Hey everyone, next week we'll be back with a regular dirt bag derries, but in the meantime,

I wanted to share a project I have been really psyched about doing from our other podcast

climbing gold. And I know not all of you are crazy in climbing, but this is a story that stretches

well beyond that. In 1976, a plane carrying four million dollars of marijuana crashed in the

Eosemite High Country. And our dope lake series tells a story about how a group of rag tag climbers

and misfits ended up launching a full on salvage operation. It's a pretty incredible story,

sort of true crime meets the outdoors. I hope you enjoy it. All four episodes are out now,

so if you like the first one, because I think you will, you can get all the rest right now. Check it out.

December 9, 1976. Pilot John Glyzki and his co-pilot John Nelson have just crossed from Mexico

into US airspace, just south of San Diego. They began their day in Vegas before flying south

to a dirt runway in Baja. The duo who were flying a converted World War II era lock-heed load start,

known as Howard 500, make a beeline for the coast. In previous times, the plane

had settled business executives across the country. Today's cargo was decidedly different.

So they flew up to Santa Barbara. The Hungerite, which is now due north, the purpose was to

fly toward just north of Carson City. This is rich loss, the author and researcher who went to

high school with Klitsky. And if you draw a line from about just north of Santa Barbara, Ventura,

to Carson City, you're going to see that that line goes over the southeast end of Eosemite,

where Laura percent passed Lake is. Now, over the central valley, and sparsely populated farmland,

Glyzki, who's flown helicopters in the Vietnam War, knew what he was doing. He'd flown hundreds

of missions. He cuts the navigation lights as darkness falls. And so these guys don't want to be seen

on radar, so they're used to flying below the radar, with all their training in Vietnam.

The plane vanishes from prying eyes. Radar in the 1970s wasn't nearly as sophisticated as today,

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