Yosemite Drug Plane Crash - Climbers Get Rich!
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- Опубліковано 27 вер 2024
- In 1977, Yosemite climbers discovered a drug smuggling plane crashed in a frozen lake. Beneath the ice were hundreds of bales of Colombian weed! A gold rush ensued, the climbers got rich, and they made the iconic "I Got Mine" T-Shirt. Now we're reviving this classic design in a limited-edition collab with our friends at Jungmaven. Get yours here: reelrocktour.c...
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This story is an excerpt from our award-winning feature documentary Valley Uprising.
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$45 for a tshirt? Yeesh if I was a weed kingpin then MAYBE...
@@ThorntonDrury if they made their money off the pot they wouldn't be selling t-shirts
@@calisdad3 You think these dope heads still have weed money from 45 years ago? Lol.
So dumb they took pics of themselves and made a shirt of something that should of been an absolute secret smh
lol
“We underestimated the entrepreneurial spirit of certain members of the community,” said Yosemite Park Ranger Tim Setnicka
I like that ranger, he got a way with the ironic understatement.
That's hilarious!
All Those bales would be worth about $200 in todays market.
@ I think your right. The weed would be like worthless but the seeds would be worth tens of thousands.
@ are they still any good after being in water and petrol??
If social media existed back then this wouldn’t have been remotely possible
Better days 💗
I wish social media didn’t exist now.
Simpler times were so much better
social media ruined the world
If the first ones to find it wouldnt be dumb as fuck it would be definetly possible
this wasnt remotely possible anyways. kerosene dissolves THC. anything they pulled out of that water was useless plant matter stripped of any and all THC.
This needs to be a movie
It would 100 times better then another comic book movie.
“Cliffhanger” was inspired by this event.
valley uprising would be the that movie
Those in favor say I!!!
@@alfredobatista9818
Eye!!
thats fantastic that so many people became involved in the weed recovery in its entirety without the cops finding out until after they finished.....amazing.
What a good deed those climbers did, removing all the drugs from the lake and saving the innocent fish from certain harm..!
Well there's still the jet fuel leaking out
@@EnterTheOrb you gona say that to the ones giving food to starving children? "well there is adults starving to". No you say good job and nice done!
To which the fish replied "Screw you hippies that's our weed!"
When the weed looks like that, yea they probably did do the environment a favor
It’s all about the children
This is a snippet from a documentary called "Valley Uprising". It is one of the best documentaries I have ever watched.
I provided a number of the photos for that documentary as well as correct information
now that’s a feel good story! True justice and the climbers earned it!
@@TheGravygun she probably smokes crack
Two guys died, maybe not quite a feel good story?
@@seanc6042 Right? Then they sold weed that blows up in your face to random people all over? I don't even think this story sounds believable. If it is true at all, there were probably more casualties from hypothermia diving for it in such a remote area, let alone the supposed fuel soaked weed which would have also been water soaked and difficult to dry properly, and safe to smoke.
That’s why there’s still climbers in Yosemite , waiting on the next rescue and recover!
@@naRevolution :LOL, drying the weed from being water soaked is not a problem however fuel soaked weed i do not believe is recoverable nor smokeable
What a “feel good” story! This is what the internet was meant for.
I can just imagine the glee on their faces after getting in on the find. 🤩
Awesome story right there 👌🤘🏻🌳
Two people died.
@@thevanishingsaxon663 like they cared about the pilots, they were stoked when they seen all those bags of weed.
Finders keepers 🤘🏻😎🤩
That is nothing compared to the haul that was rescued in 1981 of the coast of Big Sur just south of Monterey Bay. More bales than could by counted and folks around Santa Cruz were high for a long time on the cheap.
Yep, I know that one quite well. I'm from Capitola, me & couple of buddies made a killing off of what we took from that pile, we loaded a bunch up in my old '66 Chevy long bad & booked back up to where I lived in Love Creek, (the year before the big slide in '82) to weigh it, bag it, and sell it. We were very popular around the old Boulder Club in the Rex Hotel for quite some time. We might have been able to get more, but it began to get dicey so we just remained happy with what we made off of our efforts. Christ, I miss those days...
