Yosemite Drug Plane Crash - Climbers Get Rich!

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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.com/collections/...
A portion of each purchase will go to the YCA (Yosemite Climbers Association), the non-profit responsible for Yosemite's annual Facelift event and the new Yosemite Climbing Museum.
This story is an excerpt from our award-winning feature documentary Valley Uprising.
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@REELROCK1 2 жыл бұрын

Get Your "I Got Mine" Hemp Blend Tee here: bit.ly/31Dqu42

@ThorntonDrury 2 жыл бұрын

$45 for a tshirt? Yeesh if I was a weed kingpin then MAYBE...

@TheMechatronicEngineer 2 жыл бұрын

@@ThorntonDrury it's a scam...

@calisdad3 2 жыл бұрын

@@ThorntonDrury if they made their money off the pot they wouldn't be selling t-shirts

@yourface3154 2 жыл бұрын

@@calisdad3 You think these dope heads still have weed money from 45 years ago? Lol.

@YELLTELL 2 жыл бұрын

So dumb they took pics of themselves and made a shirt of something that should of been an absolute secret smh

@MacDaddyRico 2 жыл бұрын

What a good deed those climbers did, removing all the drugs from the lake and saving the innocent fish from certain harm..!

@EnterTheOrb 2 жыл бұрын

Well there's still the jet fuel leaking out

@P4hko 2 жыл бұрын

@@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!

@ugmodude 2 жыл бұрын

To which the fish replied "Screw you hippies that's our weed!"

@SouthWestI10 2 жыл бұрын

When the weed looks like that, yea they probably did do the environment a favor

@Woaddy..432Hz 2 жыл бұрын

It’s all about the children

@sethc4758 2 жыл бұрын

“We underestimated the entrepreneurial spirit of certain members of the community,” said Yosemite Park Ranger Tim Setnicka

@reidflemingworldstoughestm1394 2 жыл бұрын

I like that ranger, he got a way with the ironic understatement.

@ThumbsUpKitty 2 жыл бұрын

That's hilarious!

@bill-or-somthingbill4390 2 жыл бұрын

All Those bales would be worth about $200 in todays market.

@bill-or-somthingbill4390 2 жыл бұрын

@Juice I think your right. The weed would be like worthless but the seeds would be worth tens of thousands.

@hhieu23 2 жыл бұрын

@Juice are they still any good after being in water and petrol??

@keshaundewar7147 2 жыл бұрын

If social media existed back then this wouldn’t have been remotely possible

@zoezzzarko1117 2 жыл бұрын

Better days 💗

@porkostar1 2 жыл бұрын

I wish social media didn’t exist now. Simpler times were so much better

@ppg4667 2 жыл бұрын

social media ruined the world

@gg12123 2 жыл бұрын

If the first ones to find it wouldnt be dumb as fuck it would be definetly possible

@FingerinUrDaughter 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@MrBiggiefuckinsmalls 2 жыл бұрын

This is a snippet from a documentary called "Valley Uprising". It is one of the best documentaries I have ever watched.

@ratlips4363 Жыл бұрын

I provided a number of the photos for that documentary as well as correct information

@adamrector 2 жыл бұрын

This needs to be a movie

@1981menso 2 жыл бұрын

It would 100 times better then another comic book movie.

@oldfriend2317 2 жыл бұрын

“Cliffhanger” was inspired by this event.

@julianhacker2011 2 жыл бұрын

valley uprising would be the that movie

@alfredobatista9818 2 жыл бұрын

Those in favor say I!!!

@leathersandals 2 жыл бұрын

@@alfredobatista9818 Eye!!

@timlabeaux8123 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@protoolsfanatic7276 2 жыл бұрын

that was actually a great story. this made me smile.

@ljrlimited9490 2 жыл бұрын

except for the part where the weed was doused in gasoline.

@porkostar1 2 жыл бұрын

Me too

@protoolsfanatic7276 2 жыл бұрын

@@ljrlimited9490 right!

@maaz322 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah nothing funnier than pilfering a plane with two corpses, while selling health hazardous weed doused in carcinogenic gasoline. Goood timesss

@jeffalbillar7625 2 жыл бұрын

Me too. I love seeing Stoner's come up cool

@JB-tr6nu 2 жыл бұрын

My 16 yr old son was on a school field trip on Washington coast & he found 4 huge duffel bags of Canadian weed that washed up on the beach, he only got 2 of the bags because teachers were on the field trip , one teacher found out later & told my son he should have said something he would have let him bring it all back, cool teacher. We never went back to get the other 2 bags I figured we would never find them where my son stashed them, but we ended up with 65 lbs of killer Canadian weed. Nice score

@stevepunter3704 2 жыл бұрын

Sweet 👍.

