D. B Cooper

[Gunny]

First off, the passenger signed his name for the ticket as Dan Cooper. Where the D.B.comes from beats me.

Second, the guy's dead. They found the money or what they presume to be the money years ago.

The History Channel is beating this one to death. He'd be older than any of us if he was still alive. His bones are laying out there somewhere.

[crin63]

The FBI closed the case on it. I watched that whole stupid 4 hours worth of show for them to say nothing to see here, move along.

[Gunny]

The FBI closed the case on it. I watched that whole stupid 4 hours worth of show for them to say nothing to see here, move along.

Dude, I got Commiecast. I get desperate. And I'm usually up until 5AM. I'm constantly searching for something worth watching. Bad enough they sync their commercials so the art of surfing is out. In the middle of the night they run the same ones over and over and run more of them than daytime.

Only reason I brought up the topic is because every time last night ALL FREAKIN NIGHT I switched to History, it was D.B. Cooper. Talk about necro. I remember when they actually had history on the history channel.

[Elessar]

The terrain in the Pacific NW is unforgiving. There are forests and marshlands all over
that if you go in and get lost (especially prior to GPS, Sat Phones, and PLB's), and are
unprepared or in-experienced - your ass is toast.

A family died just to the east of here a few years back when they took a supposed
short-cut from I-5 to Agness Oregon across an unimproved road in the winter.
Even though that Bear Mountain road is shown on maps to be avoided in the winter,
this idiot from San Francisco chose to take it. Whole family found dead.

These mountains are nothing to mess with unless you know them well. Just last
week, Crater Lake National Park had 3 inches of snow...in July!

D.B. Cooper is DEAD!

[Gunny]

The terrain in the Pacific NW is unforgiving. There are forests and marshlands all over
that if you go in and get lost (especially prior to GPS, Sat Phones, and PLB's), and are
unprepared or in-experienced - your ass is toast.

A family died just to the east of here a few years back when they took a supposed
short-cut from I-5 to Agness Oregon across an unimproved road in the winter.
Even though that Bear Mountain road is shown on maps to be avoided in the winter,
this idiot from San Francisco chose to take it. Whole family found dead.

D.B. Cooper is DEAD!

If you aren't experienced in survival training, you're toast. Not so oddly enough, I wouldn't know what to do in a forest. I'm desert trained, swamp trained and water survival trained. The first thing I would NOT do is parachute into those trees. I have been camping in Big Sur and Sequoia Nat'l Forest. No thanks.

You break an ankle jumping out of a plane or get your chute hung on a tree, you're done. I'd rob a bank before trying that crap.

[Elessar]

If you aren't experienced in survival training, you're toast. Not so oddly enough, I wouldn't know what to do in a forest. I'm desert trained, swamp trained and water survival trained. The first thing I would NOT do is parachute into those trees. I have been camping in Big Sur and Sequoia Nat'l Forest. No thanks.

You break an ankle jumping out of a plane or get your chute hung on a tree, you're done. I'd rob a bank before trying that crap.

I am forest, river, mountain, and beach experienced...plus the water survival. I might have trouble in a swamp or desert
unless I remember what I read in a Field Manual - Survival, Evasion, and Escape - issued by the DOD in the 60's!
BSA learning over the years is helpful as well.

Did you ever see a series of books called "Woodsmoke"? They are simple, enlightening, and interesting.