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Show Joe never let up on me. He just knew I wu lying to him. Me, finding that plane in one hour and a half when hundreds of plsnes hsd searched for a week without a trace. It wu quite a story to uy the George Hunt relives dream plane rescue W. Hunt, a long-tim- e reaident Uintah Basin, now living in Arizona, returned to this area recently, and relived some of the experiences he remembered from his earlier life. One of the highlights of his trip here, was a chance to fly over the area in the high Uintahs where he had discovered a downed plane in 1947, and had helped to bring the occupants to safety. In the flight he spotted the site high on a windy ridge near Gilbert Peak. In April, last year, Mr. Hunt wrote a story of that episode for the Aero" magazine, published for members of the flying industry, and with the permission of that publication, his story is here' George of the reprinted: November 8, 1947 was a eold fall day at the ranch ten miles northwest of Roosevelt, Utah, where I lived, farmed, and raised livestock. On this date the evening news reported a California doctor, H. Robert Dykes and his wife, as missing on a flight in their new Piper Super Cruiser from Custer, South Dakota to Salt Lake City, Utah. I had been taking flight instruction and a few weeks before had attempted my first y flight I became interested in this news, and kept up with all the broadcasts about the lost plane. Although there were many planes searching for the missing plane there was no trace of it The evening of November 11, 1 took the one air chart I had, Salt Lake City. and spread it out on the kitchen table to study it This chart covers the Uinta Mountains, the highest and roughest area of Utah. Included on the chart was Kings Peak at 18,498 feet and Gilbert Peak at cross-countr- (U-3-), 13,422 feet Years before I had ridden over the .torse trail from the head of the Uinta River to Lonetree, Wyoming. The trail passes between Kings and Gilbert peaks. At the top of this pass, over 12,000 feet elevation, I had stood and looked with awe. As I looked this chart over and thought of the rough area I felt sick inside. I thought of the slim chance these people had. How could they be alive' after this long? I listened to the 10 o'clock news but there had been no sight of them. I went to bed with this on my mind, and saying a in my heart for the two people ?rayer out there somewhere. I lay awake for what seemed to be hours and when I did drop off to sleep I had a dream. In my dream I saw the plane on a snow covered ridge and I could see people waving and calling for help. The dream was so clear it startled me and I awoke and thought about it for some time. I should know this place! Again I drifted off to sleep and the same dream came back to me. This time I was viewing the scene from a farther distance. I could visualise the snow covered peaks, and I felt I should know them. I could still see the plane in the snow and the people waving for help. I awoke with a start, got out of bed and went to the kitchen table where I had left the air chart spread out I looked it over. My attention focused on the peaks I was most acquainted with. As a young man in my teens I had fished most of the lakes ' in these High Uintas with my friends, riding our horses from one lake to another. Looking at this chart brought back many memories after while I went back to bed. I went right to sleep and again the dream, the vision, or whatever it was, came back to me. This time I could still see the peaks in the background, and the plane; but in the foreground was a big grass meadow with rolling knolls. It came to me in a flash; it was Painters Basin with Kings Peak and Gilbert Peak in the background. I awoke at daylight I had to do something about this, but what end how? While I was milking cows and doing my form chores I could not stop thinking about my dream. It seemed to be most important I could think of nothing20else! hours I was a student pilot and had 55 minutes solo time built up over the I was past fourteen months. I felt instrucin well flight progressing very tion. But I knew my instructor, Joe Mower, didn't have much faith in my flying and he wasn't keeping his feelings secret from me either. I knew if I went to Joe and told him I had had a dream in which I had found the Dykes, he and the others would laugh me right out of the hangar. I knew he 7a STANDARD -- September 16. 