@MsLila44 2 жыл бұрын

now that’s a feel good story! True justice and the climbers earned it!

@sumhump1075 2 жыл бұрын

@@TheGravygun she probably smokes crack

@seanc6042 2 жыл бұрын

Two guys died, maybe not quite a feel good story?

@naRevolution 2 жыл бұрын

@@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.

@kennymackie4518 2 жыл бұрын

That’s why there’s still climbers in Yosemite , waiting on the next rescue and recover!

@timlabeaux8123 2 жыл бұрын

@@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

@damonthomas8955 2 жыл бұрын

What a crazy story, I am surprised that I never heard of this before.

@matthewdufur5489 2 жыл бұрын

I was 16 and living near the gate to the park in 1977. I was a bag boy for Safeway and smoked a bunch of this weed after letting it dry. I had a dining table covered with newspaper and weed an inch thick smelling up the house for days.

@jonkaminsky8382 2 жыл бұрын

What a “feel good” story! This is what the internet was meant for.

@bealgre 2 жыл бұрын

In the mid-70's a plane entered U.S. air space from the Gulf of Mexico flying low, presumably to avoid radar detection. However, they were spotted, tracked and followed by a drug enforcement plane. Over SE North Carolina they realized they were being followed and began throwing bales of pot out of the plane. One smashed through the roof of a trailer home and exploded all over the living room floor. Several other bales were sought after and discovered by enterprising locals in surrounding farm land and woods. Only the trailer home dump was reported to the police. I remember the photo in the local paper of their living room covered in marijuana. There was a lot of Columbian Red Bud around for the next year or so.

@danthemeatman9883 2 жыл бұрын

I tell people to this day about the Columbian red buds we got back in the 70s , ♥️🙏

@f87115 2 жыл бұрын

Yup I saw that movie too

@flstffatboy3910 2 жыл бұрын

@@danthemeatman9883 oh yeah me too

@THEATREofPAIN270 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome story. I have one too but I'm pleading the 5th on this one 👍

@jclaytoncabral5106 2 жыл бұрын

Imagine sitting in your trailer wishing you had some pot to smoke

@TequillanSunrise 2 жыл бұрын

Oh man you guys had the CIA so pissed off, they lost their haul!!!

@porkostar1 2 жыл бұрын

I can just imagine the glee on their faces after getting in on the find. 🤩 Awesome story right there 👌🤘🏻🌳

@thevanishingsaxon663 2 жыл бұрын

Two people died.

@porkostar1 2 жыл бұрын

@@thevanishingsaxon663 like they cared about the pilots, they were stoked when they seen all those bags of weed. Finders keepers 🤘🏻😎🤩

@keineahnung5793 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@mdbernsten 2 жыл бұрын

I brought this up to my old timer neighbor out in Mendocino and he totally finished the story for me while letting me know that he had in fact scored a couple kilos from the crash.

@MrXbloodline 2 жыл бұрын

I though it was weed not cocaine

@josephlalock8378 2 жыл бұрын

@@MrXbloodline you're not the brightest bulb in the string are you?

@MrXbloodline 2 жыл бұрын

@@josephlalock8378 insult with no context was asking because never heard bundles of weed called kilos

@MrXbloodline 2 жыл бұрын

@Aussie Liberty me the Muppet I was responding to a comment. Maybe you should have read comment I was asking about he said kilo not me

@PumpkinHoard 2 жыл бұрын

@@MrXbloodline You realise that kilo is a weight measure, yes?

@VIi726 2 жыл бұрын

Is it true this is one of the ways Patagonia got it’s first funding?

@bashkan6992 2 жыл бұрын

Genuinely? I can’t find many sources?

@TheRoafer 2 жыл бұрын

@VIi726 2 жыл бұрын

@Jeremy 77 yeah. That’s what I’ve always been told

@ThisHandleFeatureIsStupid 2 жыл бұрын

No. Patagonia was founded four years before this event.

