GC3HTB6The Biplane Fire
Type: Traditional
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By: chasclifton@
| Hide Date: 04/23/2012
| Status: Available
Country: United States
| State: Colorado Coordinates: N38° 11.568 W105° 05.049 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 0
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."
04/30/2018 By WingsAndTales The area was pretty quiet today and the cache is still in good shape. TFTC
10/22/2017 By celticwarrior TFTC! Goergoues day and the hill sides were covered in color from the brush oak. Had to walk in closing concentric circles to narrow down ground zero....signal was bouncing around everywhere between the hills and gullies.
07/30/2016 By LLYN-lhvwn50 I may have had the valley to myself. It was very peaceful, and would have been easy to stay longer. TFTC.
07/05/2016 By Night*Cacher I grabbed this one on the way home form Geowoodstock. It was a large detour, but fills a spot on my double fizzy. TFTC
07/02/2016 By dkcraig Short scramble off the road. Another piece of history. A good lesson nature's renewal process after a fire. Tftc
The Biplane Fire
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