Yosemite Drug Plane Crash – Climbers Get Rich!
Hikers would make the arduous hike up to Lower Merced Pass Lake, where they would take axes to the frozen sheet of ice to recover as much marijuana they could hike down the mountain. Factions were beginning to congregate around the cold lake, with busy workers constantly in search of their next bag. Some were said to have made up to $20,000 from their findings, the equivalent to $125,000 today.