@VIi726 2 жыл бұрын

@@ThisHandleFeatureIsStupid correct. The story I heard was that Patagonia got some funding from this though, not that it helped in its founding. Who knows though

@AB-vc7ox 2 жыл бұрын

I remember this stuff, it was called “airplane drop,” you’d sometimes find sprouted seeds in it.

@magnificentmuttley2084 2 жыл бұрын

That’s a great story. You guys that are still around should get together and write a screenplay.

@markmotter7060 2 жыл бұрын

"The Cuervo Gold, the fine Colombian, make the night a wonderful thing"

@jameshaydel4203 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@ventureted 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@Mrgreyld 2 жыл бұрын

just seems that way

@nickypoundtown9568 2 жыл бұрын

Some dude made 900 people drink poison in the 70s, selling drugs would have been a piece of cake

@Mrgreyld 2 жыл бұрын

@@nickypoundtown9568 in Guyana with primitive minds, yes. just less averance from the outside world.

@doyoumakeittotheclouddistr4132 2 жыл бұрын

@@Mrgreyld they were people like you and me dipshit. Just brainwashed. Some didn’t want to die

@Mrgreyld 2 жыл бұрын

@@doyoumakeittotheclouddistr4132 Nobody wants to die piss stain, and im sure they were like you yes.

@bjw4859 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@edward27592 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@SierraThunder 2 жыл бұрын

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...

@edward27592 2 жыл бұрын

I also miss those days.........ed

@notinterested8452 2 жыл бұрын

It's such a childish law.

@jgizzy 2 жыл бұрын

@@SierraThunder Well okay awesome story but big question: How MUCH did you get???? Awesome history

@Aaron_Hanson 2 жыл бұрын

Hanson 🤘😎🤘🍻🍻🍻🇦🇺

@SuperBroncosguy 2 жыл бұрын

I flew to Jacksonville Florida in 1979 & everyone was smoking 'Seabo"-Columbian bales that was found floating off the beaches, someone dumped their load they were guessing. Tasted funny but got you stoned! They even had "Save The Bales" t-shirts.....

@stephenr80 2 жыл бұрын

JAJAJ save the bales thats hilarious! xD

@ianwilkinson5069 2 жыл бұрын

Planes used to dump them offshore on purpose to be picked up by small quick boats usually just before dawn. You always miss a few and sometimes they wash up but if you find alot usually some one on the receiving end either fucked up and missed the grab or they got a tip that the pickup was hot. Very rarely do they dump it to not get caught. Easier to do ten years than to dodge the cartels' when they put out a hit on you. I know ppl that used to do this for a living. One had a condo in miami and his entire kitchen floor was a giant mirror. He also had a salt water fish tank big enough you could go swimming with the fish if you really wanted to. This was early mid eighties.

@Denver1976Man 2 жыл бұрын

A friend in Daytona went fishing one morning and found a bale of coke just sitting there. They became addicted for a cpl yrs.. 1979 as well...lol

@johnnyazer5779 2 жыл бұрын

I am suprised the owners and clientele did not show up with Uzis and magnums etc shoot first ask questions later. that is the first thing that went thru my mind.

@Denver1976Man 2 жыл бұрын

@@johnnyazer5779 I think everyone kept it from the cops and the newspapers until they cleaned up the mess. I am sure it was a quick clean up...lol

@long_strange_trip5959 2 жыл бұрын

A heartwarming tale for this holiday season.💝

@sherylcrowe3255 2 жыл бұрын

How have lived in CA my whole life and I've never heard this story! Amazing 👏 Thanks for sharing

@SupposedlyFree 2 жыл бұрын

Probably because it happened in WY not CA.

@alexblack6421 2 жыл бұрын

You know where Yosemite is right ?

@SupposedlyFree 2 жыл бұрын

Dang, for some reason I keep thinking Yellowstone.

@alexblack6421 2 жыл бұрын

Lolz…. We’re All high bruh…

@fletchlives4763 2 жыл бұрын

As many times as I’ve watched romancing the Stone and they stumble upon the plane there is truth to that story I can’t stop smiling

@technique275 2 жыл бұрын

Love that scene.

@maxmoon2254 2 жыл бұрын

“Throw another kilo on the fire.”

