Sam and Mike's pre-hike to find TWA flight 260 that crashed on February 19, 1955 near the top of the Sandia Mountains below the tram. Last Saturday (Sept. 2, 2006), Sam and I decided to see if we could find the crash site. I had the GPS coordinates of a GEOCACHE near the crash site. The trail head is only about 2 miles from our house. As you can see by our GPS track on the following map, we took a wrong turn.

Everything started out fine. We found the following fort at the mouth of the Domingo Baca Canyon:



As soon as we took a wrong turn (see previous map), the trail quickly faded and we were bushwacking. The trail became extremely difficult to find. I'm not even sure there was a trail, as you can see by the following photos.


We sure had fun climbing rocks (bouldering) and finding water falls.



Notice the tree growing out of the granite:



Here we are at the top of the mountain. We don't recommend climbing up there. Check out the tram above Sam's head.


The other direction has a good view of Albuquerque.


Sam had a date that evening, so we had to head back home without finding the TWA crash site. We were about 0.75 miles (as the crow flies) from the site. The problem was that a big mountain was between us and the crash site. Also the cactus and poison ivy was a bit of a problem. On Monday we're going to take Cel and Jacob and find the crash site!