relaxing-botany-tour-of-death.html
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It’s all fun and games until Ricardo Montalban puts a ear wig in your helmet.
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Horned Lizard, squeee!
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Great Horny Toads! /Yosemite Sam
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“…and coming upon our left, Mount…OH SHIT!”
Relaxing tour of wait, WHAT valley? I’m not sure ‘relaxing’ is the right concept here.
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I was trying to figure out what the plane was, from the shape of the tailfin, and it had at least one rotary engine - kind of ironic that an amphibious seaplane ends up in one of the driest places in the world!
Pity, the Albatross is one of my favourite planes, sad to see it lying there.
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Wrong area & plane, but it still reminded me of Steve Fossett.
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Plane crashes around mountain ranges aren’t as uncommon as you may think. In the early 90s a friend and I stumbled across this Colorado wreckage near Jasper Peak. And there are more around that general area: https://rootsrated.com/stories/exploring-colorado-s-front-range-plane-wrecks
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The way that title read, I thought it was going to be one of this guys videos: Crime Pays But Botany Doesn’t (Love his videos fwiw. He has done several in Death Valley / the Mojave.)
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That model of plane in its uncashed state. Very interesting. I think I saw one of these at the Pima Museum.
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Hmmmm, plane crash? Death Valley? Cue the Zabriskie Point soundtrack!
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And here we have a very fine example of Crashed Airplane (apparatus volitans argenteus naufragio).
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There is a plan crash in the mountains near where I live. People go for walks to it all the time. It’s covered in graffiti now.
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One of the mountains on Moloka’i has an apparent tropism for planes; it’s accumulated a crash every few years. While Moloka’i is scenic, it’s prone to some abrupt weather and you want to be cautious around its terrain.
What was the golden fungus looking stuff on so many rocks? Was that GOLD!
Such a Fallout New Vegas vibe, I kept looking for Deathclaws.
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