@Qingeaton 2 жыл бұрын

Had a buddy who lived down in Florida and he found a bale of weed washed up on the beach. He got it home somehow and spread it out on the roof to dry and he said it was completely worthless. Then he had to figure out how to get rid of it quick, since it would still get him in trouble if it was found on him. Not all that smokes is gold. lol

@v.e.7236 2 жыл бұрын

I was living in S. Florida and working as a Lifeguard on one of the many beaches, when one night, as we were getting ready to leave the beach I saw something in the shore breakers that caught my attention: A bale of marijuana. It took four of us to lift that water logged bale and carry it to the parking lot and our cars. We then took it up to my apt and spread it out across a bunch of newspapers I had ready for recycling and let it dry out over the next week. Like this video said, it had an odd odor, but seemed otherwise to be OK and like these guys, we made a nice chunk of change . . . and squandered it away, like foolish youngsters will do.

@lilianehuggett1564 2 жыл бұрын

Naples / Marco Island?

@aname1281 2 жыл бұрын

Once in a lifetime memory man that’ll always be fun to look back on haha

@gutz323 2 жыл бұрын

I am not one bit accusing you of making this story up, but was it not too water damaged to be a decent smoke? Did you get any complaints of it being of a substandard product? If I found something like this that was water damaged I would probably turn it into hash, but then again I wouldn't know how much salt water would effect the trichromes.

@65stang98 2 жыл бұрын

@@gutz323 bruh it was probably the 70s people smoked brick with full of seeds and stems they didnt care lmao

@chrisdabom 2 жыл бұрын

@gutz323 It is a dehydrated leaf that has been rehydrated... Dry it out again, and it's in almost the same state.

@jussayinmipeece1069 2 жыл бұрын

LOL, these older guys casually confessing to a crime is hilarious.

@team3383 2 жыл бұрын

LOL. These older guys are the root of the evil that drugs brought to those who are young now. Real pioneers.

@drunkpaulocosta9301 2 жыл бұрын

@@team3383 haha its pot dude. I bet you drink too.

@canadianmmaguy7511 2 жыл бұрын

@@team3383 I bet you shot up the covid vaccine. Chill buddy

@canadianmmaguy7511 2 жыл бұрын

@Todd Hendrix and now whites are endangered lol, how times change

@jussayinmipeece1069 2 жыл бұрын

@@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.

@Budabaii 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@jgizzy 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@RaoulDukeSr 2 жыл бұрын

Wow...read about this in one of Greg Childs books years ago...and here it is, that's some nice work boys !

@CanoeToNewOrleans 2 жыл бұрын

A friend of mine told me this story and I thought it was BS, but this video proves she was telling the truth.

@analoglime 2 жыл бұрын

No. It’s still bullshit

@TrollextheTroll 2 жыл бұрын

No. You David Knight is BS.💩

@CanoeToNewOrleans 2 жыл бұрын

@@TrollextheTroll How BS is David Knight? He's so BS that he thinks starting his job at 9 pm is the knightshift.

@FrankBullitt390 2 жыл бұрын

There was a huge weed grow op (field) bust in Barrie Ontario years ago. Rather than burn the weed the police buried it at the dump - for weeks guys were in there with their trucks digging it up. You could get "dump weed" pretty cheap for a long time after that.

@SilentKnight43 2 жыл бұрын

I remember when the old Molson plant in Barrie got turned into a grow-op.

@CatheLeiper 2 жыл бұрын

Funny to see this. In June of 1978 I met a chap from PA in Eldorado Canyon, who said he was AWAL from the Army Rangers/Special Forces. Not sure if that was true--but he was a good climber and had very potent weed. Told me this story, and of humping out frozen bales of "crash dope." We hung out for about a week--I was in transit from NYC to Berkeley. We went to Telluride and climbed the Y-Crack on Ophir Wall. (3d ascent or so, according to him.) Attended the Bluegrass Festival. (Vassar Clements was the musician I best remember...of what I recall...) So long ago. Pretty much a useless summer, but fun. Are fun's memories worthwhile? Do they provide residual value? Are we more than our stories?

@freddyrassinger8198 2 жыл бұрын

Deep deep questions at the end.

@Erik-mu7pr 2 жыл бұрын

@@freddyrassinger8198 I wasn't ready for that ending...

