A Colombian plane, stocked with hundreds of pounds of weed, crashed in Lower Merced Pass Lake within Yosemite National Park, California back in 1977. The crash went unreported as the plane was attempting to fly under the radar due it’s nefarious cargo.
The lake is fairly remote, but Yosemite’s dirtbag climbers noticed the nose of a plane poking through the ice. They dove into the lake to explore the wreckage, and ended up finding hundreds of pounds of Colombian weed.
The climbers packed out what they could and turned insane profits by selling the weed on the market. It became a gold rush of sorts. Insane, right?
Check out this quick video from Reel Rock about the real story.
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