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Since finishing the Ossipee 10 List a couple weeks ago and not wanting to start another list just yet, we turned our attention to our To-Do list and took Bald Mountain and Mount Whittier off it last week. This week we took another one off it by hiking up to the 1949 AT-6 plane crash site on Blood Mountain in Newbury, NH.
There are no trails so we used logging roads and bushwhacks to get up to the site. Our approach was from Center Road in Goshen. We used Google Earth to locate a place to park, but to our surprise, we came up to a sign stating wheeled vehicles were prohibited to pass it. We parked near the sign and start our hike from there. It was 1.25 mile from where we planned to start our hike. The sad part is as we neared where we intended to park, two vehicles went by and told us the sign is only for mud season. It would be nice if they could put that on the sign.
The dirt road walk (more like a Class VI road) was a bit on the boring side, but we did pass a couple of cellar holes for excitement. We finally got to the left we were looking for and took it heading up. It was supposed to go to a Log Landing, but instead we ended at a lookout with a nice view including Lake Gunnison aka the Goshen Ocean.
Yup we took the wrong left, but it was going to be a bushwhack anyway, so we just started it early. We were able to keep the bushwhack to mostly open woods and at times hit old logging areas. As we hiked up Blood mountain we ran across the remains of the plane, but decided to bag the viewless summit first. BTW the bugs were pains, they did appear to want to star in the video.
After the summit we went to explore the crash site. The pilot, John Moses, was only 18 years old and missed clearing the summit by 300 feet. Being only 18, he still had 13000 air miles of experience. He was flying an AT-6. These planes were used by the military during WWII to trainer pilots. This one was a gift from his parents for Christmas the previous year. The night he crashed there were low level cloud all around the summit of Blood Mountain. The investigation showed the cause to be pilot error.
There is a lot of twisted metal along with some large pieces of remains still left on the mountain slope. This in our 4th plane crash site in NH that we have been too. There are always a cool find, but they are also a place where tragedy happened and that is sad.
As usual we posted a video of our hike for anyone who is interested in seeing it...Best viewed at 1080P like all our videos...
There are no trails so we used logging roads and bushwhacks to get up to the site. Our approach was from Center Road in Goshen. We used Google Earth to locate a place to park, but to our surprise, we came up to a sign stating wheeled vehicles were prohibited to pass it. We parked near the sign and start our hike from there. It was 1.25 mile from where we planned to start our hike. The sad part is as we neared where we intended to park, two vehicles went by and told us the sign is only for mud season. It would be nice if they could put that on the sign.
The dirt road walk (more like a Class VI road) was a bit on the boring side, but we did pass a couple of cellar holes for excitement. We finally got to the left we were looking for and took it heading up. It was supposed to go to a Log Landing, but instead we ended at a lookout with a nice view including Lake Gunnison aka the Goshen Ocean.
Yup we took the wrong left, but it was going to be a bushwhack anyway, so we just started it early.
We were able to keep the bushwhack to mostly open woods and at times hit old logging areas. As we hiked up Blood mountain we ran across the remains of the plane, but decided to bag the viewless summit first. BTW the bugs were pains, they did appear to want to star in the video. After the summit we went to explore the crash site. The pilot, John Moses, was only 18 years old and missed clearing the summit by 300 feet. Being only 18, he still had 13000 air miles of experience. He was flying an AT-6. These planes were used by the military during WWII to trainer pilots. This one was a gift from his parents for Christmas the previous year. The night he crashed there were low level cloud all around the summit of Blood Mountain. The investigation showed the cause to be pilot error.
There is a lot of twisted metal along with some large pieces of remains still left on the mountain slope. This in our 4th plane crash site in NH that we have been too. There are always a cool find, but they are also a place where tragedy happened and that is sad.
As usual we posted a video of our hike for anyone who is interested in seeing it...Best viewed at 1080P like all our videos...
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