@Sundance94 2 жыл бұрын

This is water Joseph

@2222ben 2 жыл бұрын

i'm 19 and even I think of those questions at the end. Even while I'm having fun tryna live my life I think about what real value the fun I'm having is for my me or my future. My only guess is you only live once to be young and feel free so why not enjoy the heck out of it hehe

@shable1436 2 жыл бұрын

I've got a sort of crash dope story, more like toss kilos of opium in the ocean so they won't get caught, and my buddy in savanna knew where some bricks washed ashore and we went early morning before sun came out and picked the coast clean of dozens of kilos of pure opium blocks. I had never done opium before that haha, but it was good on top of a bowl pack of herb. I would cut slices of of the loafs the size of bread slices and sell them for 100 bucks and they was worth 1000 lol

@morninboy 2 жыл бұрын

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

@lisalabar7262 2 жыл бұрын

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! 😂😝🇺🇸

@JoeMa69420 2 жыл бұрын

I used to have homeless people tell me this story. That’s wild that I found this.

@JoeMa69420 2 жыл бұрын

@@619GuitarSteve shut yo dumbass up I lived in boulder, cool that word traveled

@SewerTapes 2 жыл бұрын

@@619GuitarSteve There are more people with homes doing drugs than without.

@prozak715 2 жыл бұрын

@@619GuitarSteveSocial isolation and mental health is more correlated with homelessness than drug use. You should do some research....

@mandoball1980s 2 жыл бұрын

EVERY documentary needs to be created this exact way 😱

@MagikFingers420 2 жыл бұрын

This is a smart part in a rock climbing movie

@Graybeard_ 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@jumowagames 2 жыл бұрын

great story!

@sbdreamin 2 жыл бұрын

best years ever.

@mrsmartypants_1 2 жыл бұрын

You were living without parents in HS? How come?

@sbdreamin 2 жыл бұрын

@@mrsmartypants_1 it was the 70s

@mrsmartypants_1 2 жыл бұрын

@@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 😂

@valeriepickens2533 2 жыл бұрын

We were buying this as far north as Boise!! As it turns out, the water washed off enough of the fuel, that none of us got sick,...we just had to buy longer pipes, to keep our long hair from going up in flames! Best Columbian weed, I ever had!! Now,...can we have a moment of silence for the pilot and crew? Thank ya brothers!

@joshuabayerjazz 2 жыл бұрын

Heartfelt story full of warmth.

@webb-cast1030 2 жыл бұрын

In burlap bags with pot leaves monogramed on them? I call bullsh*t

@luceinbattaglia9425 2 жыл бұрын

😂❤️👍Rock climbers...some of the best people I ever met!!!

@yellowbelly5982 2 жыл бұрын

Full respect to those thoughtful climbers 😎✌

@commentresurrection1841 2 жыл бұрын

For selling laced stuff? What is to respect?

@69adrummer 2 жыл бұрын

Freaking AWESOME story!! I'm not one to say this often but "this needs to be a movie!" LOL

@Bluhcops 2 жыл бұрын

i can't even begin to imagine how awesome that find would be.

@oldmanfromoc7684 2 жыл бұрын

Weed from the heavens! AMEN!

@richardbarrett7404 2 жыл бұрын

The weed would’ve been ruined

@petecartwright5211 2 жыл бұрын

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...

@JohnSmith-pn1vv 2 жыл бұрын

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

@AuRowe 2 жыл бұрын

@@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

@petecartwright5211 2 жыл бұрын

@@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.

@Ck-zk3we 2 жыл бұрын

@@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

@JohnSmith-pn1vv 2 жыл бұрын

@@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.

@charlesvincent4127 2 жыл бұрын

It's amazing that no one shot each other over it, they all took whatever they could carry and ran.

@jebronlames7789 2 жыл бұрын

Always nice to hear when the little guy wins one

@420 2 жыл бұрын

This is such an awesome story to tell. Good times.

@gamerk1625 2 жыл бұрын

Boring

@kathymears2207 2 жыл бұрын

Play

@condor7810 2 жыл бұрын

"The Cuervo gold, the fine Colombian, make tonight a wonderful thing" - Steely Dan ("Hey Nineteen")

@derrobbster 2 жыл бұрын

It was indeed a VERY interesting experience. One more thing that added to the magic of living and climbing in the ditch at that time.😁

@marahallstewart2883 2 жыл бұрын

I want to start a podcast with old drug stories. I’m sure there are a million out there

@BladeRunner-td8be 2 жыл бұрын

Right place, right time, and life-changing money in an instant.

@hundredproof1512 2 жыл бұрын

Ran into a hiker that told me this story years ago.. he also said they would take bales on top of half dome and have midnight parties up there

@bikinggal1 2 жыл бұрын

The best story EVER!!! Love it

@Swargo19 2 жыл бұрын

Oh there it is. Thanks. What an amazing story

@michaelmongeon9737 2 жыл бұрын

Early 90s off the coast of Savanah Georgia shrimpers found 100s of bales with Afghanistan hash inside weed sucked but hash was excellent.