1976 TV series set leut. I walked right to the phone and asked lor the Operator. When she answered I Mid, T want the Civil Air Patrol hi Salt Lake City.' When their office answered I wouldn't let me take the plane outside the ten mile limit he had set for me so I never asked if there hu bun any word on the Dyku' plane. She said .there wu no gave that a second thought chance of them being alive after so long Then I thought of Hal Crum bo, a Uto and that the search had been eaUed oil. Indian, who went with me on my first I informed her they had been found and y I Hal met for the flight both aliva I uid that we would were first time on this flight and took a liking to him. He had done a great deal of flying drop food and supplies in to them soon as possible. Joe had stopped chewing on in World War H and his advice would be l and wu jut standing there with his helpful I thought if I could get Hal off to the side and toll him about my dream he mouth open. Everyone got buy. Joe and I went to would be my only chance. town to get food and blankets. Someone After my chores were done I went in called Hal Crambo and Howard Dennis for breakfast While eating I listened to and just about everyone else it seemed. the news. It made me sick when they said The news had been broadcast that the the search for the Dykes had been called Dyku were found alive and that suppKu off. They had decided there was no were being dropped in to them. chance of them being able to survive. When Joe and I returned with the Again my dream seemed to be the most suppites they said the telephone had been important thing in my life. I could oily ringing off the walL Everyone wanted to fed the urgent need to search for the know the location of the plane. I told ' downed plane. Nothing else mattered. them it wu east of Gilbert Peak in the I went to the airport Hal was not there Uintas. and Joe, the instructor, was hi town Hal had his Stearman loaded with the picking up the maiL A teenage boy had supplies. I wu to lead Hal and his helper been left in charge. I didn't know what to to the downed plane. I sure wasn't da Still some force seemed to be pushing grounded for long. me. I asked to fly the Aeronca NC85687, Again I wu on my way back up to the and the boy and I pushed the plane out of high peaks. Hals plane wu biggpr and the hangar. I got in and he propped it for faster than the Aeronca I wu in, so he me. He came to the window and asked me wu flying out ahead and above me. When where I wu going. I said, To look for the I got up to Painters Basin at 11,000 feet, I Dykes, and gave it the throttle. I was on and wu right in the met the down-draftmy way but I was going against the rules. tree tops again. I could see Hal circling I felt bad about that, but it seemed a above and ahead of me and I knew he wu small thing compand to the impelling in sight of the downed plane. I could not . fines that haunted me. get any higher so I jut had to hope they i I put the plane into a steady climb and would spot I didn't have to wait long. headed for Kings Peak. When I reached Hal came out of his drele ud headed for Uinta Canyon I realised I didn't know the plane. I figured I had done all I could. what I was doing. I had never flown over Now I wu in big trouble again. The Mine mountains like these! wind wu blowing so I used the ume I flew to the west over Crebes Basin, procedure and got the ume help. into Chain Lakes Basin, over into the When I returned to the airport, Atwood Lake Basin. At the base of Mt Howard Dennis grabbed me. He said that ' Emmons peak, at 13,428 feet, I searched everyone wu going wild to get the exaet the saddles and passes north to Kings longitude and latitude and that if I would show him on the chart he would figure it peak. As I tuned east to Peak Gilbert,! was beginning to lose faith in my dream. I out and give it to them. Between we was sure I would find the plane got the required information. somewhere between Kings Peak and I started calling men with horses. We Gilbert peak but it wasn't there. The high also needed someone with a truck to haul and rough air were winds, down-draft- s them to the Ranch, which wu the giving me trouble in the little 65 closest place to the crash. I got the horsepower plana I was losing altitude ground resale party lined up; four men and had to pull back from the peaks, but I with four horses and a truck. I wu hist kept flying near them. I headed for Burro getting ready to go to my ranch to get my Peak about ten miles east of Gilbert. It horse when Hal landed. He wu very surprised to see ma He was the last one. I felt disappointed, and scared to death. I had the throttle all the hsd spent an hour or so looking for ma way in and I wu going down feat. I After they dropped the supplies to the looked to the noth and I spotted the Dyku they turned and I had fis- -' in my dream. Both people appeared. He just knew there wu no way , ; plane just were waving. I think me wu waving a I could have gotten out of there id that 65 quilt, the other a big coat I felt so good I hp plane he wu having trouble with a 250 hp plane. could hardly stand it He told Joe if I could get that Aeronca" I thanked God for letting me play' a part in saving the lives of these people' in and out' of there twice with the' wind and I cried like a baby. After 27 years I like it wu he didn't have to worry about ma still cannot tell this story without crying. It wu getting dark the three of us in I opened the window and waved at them. I wigwaged my wings to let them the rescue party left my ranch. We know I uw them, but the way