I also miss those days.........ed
It's such a childish law.
@@SierraThunder Well okay awesome story but big question: How MUCH did you get???? Awesome history
Hanson 🤘😎🤘🍻🍻🍻🇦🇺
Not too long ago I used to dumpster dive( I was homeless),several times I found about 6-7 trash bags full of shrink wrap with residues of pot, all in the same dumpster,hauled them one by one on my bike to a friend's home,scraped the them clean and got about 10 to 15 pounds of bud each time,those bags helped me to get a vehicle, get me off the streets and get my life back on track.
EVERY documentary needs to be created this exact way 😱
This is a smart part in a rock climbing movie
What a perfect way to find lost aircraft, imagine if flight MH 370 & all the other missing planes had a cargo area full of high grade weed, we'd never have to rely on search & rescue again, but smoking fuel soaked chuff really cracked me up, well done.
"The Cuervo Gold, the fine Colombian, make the night a wonderful thing"
Why is this only a 2 minute video? I want more
This is such an awesome story to tell. Good times.
Boring
Play
How have lived in CA my whole life and I've never heard this story! Amazing 👏 Thanks for sharing
Probably because it happened in WY not CA.
You know where Yosemite is right ?
Dang, for some reason I keep thinking Yellowstone.
Lolz…. We’re All high bruh…
years ago we had Lebanese hash that was hidden in barrels with acetone to kill the smell. Threw it in the oven and evaporated all the acetone. Could not taste or smell it after that
Gas soaked weed drenched in water and everyone loved it. I feel like being a drug dealer in the 60's and 70's would have been incredibly easy and fun.
just seems that way
Some dude made 900 people drink poison in the 70s, selling drugs would have been a piece of cake
@@nickypoundtown9568 in Guyana with primitive minds, yes. just less averance from the outside world.
@@Mrgreyld they were people like you and me dipshit. Just brainwashed. Some didn’t want to die
@@doyoumakeittotheclouddistr4132 Nobody wants to die piss stain, and im sure they were like you yes.
1970's harrison county mississippi. That shit used to come in by the boatload. Occasionally some would be confiscated, end up in a sheriff's department sponsored diesel soaked burn pit and mysteriously hit the streets. Worthless.
A heartwarming tale for this holiday season.💝
That brown Columbian weed was the best of the day. Had an earthy taste and smell but was FAR more potent than the Mexican weed. At the time, it was a prize to get your hands on it.
I've never had anything better. I wish it was still around...
Good weed back then is objectively not even close to Reggie in 2021. Sometimes it's the setting, the time, the vibe or your tolerance at the time that make you remember it so
@@JohnSmith-pn1vv Even if I have only been in an area cannabis is not accepted for a few days, when I get to smoke its like my tolerance is almost gone. You are spot on
@@JohnSmith-pn1vv Oh for sure. The Mex reggie was??? 7% maybe? The Columbian was more like 10 or 12..
It was the incredible taste and smell the stuff had. And, it was more of a gold color than brown. It's one of my fav memories, obviously long gone, but it sure was good.
I doubt the strain is even alive any longer.
@@JohnSmith-pn1vv sorry but you are wrong. Those old sativas are still around and get you completely ripped compared to the modern store crap. Grow your own
@@Ck-zk3we I do grow my own, and the stores' weed too. Weed is weed. When everybody has that unique weed from back in the day it isn't so unique. I will never get as high as I did those times in my bedroom aged 21-23, heart racing and warm in a good way, floating over the bed. The weed I was smoking then was okay.
A friend of mine told me this story and I thought it was BS, but this video proves she was telling the truth.
No. It’s still bullshit
No. You David Knight is BS.💩
@@TrollextheTroll How BS is David Knight? He's so BS that he thinks starting his job at 9 pm is the knightshift.
LOL, these older guys casually confessing to a crime is hilarious.