@opj4you 2 жыл бұрын

Valley Uprising!!

@MrThidious 2 жыл бұрын

Great movie/documentary

@tired7140 8 ай бұрын

I knew a forest ranger that worked there at the time and made a few trips up to the lake. We called it "Airplane Weed" and it was true that sometimes when you took a big hit the fuel would flare up. It was beautiful red hair and high quality. My friends still talk about it once in a while those were crazy days.

@jimyounger9490 2 жыл бұрын

I love awesome stories like this !!

@bkl8804 2 жыл бұрын

Oh hell yeah, my simian, pebble-pushing brothers. Good Climbing never starts until a thorough safety meeting has been conducted.

@Graybeard_ 2 жыл бұрын

7 years in construction up at Tahoe back in the 90s. Safety meetings were a must! Holidays were whenever the Dead was playing nearby. (within a state or two's drive) 8-)

@oghash4912 2 жыл бұрын

Safety first ☝🏼

@ralphholiman7401 2 жыл бұрын

One of the most seventies stories ever!

@joeschneider9734 2 жыл бұрын

Thats so cool im glad to hear about this!!

@Joeak74 2 жыл бұрын

Very interesting! Never heard this story before.

@MrIsomer 2 жыл бұрын

We had an incident in Big Sur back in 1984. Big load of Thai Stick got dumped by the mother ship offshore that had developed engine problems. Instead of climbers it was surfers who scored that bounty. The resultant commodity was known as "SeaWeed". Instead of a gasoline aftertaste it had a kind of funky salty reek to it. But it got the job done.

@justinbaas843 2 жыл бұрын

That way better then plane fuel

@RaulEdu33 2 жыл бұрын

We need a video documentary from this event!

@S2daUZ 2 жыл бұрын

Big Sur + Thai stick ( you know that stuff that's tied to a stick) = Heaven on Earth

@stephaniesmith7317 2 жыл бұрын

I remember when they tied it on a stick...good times, good times.

@justinbaas843 2 жыл бұрын

@@stephaniesmith7317 was it really tied to a stick ? Because I always assumed it was sold on the branch hence the name Thai- stick,that and it was sticky

@ripgnar4352 2 жыл бұрын

This movie what made me obsessed with El Capitan, and also rock climbing

@claybomb1064 2 жыл бұрын

RIP to the pilots…

@Oo-tn9xg 2 жыл бұрын

Crime bitches.

@jakkp4376 2 жыл бұрын

yeah like did they grab the weed while looking at a decapitated pilot?

@kellyburket6955 2 жыл бұрын

I love stories with happy endings!!!

@inkydoug 2 жыл бұрын

Wow. Really different times. I would instinctively avoid a crashed drug plane today from fear, from both police and drug dealers.

@gortbot7748 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, the Police don't want anybody cashing in on their free paychecks.

@Aaron_Hanson 2 жыл бұрын

They can both kiss my ass, catch me if you can 🤘😎🤘🍻🍻🍻🇦🇺

@doyoumakeittotheclouddistr4132 2 жыл бұрын

A notified crash like that is almost definitely written off as a loss to the supplier or dealer.

@gregh7457 2 жыл бұрын

that fentanyl dust you'de inhale at the crash scene would kill you in seconds

@francislutz8027 2 жыл бұрын

It doesn't work like that. But keep believing the media hype. If you don't swallow it, put it in your mouth, inject it, snort it, stick it up your ass or pour it in your eyes(and I don't mean a few specs of dust) then it won't do anything. Touching or being in the vicinity of fentanyl cannot harm you. It's a myth perpetuated by law enforcement and media clowns.

@Seventysongs 2 жыл бұрын

Good times. In Brazil, in September 1987, hundreds or thousands of closed cans filled with marijuana were found on the coast of two cities...Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. A ship coming from Australia bound for Miami, with engine problems, threw approximately 15,000 cans of 1.5 kilograms into the sea. Of those, about 2,000, the police recovered. The rest, only God knows. I didn't find any but friends of mine did and they presented me with generous amounts of free samples. It was good. This episode became known as "The Summer of the Tin". You can find this on the net, but it's all in Portuguese, of course.

