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EMR (Continued from Page 2B) That day, though, the National Guard Mohawk did venture out tor another attempt at fixing the aircraft's location. The pilot was able to narrow down the location to somewhere off the west face of the North Sister During his flight, the pilot reported his plane was flipped over by an updraft caused by a combination of the high winds and steep slopes. Finally, on Monday the 10th, the weather cleared A Redmond resident with a view of the mountain saw the blue sky, lumped in his plane and located the crashsite Tuesday, six EMR climbers were flown to Four-In-One Cone on the mountain. There, they traversed across Collier Glacier which leads to both the North and Middle Sister Three of the climbers, Moon, Blanchard and John Rich went the rest of the way to the plane site Half the party was left behind because of extremely high avalanche danger, particularly on the large snowfield which lies just below the twin peaks of the North Sister The climbers found the aircraft It was sitting just below a rocky pro trusion out of the mountain The fact that no one could have survived the crash remained unspoken The climbers knew that a dangerous and major rescue operation would not have to be mounted that day They secured the plane with rope to stop it from sliding further down the mountainside Blanchard cleared snow off the tail of the plane to read the call number — it was the missing plane Following a quick inventory of the plane and the drawing of a rough map of the location the three rejoined their friends and camped out for the night It would be two weeks before the weather would allow recovery of the victim s bodies and the plane's ints truments Sept 26 found 12 climbers camped out on Cul. the saddle of ice that lies between the North and Middle Sister The gregarious group spent a lively evening trading jokes before their hard day s work the next morning The evening meal included noodles parmesan, salami and cheese Jiffy Pop was saved for dessert They retired for sleep in the deadening silence at 9,000 feet and broke camp at 5 a m the next morn ing, There was no leader of the group that hiked to the crash site All were capable of performing each of the tasks that lay before them On reaching the plane, two from the team stood watch for falling rocks. Gracefully, the temperature dipped below ?2 degrees and less rocks would fall on the climbers heads The body of the pilot was located some 200 feet from the airplane wreckage, where the craft had first hit the mountain. The other three were still in the plane The first task was to remove the plane's instruments as evidence for the FAA The area was legally a crime scene and the climbers had to record whose hands the evidence passed through. "Rock'' echoed through the thin air many times as the group worked ex pertly. As you ducked, said one of the climbers, the small boulders instan taneously bounced near you The bodies of the victims were recovered and an Aerostatiale Gazelle helicopter flew in for the firsi of fhree pickups. The guard s Hueys could not fly at the elevation of the crash and the sheriff's office had requested the Gazelle from Bohemia Lumber Co Bohemia pilot Joe Murphy expertly guided his craft in His tail was within 20 fee! of the steep rocky slope A sudden gust of wind would not have been welcome In two hours. Murphy completed his work He was later awarded the Na tional Helicopter Pilot Association's annual public service award That night, 12 tired climbers were in their homes in Eugene By Jack CondllMe. Cover photo by Bert Ewing. Lane County Sheriff's Deputy Lonnie Henderson coor dinated the five day search, and the later body Photo by Bert Ewrta recovery, by Eugene Mountain Rescue of the light plane which crashed on the North Sister. fion, engineering, the human ities, social sciences, and sciences and mathematics. Summer session runs June 25 to August 16. All students in good stand ing are invited to attend. 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