LOL. These older guys are the root of the evil that drugs brought to those who are young now. Real pioneers.
@@team3383 haha its pot dude. I bet you drink too.
@@team3383 I bet you shot up the covid vaccine. Chill buddy
@Todd Hendrix and now whites are endangered lol, how times change
@@canadianmmaguy7511 actually whites ae not endangered but apparently even with free health care there is no cure for your stupidity and low self esteem.
My wife is white. Natural blonde hair, 5,9' and gorgeous. Just an FYI to feed your insecurity. I am BLACK, just to be clear.
I have a photo of my father laying in a bathtub full of marijuana in the mid 1980s.
A cartel boat crashed off the coast of southern oregon, him and his buddies found a bunch bales of weed washing up on the beach between gold beach and port orford oregon.
The police caught wind of it, and ended up stopping in to tell him that he had to surrender what he had found or face legal action.
I hope he told them to pound sand and get a warrant, then move the weed before they got back, and later sold that weed for a handsome profit. F the police in regard to simple weed, what a shame of 'law enforcement' activity to raid and arrest marijuana dealers.
Lived in Hollywood Florida for awhile in the 1982. At the end of my street was the Intracoastal Waterway. Bales used to be thrown off boats being chased by the Coast Guard and come down there. You never went without your fishing pole and some heavy line! Good times, good times! 😂😝🇺🇸
i can't even begin to imagine how awesome that find would be.
Weed from the heavens! AMEN!
The weed would’ve been ruined
What an uplifting story. Free Enterprise.
Valley Uprising!!
Great movie/documentary
Oh there it is. Thanks. What an amazing story
In burlap bags with pot leaves monogramed on them? I call bullsh*t
Always nice to hear when the little guy wins one
Right place, right time, and life-changing money in an instant.
The best story EVER!!! Love it
Early 90s off the coast of Savanah Georgia shrimpers found 100s of bales with Afghanistan hash inside weed sucked but hash was excellent.
Finally a good wholesome feel-good all American video !
"The Cuervo gold, the fine Colombian, make tonight a wonderful thing" - Steely Dan ("Hey Nineteen")
I love happy stories like these......
I grew up spending summers at my uncle's place on the Tex Mex border. I don't have any good stories like some of y'all.
One of the most seventies stories ever!
Its a full length documentary movie on the history of rock climbing especially in Yosemite, showing the earliest generations til now and how the climbing became faster and pushing the limits of mankind. This scene you see here is from a group climbers who lived in Yosemite park year round in tents and caves and what not, and found out a plane crashed and had full bags of cannabis everywhere under a frozen lake, they cut thru the ice with chainsaws and recovered everything they could find. Ended up smoking alot, but sold even more buying cars and stuff with the profits, approximately 6 tons of cannabis(not sure how accurate that is). Great scene but even better movie.
The documetary movie is called - Valley Uprising.
Really? They cut through the ice, retrieved the bales, smoked a lot, and the sold some and bought stuff with the profits?
Thats amazing. Someone should make a youtube video about this.
They rushed this part of the story. Didn't get it all correct. I helped with the facts and the photos, and they blew it way out of proportion. Sorry to say
Too funny! Life was good for me back then. 1978 I was living in CA in an apartment my senior year of high school about six blocks from the high school. Vice principal pretty much hated me. : P I had pot plants growing in my closet, a keg perpetually in my living room. My school friends' family owned a lodge just outside Yosemite, we were there a lot hiking, camping under full moons and skate boarding insane back roads in the summer. I skied 56 times that year up at Tahoe and went to many concerts and music festivals. Hangovers were pretty much a morning routine.
great story!
best years ever.
You were living without parents in HS? How come?
@@mrsmartypants_1 it was the 70s
@@sbdreamin Hey that’s my era too. Never knew a soul living without their parents. Only knew of one divorced single parent household in fact. But I grew up in a classic Leave It To Beaver upper Midwest sheltered small city (obviously). Lots of weed though 😂
I once painted a Wal Mart urinal with diahrria ! Just a strong horizontal squirt came out with the force of a geyser !