the wind traveled all night and half the next day. wu tossing me around I doubt if they One of our horses slipped off the shale dugway and rolled into the Uinta River. mw my wigwags. Now my only thought wu to get out of The three of us with four horses reached there. I knew I wu in serious trouble. I the slide rock hill within a half mile of the . headed for the Uinta Canyon, still in the plana We reached the crash scene at the down-draf- t. At timberline at 11,000 feet I wu right down in the tree tops and I wu same time the ground party from Wyoming reached ft. Mrs. Dyku had a saying a prayer to the Lord for help. article I read in nice big pot of hot soup and hot coffee Suddenly I recalled a flying magazine a week or so before waiting for us. It rully tested good our about mountain flying and where to find dinner, breakfast and lunch had all idled and down-draft- s. into the river with the hone. If that writer knew what he wu After talking the situation over ft wu decided to take the Dyku down on the talking about there should be updraft at the east side of the Uinta Canyon. I Wyoming side. The cars were closer and needed something to get me out of there. they had two of their horsu at the scene. I wu turning around the taller trees. The trail wu much better and it would be I started to move over against the easier for the Dyku who had spent five I nights on the mountain. canyon wsIL I got closer and closer came to the shale dugway. I put the left I talked to Mrs. Dyku while we were wing just new the wall I dared. All eating lunch. She told me how at once the pit hold of the plana downdrafts had caused their crash and I had never been in an updraft like this, some of the things they did to survive. it felt just like I had been lifted out of the She prayed all night the night before I canyon. I said. Thank you Lord, and found them. Then she told how terrible meant what I uid. felt when they heard over their they I flew to the airport as fast I could. radio that the search had been called off. By the time I reached the airport it hu ft wu the depth of despair. They knew been one hour and thirty minutes. When I they could not live through another night taxied up and cut the motor, Joe wu without food and blankets to keep from there to meet me. You are grounded. freezing. She uid they wrote their You know God damned well that you are epitaph. not to go outside of ten mflu without an When they heard the little plane instructor." coming they jumped out of their plane "Joe, I know that I broke the rates and and waved everything they could. That I am sorry, but I found the Dyku and little plane wu the prettiest thing she they need help, let's get it to them. hsd ever seen, but I never circled b ack I heeded for the hangar and the phone. they were not sure they were spotted. In a matter of an hour or two, however they had food and blankets to get through the for Utah filming cross-countr- u - s, The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams," the fictionalized portrayal of the life of James Capen Adams, mountain man and grizzly bear trainer of the 18003 will soon be adapted for an NBC television series, it was announced today by Governor Calvin L. Rampton. The thirteen episodes, which will be shown on prime television time starting in January, will be totally filmed in Utah. The estimated cut of production is $3A million. Governor Rampton noted that the filming of this family series in Utah will mean a significant boon to the state's economy in that 60 of the gross budget will be spent here in Utah, The producer, Charles E. Sellier, Jr., Senior Vice President of Sunn Classic Pictures, Inc. has established permanent headquarters at 556 East 2nd South, Salt Lake City. Sunn Classic Pictures is a major producer of "G" rated family films, several of which have been filmed in Utah. Governor Rampton Mid "this is a giant this step in the film industry for Utah, is the first major series to be filmed totally in our State. He noted that the Industrial Development Division of Utah has significantly influenced movie production in Utah since 1970 through its movie coordinator, Hal Schlueter. Movie promotion in the state has a vital potential to enhance state wide economy . in the area of employment and services related to film production. u 500 POUND 'ACTOR'-O- ne of the supporting roles in "The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams", a TV series to be filmed in Utah, is played by a 500 lb. silvertipped grizzly named Bozo, shown here with Dan Haggerty, his human counterpart. ... it DON'T LET THEM SAY THAT YOUR CAR ISN'T WORTH ANYTHING u U-B- ar . ''.I u . - u - u u up-draf- '1 V' l-t: rtO.t-jflJ- . CQ(aip padl (U)S(I (go ITS u ts u u u u up-dra- ft u u cold night We got them packed up and on their way off the High Uintaa We were all very happy and all we had to do now wu get ourselves and our horses back home. But of all I could put a certain dream out of my mind and relax. 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