@johnnyazer5779 2 жыл бұрын

They were smoking tin weed instead of wearing tin hats.

@Aaron_Hanson 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah the Aussies 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺 We like to donate to the needy and remain out of prison 😂👍🍻🍻🇦🇺

@Seventysongs 2 жыл бұрын

@@johnnyazer5779 Sorry, my English is very poor, so I have to resort to Google Translator and it translates as it wants. The event here became known as "The summer of the can" = O verão da lata"

@Seventysongs 2 жыл бұрын

@@Aaron_Hanson hahaha send more.

@Aaron_Hanson 2 жыл бұрын

@@Seventysongs your English is better than my Portuguese 🤷‍♂️

@SamSam-wx4rf 2 жыл бұрын

Brilliant! First time I have heard about this, well done people one to tell the grandkids

@alphalunamare 2 жыл бұрын

This is the best story ever man :-)

@CityofGoODFortune1782 2 жыл бұрын

What an awesome story!

@1981menso 2 жыл бұрын

We had a plane hit an overpass on the 805 in Chula Vista back in the 80's, people were picking up weed there as well.

@ksb2112 2 жыл бұрын

An overpass? That goes way beyond flying under the radar.

@charliemartin5482 2 жыл бұрын

All that pot and they wern't high enough .

@thesoultransferprotocol721 2 жыл бұрын

I love happy stories like these......

@Balthorium 2 жыл бұрын

I’m amazed there was a time when lousy import weed was worth flying in an airplane to California.

@mrabrasive51 2 жыл бұрын

I hiked all over Yosemite including lake merced from 73 to 75.cant believe I never heard of this before!

@sissyalexander7001 2 жыл бұрын

because we didn't trust you

@robertsettle2590 2 жыл бұрын

It happened several years after you were there. That's why you never heard of it!

@mrabrasive51 2 жыл бұрын

@@robertsettle2590 maybe I just was too stoned and forgot!.😆

@robertsettle2590 2 жыл бұрын

@@mrabrasive51 well there you go then. No big deal!

@gregoryfoster2547 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@forjesus8681 2 жыл бұрын

So glad you went there

@billthebutcher1780 2 жыл бұрын

I can’t believe I never heard of this. Classic

@Jake-jd7bd 2 жыл бұрын

This would be an instant hit as a Netflix docuseries

@lewisevans4655 2 жыл бұрын

Why is this only a 2 minute video? I want more

@Raymond-rr5iv 2 жыл бұрын

I love a story with a happy ending.

@ratlips4363 Жыл бұрын

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.

@fishnrc294 2 жыл бұрын

That’s awesome such a free & open time in that era.

@skyemasterson1111 2 жыл бұрын

What an uplifting story. Free Enterprise.

@xkcman 2 жыл бұрын

This feels like a story I would of heard of a long time ago,

@oneidawolf776 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@Charlesslides 2 жыл бұрын

Haha, it is. It’s climbers you’ve heard of.

@beccarankin98 2 жыл бұрын

Are you serious? haha did you even watch the video! :D

@lethargicmotorsport2025 2 жыл бұрын

@@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 .

@oneidawolf776 2 жыл бұрын

@@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.

@lethargicmotorsport2025 2 жыл бұрын

@@oneidawolf776 I wasn’t referring to you

@TheProudKiwi 2 жыл бұрын

This needs to be a documentary or movie. Sounds awesome was settling in thinking it was, then it was all over. Lol.

@umk37 2 жыл бұрын

This is from the documentary "Valley Uprising"

@RonJustDiggingLife 2 жыл бұрын

The good old days! Awesome story guy..

@MagikFingers420 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@tedcrilly46 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@ratlips4363 Жыл бұрын

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

@ThumbsUpKitty 2 жыл бұрын

Although illegal at the time... It still sounds like an interesting story from the era. I'll have to check out that documentary.

@jgizzy 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@commentresurrection1841 2 жыл бұрын

@@jgizzy Hurts nobody until the lung cancer develops....Not against it but any means but lets be real. It is smoke into lungs

@jgizzy 2 жыл бұрын

@@commentresurrection1841 Yes smoking, obviously I agree on that. I was talking about the active substance d9-thc.

@ejm7 2 жыл бұрын

just gained so much more respect for my hometown merced. gotta love the history

@susiefairfield7218 2 жыл бұрын

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

@Randylayhe001 2 жыл бұрын

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.