I’m amazed there was a time when lousy import weed was worth flying in an airplane to California.
Right on man, right on.
I hiked all over Yosemite including lake merced from 73 to 75.cant believe I never heard of this before!
because we didn't trust you
It happened several years after you were there. That's why you never heard of it!
@@robertsettle2590 maybe I just was too stoned and forgot!.😆
@@mrabrasive51 well there you go then. No big deal!
I got mine about 30 years ago, working on a road job in Swaziland, was told to inspect some culverts, when I looked through 1 of them, a big black bag seating there... filled 5 bottles of cremora (powder milk), free high for a year, and gave lots away...
No stems no seeds that you don't need,
Gasoline Gold is, Bad Ass weed.
(There's a blast in every hit)
At first when he said " People built houses" i was like what?!?! How much weed was there?!? and i remembered oh right its the 70s forgot you could buy a house and pay for collage for less then $60,000 back then.
1977 that was the year i went to Alaska, the Fairweather range instead of being in the valley. might have changed my life. ahhh probably not.
So glad you went there
thats dope af legendary story from those dudes
Although illegal at the time... It still sounds like an interesting story from the era. I'll have to check out that documentary.
Illegal yes, yet hurts nobody. Meanwhile "legal" operations in this country are 10000x more profitable and accepted by greater society as OK, which is very odd and disgusting from an autists' perspective. Makes no logical sense, but is apparently a thing.
@@jgizzy Hurts nobody until the lung cancer develops....Not against it but any means but lets be real. It is smoke into lungs
@@commentresurrection1841 Yes smoking, obviously I agree on that. I was talking about the active substance d9-thc.
I love a story with a happy ending.
You mean like losing your husband, you brother, you father, and your son? Yeah, happy for those that smoked the engine oil and fuel-soaked dope that caused many to develop chemical pneumonia.
Avgas and freezing water?! Kinda hard to believe any of the THC survived. A good old folk story nonetheless. Hope you sell lots of T-Shirts.
Freezing water is ok but the other part not
I was thinking the exact same thing.
F67: Avgas has very high levels of lead in it. Guaranteed nerve damage at some level if smoked.
I've heard this story on another rock climbing documentary, It would be super interesting to hear from the people who were there if they are still around.
Haha, it is. It’s climbers you’ve heard of.
Are you serious? haha did you even watch the video! :D
@@beccarankin98 they probably watched it twice , based on my two teenagers and there friends that seems to be the normal comprehension level of young people today .
@@lethargicmotorsport2025 I seen the short clips of people who were there in this video obviously yes.. I meant other people who were there as the comment said.
reading comprehension right?!
You assumed my age, and my reading level but couldn't comprehend a basic sentence to the point you had to write a long comment to make yourself feel superior? lmao.
@@oneidawolf776 I wasn’t referring to you
Love it when I see the good guys win.
Wow. Nobody gave a crap about the pilots either. It's amazing they got away with it
I love stories with happy endings!!!
I came here for a funny story and got top-quality VFX straight off the bat. Nice.
This feels like a story I would of heard of a long time ago,
This would be an instant hit as a Netflix docuseries
Simply...AWESOME
GREAT STORY: Something like this happened to a friend of mine and his wife; in the B.C. interior in 1974! Except the plane was filled with red meat, booze , money & POT!! The E.R vehicles had just left the crash site with "The Patients";( Two rich buisnessmen, returning from a deer hunt in the North) They looted it and PARTIED for the next 2 years...Blaaaahahaha!!
I love awesome stories like this !!
The Merced plane wreck. Good stuff.
lovely story.
Similar story took place in Brazil, in August,1987. A ship from Panama called "Solana Star" ditched 22 tons of cans full of high grade MJ all along the southern coast. Local surfers spotted these shiny islands floating near the coastline. You can imagine their surprise when they popped the cans "Latas", in Portuguese. Soon enough, herds of surfers, fishermen, boats, etc. got hold of them. Thus, the legend of the "Verão da Lata" (Summer of the can) was born.
