Rainforest 1: Wreckhunters 0
We ( Me, Mick, Matt ZX) went over to Aran Fawddwy yesterday with a view to finding a bit of the Mustang whose wreckage was scattered there.
We had the crash report, and the various published coordinates. There were three of us, we had all day to look and we had all found a good few wreck sites.
We found nothing where the crash report map showed wreckage should have been, we found nothing where TR Hill's book described wreckage in a rainforest, and we found nothing where Clark's book reported wreckage, other than incredibly tightly packed trees, festooned with moss.
Crash Report: SH 845 233
Clark et al: SH 841 237
Hill: SH 846 234
We have a report that someone from Chester looted the site back in the early 90's, and that one of their friends has been operating nearby recently.
Anyone know anything?
3 comments:
lol, been there done that, with the same result. I even spent half the day in wellies going up and down the streams as there were reports of easily found wreckage in the water. I'm split on this one, the accident report makes me think it was higher up the fell then I thought, 'All in a days work' sounds like a pretty good description of the area I was in. Look like another return is on the cards.
I've had two trips to this one, once in 2004 and once in 2005. If Matt doesn't find anything I might go back with the accident report and see if I can get it to 'fit'. From that my hunch is that it may be uphill from the bridge (if that's the same bridge I'm thinking about). It's just a combination of the map with the report and the photo in Hill's book.
I think the most significant feature on the crash report map is on the left, where the river flows downhill due south. I only found one place where this happens....
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