Do You Enjoy A Mystery?

[ski3pin]

....................especially if it involves high mountains?


Decades Old Human Remains discovered on Mount Williamson

another article with more details


Skeleton unearthed beneath California peak

 

[ski3pin]

If you'd like to look at Williamson Bowl on Google Earth -

36°39.207'N 118°19.486'W

these are not the coordinates of the location of the body.

 

[Taku]

Mysteries abound. Likely an interesting story if it ever gets figured out.

 

[ski3pin]

Mysteries abound. Likely an interesting story if it ever gets figured out.

The remains are old, possibly decades. It looks like a burial. It doesn't match a missing person case. A fractured skull. "No foul play is suspected." Who is it? Who did the burial?

 

[pvstoy]

My gal and I have climbed Mt. Williamson years ago, I often think about discovering something or body out there. We use to make 9 day backpack trips completely off trail and thought how would anybody find us.

I lost my favorite doctor, he went solo from the rest of his group and fell after summiting a peak. Took days to find him.

Modern day tracking devices now help, but my PLB only works if I'm alive and can activate it. The ones that long track and send out coordinates updating regularly intervals is what I would like if we were still doing these off the grid routes.


Edit to enlarge text...Tablet makes it too darn small!!!

 

[ski3pin]

On of the saddest but enlightening death in the mountains -

The Mike Turner Story

 

[PacingTheCage]

Wow! Truly sad but also enlightening as you sad.

 

[Foy]

Looks like mystery solved. The body found in Williamson Bowl is believed to be that of a Manzanar internee who was part of the "Manzanar Fishing Club". A group of 10 or so took shelter overnight from a snow squall on July 29,1945 and the next morning one member of the party was missing. His body was subsequently found and was laid to rest at the scene.

Authorities are awaiting the return of DNA testing to confirm the identity.

Full story just posted by the Associated Press outlets.

Foy

 

[ski3pin]

Wow, such a historic and unexpected twist to the story. The guys in the Manzanar Fishing Club were darn tough to climb up to that fishing hole. Foy, thanks so much for posting this!

 

[Foy]

Wow, such a historic and unexpected twist to the story. The guys in the Manzanar Fishing Club were darn tough to climb up to that fishing hole. Foy, thanks so much for posting this!

Whoa, I'll say they were some tough individuals to get up there from the internment camp! If I'm seeing the grounds correctly, the lowest lake in the bowl and the one directly feeding Williamson Creek has a pool elevation of 11,600'. The lower end of the Manzanar footprint on the same digital topo is at 3,880'. So 7,720' of elevation gain in around 10 miles! That's Mr. Ski3pin style hike-in fishing!

Foy

 

[ski3pin]

I remember being a small boy when my Dad pulled over at Manzanar and told me the story of the internment camp. This was in the late fifties, early sixties, long before it became an NPS site. World War II was still foremost in my parents' generations minds, but I remember my Dad questioning if internment of U.S. citizens was right. Everybody on my Mom's family side was German, having immigrated in the late 1800's.

Stories like the one above help personalize the entire event, especially for me when it includes tough climbs to high mountain lakes.

 

[ski3pin]

Here is an excellent story just posted in the Inyo Resister -

Human Remains could be that of Manzanar artist


Mary Dedecker should be a familiar name to east side and Death Valley fans.

 

[ski3pin]

Here's the results of DNA testing and a good wrap up to this sad story -

Mt. Williamson Body DNA Results

 

[Kolockum]

Sad story. Thanks for posting the ending.

 

[ski3pin]

Here is a final piece to this story -

Giichi Matsumura Buried in Santa Monica

 

[Casa Escarlata Robles Too]

Thanks Ski. One of these days we are going to have to get there.
I've read a lot about Mazanar.
When I worked some of my costumers ,store owners in Watsonville
were part of the internment.A few of them would talk about their experience there.

I even talked with several born there. Very interesting stories.

Some of the Japanese from Watsonville were luckier than most as they returned to
their before camp lives and properties.

Sharon's good friend and team teacher's family was there.

A sad time in our history,but we seem to repeat our mistakes.

Frank

 

[Wandering Sagebrush]

Here is a final piece to this story -

Giichi Matsumura Buried in Santa Monica

Thanks for keeping this updated. It’s good that even in death, he was reunited with family.

 

[DavidGraves]

I visited the Mazanar site on my first trip west from Virginia...during college back in the stone age.

David Graves