This type of "fishing" goes on all the time here in Key West. In our local restaurants you'll find all kinds of grouper on the menu: black grouper, Nassau grouper, red grouper, but sailors will find "square groupers" floating out on the waves just waiting to be picked up. A buddy of mine, who was chronically broke, bought a kayak to go exploring the mangroves was suddenly driving around town in a brand-new $90,000 King Ranch Ford truck. Huh, what do you know 'bout dat!
Capt. Blackheart Charlie
Key West
That they do!!!
That’s awesome such a free & open time in that era.
You know what they say - "Never go fly on your own supply."
Like a dream come true finding that
Conversley, some friends of some friends same year but in Maine found many bales floating out in a bay.
They build a stack 10 ft by 10 ft packed under a tarp and invited their friends up to help them figure out what to do with the booty.
Eerily as my friends where driving up the coast the heard over the radio that the people had been found murdered.
I guess whoever dumped the bales was evading the coast guard but where watching. Not very forgiving up there in Maine.
Had a burst of flame to it ,,, people enjoyed it!
Some of them are clearly still getting high off that stash.
yep full of seeds too it was........
This needs to be a documentary or movie. Sounds awesome was settling in thinking it was, then it was all over. Lol.
This is from the documentary "Valley Uprising"
Heartfelt story full of warmth.
Work ethic pays off.
Lots of 'crash-bud' passed through our hands. The first batches weren't contaminated with fuel. The later batches were.
Sure they were kook
Man, this leaves out so much great details, like it wasnt all gone, the authorities did get a bunch of it, but had no where to put it, so they put it in an unused part of the local jail, the week was frozen and melted into this sloppy mess that started to leak out of the cell
“High grade”
Lmao high grade brick weed
1977 dude
@@morninboy that’s his point, high grade in 1977 is brick weed. Even the named shit like “Panama Red” or “Colombian Gold”. It’s funny when old timers don’t admit that today’s cannabis is like 10x stronger than the best shit they could get in 1977.
@@spotteddogmemphis I grew up on Hashish in eastern Canada. We didn't event smoke pot in the 70's
@@morninboy touché. I don’t even smoke pot either, I only smoke the new style hash called rosin. Hahaha.
@@morninboy fair nuff
The 70s and 80s were awesome
Cool. I was hiking back from half dome with 3 friends and 2 guys pass us burned out as he'll looking with about 3 or 4 miles to mirror lake and only about 2 hr till dark.
They said we should go back because of a plane crash and there were bails of pot to take.
Later I bought some and tried to sell it but by then most everyone was hip to the airplane fuel and wouldn't smoke it. So I got stuck with most of it . 😆
just gained so much more respect for my hometown merced. gotta love the history
Good for them I kind of got a story like that from Massachusetts on the cape when we had something float up on the beach similar can't say anymore
Is this the origin of Sour Diesel?
Ha ha
Grate Story! Grew up hearing thos retold by heads, thank you for sharing this.
on the Gulf Coast of Florida, occasionally pot bales float up on the beach, it's yours, if you can bury it in the sand before the police patrol show up, and get it outta there unnoticed, lol
I think it was hurricane Dorian two years ago when 22 kilos of cocaine washed up on a Melbourne beach where I live. I personally did not see any but sure was on the news.
Smokey and the Bandits was their favorite movie!
Best story ever!!!!
The real fun part is that aircraft fuel has lead in it to raise the octane…..
The story of how Mary Jane got started being called "bomb"
They were smoking some bomb Mary Jane 🤣🤣🤣
Golden years. I hope they come back
These are the type of people who deserve to find good stuff; they even shared with others by being good tippers. Finders keepers; losers weepers.
70's were legendary...
Even back then people took photos of themselves breaking the law.
This needs a movie
"we hadnt seen such a stampede since the great beanie baby trucking accident"
The American dream 🤪
its nice how they reap the rewards, not got taken by city ordinance
This needs to be made a movie!